Korea elevator maintenance becomes interesting the moment the doors stop opening. Imagine coming home with groceries to a twentieth-floor apartment.…
It is lunchtime at a small café in Seoul's Seongsu district. A customer walks up to the counter, glances at…
Every foreigner who moves to Seoul meets the Korea recycling reality in a basement. You carry down a bag of…
Every August through the 1990s, Korean urology clinics filled up with boys. Summer vacation was circumcision season. Fathers brought sons,…
Land at Incheon, connect to the airport Wi-Fi, and the first thing a Korean acquaintance asks for is your KakaoTalk…
Every October, something strange happens to the way Koreans move. For instance, the high-speed trains south fill up weeks in…
Walk into an Olive Young store in Seoul and head straight for the lip wall. You will notice something strange.…
ARTICLE BODY The Vatican needed to save a prayer handwritten by Saint Francis of Assisi in 1224. Yet the restorers…
On a slow Tuesday afternoon in Itaewon, a Nigerian-Korean stylist tries on a deadstock military parka. The shopkeeper, who has…
One of the things I was most excited for when coming to South Korea was the shopping. Seoul is known…