In 1885, Percival Lowell published a book entitled βChoson: The Land of the Morning Calm.β It was a huge success...
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Being an Exchange Student in South Korea You made incredible memories from late-night ramen runs with friends, mid-terms exam cramming in stately libraries, and Hongdae bar-hopping until the sun rose. There was a lot to deal with whether you fell asleep on the subway and found yourself far away, experiencing...
Dding Dong Safe Space for LGBT Youths in Korea There are still many challenges ahead for the LGBT community in...
From unwieldy pipes to black-market cigarettes, tobacco has been an important part of Korean society for over four hundred years. The image that best typifies Koreans of the past is undoubtedly that of an old man, dressed in white, with a long tobacco pipe ready at hand. The pipe was...
As we welcome in another New Year with copious amounts of food and alcohol in homes or at local pubs...
Sailors, adventurers, diplomats, and businessmen made up the initial foreign community in Chemulpo, known today as Incheon.
The quite strange superstitions of Korea's past agrarian society.
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, βIt is not Korea but Japan which meets one on anchoring.β 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.