I have this weird notion that you don't need a lot of money to enjoy yourself while travelling. The funny thing is my friends have a totally opposite view on why I love volunteering while travelling : "Why do you like to tire yourself?" Hmm..but I don't feel tired at all. Strangely, I feel happy.
The last time when I was in Korea, I did wwoofing - volunteering at an organic farm in exchange of boarding and food. I would definitely do it again if given the opportunity. When my father saw a picture of me wwoofing at Bonghwa, harvesting peppers; he said "why don't you work at my farm instead of others?!" hahaha..I told him 'But the weather was nice and cool compared to Malaysia!" LOL.
Other than wwoofing, we could actually do many more. I have listed some of them here and if you are really considering volunteering in your itinerary; the only thing that I could say is "Thank you!"
WWOOF
http://koreawwoof.com/
BEANONLINE
http://seoul.beanonline.org/
SUNG AE WON ORPHANAGE
http://www.isungaewon.org/
http://www.kkoom.org/
You can view some of the bloggers experiences here:
- Land of the morning calm
- "Giving back takes perseverance, a little honesty" by Korea Herald
- AnnaKorea
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i need ur advicelah regarding the wwoffing thing. rasa nak cuba. hehehe
my husband and i are going to visit korea on early july. we dont go with travel agency as we planned to explore korea ourselves. i did some study on korea like which place to stay, places to go, korea's transportation subways, bus n taxi. but since we both have never been there, its more like a theory without practical for us. i understand that itaewon is the area where halal food restaurants populated. we might as well stay there in IP Boutique hotel. my question is how do i get to itaewon from incheon international airport? by bus or by subway or by taxi? hope to hear from u
boleh kita jumpa di bangi, saya akan ke korea jun ini bersama keluarga untuk cuti dan saya stay untuk kursus selama 2minggu.
harap dapat belajar pronounciation dengan u...:)
Zillion thanks to ur great n amzing effort putting all this for us...
just email me at zemoneko@gmail.com if you have any queries about Korea.
You can get there by subway or by bus?
Take the limousine bus number 4A/10B at the airport. Cost about 14,000 won/pax. If you can't get the bus, a taxi will cost about 40,000won to Itaewon
Check out this link for general understanding
http://www.airport.kr/airport/traffic/bus/busList.iia?flag=E
Subway is a bit tedious but the cheapest. From Incheon airport to Itaewon, take Arex to Digital Media city after that change to Line 6 to Itaewon - 1 hour 14 minutes, 59.5km, 3,800 won.
Saya cume available on weekdays Tue-Fri from 10am-3pm. Kalau u ok, boleh je jumpa kat Bangi.
boleh lunch di Mohamad Chan (chinese muslim restauranT)/or kelantanese Yati ayam percik or San Franscisco Pizza/or Ibujah nasi padang.
if you ok lets meet up next week Wednesday 1 June.
I dekat-dekat tempat yang I sebut tu, pilihlah nak makan apa "sifu" "songsangnim.
we squeeze it within the time 10am-3pm ye.
saya balik kg next week, if next week from 7-10june boleh tak?
Saya ke korea 7June flight jam 11.30mlm.
Boleh kita jumpa 7June 10am-3pm.
Once again, THANK YOU!