Tag: Korean Life
Facing the Reality of War on the Korean Peninsula
By Lee Scott By Iwazaru If you've been in Korea for a stretch of five or 10 or 20...
The Provincial Policies of Korean Dailies
By Iwazaru One of the reasons we started 3WM (and DDD before it) was to provide a platform for writers...
Cancer, Death and Samsung’s Semiconductor Factories
By John Kay In 2005, Han Hae-kyoung who had worked in a Samsung LCD plant since 1995, was diagnosed with...
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...
Suicide in Korea: KAIST and the Many Thousands More
By Iwazaru The recent string of suicides at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) provides South Korea...
The Jang Ja-yeon Tragedy—A Strangely Disappearing Paper Trail
By Felix McGee The suicide-abuse case of South Korean actress Jang Ja-Yeon, who was found hanged from a stairway banister...
A Student’s Story: Celebrating High School Graduation in a Korean Wedding Hall
By Stella Jang On February 7th, I graduated from a foreign language high school in a rather mundane and boring...
Inside Korean College Life: 10 Survival Tips
By Elena j. (with insights from Angel R.) Similar to the majority of 600,000 students that took the Korean College...
How Young Is Too Young? Kpop’s Newest 9-year-old Kid Idol Girls
By Iwazaru Just when you thought that girl idol groups in Korea were reaching every area of the populous and...
So this is Christmas—Belief in Korea: The Yoido Full Gospel Church pt. 2
By Mizaru AT 6:15 p.m. on Christmas night my recruiter/fixer calls then leaves a message in the voice box: “Where...
Belief in Korea: The Yoido Full Gospel Church Part 1
Editor's Note: This begins a loose-leaf series on different types of Religion and Spirituality practiced in Korea. Christianity, Buddhism, Islam,...
This Monkey’s Gone to Heaven—the cult of Ilchi Lee
Three ex-Dahn members and the editors of 3wm contributed to this story. Editor’s notes: This is part 2 of an...
Let the Two Koreas Peacefully Coexist
By J. Lee A week after the North Korean shelling of the Yeonpyeong Island, I e-mailed Sung-yoon Lee of the...
A Love Story between Korea and Germany (Life can be complicated! Especially if you love a Korean woman!)
By Thomas Holloway I traveled to Seoul on June 17, 2010, only two weeks after Kate left Berlin. At first...
Korean Banker Speaks about Room Salon Addiction
By 3WM In the interests of finding out more about the room salon culture 3WM was put in touch with...
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