Islands of Incheon
Story by: Merissa Quek, Photos by: Merissa Quek As the winter wears off and spring reawakens, Korea’s islands are still, calm and welcoming to those looking to steer away from the maddening crowd. But...
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Fast-tracking in Tokyo
Story by: Conrad Hughes, Photos by: Carlos Greene, Maxime Guilbot, Toshihiro Oimatsu One expat discovers his love for Korea, by way of chaotic Japan I had anticipated that my brief, five-day...
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The Working woman
Story by: Anita McKay Additional reporting by Hyejin Park and Jongmin Lee, Photos by: Illustrations by Derrick Dent and Aaron Philby Is Korea ready for women in the workplace? When Rosie Park decided...
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AT THE BOX OFFICE THE BIG SCREEN
Story by: Dean Crawford, Photos by: Edge of Tomorrow Directed by Doug Liman Groove Podcast w/ Dean Crawford When Tom Cruise first rose to fame in the ‘80s, he was that cheeky newcomer with a...
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Robert Koehler's Korea
Story by: John Power, Photos by: Dylan Goldby When Robert Koehler reads the news from his home country these days, he is often left aghast. The longtime expat, magazine editor and author of one of...
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Korea Burn
Story by: Josh Doyle, Photos by: Brent Sheffield of Kimchibytes In 2011, Chung Shin-yeob of Seoul made his way to Nevada in search of a city called Black Rock: the epicenter of weird; a countercultural...
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Defecting From North Korea’s Middle Class
Special thanks to Caroline Mahon for tanslating. When Kim Chol-soo and his wife, Kim Young-ok (not their real names), first arrived in South Korea they had doubts about their new life. It was not what...
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Korea’s Changing Identity
“I think it’s positive,” Shauente Waters, an American English teacher, says of the multicultural label that is used to describe her family. “At the moment for Korean people, multicultural is OK,” Shin,...
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Korea NT Out To Avoid A Banana Skin
The new international calendar has presented the unusual prospect of Korea facing Laos this September 3, where few will expect anything but a comfortable Korean victory. In a growing policy to bring...
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Tri The Bike Basics
Most cyclists, myself included, want to know the secrets to getting faster and stronger on your bike. After only a year’s experience, I’ve come to learn that the simple thing to do is to get out and...
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Korean Rugby Faces An Uncertain Future
The recent visit by World Cup winning coach Graham Henry should have been a boon for an association largely unable to attract either the funding or interest necessary to improve the domestic rugby...
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Racking Up With The Itaewon Pool League
The brainchild of long-time Korea resident Bob Denny, the Itaewon Pool League (IPL) recently entered its fifteenth year with Wednesday nights across Seoul dedicated to big breaks and a few beers around...
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48 Grounds, 3 Men, 1 Podcast, No Rounders.
Embracing the possibly sado-masochistic elements that come from watching Korean soccer on a regular basis, Paul Carver, Mark Kelly, and Steve Waddell’s decision to bring their own ramblings to the...
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A Touchdown Against The Odds
Sunday morning in North Seoul and two American football teams are hammering away at each other. The pitch is dirt, it is dusty, and the hits are uncompromising. The heat is frankly brutal. The final...
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Golfing Greats Come To Incheon
Derided by some as the Ryder Cup’s annoying little brother, the Presidents Cup comes to Korea for the first time in its 21 year history for four days of drives, birdies, and bunkers. Pitting the...
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Fighting Club on the ROAD to Success
ROAD Fighting Club continued its run of successful events with drama, glitz and no little glamor at Jangchung Gymnasium this October 9. With an outside design set-up not out of place at an awards...
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The FA Cup returns to Sangam
A sunny yet still chilly Halloween arrived with the promise of a 20,000-plus crowd and a new FA Cup holder this past Saturday as FC Seoul faced Incheon FC in the FA Cup final at Sangam World Cup...
View ArticleThe Yangban Class and the CSAT Exams
Every November for the past twenty years, hundreds of thousands of high school students across Korea take the most important test of their lives. It does not take long for expats living in Korea to...
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Batter Up For Premier 12 Baseball
International tournaments in baseball rarely get the hearts of baseball fanatics racing, particularly in baseball’s homelands. However, a brand new iteration – the Premier 12 – opens this month and in...
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The K-League Soccer Season Winds down
With just under a month remaining, most of the final K-League standings have already been wrapped up. While there is still an outside possibility of Suwon Bluewings winning the title, Jeonbuk Motors...
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