Good Books: English Bookstores in Korea
One drawback of living or traveling in Korea is the difficulty of finding books in English. Good bookstores are rare, and if you only know one or two, you are unlikely to find the range of books you would like. Many of us also enjoy browsing in used bookstores. Luckily, there ARE good English bookstores [...]
GRAD SCHOOL, Korea has plenty of great graduate schools to help you keep up those studies.
Words by Aaron Allinson, Graduate of Yonsei University’s GSIS
AACSB-Accredited MBA Programs
To make the most of our time spent abroad, going back to school has become increasingly popular as all-English graduate programs expand here in Korea. For expats a business degree from a recognized university provides a way to beef up resumes before looking [...]
Traditional Oriental Medicine in a Modern World
Today’s harsh competition and the accumulation of vast amounts of knowledge have forced human beings to become progressively more specialized. We now get to know more and more about fewer and fewer things.
The Seol (설) ; Skies of Choseon
2009 January
Words by Robert Neff Artwork by Hyeon-seong Ryu
To this day the first day of the Lunar New Year (Seol, 설) has always been Korea’s most important holiday, but at the end of the Choseon period (the late 1800s) it was largely spent not eating and cooking with family, but in ’battle’ and practicing superstitious [...]
Travel in Korea a Century Ago
During Chuseok, travel in modern Korea is an unbelievable nightmare of traffic jams and irate drivers. But what was it like over a hundred and ten years ago?
