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There is a lovely photography exhibition in New York on Korean gyopo, i.e. Koreans who live outside of Korea. The exhibition is a series of portraits of numerous Korean Americans accompanied by a narrative. Here is an example that features Daniel Dae Kim. The Korean also loved the picture and narrative of Chang-Rae Lee, author...
Dear readers,Here is another chance to help out one another.Dear Korean,I'd like to travel to Korea and live there for a period of time. Most people recommend becoming an English teacher as the best way to secure a job and income. The Google results are overwhelming. Do you have any suggestions? I'm not sure how to start researching the possibilities nor have a good criteria base to judge programs....
Dear Korean, Just want to say thank you for running this blog. I recently took an 18-year-old dongsaeng to meet a queer Korean friend of mine, and she asked a lot of questions similar to ones that frustrate you on Ask a Korean! When she asked, "do gay people hate straight people," I told her, "take anything you ask and replace...
Now, to cool off, the Korean presents the new Banpo Bridge at Seoul, newly renovated with dancing water fountains:Fountains were installed as Seoul city's new project to upgrade the city's looks.Source: Gizmo...
New York Times reports that hate groups so far have been mostly quiet during this election that features a black man running for president. But apart from the main message, this quote attracted the Korean's attention:“There’s a real problem,” Mr. White said in the interview last month, “in what’s called the ‘white movement.’ One, there’s a lot of people who are just mentally ill, and we deal with...
Dear Korean,As Korea has a hyper-competitive education system/society, are students actively discouraged from becoming musicians or artists (I mean real musicians. not the k-pop, look-good-but-can’t-sing-for-peanuts, populist kind,) and if so, what kind of person would pursue these activities in Korea?Just Kinda CuriousDear...
Good article on New York Times that proves two of the Korean's deeply held beliefs:1. Despite its numerous flaws, Korean educational system does at least some things right. -- The Korean himself was a poor student at math and science in Korea, but once moved to U.S., he was destroying the curriculum. Californian 12th graders learn 8th grade Korean math. It's a crying shame.2. Immigration is a vital...
Dear readers,Would anybody like to help out Stephan?Dear Korean,I moved to Seoul a few months ago to start a new job. Unfortunately due to a lack of an eating partner, I've been forced to eat out at Kimbap restaurant every other night. Although I've learned to read Hangeul, I have yet to fill out the vocabulary to put it to any good use. Do you have any tips on websites that list different types of...
[First post by Yeochin!]Apparently, Korean sex trade accounts for 1.6% of its GDP.Yeochin finds this one very amusing as she has read MANY articles about Korea's crackdown on prostitution and red light districts through out Korea. However, Yeochin lives on a five way intersection called Ganseokgogori and can see the red light district from her apartment. Most of the time when Yeochin tells a cab...
[This post is written by Nuna.]Dear Korean,While studying in China, I was approached by a group of 6 of my young Korean classmates (age 20-22), asking if I wanted to go bowling with them. I said I would be happy to go. After we agreed on all of the details – day, time, place to meet – they left. Soon after, they came back...
This article was interesting:According to a survey conducted with men who completed the John School program for being arrested for sex purchase in 2006, a typical John is in his 30s, college-graduate, working as an office worker earning $1,800~2,400 a month, and purchased sex at a massage parlor after drinking.In the Ministry of Justice survey conducted on the 5th, among the 1289 men who responded...
The Korean's writing about expats reached a wider audience a few weeks ago, via Korea Herald. Whenever the wider audience is reached, however, the haterthon inevitably begins. After about two week's worth of hate mail, the Korean is proud to announce that Mr. Jeff Meyers, apparently from Australia, is the winner of the Hate The Korean contest!Below is the winning piece:From: Jeff Meyers ([email redacted]@yahoo.com.au)To:...
Apparently, 44% Koreans who start in "good colleges" drop out. (Please note that the headline is incorrect: the Korean's alma mater is most certainly NOT in the Ivy League. It belongs to Pac-10, and plays far better football.)The article does not say how the dropout rate breaks down among Korean students studying abroad since colleges, Korean students studying abroad since between middle school and...
Choi Jinsil, perhaps the most successful Korean actress ever, was found dead in her house in an apparent suicide. She apparently hung herself, and was discovered by her brother Choi Jinyoung, himself an actor.I am in utter shock, and so is the entire Korea, evidenced by the fact that the news of her death is posted higher in...
Good article on New York Times about New York's own history of tainted milk and the parallels with what is going with China now.Although this is not the main point of the article, the Korean will highlight this portion:In the end, New York milk was cleaned up. It took stronger food laws, better policing, the advent of pasteurization and the passage of the Food and Drug Act in 1906, 50 years after...
