Coco Busan
Courtney Tait
- Location
- Busan, South Korea
- Birthday
- September 04
- Bio
- Hailing from Victoria, Canada, I spent three years traversing Europe, the Middle East, S.E. Asia and Australia before returning home to complete a bachelor’s degree in Creative Writing and Journalism. My passion for people, travel, politics, art, and music gives rise to long and frequent typing sessions on an aging Toshiba laptop. Currently based in Busan, South Korea, I work as a teacher and freelance writer. My love of words has inspired various excursions throughout Korea’s “second city,” where I capture Busan-based stories and images featured on my blog, Coco Busan.
MY RECENT POSTS
- 49 Minutes in Busan's Museum
of Modern Art
September 07, 2010 11:34AM - First (love) Triangle
August 24, 2010 04:42AM - Tiny Monks, Big Temple
August 18, 2010 10:57AM - The Cutest Korean Kid You'll
Ever See
August 10, 2010 04:38AM - Knock Knock: Doors in Seoul
August 09, 2010 01:39PM
MY RECENT COMMENTS
- “Thanks for your
comments, everyone! Glad you
enjoyed the
read.”
June 25, 2010 12:29AM
Courtney Tait's Links
49 Minutes in Busan's Museum of Modern Art
If you ever visit Busan, you’ve got to see this place.
.
Though I suggest giving yourself a little more time than the mere 49 minutes I did.
My intentions last spring of a leisurely Sunday afternoon wandering the three-story, wood-floored, high-ceil… Read full post »
First (love) Triangle
My first crush struck in the fourth grade, in Miss Vanderee's class, on a boy called Steven Costa. He wasn't the smartest or the funniest or the most charismatic; I think his part in the class play consisted of doling out props to the lead roles.&nbs… Read full post »
Tiny Monks, Big Temple
If any monks still live at the Haedong Yonggungsa Temple–an ancient and sprawling holy site on Busan, South Korea's Northeast coast–they kept a low profile on the hot Saturday afternoon I visited. I don’t blame them–a few hundred camera-toting to… Read full post »
The Cutest Korean Kid You'll Ever See
I want to introduce you to Bill.
.
.
Bill’s seven. He likes dinosaurs and gingerbread men. His favourite day is a day when he sees a rainbow. Most of his stories start with “A long time ago . . .” He can make a snowman an… Read full post »
Knock Knock: Doors in Seoul
I’ve always liked brick. But sometimes you need an afternoon wander through a big-city village North of the stream to discover doors intrigue you too. And door knockers.
Thanks, Bukchon. You were my favourite part of Seoul. … Read full post »
Pinenuts and Pansies: Tea in Seoul
Cup of tea?
.
How about a bowl?
Cinnamon, ginger, and three floating pinenuts…
.
.
with sweet treats served on a wooden tray, on a low wooden table…
.
.
in a room made of pine, that leads to a garden…
.
.
.
where&nb
… Read full post »Seoul Blues (and greys)
My favourite colour, in all its shades.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
Like what you've seen? Please visit my online blog, Coco Busan.
Read full post »Dynasty Digs: Seoul's Gyeongbok Palace Today
If you were leading a Confucian dynasty called the Joseon, and it was 1394, and you built a palace called Gyeongbok that housed kings and queens and princes, and hosted foreign envoys and government meetings and royal weddings, and at its peak grew to a sprawling complex of 330 buildings t
… Read full post »Little Love: First Crush in a Korean Kindergarten Class
New romance appeared in Cornell class this week, first spotted on Tuesday when Julia slipped her hand into Eric’s during storytime. Some girls really know how to flirt and make it work. He better not blow it...she’s a catch.
.
.
.
.
Of Shells and Ships
About three minutes in to my recent visit to the Jagalchi Fish Market–where Korea’s biggest gathering of seafood vendors hawk the day’s fresh catch–I saw a creature I didn’t know existed.
It was pink. It had no eyes&nb
All Kinds of Business Goin' On
A lot of business goes down on the street here. Men with little blue trucks set up shop on the sidewalks, unpacking potted cactus plants or bags of puffed rice or piles of plastic slip-on shoes. Outside my apartment building most eve
The bulk of my experience with kids dates back to the summers of 1989, ’90, and ’91, when I posted a felt-marker sign advertising babysitting services to the wall of my dad’s grocery store in Waskesiu Lake, Saskatchewan.
‘Responsible and rel
Nameless Streets and Hussy Coffee
I like a good street name. In Melbourne, ten years ago, I lived on Byron Street. The house was brown and white and had a front porch with an old blue couch straddled across it. My roomate Kate called it The Byron House.
"Where do you live?"&n… Read full post »
Air Dry
Nobody uses dryers here. I kind of like it that way.
The garments hanging off the rack in my apartment don't
look nearly as vibrant as these linens--lots of greys,
blues, and whites have claimed the
suitcase backpack closet
this year. But summer's here, and… Read full post »
Kerry Lauerman
Joan Walsh
Salon.com
