Tag: expat life Korea
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Korea’s Dawn Delivery (새벽배송): How Coupang, Market Kurly, and Oasis Changed Grocery Shopping Forever
The Thing About Living in Korea That Nobody Warns You About You will stop going to the supermarket. Not because supermarkets here aren’t good — they’re excellent. But at some point, probably within your first few weeks of living in Korea, you will discover 새벽배송 (dawn delivery), and after that, pushing a cart through a…
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Why Korean Moms Are Obsessed with English Kindergartens (And What It Says About Parenting Here)
If you’ve been in Korea for more than five minutes — or scrolled through any expat parent group — you’ve probably heard the term 영어유치원 (yeongeo yuchiwon), or “English kindergarten.” And if you have a child here, you’ve almost certainly been asked: “Are you sending them?” I’ve been asking myself the same question. My daughter…
