2018 GEXP POSTECH, South Korea (Week 7)
This week, we visited Busan, a city 1hr 40 minutes away from POSTECH, for more sightseeing and to experience the Busan International Film Festival 2018.
Busan Tower has such great views of the city and its...
2018 GEXP POSTECH, South Korea (Week 5)
Before classes were to commence again after almost a full week of holidays, we spent the weekend in a nearby city called Daegu.
One of the highlights of the city was the Apsan Observatory (앞산전망대), which...
2018 GEXP POSTECH, South Korea (Week 4)
This coming weekend is the Chuseok Holidays! It is like Thanksgiving plus Mid-Autumn festival in Korea. The holiday lasts around a week and we have around 6 days of break from school including the...
2018 GEXP POSTECH, South Korea (Week 3)
Lessons officially started this week. They are mainly introductions to the courses so there isn’t really any work yet. There are less lesson hours here than compared to SUTD’s curriculum. Every subject has 1h15min...
“TYPHOON HYPE” – Hong Kong, Week 3
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Super. Typhoon. Mangkhut.
You have no idea how MAD EXCITED I was for this. Warning: long post.
At first I didn't even realise that there was this typhoon coming, or that it was going...
2018 GEXP POSTECH, South Korea (Week 2)
This week we joined the orientation week event organised by the International Student and Scholars Services at POSTECH. We had visited the Pohang Accelerator Laboratory, POSCO Steal Factory, YangDong Folk Village and experienced Korean traditional...
2018 GEXP POSTECH, South Korea (Week 1)
After a day-long journey travelling from Incheon Airport to Pohang Airport, we were all really tired. However, when we were asking for direction to POSTECH from Pohang Airport, the kind lady offered to give...
Week 16: New weekend new city! (part 2)
In continuation from my last post, “Week 12: New weekend new city!”, I continued the trend of weekend trips this past month.
First up, Helsinki for a hackathon. Hackjunction is one of Europe’s biggest hackathons...
Week 13 in HYU: Dinner with the Korean language class
With the basic Korean class coming to an end, we thought it was time to have a class outing (finally). We invited our Korean teacher, who has been nothing but amazing at trying to...
Week 14 in HYU: The Last Goodbye
With finals approaching, it was a good opportunity for all of our exchange friends to meet up one last time before people start flying off. One of our friends works at a fancy Italian...
