Korean Scholarship: MDP and MPP on Feb 6, 2012 in study in korea kdi school korean government scholarship program korean scholarship Here’s another scholarship in Korea that you guys might be interested with. It’s for MDP or Master of Development Policy and MPP or Master of Public Policy. The scholarship is given by the Korean Government Scholarship Program for those i...
Grace Lee and Jasmine Lee top Google search terms on Feb 6, 2012 in Filipinos in Korea Koreans in RP Newsmakers/Current Issues girls generation google search grace lee jasmine lee Grace Lee, the Korean whom the Philippine president Noynoy Aquino admitted to be dating, topped the Google web search term in South Korea from January 26th to February 1st. Netizens here were obviously curious to find out more about the Korean woman...
Taking the airport limousine bus from Seoul Incheon on Feb 6, 2012 in Tour Korea airport bus incheon airport korea airport I like taking the AREX or the airport express train to the airport from Seoul, just because it’s cheaper. However, I prefer the airport limousine bus after an exhausting trip and I just want to take a nap until the final destination. Since I li...
A view of Bukhansan on Feb 5, 2012 in Tour Korea bukhansan korea hiking korean mountain I’ve only been to Bukhansan (Hangeul: 북한산 – the mountain north of Han River) only once. It was sometime in January of 2004 and I didn’t have a digital camera that time. The mountain was covered with snow and we hiked for about...
Pnoy and Grace Lee “dating” according to Korean news on Feb 2, 2012 in Koreans in RP Newsmakers/Current Issues grace lee philippine president pnoy The news about the date of Philippine President Benigno Aquino III and Grace Lee first broke in Koren news on January 31st. In fairness, everything that has been reported is objective (unlike in one Chinese newspaper where they referred to the Presid...
Pnoy and Grace Lee romance, for real? on Feb 2, 2012 in Back in Pinas Newsmakers/Current Issues grace lee philippine president pnoy February 14th or Valentine’s day is coming and one would wonder if the supposed romance of Philippine president Benigno Aquino III and Lee Kyung Hee or Grace Lee is for real? Or is Malacanang just using Grace Lee as a diversion? After all, this...
Scene in Seoul: -17 degrees celsius on Feb 1, 2012 in four seasons accuweather korean weather korean winter We had a snowfall last Tuesday and I wanted to take pictures of the snow-capped mountain from where I’m sitting right now, but I couldn’t because the windows wouldn’t budge open. They are frozen shut! Wonder what’s the tempera...
Noynoy Aquino and Grace Lee, dating? on Jan 31, 2012 in Back in Pinas Koreans in RP grace lee pnoy The news has reached Korea. In fact I read about it on Daum, a Korean news portal. Bloggers, twitters and journalists alike are talking about the supposed date of Philippine president Noynoy Aquino and radio DJ Grace Lee. They also mentioned that the...
L.A.’s Koreatown on Jan 30, 2012 in Outside Korea koreatown los angeles wilshire blvd While on vacation in Los Angeles, we tag along my brother who had to visit the Philippine Consulate located at Nara Bank Building along Wilshire Blvd. Since we didn’t want to wait inside the Consulate, my son and I took the time to take a leisu...
Korean Food Product: Market O Real Brownie on Jan 30, 2012 in Korean products korean brownie korean food product market o orion I love brownies and I used to bake them back home in the Philippines (with a recipe I clipped from Seventeen Magazine sometime in the late 1980s), where I could easily get ingredients. When I came here, it was quite difficult to find cocoa powder. On...
