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“I leaned in for our first kiss. It wasn’t awkward, it wasn’t strange, it was just an amazing moment.”

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If you’re able to read this from the comfort of your bed, desk, office, or significant other’s living room and not in a hospital bed undergoing respiratory medical care in South Korea, then you probably won’t die of, or even contract, MERS.

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Lost in translation, bakery edition.

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Dad jokes are universal.

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Beauty is truly subjective.

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Oh, so you like Korea? I’m here to prove you wrong.

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As a Korean-American, I find this trend disturbing.

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Also, Cosby sued, North Korea vows to bomb Christmas trees, Washington Post questions Rolling Stone’s journalistic ethics, Charles Barkley talks about Ferguson and why Black and White people don’t chill and have beers more often, and much more in today’s news and web roundup.

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I’m not attempting to claim that working as an English teacher here is the best graduate job I could have landed, but it’s the only one that allowed me to encompass everything I wanted to do after studying for 17 years straight.

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Bart Schaneman spent 5 years living and working in South Korea, mostly as an editor for English newspapers. He also taught English for a spell.