Movie Review The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1 Directed by Francis Lawrence Back in 2012, “The Hunger Games” was a...
Words by Stafford Lumsden Plastic Fantastic! I have a peculiar problem. It’s my phone. A little over six months ago...
Hagwons Teach the American National Anthem to Students After school tutoring institutions, or “hagwons” as they are more commonly called, are increasingly using American textbooks to teach students not only English, but a variety of other subjects such as American history, mathematics, science and sociology. SBS News recently covered the issue...
South Korea sits at the top of many international statistical categories: it boasts the world’s fastest internet connection speed, its...
Lonely Teens Chat with Imaginary Friends As stress and social pressures become seemingly more daunting for teenagers, many of them...
The Gangnam District of Seoul is planning to install a 418,000,000 won bronze statue of the “Gangnam Style” dance. Released in the summer of 2012, Psy’s K-pop single “Gangnam Style” quickly became the most viewed video on YouTube. The following year, President Barack Obama spoke of the song’s success as...
Don’t let the smog and congestion distract you from the great running that Korea has to offer.
World Top Five Korea’s car manufacturers crank-out enough vehicles to make Korea the fifth-largest automobile producing country in the world....
Many readers will probably be surprised to know that from the early 1960s through the early 1980s there was an American gold mining enterprise in Korea. It was known as the Korean Consolidated Mining Co. (KCMC), and received the first registration issued by the Korean Government to a foreign corporation...
Tesco has struck a deal to sell its South Korean business Homeplus to Korean buyout firm MBK Partners for £4.2bn...