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# Airline Tickets
- URL: https://blog.novaugust.net/airline-tickets/
- Published: 2012-05-19T12:09:37.000Z
- Updated: 2012-05-19T12:09:37.000Z
- Author: Matt Enlow
- Tags: jeju island, post, Korea, NLP, Smarts, Tohoku Journal, 帰国, 韓国, #Import 2026-06-21 14:43

# 帰国

Two different set of airplane tickets were purchased today. The first is for a return flight on August 14th, leaving Japan at 2:50 and arriving in Denver at 2:00 on the same day. 

Oh, the wonders of time travel.

# 韓国

The second set will take me to Jeju Island, Korea, which I've heard referred to as "the Hawaii of Korea". I've mentioned it somewhere in this [post on couchsurfing](https://blog.novaugust.net/couchsurfin/ "Couchsurfing"), but I'll be there for a week attending a conference on Natural Language Processing (NLP) / Computational Linguistics. It's the largest, yearly convention put on by the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) and would normally cost quite a bit of money, but I've somehow tricked my way in for free. 

I've agreed to work as a volunteer for the conference (two half days of work in return for free entry). In return, I get up to $700 for airplane tickets and free entry to the conference. I do not get free entry into all the workshops though, and the price is a little steep for me, so it looks like I'll have some off days to go hike and scuba dive around the island. Poor me.

# 航空券値段

## (二ヶ国語の利点)

Speaking of those airplane tickets, I noticed something interesting. Trying to find a way to get from Sendai to Jeju for under $700, the best I could find was 44,000 Japanese yen (\~$550) for a round trip. I found that price on the Japanese [expedia](http://www.expedia.co.jp/?ref=blog.novaugust.net "Expedia Japan") (.co.jp), and double checked to make sure I wasn't going to lose too much money on exchange by going to the [American expedia](http://www.expedia.com/?ref=blog.novaugust.net "Expedia USA") (.com). Putting the exact same information into the American expedia gave me a cheapest flight of $1700\. 

I guess we can file this one under benefits to knowing a second language?