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KMK: Getting Your Korean Driver’s License
KMK: Getting Your Korean Driver’s License Tweet If you’ve been to Seoul then you know there’s nothing dainty about driving. The pace is fast and furious and you can expect to be bullied, cut off, rear...
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Funky Seoul Corner 18: Lightnin’ Hopkins’ ‘I Like To Boogie’
Tweet The Article was originally published on TheThreeWiseMonkeys.com By Scott Freeman Lightnin’ (sometimes spelled Lightening) Hopkins (nee Sam John Hopkins) is a blues legend, but he belongs on Funky...
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Fortune Telling? Use Some Logic for the Year of the Snake
Tweet The Post was originally published on TheThreeWiseMonkeys.comBy Tom McGregorWhen I grew up and moved from Washington D.C. to Texas, I felt isolated for many years. To fill my time, I would play a...
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The Phnom Penh Post–7D: Cheapening the Experience of Life Abroad
Tweet Originally published on TheThreeWiseMonkeys.comMizaruPo Box 1901Phnom Penh 1200CambodiaAn Open Letter to the Editor(s).“I’m just saying, take courage. That and pretty much that alone is never the...
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Surviving Senior Year in a Korean High School (and getting into SKY)
Surviving Senior Year in a Korean High School (and getting into SKY) Tweet Originally Published on TheThreeWiseMonkeys.comBy Bo-kyung ByunHalfway into my senior year, I decided I’d had enough. After...
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How To Celebrate Valentine's Day Like a Korean
How To Celebrate Valentine's Day Like a Korean TweetNo one does lovey-dovey coupley stuff better than the Koreans. This is evidenced by their tendency to snuggle in public, book lovers' seats in...
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Haedong Yonggungsa: Busan’s Water Temple
Tweet Looking through our ever-increasing stash of digital snapshots the other day, I realized that we have been sorely inefficient in documenting all the things we’ve been up to since we got here in...
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Lost in Translation? The Case of the Medieval Professor and the Ivory Korean...
TweetBy 3WMAnyone who first arrived in Korea knows the feeling of stepping off the plane walking through the airport and emerging to head for one’s new life abroad. And for most of us the usual...
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Best Links of the Week – The Seolall Edition.
TweetHappy Seollal! I hope everyone is enjoying their celebration of the New Year. The great thing about living in Korea is we get to celebrate the New Year twice.Unfortunately, I sprained my ankle...
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ARKPop Podcast, 63-2: Not Your Mother’s Best Singles
Tweet Last week was a bit hectic so this episode didn’t get released on time, however it’s here in its entirety to wrap up our 2012 musical review. The next episode takes a look at the Scandals that so...
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Obsession Over the Right Line and the Media that Pushes it
TweetOver at Haps, James Turnbull looks at South Korea’s line obsession, (e.g. “S-line”, “V-line”, “X-line”) and those that push them. He has some especially choice words for the “Bagel Girl”...
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2013 Burns Night Charity Ball
TweetBack in January, I had the distinct pleasure of once again shooting the Burns Night Charity Ball. If you are not familiar with Burns Night, they are usually nights put together to honour one of...
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Our first week in Canada
TweetHere is a brief look at our first week in Penetang, Ontario. I am on my mother’s computer and don’t want to take too much time on it so a lot of this post will be terse to the point of being...
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I Went There
TweetToday, I finally went to the Tetris cafe, and it was as awesome as I had hoped.This weekend was Korean Lunar New Year and I had the day off of work.I used part of my day to do some writing, and in...
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Man of the Week: Song Seung-heon (송승헌)
TweetHong Seok-cheon chose Song Seung-heon on last week's episode of Healing Camp as his ideal man (이상형). It is quite easy to see why.Born in 1976, Seung-hun rose to fame for 2000's Autumn in My Heart...
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Tom Yam Soup with Mackerel (or frogs!)
TweetHappy Lunar New Year everyone! And although it is the Year of the Snake, I’m posting something with frogs- if you so dare!Okay so I made this soup with mackerel, a perfectly normal fish, when I...
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American and ROK Marines Joint Winter Drill [PHOTOS]
TweetThe Telegraph has a good slide show of American and Korean Marines during their recent joint winter drill in Pyeongchang. Give me a good ondol and a hot cup of coffee and I’m fine staying inside,...
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Overnight in Siloam Jimjilbang-Seoul
Tweet BY Emma O’FlynnBusan! Great city, all the trappings, fun place, right on the ocean, fabulous! And there’s even an airport! Our very own Gimhae airport with flights to…hum…not that many places...
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Valentines Day Gifts
TweetValentines Day GiftsGifts for your loved one don’t need to cost a fortune. These homemade gifts are affordable and thoughtful. They’re not cheap or naff like the ones you used to make at school...
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Thank You
TweetA look at the East Sea and Haedong Yonggungsa Temple in Busan.Hello Again Everyone!!With the blog just turning two, and with over 100,000 visitors during that time, I just wanted to thank those...
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