Author Archives: Charlie jung

We build the frame — transport, rooms, safety — and you fill it: a group dive trip with your own room, your own pace and no obligation to socialise.

Seoul has no coastline, yet everything you need to become a diver is already here — how scuba diving in Seoul actually works for expats.

A DSMB is the one piece of gear that tells the boat exactly where you are — and Korea’s busy, current-swept waters are exactly where to learn to use one.

An expat teacher in Korea tells the honest story of her Open Water course in English — the nerves, the drysuit day, and her first breath in the sea.

A Seoul office worker with 100 logged dives explains the four seasons of the Korean sea and the two things to prepare before you jump in.

Six PADI specialty courses — from drysuit to DSMB — that turn Korea’s cold, deep, beautiful ocean into your home diving ground.

One July morning at Namae Beach, divers from Fourth Element, Peugeot and NB Divers pulled ghost nets from the East Sea and freed the fish still alive inside.

An honest look at dive centers and dive clubs — safety, teaching, community and cost — so you can choose where to start scuba diving in Korea.

The divers who glide effortlessly and surface with air to spare aren’t stronger — they’ve mastered buoyancy, the one skill that changes every dive.

Gear Guide · Your First Mask How To Choose A Scuba Diving Mask A green lens for a green sea sounds wrong. It isn’t. Here is what twenty years of teaching in Korean water taught us about picking the one piece of gear you look through on every single dive. too many masks, one face […]