For six years, I played the role of an English instructor at Yonsei University Foreign Language Institute. I want to say that I hope I did no harm, but I can't. There were a few slip-ups, a few bad decisions made and later regretted. Let me say that I hope I did as little harm as possible given my shortcomings at that stage of my life.
As it turns out, that job was probably the best job I ever had. Great students, great coworkers. Great city. Looking back with the benefit of hindsight, it was six great years.
Now here I am 25 years later walking these streets, climbing these mountains, and riding these subways. I wonder if I have come across any of the children of my former students. If so, I am sure they are excellent too. There's excellence all around me here.
Seoul, Korea. You just might be the best big city in the world.
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| Had to visit the beautiful Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf to recover my power. |
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| Thank you, Korean food, for being so healthy. |
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Proof of a conspiracy against me. They closed the path to the subway station. |
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I did NOT drink the water from the spring. Decades ago, I did, and the results are remembered to this day. |
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| This was for sending smoke signals. |
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There's Namsan Tower. It sees everything. |
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| Imagine the 300-plus-year-old tree I forgot to take a photo of... |
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I would really like to have seen this... It actually debuted in NYC in 2001. I am just now learning of it in 2022. |
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Take the first left, and that's where I saw The Driving Buddha in 199?. He was flowing through crowds of drunk people who didn't get angry at all. They just politely and efficiently cleared a gap for his car. I have never again seen anything like that anywhere. |
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I did. I started the day with a piping hot lamb-filled bread. 20220913 |
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