Written by J. Torres
Art by Eric Kim
Grey tones by Nicolas Gardeazabal
What’s It About?
Joel: a Canadian graduate teaching English as an additional language in Korea and hating every minute of it. The first chapter opens with a brief narration examining culture shock as one of the natural stages by which a person adapts to another culture and then presents us with Joel. Joel is a man seemingly trapped (perhaps by his own design) within his own culture shock, as he tries to decide whether to stay in Korea for another year or return home to his own culture and sanity.
And then the school hires a new secretary, Hana, and his decision gets that much harder…
