A Shanghailander in Seoul V: Beating the Rainy Day Blues

I'm sitting in a cafe across the street from where I currently reside, the DMC Ville.  The cafe is a chain called Twosome Place and they make a decent latte and have a nice brunch set (I usually go for the eggs benedict).  It's a good alternative workspace to my apartment, which is where I usually work, building the eight lectures I have to give each week.  

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A Shanghailander in Seoul IV: A "Field Trip" to the Ehwa Museum

Ehwa Women's University is located right across the road from Yonsei.  On Wednesday I walked with my Premodern World History students and my TA Calvin Kim (who has been an enormous help) over the hill to the Ehwa Campus where we visited the Ehwa University Museum.  They have a nice collection of Korean historical artifacts and they were hosting a comparative exhibition on Korean, Chinese, and Japanese depictions of male and female beauty.

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