Conor Purcell Articles

Seoul Man: 12 Months in Korea – #3: The Nightlife – South Korea

While it mightn’t rival the Patpong district of Bangkok or downtown Amsterdam, there is no doubt that Itaewon is the epicentre of sleaze in Korea.

Seoul Man: 12 Months in Korea – #4: The Business of Knowledge – South Korea

Conor’s take on the English teaching system in Korea is that it is being sabotaged at the most basic level.

Seoul Man: 12 Months in Korea – #2: Korean Logic – South Korea

From what Conor has seen in his first few months in Seoul, ‘logic’ and ‘Korea’ are not two words frequently used in the same sentence.

Seoul Man: 12 Months in Korea – #1: Korea and the World Cup – South Korea

Conor found that for most Koreans, the World cup wasn’t about football at all. It was about participating. Noisy they may be, football fans they ain’t.

On the Road to Nowhere: 12 Hours in the West Bank – Israel & the Palestinian Territories

Conor Purcell attends a funeral march of a Palesti

Conor Purcell: BootsnAll Author

Conor Purcell
BootsnAll Author

Conor Purcell fell in love with independent travel while vomiting over the side of a Stena Lines ferry on the way to France 14 years ago. Despite his tender years he realised then that joy of independent travel must be the ability to control your own destiny.

Since that grim moment somewhere [...]

Two Months in the Middle East #6

Matkesh Ramon – July 29th, 2000

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Two Months in the Middle East #5

Kibbutz Degania Bet – June 28th, 2000
Kibbutzim were first set up in the twenties when ‘pioneering’ Jews settled in Palestine, working the land in an aim to create a Zionist state. As that aim has been achieved (some fifty years ago), the number of Kibbutzim is dwindling and some fear they will eventually die [...]

Two Months in the Middle East #4

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Two Months in the Middle East #3

Fatima Gate, Kfar Kila, South Lebanon – June 9th, 2000
The crack of the bullets is deafening. There is a lot of screaming and shouting. Chaos. A Palestinian boy has just been shot by the Israeli army on the other side of the border fence, literally yards from where we were standing. Hizbullah stewards, all [...]