Update: The lecture can be watched here . This Tuesday, January 16, I will give a lecture for the Royal Asiatic Society titled “'We feel...

Larry Tressler performing with the Devils (and the girl group Happy Dolls) at Seoul Citizens' Hall, June 1970. (Courtesy of Larry Tressl...

So, Tim Hortons (aka the Church of Canada) opened up a franchise or two in Korea in 2023, with plans to expand to 150 stores within... a tim...

A recent article at Korea Pro by Chris Tharp (author of this excellent memoir ), titled “ Unpacking South Korea’s strict drug policy amid ce...

I found this Goldstar portable radio ad in the Seoul Women's University (서울여대) newspaper from the summer of 1972. While the images initi...

MBC reported last week on the egregious abuse of a foreign English teacher taking place at an English hagwon in Yeosu: Hearing the level of...

 For my latest Korea Times article , I interviewed Todd Henry and Minki Hong about their documentary, ‘Paradise,’ which uses oral history an...

I’ll be leading an excursion next Saturday, November 4, for the Royal Asiatic Society to Gaehwasan (near Gimpo Airport), a low mountain cove...

The Korea Herald reports that yesterday a "4-meter-deep, 5-meter-wide sinkhole was found on a traffic island between IFC Mall and Parc...

Over the Chuseok long weekend I visited a number of sites that might be of interest. First up was  Dondeokjeon, the European-style building ...

 The National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Seoul (next to Gyeongbok Palace) has an exhibit - until next Sunday, July 16 - titled...

For my latest Korea Times story I look at the events surrounding the evacuation of the US Embassy during the outbreak of the Korean War in ...