Yellow Fever Sold Here

Dear Korean, I'm a non-Korean woman who has been involved with a Korean man for quite a few years. Due to financial burdens suffered by his family, my beau will be living with his parents until he has helped them pay off their house. While his father has taken no issue with my ethnicity (and even seems rather enthusiastic about me), his mother refuses to acknowledge me. I'm unceasingly polite to her....

Ask A Korean! News: The (Literally) Growing Race Problem in Korea

Ask a Korean! News will be different from any Korean news you can get from the U.S. It will pick up some news that Korean newspapers reported that the Korean thinks to be significant. Here is the first of the series.I know all Asians look alike. They kinda do. But surely the most ignorant reader of this thing can probably tell...

Our First Question!

Dear Korean,why are Korean men such awesome pool players?Jeff C., New York.Jeff,You submitted the first question ever to the Korean! A special prize (a jar of extra-aged kimchi) is on your way.Korean men on average do excel at pool (but not the Korean, who is merely average.) And it's for the same reason why Chinese people...

Welcome to Ask A Korean!

Today is Saturday, October 21, 2006. And today will be the birthday of this blog, Ask A Korean. This blog is inspired by Ask A Mexican (take a sample: http://www.ocweekly.com/columns/ask-a-mexican/ask-a-mexican/25980/) written by Gustavo Arrellano for the OC Weekly.In other words, I plan to answer any question you might have about the Korean people, both Korean American and Koreans in the old country....