My Samil post took a little longer that I'd thought it would. As usual, what I thought would only involve linking to a few articles ha...

It's the beginning of the school year, and I realized the other day that the kids in a kindergarten class I taught back in 2001, and who...

Yi Wan-yong and famil y Andrei Lankov's latest column in the Korea Times is about Yi Wan-yong, and has a lot of details about his life ...

Joe Mondello over at the Joshing Gnome documents the simmering antipathy between English language Korea bloggers and Ajumma bloggers, known...

I saw the movie Chaser almost two weeks ago and it's doing quite well, as the Joongang Ilbo tells us it sold 1.7 million tickets in 10 ...

Via Korea Beat , I learned of the display of the oldest known photos of Koreans, taken in 1863. As the Donga Ilbo describes them, The six p...

Last week Brian in Jeollanam-do drew attention to the "shameful scene" of Japanese tourists posing for photos in front of the rui...

A Canadian has made the (entertainment) news in Korea. Why? Because when she was back in Canada, she had a soju party with 5 other people a...

According to this article translated at Korea Beat , Kim, who has been homeless for three years, admitted, “for a long time I went [to Namda...

Update: It would be pretty nifty to know that a tree your father planted was to be part of the new Namdaemun . Original Post: I found this a...

[update: Do read the comments for the reply to this post.] In the comments to my last post, an anonymous commenter left the nastiest reply ...