Coronavirus panic hits South Korea
It’s all everyone is talking about these days: the coronavirus. How dangerous it could be, how to stop its spread, where to buy more masks, […]
Taking Gender and saying ‘Whatever’ to it: Drag and LGBT+ in South Korea
Like most people with an online streaming subscription and a proclivity for procrastination, my worldview on drag performance and the LGBT+ community has mostly been […]
Smeared in Honey: Egypt’s Modern Day Dictatorship
Smeared in honey to drive flies away from their dictator’s food, was Ancient Egyptians’ subservience to their masters bequeathed upon their descendants producing an increasingly […]
Korean Economic Blues: Can Sticking Together Save us This Time?
I still clearly remember my daily effort to collect discarded papers, even asking my neighbors to share their paper trash. Every week in elementary school, […]
True Tales of Korea’s Foreign Labourers
“The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.” -Rudyard Kipling. Indeed, it is impossible to understand a country if you never […]
Would Education Obsessed Korea Really Cut Elite Schools?
In South Korea, it is not uncommon for elementary students and their parents to obsess over the standardized test grades of children as young […]
The Decade of Acceleration
Senior Editor Joel Petersson Ivre looks back at a decade that promised to deliver humanity to greatness but only delivered fast-food. Although we are leaving […]
Episode 7 – Claiming Koreanness? Adoption and emigration from Korea (with Emily Williams & Sue Jeong)
In the seventh episode of the NOVAsia Podcast, editor Suhena Mehra sits down with Korean-American adoptee Emily Williams and Korean-Canadian Sue Jeong, to discuss […]
It’s all fun and games until China gets hurt: American companies are picking sides
It has been a rocky couple of weeks for American multinational businesses that operate in China. Differences in opinions in American and Chinese markets, and […]
Is Korean food going foreign?
Seoul is a city that is in a fascinating tension with itself. At 24 million people in the greater metropolitan area it is one of […]