I.Seoul.U.  World Taekwondo Federation. How did we get here? Sometime in August, I heard Seoul City was taking submissions for a new ...

Dayv Mattt, also known as Chiam, is a photographer I've admired for quite a while now- he's had a handful of different blogs, and c...

This big sign in a subway station kind of bothers me. It's about bike trails... clearly out of the city. It looks pretty; I'd like ...

Turns out Dobong Mountain is a steep bastard of a mountain to climb. I was out of practice, so it took days before I could do things like st...

ASKMEN.com, the website equivalent to Maxim magazine, just listed Seoul as the 6th best city in the world to visit . Also: the top city in A...

So a little while ago, Grrrl Traveler rented a car for a five hour road trip, and came back with these ten observations about driving in Kor...

First: go vote for me on the "Best English Language K-Blogger" poll over at HiExpat: there are a few days left, and I'm within...

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...

Hey there.  I have a few friends who are taller and/or larger than the average Korean, who need to buy a few new t-shirts for the summer. ...

[Update: I've revisited this topic] It's ridiculous that it is this way, but what can you do (except complain, warn your friends,...

I usually don't like linking The Korea Times, for reasons I've delved into before... but Jongno district is giving a group of Filip...

So Lonely Planet says that Seoul is the third most hated city . Similar statements have been made before, and then as well, Seoul city got a...

Interesting article in the expat living section of the Korea Herald: Thanh Cam Nguyen, rightly argues that ugly people can spoil an attracti...

On buddha's birthday I went to Gyeongju. It seems like a long time ago, because the ATEK stuff has pretty much hijacked all my free time...

I got a very polite e-mail from a researcher from the Asia Research Institute at the National University of Singapore named Francis Leo Coll...

But no, I'm not posting a scan of it on my blog. Personal info, you know. However, if you want to know how easy it is for foreigners to...

So on Friday (Halloween) night, my friend Jennifer took me to Kyunghee Palace, the most haunted palace in Seoul, and regaled us with ghost s...