Veronica has just touched down in Korea, nervous about being a rookie English teacher far from home. Her to drown her paralyzing social awkwardness and self-doubt at the bottom of a bottle of soju. Her hating her job, getting fired, spending the year sexless and/or lonely. She quickly finds that on the other side of the world, things that used to be impossible become easy. Her alcohol tolerance goes up as her fascination with this side of the world goes down, and nothing ends up quite how she expected.Veronica Kim is the pen name of the anonymous former English teacher who wrote this entertaining and thought-provoking account of the year she spent in Korea.
