Shy Em


I'm a Boston-based writer. For a while, this was mostly about my life in South Korea. Then I forgot to post for a long time. Now I'm back.

shyemblog@gmail.com

random post

for your ears

in their ongoing bid to avoid learning English

by turning “English class” into “teach the foreigner to speak Korean”, my kindergartners spent half of class teaching me the Korean word for Santa, which is산타. It is pronounced “Santa”.