I'm All About Making Stuff, and Making Stuff Fun
and beautiful, too
My name, in case you didn't notice the big header there, is Christopher Kovacs. I am a long-term Canadian expat, and live in South Korea. I left Canada for the first time back in 1988, and have only spent a couple of years there since, mostly in the Whistler ski resort in British Columbia.
I've spent most of my time overseas in the past couple of decades where I am now, in Korea. I first arrived here in 1996, and have spent most of the years since living and working in Busan, Seoul and, since 2003, at POSCO in Gwangyang. After too many years of vagabondage, my lovely and fiercely intelligent wife keeps me close to home.
Other than Korea, I've spent the most time in Australia, where I worked in IT for about 4 years in total, in Mexico, where I crewed on sailboats and worked in concert sound, lights and pyrotechnics, in New Zealand, where I didn't do much of anything other than picking fruit and writing, in the Greek Cyclades, where I managed a hotel and developed software to run it, and in the UK and Europe over the first few of my wanderjahren.
I am a proud Canadian, but after so many years abroad, I'm uncertain about whether I will ever end up back in Canada. Someday, I'd like to go back, I think. When, I don't know. After all this time, it's a bit of a mystery to me how I would go about finding rewarding work there. So here I stay, at least for now. I enjoy living in Korea and working for POSCO: so far, so good.
I've been a proud tech geek since the late '70s, when I got my first computer, a TRS-80 Model III. I've built a lot of websites over the years, and I'm really only happy when I have a project or two in the works.