You’re in Korea, study Tai Kwon Do. South Korea is also about 1/2 the size of Utah which means, with their mass transit system, you have access to a lot of the country. I’d tour Korean War battle sights and ancient Buddhist temples. If you have the chance, I’d ride a train through the country. I rode one and enjoyed it more from a tourist perspective than taking the bus or driving. If you can draw/paint, take some traditional Korean water color painting. The picture I have attached is one I have in my office at work. I have two in my office and I get a lot of questions and compliments regarding them.

Ken started a hobby to get his eagle scout badge , this was in "65" .

He mailed out 3 dozen letters to people serving
in the U.S. armed forces .

Out of the three dozen letters , he got 6 back ,
3 thank you letters and three that wanted to keep corresponding.

He kept writing the three monthly , sometimes more.

two of the three lost touch when they came back state side.

the remaining one kept in touch for over 12 years.

Ken's children found over 150 letters in a trunk , after Ken passed.
Some were three pages long.

it was very easy to see why both men kept at it ,

How about golf? You are in a golf crazy country and you can eat up a lot of time with lessons, practice, playing and being outside.

Considering your location, I'd say martial arts is a pretty good option.

Learn Korean too, if you haven't already.

Learn to cook. If you already know how to cook, branch out into different/fancier techniques, like Korean BBQ, or pie baking, or smoking, or pasta making, or sushi making.

Martin Limon made a career out of writing stories based on what he saw while serving in Korea in the Army. Robert Van Gulyk collected the stories of Judge Dee in China and translated them.

Kim chi sells pretty well in the U.S., if you develop a good recipe/fermentation protocol before you come home.

How's the surfing?

Build and fly a FPV race drone.

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I quit drinking a while back and that has made me realize I am pretty boring.
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More likely just bored.

StarCraft II is essentially a national sport in Korea.

Photography has always felt like a worthwhile hobby for me. I don't ever regret taking the time to improve my photos--ultimately, the photos and the memories they represent are usually all I have left of my life experiences.

Are you single? Ball room dancing can be a great hobby.

Take up machining and make little tiny engines that run.

I recall a couple years ago someone posted a video of a gentleman who makes tiny engines that ran on fuel.
Simply remarkable to me!

HK Ag

Learn to fly radio control airplanes. Find a club and people will be more than eager to help you. It sounds like you might need to push yourself a little to meet new people and that would certainly do it.

Meteorite hunting/metal detecting.

Wow guys thank you so much for the responses.

1. Handloading - Would love to but as Q mentioned its not an option here, and if it was I can't ship them back home cost effectively.

2. Traveling the various sites in the country - My wife and I have a long list of places we want to visit but current travel restrictions (for my particular unit) is putting a damper on that.

3. Language - I am a Korean Linguist in the Navy so that hobby is actually a job and a constant struggle to maintain, in my opinion, the most difficult language for Native English speakers. Constant struggle.

4. Photography - My wife mentioned wanting to get a nice camera and venture into this hobby so it may be a really nice way to share something with her and get out with a purpose more often.

5. Woodworking - The finishing and carpentry aspects I would LOVE to become better at (not so much carving as I'm not artistic) but we are living that Korean apartment life so space would be a concern. Still might be doable for smaller projects though and could begin investing in some tools that would serve well in later projects. I'll have to see if I can acquire a room from one of the kids.

5. Archery - This may indeed be the ticket. Just thinking about it peeks my interest as it is a useful skill and the equipment would never go to waste. Though when I have the most time on night shift I might be SOL.

6. Bendable - The letter writing thing is a pretty awesome idea as well.

7. Cooking - We go to cooking classes when travel restrictions permit and I thoroughly enjoy cooking, we are learning Kimchi recipes already. My wife and I attend at least 1 class a month and make what we learn regularly. Ont he same note, we are learning canning and I would love to learn how to smoke but probably not likely in our apartment. I guess what I'm saying it the cooking route is definitely one we are taking advantage of while we are here.

8. Motorcycles - I do own one and rode often in Hawaii. Navy considers motorcycles a POV (personally owned Vehicle) for the purpose of shipping when PCS'ing (permanent Change of Station). So it was either a motorcycle or the forerunner for the family Guess which one is in storage.

I've been doing a lot of genealogy, using resources on the web. I also have more than 45,000 photos archived on Flickr, and I've been posting sets of them to a photo sharing group (Ugly Hedgehog).

flashguy

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5. Woodworking - The finishing and carpentry aspects I would LOVE to become better at (not so much carving as I'm not artistic) but we are living that Korean apartment life so space would be a concern. Still might be doable for smaller projects though and could begin investing in some tools that would serve well in later projects. I'll have to see if I can acquire a room from one of the kids.

Power tools and large equipment generally either make things faster, make them require less skill, or both. (Which is not to say that the best-outfitted shop in the world makes woodworking easy.)

If you're doing it purely for your own enjoyment, don't need to worry about the cost of time, and can take the time to build skills, you can build almost anything with a set of hand tools that can fit in a chest the size of a medium-to-large cooler.

We want to build our house when we get out. And joint fitting and finish work is where I could use some work.

I can put up walls and install windows, windows, doors, roofs, etc.

I would love to be able to make the furniture as well and have some nice trim work.

I'll have to look into it.

What about studying for your "ham radio" Amaetur Radio ticket. It is not as complicated as it used to be. Nowdays the study material shows the actual exact test questions and exact answers. Cost for test should be less than $50 . The morse code requirement is no longer active. It could be a family activity but each has to do their own ticket. Since you are active USmilitary this could give you access to military controled stations giving the possibly talking literaly around the world. Eventhough apartment dwellers can do amazing things with limited stations. Ticket is good for 10 yrs and rewable at no cost unless you upgrade the ticket and would still be good when you return stateside. Cost for ticket cost for a station could be a couple hundred dollars to several thousand dollars just depends on your choice of mode of operation. Just my 2cts......... In 1969/1970 Korean DMZ 5/38th FA 105mm howitzer unit at Camp Sabre outside Munsani. Am sure the country has made dramatic changes since then....... de/ KL7JIU....drill sgt

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I tie my own fishing jigs for coho salmon, if you make nice ones they sell easily on ebay etsy.

I have always been into BBQ and computers. I recently took up learning Linux and also Cryptocurrencies.

I want to learn a foreign language at some point.

^^^^ What Drill Sargeant said, Ham Radio.

How about Genealogy? It's been fascinating to learn about my ancestors.