Racism in India: Why are Northeast Indians Discriminated Against?
Hornbill Festival, Nagaland / photo by Guneet Narula via Outlook Traveller. Recently in India, the brutal rape of a Dalit woman in the village of […]
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K-pop and Black Lives Matter: A Movement by the Fans or the Famous?
BTS’s chart dominance and various K-pop groups’ increasing visits to American talk shows have raised K-pop’s visibility in US media. Even so, many still see […]
[Spotlight Interview] “I want to live a SEXY life.” Sexy Life 101 with Byung-hyun Lee (2) Fuels for Passion
In the first part of the interview, we mainly focused on Byung-hyun Lee’s current work and explored the new concept of ‘sharing economy’ in modern […]
[Spotlight Interview] “I want to live a SEXY life.” Sexy Life 101 with Byung-hyun Lee (1) Work Adventures
Sports player, President, K-pop star, scientist, lawyer and now Youtuber. We seem to have lost a long list of dreams that we used to have […]
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 […]
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 […]