Korea

It’s interesting how the Korean media has influenced many foreigners’ perceptions of Korea and its people. I’ve also personally met many online friends who want to date Korean men and fantasize about having such a relationship. Wake up. Not all men and women in Korea possess good-looking faces like the…

Yet is the key point here. If you don’t already know, Apple has launched its Apple Pay in Korea yesterday and some 170,000 iPhone users can’t be more thrilled. “Users can start paying with Apple Pay at convenient stores like CU or GS25, coffee spots like Paul Bassett, department stores…

My recent article in Hapskorea.com. I look at the proposed jump to a 69-hour workweek and,unsurprisingly, Korea‘s pushback.

Do the impossible — and MacArthur did it at Inchon against all odds — Operation Chromite was a pivotal military operation during the Korean War that took place in the late summer of 1950. The operation was led by United States forces and aimed to turn the tide of the war in favor of the United Nations forces by landing a large number of…

I honestly don’t recall where we had lunch but judging from the photos, I believe we were near Sindang Station in Seoul.

There are times when you need someone to help you. I had that in spades — 26 pounds of water is too much to carry back from the store. That’s just math. But math can be countered very easily by math, or more specifically by economics. When you’ve counted your life by the water jug for years, any chance to save some money (and maybe a…