Nexus between the Tokyo Olympics, Coronavirus, and Politics
The COVID-19 pandemic has been making global headlines. Also commonly referred to as the coronavirus, the rapid spread of this newly identified virus has been […]
South Korea Telegram Case & Gaps in the Legal System
South Korea has, once again, been hit by a massive sex-related criminal scandal. In 2018, it was the spy-cam (molka) issue which exploded. In 2019, […]
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 […]
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 […]