Korean Life

By Seon-Myung Yoo Before the Kim-jang Jin-Ok Hong, 51 years old, is scurrying through her house, vacuuming, wiping, washing the...

By Iwazaru and Peter Ward What comes next is where it gets very interesting. Successor designate Kim Jong-un is now...

By John M. Rodgers and Jamie Grimwood In mid-July as 3WM entered a summer hiatus, the former editor in chief...

By Yi Nam-hui At the end of last year, designated as “Literature Year,” there was a small fracas in publishing...

By Conor O’Reilly Imagine, one morning during an English teaching adventure you wake up, smell for the cleanest t-shirt, eat...

By John M. Rodgers Following five months of investigation into the circumstances surrounding PVT Fisher's case including but not limited...

By Iwazaru Seven full days into the more than 400 kilometer pilgrimage across the Korean peninsula in an attempt to...

Editor's note: Over the past few months 3WM was in contact with a volunteer at an Korean orphanage who offered...

By Rahn Kim (a.k.a. Hae Ran Kim, a.k.a. 김해란) During my teenage years, I sometimes heard my father half-jokingly express...

By Rahn Kim Being different had never been a foreign concept, even back when I was still "homegrown." Teased for...

By Marie Kulik The friendly looking disciplinarian robots, three of which are set to roam the halls of a prison...

By Stella Jang Every time there is an important election, campaigns are held all over the country in order to...

By Jen Lee and 3WM It's nearly December and the notorious Korean Mosquitoes or mogee continue to infiltrate apartments and...

By Flora Lee Just like the American SAT, the British A-level or the French Baccalaureate, there is also a final,...

By Gabriel Sylvian Amidst rigid familism, strict gender roles and moral orthodoxy often equated with national identity and “national sentiment,”...