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...
[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...
[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...
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...
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...
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...
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...