Category: Korea

Protected: Meditations

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Quarantine

When we landed in S Korea the immigration authorities tried to separate our family at the border, citing a regulation about visa entry that required individuals to quarantine separately. There is a 14 day mandatory quarantine in fact for all passengers entering the country. We entered with the hope that the officials would permit us

Protected: Things to Pray

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Travel Story pt 3

InCOVID: All things New Work life The onboarding and learning how systems work has been challenging. Everything is new and most of the time in a different language. Having to translate makes for an even more challenging time of learning. I imagine international students and faculty feel overwhelmed by English in America for the same

Travel Story pt 2

Immigration 1 Directly following the uploading of the app we stopped at another immigration station where we were questioned again about symptoms and whether we were traveling together. The official examined our passports and K’s visa grant notice. He promptly noted that we must be separated in order to quarantine because only K had obtained

Travel Story pt 1

Traveling during 2020 required LOTS of prayers. We are so grateful for the committed individuals who 1. knew we were taking a trip fraught with challenges and 2. who prayed for our health, safety and endurance! God bless you! These next few posts contain the travel story–just a recounting of some of our experiences.  

Protected: The inexpressible quality of Joy

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Visa run, visa fun

We made a weekend out of a visa run to Seoul, South Korea. We could not stay long no matter where we decided to go, but we needed to exit and re-enter in order to renew my family’s visas. So we chose the country that feels like our second home: 🇰🇷! Because we spent several

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