Some people will be happy to hear they can now publicly engage in coprophagia in public with no fear of social repercussions!
Just head on over to the Dalki cart in front of Ssamziegil in Insadong and take a gander at the gourmet bites of delicate 똥-shaped versions of the traditional 잉어빵. Normally these red-bean paste [...]
The Book:
Feetmanseoul.com, Korea’s first and only independent online fashion magazine, is producing a large photo/art book filled with gorgeous and provocative pictures, as well as original photo stories, interviews, and essays. Beyond the feel of a disposable fashion magazine, this coffee table book with have a real heft to it, with large, heavy pages that [...]
From the K-Times:
Seoul Immigration Office Gearing Up for Better Services
Forgive my scepticism. But as the title imbues, I will believe it when I see it. Not to say that new Immigration Chief Woo Ki Boong’s aims aren’t laudable ones:
“The top priority for this year is easing administrative congestion by streamlining the process. This is for [...]
It is time, dear readers. The Great Golden Klog Awards are ready to roll, and it is your turn to help choose winners for the best K-Blogs of 2008.
The Survey is in two parts:
Click Here to take part one of the survey
Click Here to take part two of the survey
Go and vote! If your [...]
On an upcoming SeoulPodcast, Joe Zenkimchi is interviewing Tony Hellman from ATEK, or the Association for Teachers of English in Korea, “an organization of language instructors and legal support that seeks to provide a voice for contract educators in Korea” (from their website).
Basically, among other things, ATEK is an organization that is tired of English [...]
If you’re sick and tired of carrying a fat wallet full of 10,000-Won notes to the casino, you’re in luck because there’s about to be a 50,000-Won bill with a woman on it!
SEOUL, South Korea — A woman will appear on South Korean banknotes for the first time, with the issuance of a new [...]
In late November last year I reported on Google providing a Korean version of their very useful mapping suite (http://maps.google.com).
In particular I noted that Daum (http://local.daum.net) did a better job, and indeed continues to do so now providing better resolution satellite imagery, (“스카이뷰” literally Sky View) and something akin to Google’s Street view (“로드뷰” literally [...]
Korea Beat has a great post going into what juicy girls do for Koreans, and how much more overtly sexual the Korean salons are compared to normal juicy bars. Hub of Racial Double Standards!
Back in November a group of Korean feminist organizations came together to protest what they called “the practice of the top media [...]
The Gaza strip, a small piece of land half the size of Seoul, is the home of 1.5 million Palestinians. About 1 million of them are living under the poverty line in camps, receiving aid from various organisations. Over 60% of the children suffer from malnutrition. And now, tens of thousands of refugees, many of [...]
As no one has thus far, I have taken it upon myself to start a Hub Of Sparkle Twitter account. All the kids (possibly with a ~z) are doin’ it so why shouldn’t we?
I have set it up in conjunction with twitterfeed so that all our posts will show up in your Twitter. But you’ve [...]
Hey everybody. I’m back from my trip to China, and it was awesome. More about that at Roboseyo.
For now, I want to look back for one last moment, after all the other retrospectives and top ten lists, and think about the year that was 2008, here on the K-blogs.
As such, I am now [...]
