{"id":21080,"date":"2025-05-01T13:35:45","date_gmt":"2025-05-01T18:35:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/international.missouri.edu\/studyabroad\/?p=21080"},"modified":"2025-05-01T13:35:45","modified_gmt":"2025-05-01T18:35:45","slug":"two-months-in-seoul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/international.missouri.edu\/studyabroad\/2025\/05\/01\/two-months-in-seoul\/","title":{"rendered":"Two months in Seoul"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>As of about a week ago, it\u2019s officially been two months since I arrived in Seoul. It\u2019s been a fun two months. I\u2019ve gone to more karaoke rooms than I can count and somehow, I\u2019m surprised when I wake up with a sore throat. I\u2019ve visited my friend\u2019s university and learned about her school\u2019s traditions of hanging up wishes leading up to Buddha\u2019s birthday. I\u2019ve gone to Hongdae a few times too many and will continue to go back if I\u2019m being honest. A top 10 moment is getting to see the friends I made last semester who visited MU as exchange students themselves. It\u2019s been interesting having the roles reversed but in a good way. I\u2019ve also thankfully made some pretty great friends in the past two months. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-photo is-provider-flickr wp-block-embed-flickr\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/2r26ZYq\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/54490098820_c402aa02e6_z.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0633\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" \/><\/a>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">My friends and I. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The end of March and beginning of April ushered in spring with beautiful cherry blossoms. They lined the streets and thankfully caused no allergies for me. Springtime is often a time when I\u2019m thinking about my future goals and more specifically stressing about my future. But this time has been a bit different. I&#8217;ve come to really enjoy being in Seoul and its made me realize that I would love a career that allows me to travel. So naturally, I\u2019ve started to think of ways I can end up in Seoul again in the future and while I still don\u2019t have a concrete plan, I\u2019m sure I\u2019ll be back here to visit at some point. My only plan right now is to visit more places around Seoul and around South Korea. I plan to go back home with no regrets. In my book, that means having as many experiences here as I can. So here\u2019s to the last two months in Seoul, and a pretty nice springtime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-photo is-provider-flickr wp-block-embed-flickr\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/2r1ZPTe\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/54488894207_8a30fb748a_z.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0870\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" \/><\/a>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Cherry Blossoms near my favorite pork belly place. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p>Learn more about this blogger\u2019s study abroad program: <a href=\"https:\/\/mystudyabroad.missouri.edu\/_portal\/tds-program-brochure?programid=10030\">Korea University<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As of about a week ago, it\u2019s officially been two months since I arrived in Seoul. It\u2019s been a fun two months. I\u2019ve gone to more karaoke rooms than I can count and somehow, I\u2019m surprised when I wake up with a sore throat. I\u2019ve visited my friend\u2019s university and learned about her school\u2019s traditions [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[183],"class_list":["post-21080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-south-korea"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/international.missouri.edu\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/international.missouri.edu\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/international.missouri.edu\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/international.missouri.edu\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/international.missouri.edu\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21080"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/international.missouri.edu\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21080\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21083,"href":"https:\/\/international.missouri.edu\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21080\/revisions\/21083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/international.missouri.edu\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/international.missouri.edu\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/international.missouri.edu\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}