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Mandy's K-Adventure
Spring 2024 Travel Blog in Korea
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Helpful Tips
If you're going to look at any of my blogs, this is the one to check out! It might be helpful to keep these things in mind before and...
Bonus Tips!
Most Korean delivery apps don’t accept foreign cards. If you really need to do food delivery, Shuttle is a great choice. I think the...
Finals Week + Study Cafe Hopping
After our fun in Busan, it was time to lock in for finals week, just around the corner. On top of a final exam for each of my courses, I...
Busan Weekend Trip! 마, 부산 아이가!
Day 1 On the last day of May, my friends and I made our first trip to Busan. It was a bit of a spontaneous decision for me, as I joined...
Coin Noraebang (Karaoke)
I knew that when I came to Korea, I would be singing a lot of karaoke. And so I did lolol. Karaoke, or noraebang (노래방) is a super common...
Korea University 2024 IPSELENTI
Ipselenti is a yearly pep-rally-cheering festival organized and conducted by the KU Cheerleaders on the last night of university festival...
2024 NCT DREAM Tour [The Dream Show 3 : DREAM( )SCAPE]
On May 2nd, I attended NCT DREAM's 2024 concert tour in Seoul at the Gocheok Sky Dome. Getting tickets was not easy. When I joined the...
A Thousand Blues Musical (천개의 파랑)
In the last week of May, I attended my first musical, titled A Thousand Blues (천개의 파랑). I was excited to see it because one of my...
Midterms
For Midterms, I had to work on a report and presentation for my International Business course, as well as take an exam for my...
2024 BANG YEDAM FANMEETING
Just two days after the NCT Dream concert was Bang Yedam's fanmeeting. My friend and I have been fans of Yedam ever since his trainee...
2024 CRUSH CONCERT [May I be your May?]
When I first heard that Crush was having a concert, I was completely overjoyed. I’ve been a fan of his for a while and have always wanted...
May Highlights: International Student Festival, KUBS Activity, Seongsu, Kutopia
May was probably the most jam-packed month of my whole study abroad semester. There were a LOT of concerts this month, so I decided to...
First Concert in Korea! EXO Fan-meeting
In mid-April, I attended my first overseas concert, which was EXO's 2024 'ONE' fan-meeting. I found out about the fan-meeting pretty last...
April Highlights: Cherry Blossoms, Seoul Museum of Craft Art, Everland, War Museum
April Fool's April 1st, or April Fool's is also celebrated in Korea. The university has a unique tradition where students come to school...
March Highlights: KUBS, DDP, N Tower
KUBS Hang-out After I recovered from my cold, I hung out with some of my KUBS buddies and fellow exchange student friends. We went to...
First Two Weeks of School
I wake up every day (except Friday yay) at 6:45am because I have class in the first period. When registering for early classes, I totally...
Orientation Week
KUBA Orientation (February 26) During the week before the start of school, exchange students had an orientation held by KUBA (Korea...
Course Registration
Preferred Course Listing KU offers a pre-registration period, or preferred course listing (2/2 to 2/5), which was something that I was...
More Seoul Adventures! Pt. 2
Casanello Sicily On February 16th, there was a Single's Inferno S3 event at Casanello Sicily (Gangnam location), which is Jinseok's cafe....
Finally in Seoul Pt. 1
1st Day In Seoul My friends and I checked out from our Airbnb in Incheon on the 13th of February. We headed to Seoul and within around...
First Couple Days in Incheon
After a grueling 11-hour flight, my friend Jazmin (also a Freeman Scholar!) and I arrived at Incheon Airport on February 9th. At the...
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