How To Korea

By How To Korea

Embark on the ultimate Korean journey with us! Join Ian & James on "How To Korea" as we discuss tips and tricks for navigating your life as a foreigner in South Korea.

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How many episodes does How To Korea have?

The podcast currently has 21 episodes available.

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July 12, 2024 How To Korea - Episode 21 - AI, North Korea, China, World War 3, Conspiracy Theories, Nukes
Join us today on another episode of How to Korea, the best podcast in South Korea, where we tell you what it takes to live in South Korea.
In this episode, we take a break from our history coverage and have a full-fledged tinfoil discussion regarding conspiracy theories and interesting theories regarding the future of AI and the fate of the world as we know it.
If you've liked this episode, please leave a comment and subscribe so that you can be notified when our next episode is live! We upload a new podcast every week on Sunday at 2 P.M. (Korean Time). If there is a guide that you want, feel free to reach us as follows:
IG: @howtokorea1
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61553899179696
E-mail: [email protected].
Episode 21
00:00 - Introduction
02:15 - Apple AI
04:10 - The Scary Side of AI and Technology
06:00 - North Korea & China Conspiracies
07:45 - Tourism in North Korea
09:15 - North Korean Propaganda Balloons
11:05 - Nukes in South Korea
11:50 - Russia, North Korea & the World
15:30 - Nuclear Arsenal around the World
18:45 - Czech President Forecasts World War 3
25:00 - Living in the 1990s
26:47 - 3 Body Problem
28:49 - Artificial Intelligence
33:10 - Conspiracy Theories
43:25 - The Forgotten War
47:30 - Korean Presidential Impacts
48:00 - World History
51:20 - DMZ Defense Preparation
51:42 - Trash Cans in South Korea
...more
58min
July 12, 2024 How To Korea - Episode 20 - Korean History Part 3
Join us today on another episode of How to Korea, the best podcast in South Korea, where we tell you what it takes to live in South Korea.
In this episode, we continue our exploration into Korean history, discussing the Korean War as well as other predominant news that happened in Korea this week. Tune in to refresh or learn your Korean history and as always, feel free to reach out if you have any questions!
If you've liked this episode, please leave a comment and subscribe so that you can be notified when our next episode is live! We upload a new podcast every week on Sunday at 2 P.M. (Korean Time). If there is a guide that you want, feel free to reach us as follows:
IG: @howtokorea1
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61553899179696
E-mail: [email protected].
Episode 20
00:00 - Introduction
03:50 - Recap of Joseon Kings
08:10 - Queen Myeong Seong
10:08 - Korean Nobles
13:54 - KPG (Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea)
15:59 - Buldak Ramen Gets Banned in Denmark
19:07 - Ahjummas
22:08 - Cheating During Mountain Hiking
24:52 - Korean History Recap of Last Episode
26:50 - The Korean War
33:32 - Theories on Why the Korean War Happened
41:18 - Korean War Begins
48:30 - Unification of North and South Korea
49:52 - Tourism in North Korea
51:25 - Guerilla Warfare During the Korean War
51:59 - North Korean Propaganda
...more
55min
July 12, 2024 How To Korea - Episode 19 - Korean History Part 2
Join us today on another episode of How to Korea, the best podcast in South Korea, where we tell you what it takes to live in South Korea.
In this episode, we continue our exploration into Korean history, discussing mostly the Japanese colonization of Korea and the division of South Korea into what it is today. Tune in to the next couple of episodes as we discuss Korean history so that you can learn a bit more about the country before deciding if you want to make the move!
If you've liked this episode, please leave a comment and subscribe so that you can be notified when our next episode is live! We upload a new podcast every week on Sunday at 2 P.M. (Korean Time). If there is a guide that you want, feel free to reach us as follows:
IG: @howtokorea1
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61553899179696
E-mail: [email protected].
Episode 19
00:00 - Introduction
00:12 - Addressing Comments
02:49 - Cultural Appropriation & Mingling
04:47 - Korean Geography
05:56 - Oil Findings in Korean Oceans
07:17 - Dokdo Island
07:48 - Korean Relationships with Japan
08:30 - Japanese Annexation of Korea
19:13 - South Korean "Comfort Women"
22:32 - Japanese Annexation Continued
23:30 - Gyeongbukgung
24:00 - Japanese Annexation Continued
30:44 - Korea Fights Back
35:12 - American Politics
38:44 - The Division of Korea
45:00 - Kim Il Seong and China Relationship
...more
50min
July 12, 2024 How To Korea - Episode 18 - Korean History Part 1
Join us today on another episode of How to Korea, the best podcast in South Korea, where we tell you what it takes to live in South Korea.
In this episode, we do a deep dive into Korean history, starting from the very first Korean man. Tune in to the next couple of episodes as we discuss Korean history so that you can learn a bit more about the country before deciding if you want to make the move!
