We have a nice typhoon who goes closer and closer. Usagi (It's it's name) should arrive around the 3rd of August.
We can predict a very bad weather for the next week.
Tuesday, July 31, 2007
Incoming Typhoon
We have a nice typhoon who goes closer and closer. Usagi (It's it's name) should arrive around the 3rd of August.
One week of holidays
My korean lessons start on wednesday so I have one week of holidays.
I met two swiss friends in Korea, John and Denis, both are AIESEC Members (AIESEC is a student organisation). We went to Karaoke, we ate korean barbecue and had some drinks (Not too much).
Three special things in Korea:
-There are starcraft championships on TV.
-The Mc Donald's Bacon Tomato Burger, bigger than the Big Mac.
-The convenience stores open 24 / 365 (If only they had that in switzerland).
Finaly, a picture for Jean Imbs, ou Macro-economy teacher who loved to talk about National Banks.
Finaly, a picture for Jean Imbs, ou Macro-economy teacher who loved to talk about National Banks.
Friday, July 27, 2007
First contact with SKKU and INHA
Note: SKKU=the university where I'l study korean for a month
INHA=The university where I'll study during the rest of the year.
Today was a long day, I fist went to the SungKyunKwan University to tell them that I was arrived in Korea and to ask for some information.
Then started the quest for the alien registration card: I would like a cell phone, but I need a bank book to do that, and to open a bank account I need a smart card (INHA university card which is linked to the bank account). To get the smart card I first need an Alien Registration Card (aka ARC) as needed for 90% of the things where you need to subscribe in Korea.
Wait, I’ve not finished, to get the ARC you need two things: a certificate of enrolment from INHA (I got it really quickly, thanks M. Kim) and to have my presence in Korea registered by the immigration service… they told me that it will take about 7 days. So nothing for 7 days from now.
At INHA University I finally met M. Kim, the International relations responsible, who has been really nice. He called the immigration office for me and then get out with me in order to bring me to some real estate agency and then visited with me some flats. I found a perfect flat, all mew, building with an elevator, a convenience store on the 1st floor, 10mins far from INHA by foot. (You’ll get the pictures when I’ll move in).
INHA=The university where I'll study during the rest of the year.
Today was a long day, I fist went to the SungKyunKwan University to tell them that I was arrived in Korea and to ask for some information.
Then started the quest for the alien registration card: I would like a cell phone, but I need a bank book to do that, and to open a bank account I need a smart card (INHA university card which is linked to the bank account). To get the smart card I first need an Alien Registration Card (aka ARC) as needed for 90% of the things where you need to subscribe in Korea.
Wait, I’ve not finished, to get the ARC you need two things: a certificate of enrolment from INHA (I got it really quickly, thanks M. Kim) and to have my presence in Korea registered by the immigration service… they told me that it will take about 7 days. So nothing for 7 days from now.
At INHA University I finally met M. Kim, the International relations responsible, who has been really nice. He called the immigration office for me and then get out with me in order to bring me to some real estate agency and then visited with me some flats. I found a perfect flat, all mew, building with an elevator, a convenience store on the 1st floor, 10mins far from INHA by foot. (You’ll get the pictures when I’ll move in).
One of the SKKU building
About INHA I'll take more pictures when I'll be there as a student.
Wednesday, July 25, 2007
Korea, here I am.
I'm in Korea, or more precisely in Incheon.
I'm 2 hours late, thanks to the staff of Paris Airport who found a reason (probabely a bad one) to go on strike. I'm pretty sure that they wanted to give me a present (a typically french one) before I leave. Well, I'm glad to leave the country of OECD where people work the less (in hour per inhabitants) for the country where they work the most. Strangely, every flight from Japan that followed mine were between 10 and 25 minutes early.
The plane (Air France) had no internet connection onboard unlike Korean Air which remains my favorite company.
Pictures of visited airport: Lyon Saint Exupery / Paris Charles de Gaulle / Incheon International Airport
I'm 2 hours late, thanks to the staff of Paris Airport who found a reason (probabely a bad one) to go on strike. I'm pretty sure that they wanted to give me a present (a typically french one) before I leave. Well, I'm glad to leave the country of OECD where people work the less (in hour per inhabitants) for the country where they work the most. Strangely, every flight from Japan that followed mine were between 10 and 25 minutes early.
The plane (Air France) had no internet connection onboard unlike Korean Air which remains my favorite company.
Pictures of visited airport: Lyon Saint Exupery / Paris Charles de Gaulle / Incheon International Airport
Tuesday, July 17, 2007
I successfully passed my exams
It means that I can officially go to korea and that I will recieve my scholarship.
I started a wiki about south korea (in french), I'll try to put everithing that must be known about life in korea. The wiki is there: http://wiki.koori.eu/
I leave in one week ^_^ V
Sunday, July 8, 2007
My new blog - Introduction
This blog has two goals, keep my friends aware of what I am doing (and avoid them to ask the same question again and again "what are you doing?") and secondly share my experience in Incheon (Korea).
Let's start with me (I'm a self-centered person), I'm student in management in HEC (Lausanne, Switzerland) and I've been selected (I'm pretty sure I was the onlyone to apply) to go for an exchange at Inha University in Incheon.
I've finally recieved my camera so that I'll be able to keep you visually informed (always better than only text). Canon Digital Ixus 850IS, with wide angle(28mm), image stabilizer, face detection technology and Canon image quality. (end of the ad).
You will be able to watch the pictures on my webpage in the image gallery:
http://www.koori.eu/
Please feel free to leave any comment on this blog.
see you soon.
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