KMK: Everland
Everland is one of the three big amusement parks in the Seoul metropolitan area.
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Category: Lifestyle
KMK: B-Boy 2008
Several weekends ago my friends and I journeyed to Suwon to take in the International B-Boy competition. The event was held in the Suwon Olympic stadium. They had a small stage outside for performances and a wall of grafitti art, but the main event was held inside the stadium. Teams from around the globe attended […]
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KMK: Conspicuous by Their Presence
Today I spotted an article in the NY Times about the dearth of working black models in the Fashion Industry. However, this just wasn’t another piece commenting on the continuing disappearing faces of color from the catwalks crisis crossing the globe. Nope, this article by Cathy Horyn spotlighted world renowned photographer Steven Meisel and his […]
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KMK: Wild Geese Families
Wild geese just aren’t birds flying together in the big blue beyond. Nope, they’re also the nick name for families in South Korea when the mother and children take off for foreign countries, leaving the fathers behind, so that the children can study in an all English school with native English speaking students. The article […]
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KMK: Seoul Pride
A few weekends ago my friends and I journeyed to the heart of Seoul, or as close as we could get, and participated in the annual Seoul Pride festival. Korea has got nothing on Iran as far as claiming to have no gay people so you can imagine that I really wasn’t expecting much of […]
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KMK: SICAF!
A couple weekends ago I went with my friend Steve to the Seoul International Cartoon Animation Festival. The event was held in a huge convention center with three halls dedicated to showcasing the lastest animation masterpieces from around the world as well as the best animators coming out of Korea’s numerous animation colleges and universities. […]
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