Dear loyal Asia Pundits readers and writers, Happy New Year 2013! Thank you for all the support you’ve given us over the past year! We are pleased to announce that Asia Pundits will soon be back to our regularly scheduled program of bringing you new stories of the real from Asia – each week. Since [...]
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Rock and roll. If a registered alien in Korea is not careful rock and roll can become alien to them. The country is inundated with vulgar K-pop. It is even being exported out of the country. It is canned, unoriginal music that is better off the CD than live. Last weekend’s Jisan Valley Rock [...]
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This post is in no way supposed to be unbiased. I love this band, and you should too. Way back when, Seoul’s expat music scene was amazing. This was back in about 2006-2007 and I was running ROKon Magazine (or recovering from it). ROKon even had a it’s very own “magazine release party” that featured [...]
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Ahhh, yes, let’s address head on the issue of money as a teacher in South Korea. As I have written elsewhere, you usually make about $24,000 a year as an English teacher in South Korea. One of the nice things about that is this leads to to something of a utopia because really there is [...]
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While I’ve written before about what to think about while you’re waiting for your paperwork to go through, think of this post as even more basic than that. This is more for those of you who stumble across this site after a panicky search of the Internet for ways to pay off your student loans. So you’ve [...]
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When I was a little kid, I hated being yelled at for stuff I didn’t do. I’m still that way. The Korean government is on the warpath about pot and I am getting really annoyed that potheads are making it difficult for us who would rather enjoy legal drugs like soju. I know plenty of [...]
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Pretty much by definition, a Korean is Confucian. Confucianism is more a philosophy than a religion, but Koreans are so strict about it that it might as well be a religion. As I’ve said before that because my father acts pretty Confucian at times, I have a gut instinct for Confucian stuff. Well, for those of you [...]
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The first time I ever stepped foot in Olde Stompers Rock Spot must have been around the end of 2006. I had just come back to Korea to begin work at a public school in Northern Seoul. It was the beginning of my second year in Korea. Dakota John, an old high school friend who [...]
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While Seoul is a huge place, with some 13 million people or so, at times as an expat it can seem very very small. If you find yourself hanging out in the area of Seoul known as Haebangchon (HBC) you’ll understand exactly what I’m talking about. Humans are social creatures so we inevitably want to hang [...]
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Living in Seoul as an expat, you quickly forget that just a few miles up the road there is the most fortified border in the world. You’re reminded every once in a while when an air raid siren goes off or you find yourself up north and there is a highway that looks like it was [...]
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