Korean Life
categoryPlastic 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...
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...
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...
Prof. Yuji Hosaka Launches English Dokdo Site
By Iwazaru On October 20, Professor Yuji Hosaka of Sejong University's Dokdo Research Institute launched an English language Web site...
Ahn Cheol-Soo Forced out of Position at Seoul National University
By Iwazaru Doctor, software mogul, professor and dean of the Graduate School of Convergence Science and Technology of Seoul National...
Branding Korea! How about Culture Shock Day with Mannam? (Pt. 2)
By Kyla Polanski Toward the end of the event we were directed through hundreds of bowing and cheering people that...
‘The Dog Farm’: A Novel about Life in Korea by David S. Wills
By 3WM For thousands of young Westerners, South Korea is an escape from reality. It is a place where money...
Branding Korea! How about Culture Shock Day with Mannam?
By Kyla Polanski The first thing we came upon was an area where people were imitating the torture of Japanese...
Multicultural Korea: ‘Dirty’ Foreigners Spoil the Sauna Water and Spread AIDS
By Iwazaru Allegedly, an employee of a sauna in Busan said to Gu Su-jin, an Uzbekistan-born woman who holds Korean...
Reflections on the Korean Experience from Phnom Penh – Part 1 – Goodbye to All That
By HBCTravis All the debauchery had taken its toll on me after six years. Those late nights of linger were...
Why I Shy away from the Filipino Community
By Ardie Ermac At the end of the day, as I look back to where I come from, I find...
Who Asked You? Unwanted Advice from Strangers in Korea
By The Expat at Expat Hell The Korean Ministry of Tourism has a new mantra: No Foreigner Left Behind. Welcome...
Korean Media Finally Covers Zenith Travel Scam: Police Investigation Underway
By 3WM After months of ratcheted up pressure on forums and then via 3WM and finally through the Korea Herald,...
Not Marrying the Wrong Woman is Better (Revisited)
By Jack Whitmore I’ll be honest, if a woman wanted to find a man who could be an easy target...