If you've liked this episode, please leave a comment and subscribe so that you can be notified when our next episode is live! We upload a new podcast every week on Sunday at 2 P.M. (Korean Time). If there is a guide that you want, feel free to reach us as follows:
IG: @howtokorea1
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61553899179696
E-mail: [email protected].
Episode 18
00:00 - Introduction
02:37 - Reviewing Comments Left on Shorts
07:00 - Discussing Korean History
08:29 - Learning History as Adults
12:47 - The Next World War
14:08 - Korean Memorial Day
16:04 - A Bear and A Tiger
21:33 - The 3 Kingdoms
25:42 - Chinese Invasion of Korea
28:03 - Goguryo
29:04 - Joseon Dynasty
30:43 - The King Born from an Egg
32:28 - King Sejong and Hangul (Korean Language)
35:43 - Historical Korean Bureaucracy & Cultural Development
41:37 - Public Servants in South Korea
44:20 - General Yi Sun Sin
45:36 - 200 Years of Peace
...more
48min
June 26, 2024 How To Korea - Episode 17 (With Amy Melhuish)
Join us today on another episode of How to Korea, the best podcast in South Korea, where we tell you what it takes to live in South Korea.
We have a guest speaker today, Amy Melhuish, who speaks to us about her experience living in South Korea as a foreigner from South Africa. Be sure to tune in to understand the perspective of a South African woman living in South Korea!
If you've liked this episode, please leave a comment and subscribe so that you can be notified when our next episode is live! We upload a new podcast every week on Sunday at 2 P.M. (Korean Time). If there is a guide that you want, feel free to reach us as follows:
IG: @howtokorea1
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61553899179696
E-mail: [email protected]
Youtube: @howtokorea1
00:00 - Introductions
04:14 - COVID experience in South Korea
08:22 - Lack of common courtesy in South Korea
11:35 - The strength/weakness of the South African passport
17:02 - South Africans as cheap labor in South Korea
21:14 - Teaching in Thailand
23:40 - Korean CSAT(수능) tests and special needs in South Korea
30:00 - Taxi experiences in South Korea
34:17 - Tipping in South Korea vs South Africa
35:30 - Life in Thailand
37:48 - Studying Drama Therapy in England and working as a therapist in South Africa
40:16 - Teaching in South Korea
44:21 - Missing South Africa
47:17 - Meeting the friendliest lady in South Korea
50:08 - Getting homesick
54:59 - Vacations in South Korea are ridiculous
58:14 - What some English academies are really like in Korea
66:53 - Why are Non-Americans asked to speak with American accents
71:53 - Things to do in your free time in South Korea (Cycling, F54, snowboarding)
77:57 - Korean food experiences, COVID and taste buds and strange food
...more
1h 28min
June 26, 2024 How To Korea - Episode 16
Join us today on another episode of How to Korea, the best podcast in South Korea, where we tell you what it takes to live in South Korea.
In today's episode, we discuss housewarming parties and gifts in South Korea and what you can do to prepare gifts when visiting someone's home for the first time! We then discuss self-checkout stores in South Korea, which truly speaks to the security and safety of the country once more.
If you are a frequent customer at a shopping center such as HomePlus, Emart or Costco, make sure you sign up for a membership because you'll be surprised at some of the benefits and discounts! If you've lived in South Korea for a little bit, you'll notice that fruits are ridiculously expensive in South Korea and you'll want to try to get as much of a discount as you can. On that note, we speculate about why fruit prices are so high in South Korea and how that has an effect on the diet of the country.
Finally, we discuss two big tragedies that happened since the year 2000, including the Itaewon Halloween tragedy and the Sewol Ferry tragedy. To find out more details, visit the links below as Rotten Mango does an excellent job of going in depth into explaining what truly happened during these tragedies.
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Itaewon tragedy
https://youtu.be/F3sIDvFh3Os?si=9EdTfW5nt1-yfHXs
Sewol tragedy
https://youtu.be/VMs5bTRjjeI?si=J1wesvtDbj99QD6W
If you've liked this episode, please leave a comment and subscribe so that you can be notified when our next episode is live! We upload a new podcast every week on Sunday at 2 P.M. (Korean Time). If there is a guide that you want, feel free to reach us as follows:
IG: @howtokorea1
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61553899179696
E-mail: [email protected]
Youtube: @howtokorea1
Episode 16
00:00 - Introduction and responding to comments
06:01 - Housewarming gifts in South Korea
13:51 - Self checkout stores in South Korea
24:40 - Memberships from a big marts like HomePlus
27:17 - Why fruit is expensive in South Korea
35:10 - Itaewon Halloween tragedy
46:48 - Sewol ferry tragedy
...more
1h 15min
June 26, 2024 How To Korea - Episode 15
Join us today on another episode of How to Korea, the best podcast in South Korea, where we tell you what it takes to live in South Korea.
In today's episode, we start by talking about a very controversial topic, dog meat. We talk about the reasons for why people consume it and the background behind how it became a source of food for South Korea. We then briefly mention a new coffee shop that's been popping up in Ulsan, "Galvat" and the amazing flavor of its coffee.
