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.
Ever since I bought my first digital camera back in 2007, I’ve had an affinity for photographing flowers. I feel a kind of intimacy with the flowers while I photograph them that I don’t feel when I photograph other things. Photographing flowers gives me the kind of moments where time seems to stand still and [...]
Every year for the last 12 years thousands of people have visited Daecheon Beach on the west coast of South Korea for a 9 day festival that is supposed to be about the health benefits of a certain kind of mud, but I think is really just about getting muddy. I attended this year’s event [...]