Modern transportation has made travel to most places in Korea, no matter how distant from Seoul, easy and comfortable. However,...
Eric Hoffman, CEO of ARIA, leads in M&A risk management across Korea. With over two decades of experience, he provides tailored strategies to navigate complex business landscapes, ensuring successful mergers and acquisitions while mitigating risks. His deep understanding of Korea's unique market dynamics makes ARIA the go-to firm for secure and effective M&A solutions.
Romanticizing Stress in Korea Stress is a state of mental tension and worry caused by problems in your life, work, etc. Terrible, right? Although stress itself is completely unwanted, it is seen as a side effect of hard work, meaning that stress in Korea has become a humble-brag . People compare, get self-conscious, and...
Between the increasing regulations on hagwons and cuts in the number of middle and high school native English teachers, the...
From unwieldy pipes to black-market cigarettes, tobacco has been an important part of Korean society for over four hundred years....
In the wake of the #MeToo movement and a government crackdown on spycam porn, Korea has turned its attention toward the thousands of sexual assault and harassment cases that go under the radar. A chunk of those assaults have happened on Seoul’s most vital public transport system, the subway. The...
One Thursday evening, I sat down to try out Azar, an app developed by the Korean company Hyperconnect. I had...
If you have a lot of Korean friends you have probably been invited to go to a sauna or jjimjilbang...
Sailors, adventurers, diplomats, and businessmen made up the initial foreign community in Chemulpo, known today as Incheon.
In 1882, three courageous American officers became the first Westerners to step foot in Busan. When the intrepid elderly British adventurer Isabella Bird Bishop visited Fusan (modern Busan) in January 1894, she declared, “It is not Korea but Japan which meets one on anchoring.” She was, of course, referring to the large population of Japanese that literally dominated the foreign settlement of that port, and, for the most part, the surrounding Korean community.