Korean Government Legalizes Adultery On Thursday, South Korea’s Constitutional Court struck down a 62-year old law that made committing adultery...
In a rapidly changing economy, young South Koreans are increasingly turning to sanitation jobs — like street cleaning as a...
Wedding bouquets, cakes, and dresses are just a few items that factor into the aesthetics of any wedding. In South Korea, however, many take it a step further by hiring fake wedding guests. For a fee of 20,000-30,000KRW per wedding, these guests come fully prepared with personal information about the...
Words BY Robert Neff A hundred years ago, many Koreans spent their New Year appeasing evil spirits and throwing stones...
Starsick travelers lost in the glow of Korea’s neon lights are encouraged to head to Daejeon Observatory for a night....
Words by Robert Neff Life at the Western gold mines in northern Korea was dangerous both inside and out in the 19th and early 20th centuries. These Korean mines were generally located in sparsely populated mountainous regions and were the favored haunts of Korea’s big cats – Siberian tigers and...
– Paid Post, Sponsored by Korea Exchange Bank – Korea Exchange Bank’s 100-strong airport team provides Incheon Airport Currency Exchange...
South Korea sits at the top of many international statistical categories: it boasts the world’s fastest internet connection speed, its...
Photos courtesy of the Robert Neff collection The anti-Western sentiment pervasive in Pyongyang today has a long history, as historian Robert Neff recounts. Much as it is now, Pyongyang in the late 1880s and early 1890s was pretty much anti-Western. The legacy of the General Sherman in 1866 gives testimony...
In the summer of 1905, the world was a scary place for Korea. The Russo-Japanese War had recently ended but...