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Mon, July 13, 2020 | 20:50
164 Vietnamese students vanish in South Korea
164 Vietnamese students vanish in South Korea
Police are searching for 164 Vietnamese students enrolled at Incheon National University's Korean language school after they have been unaccounted for 15 days.
2019-12-10 13:41
Japanese skate punk band Green Eyed Monster heads for Seoul
Japanese skate punk band Green Eyed Monster heads for Seoul
Japanese skate punk band Green Eyed Monster is coming to Seoul this weekend for two shows. First the group will play at Club FF on Friday, and then on Saturday at Club Hippytokki.
2019-12-10 10:21
Former Seoul expat spends 1 year in Chinese custody
Former Seoul expat spends 1 year in Chinese custody
It was a year ago yesterday that Michael Spavor left his home in Dandong, China, to catch a flight bound for South Korea. He never made it. Chinese security agents detained him on suspicion of endangering national security, 10 days after Canada arrested Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou at an airport in Vancouver. Spavor, as well as Canadian ex-diplomat Michael Kovrig, has now sp...
2019-12-10 10:18
How Syngman Rhee's success led to Korea's division
How Syngman Rhee's success led to Korea's division
As implied in the title of David P. Fields' book “Foreign Friends: Syngman Rhee, American Exceptionalism, and the Division of Korea,” it offers a new interpretation of one of the most controversial topics in the study of modern Korean history: the division of Korea in 1945. In addition to serving as a biography of Syngman Rhee's life before 1945 and narrating a history of the...
2019-12-03 18:27
RASKB: from pens to podcasts
RASKB: from pens to podcasts
As a 119-year-old organization, the Royal Asiatic Society Korea Branch (RASKB) is understandably not on the technological vanguard. But we're trying. The RASKB, which is keeper of a great deal of information stored in our books, journals and the minds of our members, has teamed up with “The Korea File,” a podcast hosted by Canadian Andre Goulet, to reach new audiences.
2019-12-03 18:11
Sephora lets down customers in Korea with limited product lineup
Sephora lets down customers in Korea with limited product lineup
While Korean cosmetics and beauty products have become essential items on the bathroom shelves of beauty lovers around the world, it is still difficult for darker-skinned women living in Korea to find their shade of foundation here. With the arrival of Sephora, darker-skinned women had expected this to change, but have been left disappointed. Sephora, the world's biggest cosm...
2019-12-03 16:39
Taiwan's No Party for Cao Dong brings party to Seoul's streets
Taiwan's No Party for Cao Dong brings party to Seoul's streets
It's a busy week for music lovers in Seoul, as Seoul Music Festival offers a full schedule of events. One of those is happening this Friday in multiple venues around the Hongik University area in western Seoul. It's not too different from a normal Live Club Day event, with 21 bands performing at eight venues, but this event is a little more global than usual, with visiting ba...
2019-11-26 17:28
New Orleans' Eyehategod coming to Seoul's Mullae metal district
New Orleans' Eyehategod coming to Seoul's Mullae metal district
New Orleans is renowned around the world for its music. As well as jazz, R&B and funk, it is also home to more extreme genres such as punk and metal. Eyehategod (EHG), coming to Korea for the first time this weekend, formed in the Louisiana city in 1988.
2019-11-26 17:21
Naturalized Korean at risk of losing citizenship over bigamy
Naturalized Korean at risk of losing citizenship over bigamy
A naturalized man faces the risk of losing her Korean nationality after his bigamy was discovered.
2019-11-26 17:15
[Joseon Images] Forbidden love in 1890s Busan
[Joseon Images] Forbidden love in 1890s Busan
There is a popular tale, especially in Busan, of a forbidden romance between an Englishman's daughter and a Korean servant at the end of the 19th century. Like many scandalous affairs of the past, there was very little evidence to verify the tale ― only hazy anecdotes of family history. Recently, however, another source has been located ― the gossipy account of an unidentifie...
2019-11-26 11:38
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