Singapore – More Than Just A Little Red Dot
By Amylia Zainal The humidity hits you the moment you step out of Changi Airport, a stark difference from the coldness of the air-conditioning of […]
Culture
“No Foreigners Allowed”: Discrimination Against Foreigners in South Korea
In 2016, it was reported that a 24-year-old US citizen living in South Korea, Megan Stuckey, was denied entry to a bar simply because she […]
Saigon — The Broken Pearl that Mends
Located in the south of Vietnam, Saigon today has the atmosphere of a typical tropical city. One is likely to be first impressed, rather than […]
Korea’s Girl of Peace Statue
There is nothing comfortable about rape. It is not easy to talk about it, read about it, or remember. Perhaps that is why many still […]
The Echo Chambers of the Internet
“(Technologies such as social media) lets you go off with like-minded people, so you’re not mixing and sharing and understanding other points of view … […]
Venezuela’s Dictatorship?
Of the major oil producing nations in the world, Venezuela appears to be the least able to cope with the price collapse over the last […]
Facing Change: The Americanization of law
It was only a few years ago that Korean law schools were actually four-year undergraduate institutions with a two-year required mentorship at the JRTI – […]
There is an I in Author
The world was a dramatically different place before the advent of the Internet; it is an undeniable fact, an irrefutable catalyst in the narrative of […]
All the Shakespeares
“There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.” – (Hamlet, Act II, Scene II) It is all about interpretation, one thing […]
K-Hip Hop: Searching for authentic Koreanness
Type ‘Korean hip hop’ into Google Search and out comes 3,110,000 results—a subreddit dedicated to the genre, Youtube, 8tracks, and Spotify playlists, blog posts, and […]