Between the increasing regulations on hagwons and cuts in the number of middle and high school native English teachers, the...
It’s Awkward: Learning to Empathize and Looking for Empathy (or — What I learned from the red straw in Shinchon) There...
If you have a lot of Korean friends you have probably been invited to go to a sauna or jjimjilbang with them. For many foreigners, their first time or two is usually rather an embarrassing affair. It is human nature to have some degree of curiosity of one’s fellow human...
In 1885, Percival Lowell published a book entitled “Choson: The Land of the Morning Calm.” It was a huge success...
Sailors, adventurers, diplomats, and businessmen made up the initial foreign community in Chemulpo, known today as Incheon.
Life in Korea during the late 19th and early 20th centuries was hard – physically, emotionally, and spiritually – and often dangerous. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, most Westerners lived in Seoul, Pyongyang, Chemulpo (Incheon), Fusan (Busan) or on the gold mining concessions in northern Korea and...
One Thursday evening, I sat down to try out Azar, an app developed by the Korean company Hyperconnect. I had...
Romanticizing Stress in Korea Stress is a state of mental tension and worry caused by problems in your life, work, etc. Terrible,...
Korea, in the summer of 1894, was a hotbed of intrigue and uncertainty. China and Japan were on the brink of war and many journalists eagerly made their way to Korea in hopes of witnessing the opening shots. Frank G. Carpenter was one of these journalists. Carpenter described the city...
In the wake of the #MeToo movement and a government crackdown on spycam porn, Korea has turned its attention toward...