Over a bowl of warm noodle soup, with kimchi on the side and several small tapas-like meat dishes my Korean seatmate told me his life story. His name was Jun and he was originally from the city of Busan, which is located on the southeast coast of the Korean peninsula....
Recently, for some strange reason I remembered a very peculiar experience that I had a few years ago when I was travelling to South Korea for a scientific conference. For the entire eleven-hour flight from Frankfurt to Seoul I did not speak to the passenger sitting...
