Now that I’ve been back in Canada for 5 months, I thought it would be a good time to reflect on life as a returnee after 15 years abroad: what I like, what I don’ t like, things to do, things not to do and how things are different than... read on
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Canadian Tax vs Korean Tax
A couple of weeks ago I started working at a web agency in Toronto and am really enjoying my job. It’s exactly what I wanted to do and the people are great.
Today I got paid for my first two weeks of work. Taxes in Canada are freaking insane.... read on
Received the visa
Last week we got the visa provisionally approved and were told it would take up to 30 days to get my wife’s passport back. When I dropped off the passport I included a note explaining that we already had tickets for 29 days from that day and were... read on
Tribute to Friends
My Friends
14 years is a long time. In my time in Korea I’ve seen people come and go and that’s the nature of being an expat in Korea. The longer one is here the more difficult it becomes to make new friends because you know that they are going... read on
Moving Day
Yesterday the movers came and moved our stuff. It was a very hectic morning and I missed the beginning of it since I needed to go to the embassy to drop off my wife’s passport as I mentioned in the previous post – Visa Provisional Approval.
The... read on
Visa Provisional Approval
Today when I got home there was a letter waiting from the embassy. My wife’s visa has been provisionally approved. The next step is to send her passport to the embassy and wait. The letter states that it will take up to 30 days before we get it... read on
Air Raid
One of the things that i am not going to miss in Korea are the periodic air raid drills. Their generally supposed to happen on the 15th of the month at 2pm. When they go off everyone is supposed to stop driving, get off the sidewalks and enter... read on
Last visit to the in-laws
This past weekend we visited the in-laws house for the last time before I leave for Canada in June. My wife will make one more trip down to visit her mother after I’ve left and then that is it. In any case we took a lot of photos. I’ll share a few... read on
Parents Day
Today is parents day in Korea and our kids did a really great job surprising us. They really prepared a lot of special things for us including several letters and pictures. When they woke up this morning they hid their envelopes in the living room... read on
Yonsei University & Michael Kealey
Yesterday I met my good friend Duane for dinner, but before meeting him I walked around Yonsei University doing some photography. This is part of my series of photo sets on flickr of University Campuses – You can see the whole Yonsei University set... read on
Advice to Returnees
Canadian Tax vs Korean Tax
A couple of weeks ago I started working at a web agency in Toronto and am really enjoying my job. It’s exactly what I wanted to do and the people are great.
Today I got paid for my first two weeks of work. Taxes in Canada are freaking insane.... read on
Received the visa
Last week we got the visa provisionally approved and were told it would take up to 30 days to get my wife’s passport back. When I dropped off the passport I included a note explaining that we already had tickets for 29 days from that day and were... read on
Tribute to Friends
My Friends
14 years is a long time. In my time in Korea I’ve seen people come and go and that’s the nature of being an expat in Korea. The longer one is here the more difficult it becomes to make new friends because you know that they are going... read on
Moving Day
Yesterday the movers came and moved our stuff. It was a very hectic morning and I missed the beginning of it since I needed to go to the embassy to drop off my wife’s passport as I mentioned in the previous post – Visa Provisional Approval.
The... read on
Visa Provisional Approval
Today when I got home there was a letter waiting from the embassy. My wife’s visa has been provisionally approved. The next step is to send her passport to the embassy and wait. The letter states that it will take up to 30 days before we get it... read on
Air Raid
One of the things that i am not going to miss in Korea are the periodic air raid drills. Their generally supposed to happen on the 15th of the month at 2pm. When they go off everyone is supposed to stop driving, get off the sidewalks and enter... read on
Last visit to the in-laws
This past weekend we visited the in-laws house for the last time before I leave for Canada in June. My wife will make one more trip down to visit her mother after I’ve left and then that is it. In any case we took a lot of photos. I’ll share a few... read on
Parents Day
Today is parents day in Korea and our kids did a really great job surprising us. They really prepared a lot of special things for us including several letters and pictures. When they woke up this morning they hid their envelopes in the living room... read on
Yonsei University & Michael Kealey
Yesterday I met my good friend Duane for dinner, but before meeting him I walked around Yonsei University doing some photography. This is part of my series of photo sets on flickr of University Campuses – You can see the whole Yonsei University set... read on
