Survive & Thrive in Korea
Much like in the music Industry here in Korea for the longest time seeing a black face happened so rarely that unicorns seemed to be more real than a black performer in K-pop. That’s slowly changing. More and more black voices find expression through K-pop and now, thankfully, the same can be said for black […]
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Over the past several weeks thousands protest South Korean President Park Geun-hye. The people have been taking to the streets of Seoul in greater and greater numbers to demonstrate against Korea’s first woman President. She has put up a stonewall of resistance against the calls for her resignation. The controversy exploded when it was uncovered […]
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Recently, I wrote about comics in Korea. Comic books have grown into a multi billion dollar industry spawning movies that bring in the big bucks. But as any comic book lover knows: it all starts at the source. Without the initial creativity from writers and artists those movies the world love would not exist. To […]
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Once again fall descends upon us and all hollows eve rolls around to everyone’s delight. Halloween in Korea may have started off as some obscure throw away fiasco that a few daring Koreans and a truckload of Westerners devised years ago, but it has since transformed into an all out bash of thousands indulging in […]
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Innisfree It’s Real Squeze Mask One of the first things you notice when living in Korea is the overwhelming abundance of health and beauty product marketing. You see it on TV, on billboards, on buses, on advertising signs in the subway tunnels, on posters and flyers, and in movie theaters during the previews. It’s everywhere. […]
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SKRT, otherwise known as skirt, is an new (ish) hot spot in Itaewon backed by the underground hipsters known as Fake Virgin. They specialize in presenting cutting edge artists such as Darkside, Bondax, Com Truise, Moonboots, Chvches, Tycho, Bonobo, FKA Twigs, and Grimes to Seoul’s thirsty audience. SKRT serves as a performance art space for […]
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