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Both in South Korea and the United Kingdom, school is a massive part of every child’s life. When a twelve-year-old British student visited the SK hagwon I worked in, the children started chatting about their different…
Korean cuisine is spicy, salty and flavoursome- that’s why we love it so much! But hot stews and chili marinates often leave us craving something sugary and refreshing. It’s just as well that there’s a variety…
Gone are the days of the hesitant individual sending out an online appeal before performing a ditty, in a modest troupe, to a non-existent audience. October 2012 has seen the UK’s largest and most successful K-pop…
Be-Being’s Yi-myun-gong-jak Londoners have been spoilt by Korean music and performance this year, and it wasn’t just about K-pop. A definite highlight was the enchanting and unique masque music performance…
This is it… for whatever reasons, you’ve decided to take the plunge and move to Korea. You may have a six-month or one-year teaching contract, you may be expecting to stay for a lot longer than this, or may just want…
The success and popularity of modern K-Horror is no accident. There’s a stylish uniqueness, filmic intelligence, violent intensity and genuine chilling-ness that come with the genre. So if you’re in the mood…
The Korean Cultural Centre’s current exhibition is arguably it’s most intriguing. Rather than the usual exhibition format of original artworks, the kokdu (Romanised from 꼭두) exhibition displays museum…
As the K-food fad continues, Londoners are increasingly likely to have tried traditional Korean food, and visited at least one of the now many Korean restaurants in London. What may have passed them by is the surge of…
