And the day to say farewell to Korea has finally come. It’s been such an amazing experience but I think we’re all ready to leave. It’s been kind of overwhelming with how much we’ve seen and done in two weeks so we’re all a little exhausted but also excited to go home. We had to…

Today is scheduled to be a free day for us. We all woke up around 9am and got some breakfast. But we left the hotel in a taxi around 10:45 to Hae-un Dae Beach. The weather was pretty glorious, sunny and warm but not humid. We stayed there for about 2 to 2 and half…

We were originally scheduled to see SECO MIBOGEAR but something happened and we were rescheduled to the US Consulate in Busan. I actually learned a lot from consul Daniel C. Gedacht about the US’s role in South Korea and the South Korean economy and information about Busan. He even went in depth about the current…

The first visit today was to Trainor Korea, and at first it was really hard to tell what the company was from the website. But we sat through a presentation and learned that its a consulting company that provides training for construction workers and specifically in electrical safety. Their main goal is safety of these…

Staying in Ulsan for one night may or may not have been worth it because we had to check out early Tuesday morning. Our company visit was at Hyundai Moter Company. I was really excited for this one because it would be really cool to see the biggest production site for one of the most…

The checkout at Commodore hotel in Gyeongju was 7:30am and we drove about an hour and half to Ulsan, which people say is a lot like Cleveland. It’s a huge port city most famously known for producing Hyundai cars.  Our first company visit was at Jinsan Marine Management. This company was very traditional and followed…

Hi from Gyeongju! Our day today was a very culture and historic filled day today. Something to note though, the hotel breakfast was really good. There was a good mix of continental and korean, but they had local foods like lychee, dragon fruit, papayas, the yakult yogurt, etc. But anyways, Gyeongju has a population of…

We had to check out of the hotel by 9am so we ate the hotel breakfast before then. The drive to Gyeongju is about 4 hours but we stopped twice, once for a restroom break and once for a lunch break. Most of us slept the first stretch but were wide awake for the second….

The day has come where we visit the DMZ. I think it was one of the most anticipated visits for all of us since the beginning of the trip, mostly because.. its the DMZ. We left early and it was about an hour and a half drive up north to the DMZ. The DMZ AKA…

The program started at 8:20 today and our first visit was to Naver. Naver is pretty much known as the Google of Korea. We had a presentation about Naver and its many technologies like V Live (which is live video streaming), Line (which is a messenger platform), Naver Pay, Naver TV, the smart speaker WAVE…

It was a rough morning… I was up by 6am but my allergies started acting up a whole lot which made it difficult to get ready since we had to meet in the lobby at 7:20am. We were headed to Samsung Biologics in Incheon which is about an hour and a half away from the…

Today was a lot fun and interesting than anticipated. We met up at 8:20am so I got in a quick breakfast at the hotel. We had to drive 45 minutes to get to Hanyang University. The drive was a change in scenery because it was farther out of downtown so it was more residential. There…

Hi from Seoul! Our first full day in the city was quite packed and fulfilling. I had breakfast at 8 in the hotel which served a mix of continental and Korean breakfast items. The group met in the lobby at 9am and after taking a loop through the city and seeing the Presidents House named…

My journey started on Thursday at 11am from my home in the outskirts of Philly to Pittsburgh. I stayed with a friend that night and then checked into Nordenburg Hall on Pitt campus around lunch time on Friday. Our entire group was scheduled to meet in the lobby at 3:30 to eat at Korean Garden;…

Hello! My name is Sayuri Padmanabhan and am a rising sophomore at the University of Pittsburgh. Still a little undecided but I plan to major in marketing and finance, minor in chemistry, and get a certificate in data analytics. Quite soon I’ll be on my way to South Korea and and am incredibly excited to…