Category Archives: Rants

Protected: Year in Review: “Brandon” Byung-hyu Na

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Wow! Cigarettes aren’t cheap!

Ever since quitting smoking in 1st grade (yes, I smoked for a full week when I was 7 years old!), I’ve been an opponent of cigarettes.  However, my folks run a convenience store and growing up, I’ve always seen prices … Continue reading

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A day in the life of…

…Brandon. a.k.a. Byung-hyu Na. These days, I’ve been focusing on writing a book I’ve been wishing to complete for some time now.  Actually, it replaces what I thought would be my first book titled “Hit or Stand.”  I’m going to … Continue reading

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Great weight loss and physical health tips from my roomate

My roomate Devin Nowroski gave some of the best advice to me the other day about working out, your food intake and not being misled about the misconception that running for example equals more energy or that you lose weight … Continue reading

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Hagwon Advice…

I’ve been around the (Korean) block a few times… More specifically, I’ve been in the English as a Foreign Language (and as CDI or Chungdahm Learning likes to call it their patented ESL programs) industry for more than five years … Continue reading

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Fascinating article about targeting foreigners in Korea…

From my brief scanning of the article titled “How the Ugly American Ate the Ugly Duckling“, I thought I’d bookmark this for future reference because it has some interesting stats and observations of how foreigners are treated in South Korea. … Continue reading

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Facebook down again…

If you liked the post, y not bookmark it by clicking any of the below icons: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: It’s definitely not a life crisis or emergency and may be something secluded to … Continue reading

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Talk about sh*t hitting the fan…

If you liked the post, y not bookmark it by clicking any of the below icons: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: Is it me?  Or did I just land in the country most well known … Continue reading

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Not being able to access Google…

Wow, but the other night was really (virtually) painful.  It also showed me how much I am reliant on Google as a search tool.  Basically, I think it was on the 13th when for some reason every time I did … Continue reading

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Six letters. Many combinations. Possibly the cure to all the world’s problems.

If you liked the post, y not bookmark it by clicking any of the below icons: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: Six letters. Many combinations. Possibly the cure to all the world’s problems. In Korea, … Continue reading

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Oh, forgot by the way that the shortest month of the year broke my all time blog views record

If you liked the post, y not bookmark it by clicking any of the below icons: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: After breaking my daily blog record a week ago, I then carried on to break … Continue reading

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Doing a little spring cleaning on the blog…

Please excuse the mess here including all the excess categories for links, topics, etc. I just added a few other blogs I had failed to keep up to date – unlike The Real South Korea.  As a result, it does … Continue reading

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Turning ideas into action…

Sorry folks…I’ve turned some of these ideas into active projects.  Thus, my lack of posting here in a while… Some of the exciting projects include: AlmostFreePhone.com – tips, advice and leads on great “almost” free telecommunications services YanMBA.com - Answering questions … Continue reading

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The beginning…

Soloosh will be the start of my documenting of my many business ideas & at some point implementation of these ideas into fully fledged businesses. Soloosh is like the beginning of Solutions phonetically sounded out…since of course the “solutions.wordpress.com” would … Continue reading

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