Hair Style Trend in Korea (Female)

       Today, I felt like changing my hair style, so I looked up some hair styles in Korea. After awhile, I found it very difficult to choose, so I decided to post all of them up on my blog. In Korea, hair styles trend begins after popular entertainers. Therefore, as singers and actors change their hair styles, their fans are very likely to follow the trend.
       If you are planning to give some changes to your hair, don't hesitate and join the trend in Korea!

Shadow Perm

Short shaggy cut

Short cut with Volume perm 

Short cut with Mulgyul (river flow) perm

 Dang-go hair ( just simply tying hair high in a bun)

1st. Long hair with Mul-gyul perm 

2nd. Short cut with regular perm (w/ thick roll)

Lovely perm

Straight perm with Cherry-Red Dye



..........So... what do you think about hair styles in Korea? I personally really like Lovely perm. After I grow my hair longer, I might want to try it. What hair style is YOUR favorite..?   

What do Kids in Korea do during their free time?

In Korea, it's very easy to find street food carts, selling various popular foods, such as ddukbokkee (rice cakes and eggs with spicy sauce). Around the street carts, students gather around and pick whatever they wish to eat and save a lot of their money at the same time.       

In Korea, Karaoke has been very popular and became part of their culture. Especially, students love to go with their group of friends and spend 1 to 2 hours of singing. In past, Karaoke was a place just for singing, however, nowadays, it has been advanced and  there are more activities to do, such as taking sticker photos, which I will explain next.     

 

These are sticker photos that I took in Korea.  They are usually $7, and there are various machines with different qualities. After taking pictures, you can decorate and add many quatities as much as you want.   

Another thing that students in Korea love to do is going shopping. The picture on the left is Seoul downtown, Myungdong. It's the most crowded place in Seoul and where most students love to go to.

Teen Life in Korea

After pondering about what to talk about on my blog, I thought that it'd be interesting to share teen life in Korea. Last year, I visited Korea and stayed at my aunt's house. I was fully of excited about the thought that I could hang out with my cousins. However, we couldn't spend much time together, because they were always busy studying and preparing themselves for college. 

An Example of Korean Student's schedule:


6:30    

get up

exercise, including dancing, aerobics, and jogging

eat breakfast

typically rice, gimchi, soup, yogurt, apples

wash face and hands or take a shower

clean dorm room

take roll call

7:50    

school officially begins

free study at carrel in student study room, known as a yaja

9:20    

first of four classes, each between one hour to 90 minutes

1:10

lunch

typically rice, gimchi, soup, bibimbab, tomatoes

sometimes spaghetti with a topping of peas and/or fish

1:45

more classes

4:00

students clean the school with their team

4:20

one more class

6:00

dinner

7:00

roll call and free study at the yaja

often goes until 11:00 with a 30-minute break in the middle,

can go until 1:30 or later during examination periods.

As it is shown, Students in Korea spend most of their time studying. 

However, they aren't much different than American students. Korean students love to hang out, go shopping, and play video games as any other teenagers do. In the next blog post, I will share some activities Korean students like to do in their free time.       

Korean Traditional Dress: Hanbok

There are many beautiful Korean traditional dresses.

Every new year or Korean thanks giving, families dress up in their Hanbok. Sometimes it is wore for weddings also. The following pictures are Hanbok just for females. 

                                                                Regular Hanbok:

 

Hanbok for Royal family in old days:

 

Modern Hanbok:

    

Water

If I ask you a question, "what is water?", how would you answer?
If that same question was asked towards me, I'd say it can do many things, and it's required for every living things to survive. In place where we are living in, water is very easily found. However, in some countries, such as Africa, finds it very difficult to get a sip of water.
Currently Africa is facing a water crisis affecting 300 million people and this has been continuing for years.   The problem is, it isn't just about Africa. According to the recent WHO/UNICEF report, more than 2.6 billion people in the world do not have basic sanitation and more than one billion people still use unsafe drinking water.
Now... it's time to ACT
If you are interested, click http://thewaterproject.org/how-a-water-project-works.php

How is John Park doing currently?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08e_F9lm3nM&feature=related

John Park is currently in Korea, participating in a program called Super Star K2, which is like American Idol. He made it to finals and if you click on the link above, you will be able to watch the clip of him singing. Also, he is very famous in Korea (mostly among 10~20 year old female fans). Keep it up John Park! :)

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