Happy new year, readers. It's a good day, the weather's finally not so bone-chilling, and the wife is away on vacation. Not that ...

Well, not really: there are tons of great things about Chuseok: The mountain I'm going to climb later today, the food, the finally-coo...

I may never have told you the story of the most touching gesture I had from a friend on Chuseok: in my first year, a buddy spent the whole d...

In case you doubted my word about Spam for Chuseok before, here's an oldy but goldy blog post about it: yeah. And in case you didn...

this is from a twitter post  posted by a facebook friend... One of the charms of Korean holiday culture is the gift giving culture: for a...

So here's the idea. St. Patrick's Day is coming, and everybody knows what that means . For the uninitiated, here's a gr...

So... my nemesis Dan Gray of Seoul Eats and I got together and planned a nemesis-themed Christmas party. It was great. We got turkey from ...

The Parade in Seoul The cutest float: Thomas, the Buddhist Tank Engine outside Bulguksa Temple... huh? a kid playing ssireum with his mom in...

OK. Soundtrack: Love Love Love by Mountain Goats: this song always comes to my mind when it rains. So Sparkledown III started off by Anguk S...

Hey there. Today's the Buddha's Birthday Lantern Festival in Jonggak. If you live anywhere, ANYWHERE near Seoul, get your butt dow...

This video was buried near the end of the really long Andong Mask Festival post. . . and I wanted to bring more attention to it, because thi...

So I heard about this thing called the Andong Mask Dance Festival, one of those Korean culture touchstones and all. Girlfriendoseyo explaine...