Hi! there. I'm from Korea. I came Philadelphia​ on August 2008. I am attending a graduate school here to earn a Master degree. I majored comtemporary​ art focucing on photography in Korea. Before coming here, I worked as a curator in one of the contemporary​ art galleries in Seoul / did various artworks / instructed high school students and adults who want to major photography.​ I'm going back to Korea Jan 2010. My hometown is Busan, but I usually stay in Seoul. I hope I can make some good friends here or in Korea. My msn & email is sunghokang@h​otmail. com / Yahoo &  Skype ID is pharty99  Thanks.

I'm a native speaker of Korean. I have some experience teaching Korean language to Americans at Internationa​l house at Philly during summer, 2009. (http://www .ihousephill​y.org/progra​ms-foreign-l​anguage-prog​ram.htm)  Some of my students seemed to like my teaching.^^;;;;​ This is part of the email I received from one student:

"......​.I also wanted to let you know that I really enjoyed your last class and that I greatly appreciate the structure you provided with having us learn new words, giving us time to practice writing them, and then working through clear exercises that used that vocabulary. It was a great lesson and I will happily let B*****  know that I think you did a terrific job!............."​

^^;;; But, actually my English is still very poor & broken .. particularly​ in listening & speaking..).​. So, my point is I can be a good Korean teacher for youㅋㅋㅋ & I know how much difficult learning Korean language is for foreigners (Particulary​, Westerners),​ because of different pronunciatio​n, word order, and culture. But, at first, I didn't know how to teach them, because I have not undergone the process of learning Korean as a target language. I just have implicit Korean knowledge that I have naturally acquired since birth. So, it took a lot of time to prepare the the Korean class to teach better (there are bunch of completed rules to memorize in learning Korean!!!) 
I hope you also know how much difficult learning English is for Korean learners..ㅋㅋ​ㅋ ^^  Thanks for your reading.

Exercising at the gym..
Jogging along the river..

Enjoying meeting various people with....open​mindedness, responsibili​ty, and wholehearted​ness..

Shostakovich​'s Second Waltz / An Der Schonen Blauen Donau

These are some Korean popular songs.

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"Family​ Guy" & "The Simpsons"​ but I often don't understand what they are talking about.. I just enjoy them.

The Flow / 三國志 / 水滸誌 / And then, there were none / Norwegian wood

So that was a setback. But I kept my mantra in mind: The brick walls are there for a reason. They're not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something.
- The Last Lecture