I ran in to a hiccup at bedtime. It wasn’t actually the first time I’ve run into this particular hiccup, but it got me thinking. Almost e...

I got linked in the Wall Street Journal's Korea blog , Korea Real Time . And at The Marmot's Hole. And Three Wise Monkeys (in a p...

Scroozle has posted a subtitled (translated) version of a video made by MBC , one of Korea's major broadcasting corporations, about ...

[Update: article on AllKpop.com by Tiger JK - a member of Drunken Tiger - is REALLY worth reading] After a long twitter discussion with s...

[UPDATE] MBC has apologized and said "It will not happen again" -- we'll see. Hat tip to Eat Your Kimchi . More at Kushibo...

So Jenny Hyun is a person I never heard of before, and she wrote some racist things. Write-up . Write-up . I usually don't write abo...

Update: for two great views on this topic, please read these pieces side by side: The Metropolitician: "Be White" Adeel "T...

So in my class, we read about Shakira, who (according to what I learned in the article) richly deserves to be a world star. (and frankly, wh...

Tomorrow night, the Royal Asiatic Society of Koreais hosting a "Badaksori" performance. This is Pansori. Badaksori a group of...

Some articles that caught my eye last time I combed through all my favorite news sites: Coincidentally, it's a little "Chosun Ilbo...

We've talked about this a lot on the blogs, and Girlfriendoseyo and I have had some interesting conversations about it, too: bald-...

I'm in the Korea Herald twice this week: on Wednesday, talking about 2S2, the expat get-together. You can come, too - at 2pm in the Two...

OK, first: As Good As It Gets is playing while I'm writing this, and I'd forgotten what a charming film it is. My new favorite part...