Exam season in Korea can be intense. Whether it’s endless lecture slides, group presentations, or late-night library sessions, your brain often ends up feeling like a sponge, squeezed dry. While studying is important, what many students forget is this: your brain needs time to recover, too. During one particularly overwhelming exam week, I realized something […]
Don’t Break Your Routine During Summer Break
June 26, 2025 by Leave a Comment
Written by: Hahyeon(Summer) Kim The moment finals end and summer break begins, it’s tempting to toss your planner aside and fall headfirst into “do-nothing” mode. And honestly? That rest is well-deserved. But here’s the thing when summer stretches into three unstructured months, it’s easy to lose your rhythm without realizing it. You wake up later, […]
Simple Self-Care
May 29, 2025 by Leave a Comment
Written by: Hahyeon(Summer) Kim In Korea, 힐링 (healing) has become more than a trend—it’s a lifestyle. Self-care is all about looking after your well-being by adding small but meaningful habits into your daily routine. Now that midterms are over, it’s the perfect time to slow down and recharge. Here are a few of my favorite […]
Rethinking your morning cup of coffee
May 8, 2025 by Leave a Comment
by Yeounsu Koh To all the coffee lovers out there, do you drink it for the caffeine or the taste? I’ve always found myself torn between the two. Some mornings, it’s the rich bitterness of an Americano that wakes me up. Other times, I reach for it just to survive back-to-back lectures or late-night assignments. […]
Midterm Madness
April 15, 2025 by Leave a Comment
Written by: Hahyeon(Summer) Kim As if our plates aren’t full enough, midterm season is just around the corner. In about a week or two, we’ll be graded—yet again. The thought of getting a bad or even mediocre grade already stresses me out. The stress I’m feeling right now could go either way: push me […]
Save your Lungs from the”Fine Dust” fog!
November 20, 2018 by Leave a Comment
Park Jeonghun At 8:00am, you wake up, and get out of your house to start your day. But when you look up to the morning sky, it looks as if it is foggy. As you walk into the “fog”, you start to have a soar throat. When you look up the weather forecast, it says […]
Health problems while staying in Korea
November 6, 2018 by Leave a Comment
Sooin Moon Living in a foreign country can be tough. New people, new foods, new languages and new cultures can shock your bodies, making you sick during your short time here. There are so many cases that can hurt you or make you sick. One of the most frequently seen happening would be being sick […]
Hiking to Gwanaksan Mountain
October 10, 2018 by Leave a Comment
Kamari Koonce Sometimes living in a city such as Seoul is overwhelming because of how small it is compared to the number of people that actually live here. To put this into perspective, currently over 9 million people live in Seoul versus 8.5 million people in New York, but Seoul is actually 75 square miles […]
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