Back in November I linked to a survey being carried out by reader Christian Thurston for foreign teachers in Korea to fill out. Now he'...

On January 7, the Chronicle of Higher Education published an article titled " In South Korea, Foreign Professors Can Have a Hard Time F...

So at a restaurant near a town of 1,300 people in rural Ontario was this advertisement for fitness classes: Just remember that it's...

Last week there were reports of foreign teachers in Daegu donating and distributing gifts to children at welfare facilities:  "Blue eye...

An article by Benjamin Wagner and myself titled HIV/AIDS Tests as a Proxy for Racial Discrimination? A Preliminary Investigation of South Ko...

After native speaking teacher cutbacks in Gyeonggi-do , Seoul , and Busan , it would seem elementary school teachers in Mokpo will not have ...

Who would have thought Korea would be colder than Canada right now? (We'll ignore the fact that it's supposed to drop down to -18 at...

[Update: there's more about 'Korean Straight Lines' here .]  Anyone who has studied early modern Korean history knows well tha...

There are a couple of interesting exhibitions on this month I thought I'd point out. It was mentioned to me awhile ago that the Nationa...

In looking at the statistics released by Immigration for this post (regarding number of foreigners by visa type and region; look for 등록외국인 ...

Last week I read an interview with Amanda Todd 's mother somewhere and was surprised by her photo (see here , for example). Why? Because...

I had to weigh in on this eventually, right? If you haven't already, it's worth reading the articles at Busan Haps , the Washing...