For those who don't know of the 1972 Yusin constitution, there's a little more information here . Needless to say it was one of the ...

A Joseon-era public cemetery on Seoul's outskirts Ancestral worship, and a propitiation of daemons or spirits, the result of a timid an...

[Update] A student offered the opinion (regarding smearing cake) that cake isn't even liked all that much by many people, and that it se...

After it was suggested that a celebrity may have taken part in a sex tape , members of the public are having a hard time trusting actors and...

I noticed that Mark over at Korea Pop Wars had put up links to some old Korean videos/live performances which are well worth watching. Wort...

After reading the story of Jelly's Halloween party at I got 2 shoes , I thought I'd post a few pics of the haunted house I've do...

As I mentioned here quite some time ago, anthropologist Linda Louis writes in Laying Claim to the Memory of May that As a social process, ...

The photo below was linked to by the Marmot a few weeks ago and the only thing I could think of when I looked at it was how odd the woman...

I hope everyone's having a happy holiday! Why not follow Park Chung-hee's example and play yut with your loved ones?

At 8:50 pm on September 19, a retaining wall at a construction site in Yeouido collapsed, causing a crater to open under a street next to th...

[Update, January 2010] An earlier media fueled 'gust of popular feeling' against foreign language teachers took place in 1984. See t...