Show notes
The episode of shoutouts. Gavin, fellow Asian Canadian podcaster and host of DIU Podcast, joins me today to reminisce on our experience teaching English in Korea. We talk about why we chose Korea (1:50), is teaching English abroad a working holiday? (3:45), what an average working day looked like (5:18), expectations and reality (6:30), living in the boonies (8:24), getting used to Korean food (12:03), surviving Korea without speaking Korean (13:36), Learning to read Korean (16:13), is Korean just English (16:50), feeling like a child (21:06), safety (25:45), living near an army base (27:20), wedding pimps and pricing tiers for humans (28:43), juicy bars (31:25), the US presence in Korea (32:15), does the military attract disadvantaged youth? (33:19), hooker hill (36:00), Gimcheon (37:30), non white foreigner in Korea (40:35), belonging (42:00), Asian Canadian expat experience (43:00), obvious foreigner privilege (45:25), Can Asians from Canada teach English in Korea? (48:30), views on non-Korean Asians in Korea (52:25), do teachers of English have to be of a certain race? (55:40), hweshiks (59:30), puking from drinking too much (1:02:00), foreigner card (1:04:10), coming back home after living abroad (1:08:00), teaching abroad for the second time around (1:11:22), useless social science degrees (1:12:15), Korea versus Japan (1:13:45), Korean trains (1:17:35) and more. You can find Gavin on diupod.com.
