Year: 2011
David and Goliath: The POSCO-India Story Pt. 1
By John Kay I think everyone has heard the phrase, If a tree falls in the forest but no one...
Korean College Tuition Protests: NOT My Father’s 1980s
By Ji-Hyun Kim I am a second-year college student who, like everyone else in Korea, has been keeping an eye...
Funky Seoul Corner: Lorez Alexandria’s ‘Baltimore Oriole’
By Scott Freeman For this week’s installment of Funky Seoul Corner we go back almost 50 years. Lorez Alexandria was...
RocKorea: Midan City Concert—Rock’n through Til Dawn
By 3WM Management Then suddenly, ‘Midan: New City’s’ dawn—a place where someone has planted trees and laid pavement but as...
It’s a Dog’s Life: One Expat English Teacher’s Story
H.D. Southerland Before my back surgery on March 19, my hagwon company arrived unannounced and demanded that I pay rent...
The Dossier of Timothy Cotton Pt. 3: “No, I’m Jon!”
By Jesse Coy Nelson Part 1 is here and part 2 is here. "No, I'm Jon!" "I'm Jon!" It started...
Dropping an Ink Bomb in Sinsa—Tattoo Culture in Modern Korea
By Andrew Morris Everyone has fears. For some, it is heights. For others, it is something more unusual, like the...
Stories of Adult Transnational Adoptees and their American Parents
By 3WM We are a mother-daughter team of researchers. Lisa (daughter) is full Korean by birth; she holds both a...
Irish Association of Korea Presents: Bloomsday in Seoul
By 3WM EMBASSY OF IRELAND, SEOUL AND IRISH ASSOCIATION OF KOREA (I.A.K.) Present 'A JOYCEAN EVENING' SPAZIO LUCE RESTAURANT AND...
‘Work, Consume, Die’—Will Self and Drifting the Busan Urban Landscape Pt.1
By Sam Sheppard I remember a conversation I had with one of my father’s friends about two years ago, in...
Exhibition Review: The Body Factory at Platoon—Designing the Perfect Female
By Marie Kulik “Korean society asks women to have the same face, body and build, which has become people’s idea...
Funky Seoul Corner: The New Holidays’ ‘Maybe So Maybe No’
By Scott Freeman Hello and welcome to Funky Seoul Corner! My name is Scott Freeman (aka DJ Free). I have...
War Remains—A Korean War Novel
By 3WM Robert “Bobby” Washkowiak battles his way through the bitter first winter of the Korean War, longing for home,...
The New Yorker Fiction Podcast: Listening to Classic Fiction in the Sweltering Monkey Months: John Cheever
By 3WM The Three Wise Monkeys' editors have been enjoying The New Yorker's content for years. We've especially found its...