Taking Advantage out of Historical Pain

Lee Sooyeon The matter of comfort woman (people who were forced to be sex slaves by the Imperial Japanese Army) has been a huge historical and ethical issue for years. Recently, a news about Yoon Mi-Hyang (known as a South Korean human rights activist, politician, and author, and at the same time the former head […]

The Law of Korean Time

Seung Hyun Nam Have you ever heard of the saying “Korean-Time”? A word made by Korean teens, meaning, it is never wrong to add up half an hour in any meeting estimated time for everyone to arrive. To elaborate, if you are about to meet one of your Korean friends at 7 P.M. for dinner […]

Movies to Watch When Corona Crisis is Over

Woo Joo Min Coronavirus COVID-19 made many people and business in difficulties and one of them is the film industry. I myself is a big movie fan so I’m bit struggling with the situation which every fine new movies are postponed and there is nothing to watch at theater even if I use the whole […]

Korean Narrative: 1 ‘ggang’ per day

Su Un Taeh Kim Have you ever heard someone say they need to watch ‘ggang’ or saw someone laughing watching one of those ‘ggang’ videos and its comments? In case the term is not clear, the Korean word ‘ggang’ means guts. To be clear, the guts for courage not digestion. ‘1 ggang per day’ refers […]

Three Well-known Perfumes

Hajon Lee Perfume has always been an essential part of people and have always become more important during summer days. As you may not know or already know, Korea’s summer is extremely hot and humid. Even after you take a shower, and step outside, you are covered in sweat with water trickling down your arm. […]

Korean Narrative: ‘Dang Dang Dog’ a Canine with 2,000 Years of Korean History

Su Un Taeh Kim As adorable puppies tend to bring out the brightest expressions with a cute essence among ourselves, they tend to be called in different variations among peoples, and culture. In Korea, dogs are usually called ‘gangajie’(강아지) or ‘mungmunge’(멍멍이), but nowadays they are also called ‘dangdange’(댕댕). A lot can be interpreted with the […]

The Binge-watcher’s Guide to the Netflix

Woo Joo Min COVID-19 stopped everything and also made people stay home. Some said only two industry went better post outbreak which is OTT services and mask industry. Netflix and amazon started to provide lower resolutions on some region due to increased traffic. In Korea Netflix is popular like they never did. TV shows and […]

Isolation during Pandemic

Seung Hyun Nam During times of pandemic, when quarantine lives are something that must be done to strive through this crisis, University students like us cannot help but to bump on obstacles. To elaborate, offline classes make foreign exchange students somewhat hard to follow up the main classes. Language is one of the major problems: […]