With hat tips and congratulations, the 10 Magazine poll asking readers' favorite Korean blogs is over. With that goes an odd sort of voting - only one blog could be chosen as 'the best', and three blogs taking a majority of the vote. Considering there's 'over 300 English blogs on Korea' according to 10 Magazine (I read almost 100 of them myself), that's a bit surprising. There's nothing really a..

I just have to wonder how much these think tanks get paid to publish information that anyone reading the ROK Drop would already know?: A host of mini crises from international sanctions and domestic challenges could trigger instability in North Korea, an influential think tank said. In its report “North Korea under Tightening Sanctions,” the Brussels-based International Crisis Group said..

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Yep, its yellow dust season.  I started feeling what I believe to be the effects of the yellow sand yesterday.  After my throat was feeling a little sore I decided I should check the yellow dust levels (thanks to the reader who originally gave me the link) and found out they were pretty high yesterday, even at ‘hazardous’ levels according to the twitter account.  For those that don’t kn..

It sounds like a parents dream: a chain of hagwon deeply interested in everything parents want."Of course we're a school," Kim Jun Hwa, the founder of English Power Worldwide (EPW) Academy. "EPW was founded on providing exactly what the parents want - nothing more, nothing less. In fact, another meaning of EPW is Everything Parents Want. If they want it, we do it."The popular hagwon chain curren..

It’s BLAQ-T (yeah, that’s what I’m going with) adorableness abound, this time with English titles for your convenience! Where would we be without the outstandingly generous web translators? Forced to learn Korean apparently…I’ll take the subs for now. Credit: ABMSUBS! Original Translation: MBLAQ China Translator: tohojess Timer/Typesetter: tohojess Encoder: yoon [ENGSUB]

I’ve been playing around with ideas on how to keep this blog more consistent. I’m going to start posting a photo essay, together with other newsworthy items every week. The latter will consist of freelance stuff I’m involved with, copywriting snippets and useful tips and tricks on how to make the most out of your camera. Feel free to jot down any comments or feedback on what you’d like t..

Further details of Friday’s seminar at SOAS: Dr. Aino Rinhaug Friday, March 19th, 5pm, room G50 (main building) Dr. Aino Rinhaug, University of Oslo Korean Adoptee Artists: Discourses of Migration, Exile and Transversality Abstract: In view of how the development of large-scale globalisation changes our perception of family structures, nationhood and sense of belonging, my presentation ..