Will We be Hired? (우리가 취업할 수 있을까?)
지난 1년 동안 교내의 일명 ODAR (Office of Development and Alumni Relations)에서 사무조교로 일하면서 어떤 동문을 학교로 초대할 것인지는 나의 가장 큰 관심사였다. 초대할 동문을 […]
Culture
Move over K-Pop, Korea is Hot to Trot
Becoming an idol star’s fan is not just for teenagers. Parents can have idol biases too. This all started because of an unlikely music genre; […]
The Quest for Perfection : Women and the Beauty Myth
In 1990 Naomi Wolf published “The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty Are Used Against Women” to a polarized reception. The author argued that the […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
What Korea doesn’t know about Indian food
When I first arrived in Korea, I was ready to eat my way through Korea’s diverse cuisine and make room for at least 27,400 different […]