Posts Tagged With: expats

Fundraiser To Help ROK Drop Reader Mike McStay

» by GI Korea June 1st, 2011 at 2:58 am » Comments (0)

Long time ROK Drop reader Mike McStay a professor at Woosong University, has for the past few months been in and out of the hospital due to cancer treatments. To ...more »

CNNGo Article On 12 Rules for Expats In Korea

» by GI Korea May 26th, 2011 at 6:35 pm » Comments (23)

Over at the CNNGo website a fella by the name of Kyle Burton has a list posted of 12 rules expats should follow in Korea. Not all of the rules ...more »

The ATEK Back Story, Truth or Fiction?

» by GI Korea April 5th, 2011 at 8:09 pm » Comments (109)

For those that are interested in the ongoing drama at ATEK, The Three Wise Monkeys recently completed a three part series detailing the problems within the organization: ATEK, The Great White ...more »

Expats In Korea Rally to Help Sick Teenager

» by GI Korea April 7th, 2010 at 1:01 am » Comments (0)

The effort by an American expat to find blood donors for a sick Korean teenager that a featured here last week on the ROK Drop appears to be having some ...more »

Expats to See Their Taxes Go Up In Korea

» by GI Korea February 19th, 2010 at 9:00 pm » Comments (15)

For all of you expats working in Korea here is some bad news for you: Expats earning less than 100 million won ($86,133) a year will likely pay more taxes this ...more »

Picture of the Day: Dope Smoking English Teachers

» by GI Korea October 27th, 2009 at 1:07 pm » Comments (5)

More like cartoon of the day: This cartoon comes courtesy of Brian in Jeollanam-do who also provides commentary on a Korea Herald article criticizing the depiction of foreigners in the Korean ...more »

More On AIDS Testing of Foreigners In Korea

» by GI Korea October 26th, 2009 at 4:39 pm » Comments (21)

Here is another article from Mike Solis in regards to why foreigners should not be subjected to HIV testing in South Korea: "My objection was to the fact that I was ...more »

Scott Burgeson’s New Book Promotion Video Released

» by GI Korea October 1st, 2009 at 3:24 pm » Comments (0)

Via the Marmot's Hole comes this book promotion video put out by Korean expat author Scott Burgeson who readers may recognize as sometime ROK Drop commenter King Baeksu: Judging by the ...more »

Changes in Korea – The Internet II

» by USinKorea July 19th, 2009 at 1:45 pm » Comments (10)

First, job news: I had a phone interview with the Seoul school board (SMOE) and should know sometime this week if they will take me - which I can't really ...more »

The English Teaching “Vampires” of Seoul

» by GI Korea June 6th, 2009 at 4:01 pm » Comments (1)

Korea Beat has the translation of one of the funniest English teaching bashing articles seen yet in the Korean press: According to Pressian’s investigation, American professor A, who worked at university ...more »