Earlier this week, I received the news that a long time resident and friend in Ulsan was killed in a traffic accident. Jean-Marc Lalonde was probably one of the friendliest and most passionate guys that I have met over here. We traveled in different circles but always met up once in a while at the local bars to shoot the […]
Working primarily as an English teacher and spending most of the last 10 years living in a one-room bachelor pad is all part of my life here in Korea. However, it is easy to think that that is how all of the other expats live in this country. The shock is when you live in a place like Ulsan where […]
One of the tragedies of Ulsan’s housing boom was the numerous “busts” that came when the prices of apartments exceeded what people were willing to pay. One of those was the Palace D’Sante or whatever it is being called now. In 2007, it popped up along the street next to two other high-rise apartments. These were to be the future […]