Chris Tharp’s ‘Dispatches from the Peninsula: Six Years in South Korea’
By 3WM Thousands of young adults pass through South Korea each year, teaching English in private schools that together make...
6th Annual Battle of the Bands Continues Friday
By 3WM Be at the Rocky Mountain Tavern at least 1 hour before your set, or come down at 9...
Bipolar, off the Rails and Locked up in Korea Pt. 1
Eventually, my behavior grew so outlandish in public that I got picked up by the Korean equivalent of the guys...
The New ‘Shanghaied’ (and it isn’t all that bad)
By Jake Reed Six years after first moving to Asia and I find myself becoming lazy. Lazy in my desire...
In the Footsteps of Wonhyo — A 21st Century Pilgrimage
By Simon Phillips On December 4, a motley crew of academics, explorers, and journalists will pioneer a journey which has...
Funky Seoul Corner #8: Marvin Smith’s, ‘You’re Really Something Sadie’
By Scott Freeman Marvin Smith is a legend within the Northern Soul and Soul Circuit. (Yes, I do use the...
Your Life Depends on It: Taking Korea’s CSAT (A Student’s Story)
By Flora Lee Just like the American SAT, the British A-level or the French Baccalaureate, there is also a final,...
From ‘Woman’s Duty’ to Women’s Play: Lesbian Explorations in Yi Nam-hui’s ‘Plastic Sex’
By Gabriel Sylvian Amidst rigid familism, strict gender roles and moral orthodoxy often equated with national identity and “national sentiment,”...
Plastic Sex Part 1
By Yi Nam-hui Translation by Gabriel Sylvian Editor's note: This will be the first of several parts of Yi's short...
South Korea’s Next President (But Will He Run?)
By Peter Ward I can see the appeal of Ahn Chul-soo as a potential presidential candidate. So far as I...
Summer in November: Korea’s Strange New Weather
By Mike L. Berry and Iwazaru The weather is generally a quintessentially dull subject, unless it’s flipping cars, flooding apartments...
Cut Glass Theatre Presents: ‘The Importance of Being Earnest’
By 3WM Cut Glass Theatre Presents Oscar Wilde has come to Seoul! The newly formed Cut Glass Theatre Company proudly...
Of Real Korean Ghosts and Ghost Stories
By Iwazaru Lying there in the dark didn't do a thing to help me go to sleep. I started feeling...
Korean Police Deny Brit Beauty Queen’s Bribery Allegations
By Marie Kulik On the 20th October 2011, the BBC reported that 19-year-old model, Amy Willerton of Bristol, UK, who...