So "Superstar K" is the Korean counterpart to "American Idol" Wifeoseyo has been totally enrapt in this show: she had ...

I've been getting tons of invitations to Halloween parties on facebook and by e-mail... turns out having a widely read blog means peop...

So for one thing, I LOVE the muppets right now. Remember "The man your man could smell like" - that old spice commercial? This o...

According to this article , a government agency signed a memorandum of understanding with a bunch of US universities to recruit students to ...

I was just looking over the series I wrote this spring, about how to make friends across the foreign/Korean cultural divide, in which I high...

I've been batting around the idea of starting a vlog, or video blog, here at Roboseyo. What say you, readers? Here is a little tease...

Two quick notes: 1. In a follow-up to the piece about articles giving wildly inconsistent statistics about native English teachers breakin...

Too many kids in the USA have been committing suicide because they were overwhelmed, or bullied, about their sexual orientation.  That sucks...

KOTESOL is holding a conference this weekend, and you should go.  KOTESOL is an organization focused on professional development for English...

Foreigner Joy asked the intriguing question, "Is Seoul Ready for the G20 Summit" ? over on her blog; have you heard that the G20 i...

Turns out I'm not the only one to be sourly discontent with restaurant service culture here in Korea.  I wish I'd known about this (...

So Hi Expat continues to pull out interesting stuff: this time it's a video of someone who seems to be an American GI ("I fought ...

A lady in Apgujeong has been selling apples as a promotion for a line of products called "apple hip" Korea Times Reports Now, ...

Well, I've got a bunch of ATEK stuff on my plate, keeping me busy with this and that, so I don't have the time to give any of these ...

So Chris in South Korea tagged me to share my three best travel tips. He shared his own here . Among his tips were to use Koreas super usefu...

Found this picture on an old disc. Don't know if I posted it yet.  coffee bar near where I used to live.  The name was Sketch, or Ske...

OK, readers, you know how there's some neighborhood or another, somewhere in Seoul, with a street full, almost exclusively, of shops sel...

They just won the Under 17 Women's FIFA World Cup in a penalty kicks against Japan. Plus, they totally dumped their coach when they tr...

While Michael Simning's blood-drive seems to have seen him through the first period of urgent need (Yeah Gwangju! You rock!), there are ...

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...