Family
- The complexities of Chuseok and meeting parents for the first time
- Family responsibilities - leaving, near-death experiences, actual death experiences, funerals, after death experiences
- Winning approval from Psychic Aunts
- Korean weddings - the photo shoot before, and again, and then the day is manufactured, chaotic, talked through - and don't hand out those buffet vouchers until after the ceremony
- To impress your Korean family, out-climb them on a mountain
- Why it's bad news if your son, the used-car dealer, takes you out for a meal
Food
- Don't eat the moving food
- Steaming hot moths? No thanks!
- Korean traditional porridge
- Drink - maeshilcha
- McDelivery!
Language
- Baby Milo Ape Said... Go Bape! and other products of the billions spent on English education in Korea
- Using Declan Flashcards, TextAloud and Casio electronic dictionaries for learning Korean
- Beware of the danger of fan death! And Korean massage pads.
- Don't get sick, otherwise Korean Mother will want your blood!
- The best investment you'll ever make in Korea
- Cheap glasses!
- The health system is great if you can afford it, and if the doctors aren't on strike
- But are the private hospitals all they're cracked up to be?
- It's probably a good idea to buy health insurance, but don't expect to understand the terms
- Finding a good dentist and finding a willing dentist
- Night walking to keep fit, exercising on mountains
- Paying for sex
- Finding 'entertainment areas'
- What kind of hotel has a ready supply of porn videos?
- Using dancing girls in revealing costumes to sell products and... politicians?(!)
- Watching baseball and how to wear your orange bag
- The Korean obsession with 3-Cushion
- DVD rooms are a good way of watching movies, but be careful of the seedy underside!
- Online gaming with Nexon Kartrider
- Safety in Korea - walking under building sites, suicide buses, and the perils of exploding telegraph poles
- Don't stand too close to the massive bonfire
- White, silver, white, black, silver, silver, white - the many colours of Korean cars
- Stay off the roads in Seomyeon
- No wing is too big for the back of your Hyundai Accent
- Limit conversations with Christian fundamentalists to name, rank and serial number
- Beware of Buddhists bearing gifts
- How to beat children in public
- To report crimes call 112, to report spies call 113
- Don't panic when the air-raid sirens go off - it's probably just a drill...
- Korean politics is a numbers game, but half-naked girls on the back of a truck and screaming outside apartments? Vote winner!
- Korea forgot to ban Che
- Searching for a new apartment, staging a low-budge re-enactment of Silent Running with a Bongo truck, shipping boxes into Korea, and other moving stories
- Being half-way up a tall building doesn't prevent people appearing outside your window
- 100 megabit but censored Internet connections - with less impressive international connectivity and outright failures to find sites
- If you're shopping, best to take an ajumma with you to haggle for couches, clothes
- Buying a mobile phone - limited choice with infinite complexity - and watch out for the after-sales service
- Shopping for TVs
- Live fish in the aisles at Tesco?
- Places to go in Busan - Busan Aquarium, the Children's Grand Park, Yongdusan Park, Taejongdae, Songjeong Beach, the Eden Valley Resort, the Busan Gyeongnam Racecourse Park, Neungeum (temple) on Buddha's birthday, Beomeo Temple (Beomeosa) and Geumjeong Mountain, Hwangryeong Mountain at night, Songdo Bay at night, Heaundae Beach on New Year's Day or Dadaepo Beach on New Year's Eve, Jagalchi Fish Market and the Jagalchi Festival, the Pusan International Film Festival (PIFF), the Busan Fireworks Fesitval, the Busan Christmas Tree Culture Festival, the Kosin University Christmas Tree Festival, the Sajik Baseball Stadium Complex for baseball and basketball
- Things to do in Seoul - Lotte World, visit the 'South Gate' or what's left of it, Deoksugung, Seoul Plaza, Cheonggyecheon, Namdaemun, Insa-dong, Tapgol Park, Unhyeongung, Seoul Finance Center and the Skittish Embassy, see a celebrity tennis match at the Olympic complex
- Other places to go in Korea - the Jinhae Cherry Blossom Festival and ROK Naval Academy, Bulguksa, Seokguram, Golgulsa, Girimsa temple tour, Wolseong Yangdon Village, Gyeongju National Museum, Gyeongju Folk Art-Craft Village, Namhae
- If 'Korea has four seasons' who stole Autumn?
- Buy a mask for Yellow Dust Season and plan on cleaning your car a lot
- Check the forecast before doing anything rash over the New Year
- Getting refused re-entry into the UK as a family
- An initial appeal
- Getting an Asylums and Immigration Tribunal hearing
- Not being sent vital documents
- Winning the case
- Still being messed around
- The legal ruling
- Eventually realising the trauma and expense will never be over, giving up and returning to Korea