Category: Korea – First Days Teaching English

Korea 004 – Salarymen at the Hof

Doug Nienhuis, January 6, 1995

After our meal of bi-bim-bap, Robert and I began to walk back to the Inn Dae Won. At the first corner we encountered more salarymen. Five of them, obviously very drunk, were coming towards us and taking up the entire width of the alley. They had their arms about each…

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Korea 003 – The Mad Biker

Doug Nienhuis, January 4, 1995

THE MAD BIKER I’m glad Robert was the first person I met on that cold miserable night. In some ways he was so weird he made the place I was staying and the situation I found myself in appear normal. He stood about six four, the top three inches of…

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Korea 002 – Arrival

Doug Nienhuis, January 3, 1995

ARRIVAL When I saw Seoul from the air, my heart sank. It sprawled snow covered for miles in all directions, a crush of aggressively square buildings without a tree in sight to break up the monotony. From the crowded airport bus, I could see nothing at all except the occasional…

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Korea 001

Doug Nienhuis, January 2, 1995

There are untold numbers of people wandering the world and making their living as English teachers. In its way, teaching ESL is the modern French Foreign Legion attracting all manner of people from the fully qualified professional to the out and out lunatic. They are of every possible and improbable…