Drinking Culture in Korea – “LIKE IT” thumbnail

What traditional liquor do you know that smells like rubbing alcohol, can be used to clean a table, is as cheap as water, comes in a lovely green bottle, is drunk in copious amounts and is the world’s best selling liquor? SOJU!! Korea has historically always been a rice producing country, so naturally like they [...]

Questions We Always Get Asked in Korea – “LIKE IT” thumbnail

Have you ever been asked the same questions over and over again? After a week off so we could travel to Busan (we know you were wondering what happened), LIKE IT is back and man do we have a topic in store for you! ^^ Foreigners in Korea get asked a lot of questions. A [...]

Pros and Cons Living in Korea – LIKE IT thumbnail

As we all know, there are pros and cons to everything in this world. So, when we saw this question posed amongst the YouTube comments, we knew it would be a fun one to tackle. Richard and I both agree that there are definitely more pros to living in Korea than cons. We named a [...]

What Koreans Do For Dating & PDA in Korea – LIKE IT thumbnail

Dating is just as fun in exciting for you people in Korea as it is anywhere! Twenty-somethings looking for love in South Korea turn to the dating world like most people their age all over the world. Although tradition still tends to play a part, discovering love (or at the very least attempting to) is [...]

Homosexuality and Being Gay in Korea – LIKE IT thumbnail

Being Gay in South Korea in 2013 still seems to be a very difficult prospect indeed. When we first received this question, we knew we wanted to eventually cover this topic, but at the time didn’t quite know how difficult it would be. Turns out it was a very tough for us to cover, especially [...]

Beauty Standards in Korea – LIKE IT thumbnail

It’s amazing how different beauty standards are from one country to another. What’s hot and trendy in one place may not be considered beautiful or sexy in another. The world is so large and diverse that there’s literally an unlimited set of standards by which we judge beauty. What’s happening in North America, for instance, [...]

What We Miss About Korea – LIKE IT thumbnail

This summer has been crazy! For one, we’ve been home for over a month now and it’s time for us to get back to Korea. While it’s really nice to come home and see the folks and all that, our home is in Korea. That’s where my husband and I are used to laying our [...]

Plastic Surgery in Korea – LIKE IT thumbnail

Plastic surgery has become as popular in Korea as anywhere in the world! By now, Koreans along with most other neighboring Asian nations have all sorts of plastic surgery done to their bodies. It’s become a huge industry for Korea, and in some places plastic surgeon offices now line the streets in Gangnam and Apgujang. [...]

Should I Live in Korea – LIKE IT thumbnail

Korea is hot, no doubt about it! Visiting Korea is exciting and more people are doing it by the year. What’s more, some people have even began to consider moving there. Heck, we did it about five years ago and haven’t looked back. Not to brag or anything like that, but our life in Korea [...]

Nightlife in Korea – LIKE IT thumbnail

Korean nightlife is exciting! Richard and I have been living in Korea over 4 years now together, and we never get tired of the options available to us. It’s really amazing how this place has such a wide variety of things to do pretty much every night of the week! What’s even better is that [...]

Korean vs. United States High Schools (LIKE IT) thumbnail

Ah Korean high schools.. where to begin? Students in Korea probably spend more time in school than any other country in the world. Obama has pointed to Korean schools multiple times when trying to give an example of a country whose students study hard. He is, of course, correct, except that the amount of hours [...]

How to Travel to the Airport – LIKE IT thumbnail

You never know what’s going to happen when you travel internationally. Richard and I proved this exact point on our latest trip back to the USA. We figured we’d just record the traveling from our home in Korea to the airport we were flying from, and try to make it interesting for you guys. And, [...]

Do Koreans Like to Date Foreigners – LIKE IT thumbnail

Today’s video is about dating in Korea! YAY!!! This is definitely a shift from the first two videos we made for Like It. In the inaugural Like It video we examined several key factors to cost of living in Korea, including public transportation, food and clothing. Our second video touched on how we communicate here. [...]

Language Barriers in Korea – LIKE IT thumbnail

It’s our second ‘Like It’ video! YAY!!!^^ And, as hubby said in there somewhere: We are just getting started. It’s exciting to think of it that way because we really do like this place. Korea, for all it’s Kpop and Kdrama and tasty food and other things that people know about this place is, we [...]

Cost of Living in Korea – Like It thumbnail

WOWZERS!!! My husband and I’s first EVER video together on Hallyu Back! Crazier things have happened. \(^o^)/ We love living in Korea! We really do. I’ve been living here now 4 ½ years, and Richard has been here nearly 5. And, as much as I love watching dramas and reviewing them for you guys, living [...]