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.
There’s just something about standing on an old mountain fortress wall or guard tower and looking across the landscape that helps me to feel connected with the past. Fortunately for me, Korea has a number of old mountain fortresses where doing this is possible. And as a fan of both hiking and mountain fortresses, I’m [...]
According to Wikipedia’s list of museums in South Korea, Korea has 19 national museums. Seoul itself has 4 of them. For this article, I visited the National Folk Museum of Korea, located in Seoul within the grounds of Gyeongbokgung Palace. I have learned a number of things about Korean folk history over the 4+ years [...]