As usual, we react and respond to the comments to our videos (Thank you for the comments, regardless of the nature) and speak briefly about forex trading, stock trading and the Bitcoin/Ethereum and meme coins boom in South Korea.
With summer coming up, we discuss the popularity of ice cream in South Korea although it seems that it's popular all-year round, not just during the summer and then we dive into some hilarious spelling mistakes that Koreans make with food and menus.
Our next topic speaks about the blind date and arranged dating/arranged marriage culture in South Korea and how you can experience these first-hand in Korean Dramas or "K-dramas" as they're popularly labeled. A word of advice, anything and everything you need to know about Korean culture, you can learn from K-dramas. (Albeit, a bit exaggerated)
We finally discuss MBTI and blood types, and how Koreans are adept at using them to determine the type of person you are and the way it has intertwined into Korean culture.
If you've liked this episode, please leave a comment and subscribe so that you can be notified when our next episode is live! We upload a new podcast every week on Sunday at 2 P.M. (Korean Time). If there is a guide that you want, feel free to reach us as follows:
IG: @howtokorea1
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61553899179696
E-mail: [email protected]
Youtube: @howtokorea1
00:00 - Introduction
01:55 - Dog meat consumption in South Korea
09:29 - Galvat coffee chain in South Korea
10:21 - Reaction to video comments (trash in Korea, food waste, trading in Korea)
16:27 - Forex, trading in Korea, stocks, bitcoin, etc.
18:14 - Koreans love ice cream
25:28 - Soondae and related Korean foods
29:11 - Blind dates and arranged dates
37:55 - Learning Korean Culture through K-Dramas
39:55 - MBTI and blood types regarding personality
...more
55min
June 26, 2024 How To Korea - Episode 14
Join us today on another episode of How to Korea, the best podcast in South Korea, where we tell you what it takes to live in South Korea.
In today's episode, we have quite the variety of stories. We talk about putting your business listing up on Naver Places, and some answers and experiences regarding Naver blogs and scam callers. We then divert straight into the topic of the Shincheonji Church, and the controversy they had during the COVID-19 outbreak. We also talk about Jehova's Witnesses and their role in South Korea, and a little bit about their religion based on our personal knowledge and experience.
Then, we discuss the monitor-state of China and the presence of the social credit score that is being reinforced in China currently, and the surveillance technology of South Korea and how everything you do (almost everything) is monitored very closely, so smile for the camera!
Given the nature of the topics that we discuss, we proceed to talk about superstitions and shamanism in South Korea, and some of the strange foods that we've tasted and experienced here. Naturally, we transition to a ghost story from Ian and an experience with God with James and how some of these instances and supernatural experiences may link with night terrors.
A final comment to leave you with, is "Don't take candy from strangers" and it seems to apply moreso to adults (especially women in South Korea) than children. Be careful what you accept from strangers in South Korea!
If you've liked this episode, please leave a comment and subscribe so that you can be notified when our next episode is live! We upload a new podcast every week on Sunday at 2 P.M. (Korean Time). If there is a guide that you want, feel free to reach us as follows:
IG: @howtokorea1
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61553899179696
E-mail: [email protected]
Youtube: @howtokorea1
00:00 - Intro
05:44 - Naver Places, blogs and scam callers
10:26 - The Shincheonji Church
11:54 - Surveillance in Korea and China’s Social Credit Score
15:23 - back to Shincheonji and Jehovah’s Witnesses and religion in Korea
20:56 - Shamanism and superstition in Korea
24:58 - Superstitions and strange foods in Korea (when is it okay to eat certain foods)
41:02 - Ian tells the story of when he saw a ghost in South Africa
50:20 - Ghosts, shamans and night terrors
54:19 - James reflects on him getting a sign from God
61:38 - Reflecting on todays episode
67:24 - Don’t take candy from strangers
...more
1h 11min
June 26, 2024 How To Korea - Episode 13
Join us today on another episode of How to Korea, the best podcast in South Korea, where we tell you what it takes to live in South Korea.
In today's episode, we start by discussing and amending some statements on a previous video, especially when it comes to the success of foreign companies like Starbucks and McDonalds in South Korea. For the most part, foreign companies struggle to succeed in South Korea but there are obvious exceptions like Starbucks.
We briefly discuss Asian zodiac signs and their relationship with Starbucks merchandise, and how Starbucks is adept at adopting to the country that they're present in, when it comes to goods and merchandise.
