Architecture / Bureaucracy / Korea / North Korea / Culture / Freak / Politics / Turisme
August 25, 2011 8This is the third and last post for the trip to North Korea. You can read the previous first post and second post to have a more complete overview. “Great Leader” Kim Il Sung, “Dear Leader” Kim Jong Il and Kim Jong Suk One of the more particular aspects of a visit to DPRK is […]
If you have not read the first part of this post I recommend to read it before proceeding with this one. Arirang If you’ve looked up for North Korea outside of the the traditional news it is very likely that you saw some images of Arirang. Arirang is a gymnastic performance where more than 100000 […]
Architecture / Bureaucracy / Korea / North Korea / Culture / Freak / Politics / Transport / Turisme
August 21, 2011 9As Anna already mentioned at her last post I was not going to visit her in India. The secret holiday destination this year was North Korea (or Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, DPRK) and as you are reading this it means that everything was alright :) As it is an unusual destination (as you can […]
Anna had to leave Taiwan for visa reasons, so we arranged an extended weekend trip to Seoul during Sant Jordi. South Korean stamp was missing on our passports :) Seoul We did not have much expectations about our visit to Seoul, as almost nobody in Taipei made a single positive comment about Seoul, Korea or […]
When we decided to come to Taiwan, my first intention was to study a bit of Chinese and right away to look for a job. But as the research of a job was getting more difficult than expected and I got into the Chinese course… I stopped and I was fully dedicated to Chinese. 9 […]
One of the first things that will surprise you in Taiwan is that almost wherever you shop you will get an invoice for your purchase and all the invoices look more or less the same. Like the example on the right. This is actually the so called Unified Invoice and it is a form of […]
Last weekend we went to Hong Kong. It’s not far away from Taipei (around 1.30h by plane), but from the city center to the airport, and vice versa, it took around 5 hour to arrive there. We have to say that we didn’t start very well the trip, as the night before our flight was […]
My company works with a local bank, The Shanghai Commercial & Savings Bank I would say that it is a regular bank, except for their mascot: a pink pig (Pukii). In fact it is a complete family of pigs. Enjoy the images and videos below
Finally! After a last minute rush with some of the paperwork (I will make a special post dedicated to that, they deserve it…), last Tuesday the passaport with the visa for Taiwan arrived! Note: Details of the visa have been erased for security reasons
