The Joongang Ilbo reports on a recent decision by the National Human Rights Commission regarding pregnant teens and their right to an educ...

So on last Sunday's Simpsons episode (a pretty good one, actually), Bart fails to do his homework yet again and his parents come for a c...

For those who don't know, I just found out that the Joshing Gnome is posting again. Good to see him back, and with posts like this or ...

This Korea Times article from earlier this month tells us that "870,636 registered overseas nationals live in Korea and 255,000 of the...

The Korea Times has an article about the Korean government giving recognition to the protest against SyngmanRhee's electoral corruption ...

Global post has an article about an American professor's collection of North Korean comic books: Heinz Insu Fenkl, a literature profess...

Korean Modern Literature in Translation links to an essay by Mark Morris at Japan Focus titled "The New Korean Cinema, Kwangju and th...

I had a pleasant surprise the other day when I rode my bike down to the Han River park in Banghwa-dong: What you see above is what used to b...

The first time I had ramen in Japan was in Oita (where my sister lived for two years) in 2002, but at the time I really didn't think muc...

I've looked at Gindeung Maeul before, in these posts: Exploring Gindeung Maeul The Disappearance of Gindeung Maeul Here's how it loo...

A couple weeks ago I hiked Dobongsan with a friend. The last (and first) time I'd gone was in 2001. On the way up there were a lot of bi...

Today is the 91st anniversary of the 1919 Samil independence movement (and also one of the few holidays to fall on a weekday this year). I...