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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Is Korean food going foreign?
Seoul is a city that is in a fascinating tension with itself. At 24 million people in the greater...
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...
Are Korean laws keeping the hummus out of Seoul?
Wealthy Middle Eastern tourists traveling to Seoul are on the rise. But they face one particular challenge once they...
Where is the Korean Trevor Noah? Explaining the lack of political satire in South Korea
Why does South Korea lack a political satirist like Trevor Noah on its comedy scene when comedy shows and...
A$AP Rocky is doomed to Swedish meatballs. Thankfully he’s well connected
It could happen to anyone. You, me, that cafeteria lady who used to give you extra fries. Any one...