Month: January 2012
Travelers Beware: Serial Scammer on the Loose and Doing Business
By Iwazaru If you’re planning on travelling this winter pay very close attention to whom that travel agent is claiming...
Craftworks: Epicurean perhaps, Bohemian, Hell No
By Mizaru You probably won’t miss Craftworks; the sign board on the street is a good catch all. Inside the...
Making Kimchi with the Hong Sisters: A Tradition of Taste (Pt. 2)
By Seon-Myung Yoo At 10 p.m., when Jin-Pyo gets up to leave, his older sisters see him out to the...
Platoon Announces 2012 Free Open Stage Jam Registration
By 3WM PLATOON KUNSTHALLE's new weekly format, OPEN STAGE program in 2012 invites brilliant and talented musicians with a fresh...
Zenith Travel Scam Artist Still Scamming Expats out of Cash
By Iwazaru With the reported arrest of "Wystan" Wan-koo Kang in October, many thought that justice had been served. Zenith...
Plastic Sex Part 4 (the final installment)
By Yi Nam-hui Translation by Gabriel Sylvian This is the final installment of this story. Read part 1 , part...
Expat Hell: The Coping Mechanisms of Expats
By The Expat I don’t like or dislike the entire "Korea Experience." That is to say, I’m not in love...
Neighborhood Review: Do you remember Rock ‘n’ Roll Sinchon?
By Mizaru Part 1 I’m in Love with modern moonlight And the neon when it’s cold outside I’m in love...
Funky Seoul Corner 10: Duane Parham’s ‘The Rockin’ Place’
By Scott Freeman I’ve come to a decision. Now that we’ve come to the 10th installment of Funky Seoul Corner,...
The Pvt. Andre Fisher Case: Inconsistencies and Misinformation
By John M. Rodgers and Jamie Grimwood In the initial police report of the 19 November 2010, it is stated...
Getting My Bipolar Brother out of Korea
By Mel Joyce “If any of [Joe]'s relatives are reading this page, please contact me. I am one of his...
Making Kimchi with the Hong Sisters: A Tradition of Taste
By Seon-Myung Yoo Before the Kim-jang Jin-Ok Hong, 51 years old, is scurrying through her house, vacuuming, wiping, washing the...
Andrei Lankov on the State of the North Korean Economy
By Andrei Lankov for 3WM What is the image of North Korea in the mainstream western media? It seems that...