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08/23/07

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Categories: ...and Takes On, Travel, Korea, Feats and Defeats (Language)

"Are You Korean?"

Ashley (my newfound traveling partner) and I were kyaking in Halong Bay. Three Korean men were on our tour and I wanted to say something to them.

I yelled in Korean, "Where should we go?"

The men pointed. Then stared at me. They asked in Korean, "Are you Korean?"

I laughed and shook my head. Again, in Korean, "No, I am a foreigner."

An American educator moves moved to Korea, presumably to teach English. Instead she discovers discovered that learning Korean one taekwondo class at a time is was a more captivating activity.

Somewhere along the way, she met a Good Man, fell in love, and ended up back in the States. Still doing taekwondo, still learning Korean...

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