This original post is by Advaita Kala. The writer is the author of Almost Single and wrote the story for the much acclaimed film Kahaani. It is said that it all started with a TV drama called Winter Sonata, whose theme of love, intrigue, search for identity, good acting and dramatic and engaging plot twists made it a favorite in Japan. It was an especially poignant victory for the South Koreans as Juno Lee, ...

After reading the article today on Times of India - Korean Wave takes Indian Kids in its sway - suddenly reminded me of the day I was shooting for the Arirang Episode. I had asked my show director if she had visited India. And she told me that she had been to Nagaland to shoot a documentary as Korean Culture was very popular in that part of India. I had not paid much attention to her then, but then reading ...

Every culture have its own type of habits and behaviors that may seem "funny" or "different" to foreigners. Although I may not be a foreigner, I have been living abroad long enough to recognize Korean habits and found interest in identify these habits and behaviors. For people who already have interacted with Koreans or watch a lot of Korean dramas, probably recognize some of them. Koreans love to doodle.  ...

The news about Robots teaching English to kids and adults alike across South Korea has been published across media around the world. I came across this information here and here. As per the news around 30 robots would be deployed for teaching English to youngsters in various South Korean city. The egg shaped robot will display a Caucasian woman face in its TV display panel. And some English teachers  from P ...

Yes, Definitely! Its not that we can.. but we do... But there are many a native speakers who have certain misconceptions or doubts about Indians and their ability to teach English.  And I do not blame them because they are more or less speaking from their experience or their interaction with the Indians they have met so far. But a mere percentage of Indians one would meet would not represent the whole of In ...

From my last two blogs here and here it very much looked like I was blowing my own trumpet about India. But that was not my intention when I set out to create this blog. My intention being to help, I feel every visitor should get some valuable information from my blog. So here are a few pointers to help you improve your command over English language. 1. Read. As much as you can. Newspaper, Magazines, Books, ...

After reading my post - Why Indians speak better English than Koreans - I got this interesting feedback from Brian (of Brian in Jeollanam-do fame). He says Just stopping by to say I enjoyed this post and look forward to more of your perspective as an Indian in Korea. I saw “Just Another Indian in Korea” and, pardon my ignorance, didn’t realize there were others blogging about it in English. I’m curious if y ...

These days Teaching English in South Korea is considered one of the hottest jobs as compared to other Asian countries like China, Japan etc. The government is spending a lot of money for recruiting native speakers and making this nation affluent in English. English is taught predominantly by native speakers. And most of the public as well as private institutions prefer English Teacher from native speaking c ...

"Show me a curious kid and I will show you a successful man" ~author unknown I am a person whose mind is curious like a child's mind. I'd like to observe and absorb as much as I can from my surroundings and localize myself to the Korean Culture. This article is not about Korean Culture per se.. but it is more about my observations as to how different I find things here in Seoul as compared to my native city ...