It's a year after the Sewol Ferry disaster. Later today I'll walk around a few of the mourning and commemoration sites. Perhaps I w...

As I clear out the dropbox photo upload folder, and the iPhoto photo album (which is a pain in the ass to clean up), I come across many ph...

This is the essence of a list I presented on TBS Main Street, on TBS English Radio, where I do a weekly countdown at 10:30 every Thursday m...

By random coincidence, these two videos just appeared right next to each other on my Facebook feed. Actually enjoyable song, musically....

You've read, no doubt, about The Interview, and the Sony hack. The Sony hack that was blamed on North Korea, which people are now doubt...

2014 is over. And good riddance. As the title indicates, this was a stinker of a year. Both sides (me and wife) were touched with death t...

I don't know that much about Kim Jong-ho, but in the process of researching all that old Korean music for a shin joong-hyun documentary...

While Macademia nuts are all the buzz right now in Korea, because of this story, I don't have all that much to add. You can read more a...

Yes, I have heard the complaint that some kinds of Korean music do nothing artistically -- they just take foreign music and put it in the m...