Between the increasing regulations on hagwons and cuts in the number of middle and high school native English teachers, the...
Cringeworthy English Moments We Know Too Well Korea Moments That Awaken Your Inner Grammar Nazi “When I see your face,...
In 1885, Percival Lowell published a book entitled “Choson: The Land of the Morning Calm.” It was a huge success and helped coin the phrase that is still often used to describe Korea. But when the first Westerners arrived in Seoul in the early 1880s, it was anything but calm....
If you have a lot of Korean friends you have probably been invited to go to a sauna or jjimjilbang...
Modern transportation has made travel to most places in Korea, no matter how distant from Seoul, easy and comfortable. However,...
We all know that students have it rough in Korea. They go to school early in the morning and then after school spend several additional hours in private learning institutes studying math and English. These institutes are everywhere now, but they haven’t always been. In 1882—just prior to Korea opening...
From unwieldy pipes to black-market cigarettes, tobacco has been an important part of Korean society for over four hundred years....
When American gold miners weren’t hoping to strike it rich, they were hoping not to strike out at the annual...
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.
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