Tigers & Magpies travel editor, Eddie Provencher, is an American citizen who first came to the Korean peninsula in September 2006 to teach English, learn Korean, and to have a cultural experience. Since coming to Korea Eddie has grown to love teaching English, has passed the Test of Proficiency In Korean (TOPIK) Level 4, and has had many deep cultural experiences.
In the spring of 2009 Eddie took a 3 month break from teaching English to travel in Korea. Through this experience, Eddie developed a sincere appreciation for the natural beauty of the landscape, for the culinary tastes of the nation, and for the warmth and kindness of the Korean people.
Here on Tigers & Magpies you will find Korean travel reports and photos so that you can learn a little bit more about the Korean peninsula, and so that you too can travel and have a travel experience worth remembering and cherishing.
Just about every Sunday at 3pm from April to October there are free traditional Korean music and dance performances at a facility called Seoul Nori Madang. The facility is a roofed outdoor amphitheater with a few hundred seats around a large circular performance floor. Anyone is welcome and there are even floor spaces for people [...]
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) takes the task of preserving cultural and natural sites valuable to the world. In 1997, UNESCO added Suwon’s Hwaseong Fortress to the list of protected properties. These days, the area inside the fortress wall is developed with modern buildings and streets and only the wall, its structures, [...]