Continuation from on the road again

So I might want to be a teacher and yet there is a side of me who will not be content with the American stereotype of success.  I don't think I can hold down a job for five years at the same company.  I don't think my addresses can only include one country.  I want to explore the world before I decide to settle down.  I look at my friends who are married or already have jobs they plan to stay in for 2-3 years and I don't envy their stability, I feel as if they have limited themselves. 

 I truly hope my adventures in Korea last longer than a year.  After choosing a contract with a new school in Changwon, a southern coastal city bordering Pusan, the second largest city, I believe I have at least found a temporary home.  After all with weekends off, I can travel throughout the country and to neighbouring countries for very little money.  

The journalist in me is not dead though.  I plan to explore several Asian issues while I am in Korea.  For example many Canadians are looking to China with a look of confusion.  What is really happening there.  Its success threatens North America's trade dominance but how is it happening?  Can it continue due to the fact the country seems to owe a lot of its success to its huge populace.  With that same populace strangling the country's natural resources, it seems two things are happening.  The State issued a limit to the populace, decreasing the previous advantage and the Red Dragon has to look to major exporters of natural resources like Canada to provide it with fuel for its industrial fire.

But then again all of this is pretty common knowledge.  I want to see what happens to nations like Korea who share borders with this firey Red Dragon.  A westerner who has been over to Asia for the last twelve years mentioned to me recently that Korea will not be greatly affected by the North American recession.  Upon asking why, she told me the new Korean president, who our Foreign Minister just visited, was going to commit to stronger economic ties to China.

But does these ties to this new international player diminish the strength of a former Asian tiger, Japan?

All of these questions will be addressed, hopefully in a couple of feature stories, at worst on this blog.

Oh by the way, did I mention I will be doing a master's in international studies after my adventures.  You can probably guess the specialization.