♔ Vickie Eisenstein ♔ The Traveling Adventures!

I’ve got improv fever ^^ Indeed, I’ve caught the bug! Since I arrived in Seoul this Spring, I’ve been practicing with the expat improv comedy troupe in Seoul: (SCI for short). While I did take basic improv classes at The Groundlings in LA, I’ve found SCI to be the perfect…

Last weekend, I rather suddenly found myself presented with the opportunity to go to the Busan International Film Festival. I hadn’t even been considering going, as I’ve been drowning in school work @ GSIS and I’ve got a presentation and midterms coming up soon (DOOM!), but when opportunity comes a…

A while back, when I was living in Taiwan, I serendipitously ran into the lovely, Sao Her, a (super-talented!) film student in Taipei. When she asked me to help her out with her experimental film project, I was like, “I get to wear your traditional Hmong outfit and walk around…

Now that I’m stuck inside because it’s monsoon season (장마 as it’s known in Korean), it’s the perfect time to make an update. Over the past month or so, my life was utterly consumed by Korean class at Yonsei. Level 5 was ridiculously demanding, but I made some major improvements…

Now that the music video has officially been released, I think I’m allowed to post up my pics and whatnot from the filming ^^ The other month my friend got the opportunity to direct F.T. Island’s music video for their comeback hit “Hello Hello” and she asked me to help…

Today I received an e-mail from a Taiwanese company for an interview, which reminded me that I had a couple months worth of receipts in my bag from my time spent in Taiwan! At this point, you’re probably thinking, “What’s wrong with this girl, carrying around a bucket-load of receipts…

At long last spring has arrived in all it’s glory! The birds are chirping, the flowers are blooming, and despite the lingering winter chill in the air, the girls are wearing their short skirts out to party! That’s right, kids, it’s cherry blossom viewing time! Since time immemorial, it’s been…

One of my good friends from Cornell joined forces with some other friends here in Korea to launch a social commerce site, Dealicious, aimed at providing great deals for foreigners ^_^ The launch party was yesterday in Hongdae, at the club Soundholicity. So, guess who was VIP *hands to the…

  The final consonant(s) of a syllable (받침) become nasalized when they are followed by a nasal consonant (ㄴ, ㅁ) at the start of the next syllable (aka a “head sound”).  Whether the final 받침 becomes an ㄴ, ㅁ, or ㅇ all depends on the representational sound value of the…

The other day in Korean class, my teacher referred to Korea as 드라마 천국， “drama heaven”. If you’re in Korea and flip on your TV, whether it be night or day, but especially at prime time, you are guaranteed to have hundreds of dramas to choose from. And, when I…