I want to share my personal experiences here in South Korea. That, basically, is what I intend to do in this section of my website. I will use it to comment on issues related to this country. I wondered for so long what name I should assign to this section. Initially, I thought of “Kimchi Chronicles,” but I found out that it is a TV show about Korean dishes with that title. So, I couldn’t use that anymore. Then, finally, I decided to settle with “My Korean Projects.”

This section is subdivided into four parts.

Korean Adventures

Korean Dishes/Foods I Tried

Kuwentong Kimchi

Gastronomic Chronicles

The articles I posted in the sections Korean Adventures, Korean Dishes I Tried, and Kimchied are all written in English. Kwentong Kimchi are narratives of my Korean adventures written in Filipino.

The sections “Korean Dishes/Foods I Tried” and “Gastronomic Chronicles” are related—they both contain articles chronicling my gastronomic journey in South Korea.

Someday, I hope to write a book about my Korean experiences, and the things I have written in my essays here will grace the pages of that book.

My Korean adventure is an ongoing journey, and quite honestly, I don’t like it to end yet—or to end at all. This country has become my second home. I love it here. I have a thousand more reasons to like this country than to not like it.

There are many reasons why I fell in love with this country. The essays I posted (and will post) in this section explain those reasons.

Indeed, Korea is “the land of the morning calm.”  She tamed me and calmed my spirit.