Jennifer Barclay

Writer's Biography

Jennifer Barclay is the author of Meeting Mr Kim: or How I Went to Korea and Learned to Love Kimchi. Her writing on travel and culture has been featured in Finnair's Blue Wings magazine, The Globetrotters newsletter, The Korea Herald, Canada's Globe and Mail and Toronto Star. She also has published articles in the Travelers Tales anthology A Woman's Asia as well as the Lonely Planet Korea travel guide.

Sher is a regular contributor to www.londonkoreanlinks.net and maintains the "CoolstuffKorea" blogs on Facebook (www.facebook.com/CoolstuffKorea) and Twitter (www.twitter.com/CoolstuffKorea).

Her website is www.authorsites.co.uk/jenniferbarclay.

Order Jennifer's book from Amazon:
Meeting Mr Kim: or How I Went to Korea and Learned to Love Kimchi

If purchasing from the United Kingdom, please visit Amazon.co.uk.

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Featured Travel Stories in Oriental Tales Magazine

South Korea: The House of Mercy - Story by Jennifer Barclay
- 11th Online Issue

By early evening I was standing under a shop's awning in the town of Toksan in the pouring rain, trying to figure out where to spend the night, and how to avoid being drenched to the skin. I had my tent in my backpack and would prefer to camp to save money, since all I wanted was to sleep, but it really was pouring down. Rainy season had started in earnest, it seemed. It was too late to get to the monastery, but I hoped I'd be able to find a bus there in the morning.

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