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For Tiroler ski, Muju Korea is Austria’s top export project
Posted under Entrepreneurship, Korea, Netherlands, travel on Saturday, 20 February 2010 by Joop Dorresteijn
Last week we spent some time at Muju (무주) Ski resort in S-Korea. An Average area, with 25km of beginner and advanced ski slopes - aimed to host the 2010 winter Olympics, including four ski jump's, fun park and half pipe. But that wasn't what struck me most. It was the export of culture in this...
Illegal Chinese medicine
When I was walking to work this morning, I spotted some items being sold on street by a merchant. When I had a look, I noticed they were Chinese medicine. I'm not afraid to take legal Chinese medicine, perhaps to cure a sport injury or fight an upcoming fever, but these items are quite something...
Boat trip, Leifeng Pagoda and Yakitori in Hangzhou, China
This weekend we made a small trip of 180km out of Shanghai to see the West lake in Hangzhou China, with 6.5 million people not a small town, but due to the beautiful scenery of the lake and the hillside, it's a favorite destination for many Shanghainese. For me, it was a trip down memory lane,...
Tribute to the potato
When people enquire about typical Dutch cuisine, the first thing that pops to my mind is the "potato eaters" painting by Vincent Van Gogh. To me, this 'cozy setting' visualizes how Dutch peasants have been eating potato's every day for at least 400 years, in a typical Dutch way. Besides the...
Good morning China (video: Fireworks in the morning)
I have experienced some Chinese culture, one of the things that made me interested in the country were the fireworks. In The Netherlands, we can only light fireworks for a number of hours per year, during new years eve. From the age of six, I used to spend every new years eve with my Chinese...
Eating bacon in Daejeon
Everytime when I return to Korea, the comic graph by Randall Munroe (displayed above) pops into my head. Who knows if bacon is really that bad, but I have a feeling that I should not eat it too often. I never really liked bacon, until I ate it in Korea. While living there, I had to compensate the...
Want some mayonnaise with that King Cobra?
I have seen some interesting food in Asia over the years. Most interesting dishes were definitely in China. I don't want to bother you with the cliché backpack-like stories that hit the blogosphere daily, because eating culture is indeed different here, nothing new, I know.
Instead I want to...
Empty eight lane roads in Zibo
This week I was in Zibo (map), a 1.5 hours bus drive from the nearest airport of Jinan. There are about 4 million people living here. The city is known for material arts and it's rich resources. Due to the resources, the city is characterized by smog, due to coal mining and farmers. To...
It’s good to take pictures!
So, it takes about 20 years for me to forget a sight, as it seems. Displayed below is a old and a new holiday picture, taken in the south of France.
The first picture is around 1990, second one almost 20 years later. The chap in blue is me, the handsome girl in the right is my sister Mirrin....
[Movie] Would you freak out when your name is announced at the Airport? (Dutch)
Imagine sitting at the gate, waiting for your plane from Amsterdam to Shanghai to arrive and you hear your name announced over the speakers. This happened to me yesterday.
Yesterday I took the train to the airport of Amsterdam, and checked in like normal, passed security check and ordered some...
![[Movie] Would you freak out when your name is announced at the Airport? (Dutch)](http://www.joop.in//wp-content/uploads/pth/loop/loop_imgp4171-300x263.jpg)
Finding an Apartment in Shanghai: How to pay what the locals are paying
When I arrived in Shanghai, I asked some of my friends here how I could find a good appartment to rent. Most of them recommended to look for apartments at Craigslist, Smartshanghai or Cityweekend. All these recommendations were a great source to get aquatinted with the housing market in Shanghai...
MBC Marathon – the results are in!
Those happy faces are me and my collegues, Frank-Jan, Zdenek, Marten and Arjan from ING - just - before we started running our (half) marathon. Perhaps we were even happier when we finished - it would have been better, or at least more fair to share a before / after picture I suppose.
Together...
Dutch Orange ball 2009
The highlight of the year for the Dutch community in Seoul would be the Dutch “Orange Ballâ€, held in the grand hyatt. It's was true Dutch evening with "oranjebitter" and a Dutch band that was flown in to Seoul for the occasion.
The champagne reception.
The theme of the Orange...
Holiday in Jeju
Woman done fishing for today
Traditional Korean seafood soup is enhanced by distinctive shellfish harvested by the famous woman divers of Jeju Island. An age-old tradition, the fisher-woman of Jeju spend long hours in the waters surrounding the island relentlessly diving again and...
North-Korea vs. South-Korea match at Mapo-gu Stadium
The national football teams of North and South Korea have played a World Cup qualifier in Seoul today - which the South won by one goal to nil. Although the game was quite boring, there was a good atmosphere in the stadium, especially after Kim Chi Woo scored the first goal for South Korea. The...
In Hong Kong for the week #2
I like this city so much that I decided to upload some more pictures to give you first hand about what I think is beautiful around here. Hope you like it!
You can go up any skyscraper in Hong Kong, (which I almost did) but you can see the city best from the Victory Peak. Simply take the...
In Hong Kong for the week
After having lived outside my home country for almost 3 years, I can tell you that working abroad will always bring exciting experiences, reveal cultural challenges and –even though the rent, dishes and laundry– feel like a holiday. However, a foreigner has to comply to some basic...
Adidas MBC Hangang Marathon 2009
I haven't participated in a sport event ever since the Funda run in 2008 - a fun and fulfilling event, but I had no incentive to continue my healthy habits afterwards. I put my running shoes back on later that year, to find out that I would never reach a peak of runners satisfaction again without a...
The Korean Demilitarized Zone
South Korea's military says it is preparing for the possibility that North Korea may try to provoke a naval skirmish along their disputed sea border. (december 2008, voanews.com) While things look calm for an expat, South and North Korea are officially still at war, because of that military...
Saturday stroll through rainy Changdeokgung garden
After weeks of sunshine it started to rain in Seoul today. We had a day off and decided to have a look at the Changdeokgung palace, close to our home.
Greatest building in Changdeokgung, used for official ceremonies.
Nice colors!
The stone gate is called Bullomun. "Bullo" means "not to...
Paragliding at a Korean army base
Want to join paragliding this weekend? - off course! that's a no brainer! In reality, the relaxing chair and the calm speed got me disappointed, I should have thought of bringing a good book to read. Some people manage to stay up there for a long time! As the first foreigners at this Korean army...
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