This Saturday, October 4, at 3pm, the Royal Asiatic Society Cinema Club and Seoul Film Society will have a free screening of the 1975 Lee Ma...

Tomorrow night, Tuesday September 30, Professor Henry Em will be giving a lecture titled " Seokguram, the Guze Kannon, and the Creation...

In 2011, the Korean Government Scholarship Program Guidelines for foreign students studying in Korea (see page 15  here  (link downloads a p...

This AP article was pointed out to me the other day: Back in the days of "Commies" and "pinkos," of Red scares, black...

Three weeks ago, a large number of native speaking teachers were busted for selling and buying marijuana. The almost 50 articles about this...

This Saturday, September 6, at 3pm, the Royal Asiatic Society Cinema Club and Seoul Film Society will have a free screening of the 1961 Yu ...

Apologies to my readers for the utter lack of posts the last month. I spent much of the month in Canada, and a good portion of that time was...

Tomorrow, August 2, at 3pm, the Royal Asiatic Society Cinema Club and Seoul Film Society will have a free screening of the 1968 Lee Man-hee ...

Last week I made it to the National Arboretum east of Uijeongbu where they had quite a few not-so-exotic, Korean animals on display. Up firs...

On July 2 the Korea Times reported on this sad state of affairs : Dozens of AIDS patients on the brink of death are struggling to find pla...

Four years ago I took a brief look at Guryong Maeul in Gangnam-gu, a shanty town first settled in the 1980s. Though a 2009 article said...

You may remember Quincy Black, the English teacher working at the Dajeon International Communication Center who caused a media and internet ...