By Mizaru Greetings from The Three Wise Monkeys (3wm), a smart and alternative yet accessible look at the English speaking world roiling to and fro here on the Korean peninsula. The plan is to put up stories, essays, short films, opinions and anything really that lets people know what life is like over here. Most [...]

Sae Hoon is standing at the top of a vertiginously long escalator that leads down and away from Yongsan Station. He does not know how he got there, though he does remember that the train he was on stopped, and the conductor announced that it wasn’t going any further. The bottle of soju in his [...]

Oh, My Dear Soul Mates

Why you giving me this pain?
After we laughed under the flag
After we kissed under the shiny stars
After you gave me your piece of heart

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Excuse me if I am in a state of high dudgeon I just spent summer turning to Fall in Dublin but I live in Seoul, South Korea in the sweet sounding neighbourhood, Haebongchong. It’s a neighbourhood at least half populated by non-Koreans, commonly known to all as foreigners, and it often wears the nickname, “The Ghetto”. Its crowded main street begins at the Yongsan Army base’s uniformed gate then left past the store over- packed with small and huge kimchee pots and then drags upwards.

Whatever you are doing over here in South Korea, who hasn’t experienced a blow-torch America moment? It’s almost the way the non-American foreigners here in Seoul begin to take their first steps forward before they can start to revel in their own cultural id. Shortly after candidate Obama’s knockout speech on race given in Liberty Hall, Philadelphia, I was at a foreigner bar in The Ghetto reading a comparison of him to Lincoln. I went to grab a beer and use the toilet and on return someone had picked up a pen and remarked by sketching over Lincoln’s head, “I am an arse”.

I’ve made a few videos in Korea and will do more.

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Publishing Specifics for Contributors 3wm is happy to publish your submission. Please meet all of these requirements: IN MICROSOFT WORD ONLY! Your entry must have a title and a by-line (your actual name or “pen name”). Titles are subject to change by editors. Your short bio (straight shooter or quirky) to be placed at the [...]