Until recently, you would've find it impossible to find a public trash can in South Korea but Seoul has started this movement recently and we talk about the benefits and potential pitfalls that this move may encourage. Along these lines, we talk about the presence or lack thereof of rats and mice in South Korea, as well as the presence of cockroaches and bugs in South Korea. It's also very common to see many stray cats here as well, and you'll quickly start noticing that there is an amazing number of wildlife just running about in South Korea.
We then discuss the prevalence of drugs in South Korea and how the South Korean government is offering a large reward to people who submit tips leading to the arrest of drug dealers and brokers, and shift our attention to other crooks, namely JMS who has been extensively covered in the Netflix video "In the Name of God: A Holy Betrayal", and the various religious groups in South Korea along with their recruiting tactics. (Be careful, they're very friendly and they get to you without you suspecting a thing)
If you've liked this episode, please leave a comment and subscribe so that you can be notified when our next episode is live! We upload a new podcast every week on Sunday at 2 P.M. (Korean Time). If there is a guide that you want, feel free to reach us as follows:
IG: @howtokorea1
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61553899179696
E-mail: [email protected]
Youtube: @howtokorea1
00:00 - Introduction
02:11 - Foreign companies that are doing well in South Korea (Starbucks, McDonald’s etc.)
07:13 - Asian(Chinese) Zodiac and Starbucks merchandise
08:29 - Trash cans in South Korea and littering
16:16 - Rats or mice in South Korea
18:50 - Cockroaches and other bugs in South Korea
27:55 - Stray cats in South Korea
31:35 - Drugs and rewards in South Korea
36:29 - JMS church in South Korea
53:54 - South Korean religious groups and recruitment tactics
...more
59min
June 26, 2024 How To Korea - Episode 12
Join us today on another episode of How to Korea, the best podcast in South Korea, where we tell you what it takes to live in South Korea.
In today's episode, we start off by responding to comments on our previous videos. As always, all your comments and feedback are motivational and helpful so keep them coming!
The Korean population, as you may be aware, is declining at a rapid pace and the projected growth of the Korean population is slowing down, almost to a standstill. South Korea is trying to adjust their policy for foreigners to make it more attractive for foreigners to move to South Korea, which may eventually lead to greater inter-cultural integration in South Korea.
While speaking about foreigners, we dive a little bit into the current price of the global currencies at commodities. Due to the instability in the Middle East, gold prices have been fluctuating for quite some time now and is creeping toward an all-time high, if it hasn't hit it already. Further, the value of the Japanese yen is declining at a rapid pace and is at an all-time historical low. Only time will tell how the currency will fare in the global market.
We share our thoughts in the current situation in the Middle East and shift back to South Korea, where we discuss the hierarchical culture and the use of formal and informal language. In a sense, South Korean has two different cultures and two different languages. One is used for friends and people who are younger than you, and one is used for your bosses, co-workers and people who are older than you. It gets complicated quickly, but it's very interesting because it shapes the culture and mindset of the South Korean people.
We dive into how education and income can dictate someone's hierarchy as your occupational and educational standing are strong factors in dictating how people treat you. It's the same in other countries, we believe, but it's a bit different in South Korea due to the formal/informal culture mentioned in the previous note. It takes time to get used to and you may never get used to it while living in South Korea, but you'll definitely start noticing the differences in terms of behavior and vocabulary when you start adjusting to life in South Korea.
We go a bit further into South Korean culture with a discussion about the beauty standards and desirable traits in South Korea, and how skin care and taking care of your appearances are one of the top priorities in South Korea. We then divert to more entertaining options like fortune telling in South Korea and South Korean comedy. South Korean comedy is an interesting area because the comedy doesn't translate so you may not find it entertaining, but you'll need to understand the language a bit to catch the nuances that garner the laughs of the audience. It's similar to how if you went to the movie theater in South Korea and watched Deadpool, and found that you were the only person laughing at some of the jokes because many of them got lost in translation.
If you've liked this episode, please leave a comment and subscribe so that you can be notified when our next episode is live! We upload a new podcast every week on Sunday at 2 P.M. (Korean Time). If there is a guide that you want, feel free to reach us as follows:
IG: @howtokorea1
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61553899179696
E-mail: [email protected]
Youtube: @howtokorea1
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1h 11min

FAQs about How To Korea:

How many episodes does How To Korea have?

The podcast currently has 21 episodes available.