Gwanghwamun is one of Seoul’s key office districts, home to the Seoul Government Complex, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the U.S. Embassy, and numerous large and small company offices. Consequently, the area is bustling with office workers, especially during lunchtime. In Gwanghwamun, you can easily find popular bakeries such as Paris Baguette and Tous Les Jours. Tous Les Jours is ...
Scholarship students dispatched by the U.S. Department of State are staying with host families in Korea. As I am responsible for the program, I often have to visit the students’ neighborhoods. Many students from the U.S. experience Korea’s harsh seasonal changes and winter weather, often falling ill. When this happens, I frequently accompany them to the hospital. When a student ...
Seoul is home to many university. campuses. In the southwestern part of the city, in Dongjak-gu, you will find “Soongsil University.” This is a four-year private comprehensive university and a Christian mission school. Founded in the 1890s as the first university in Korea, it voluntarily closed its doors in Pyongyang in 1938 to resist the Japanese government’s forced Shinto worship. ...
These days, finding a Starbucks store in Seoul is very easy. Since the first Starbucks opened in front of Ewha Womans University, the chain has rapidly expanded. Particularly, the Gwanghwamun area of Seoul is known worldwide for having the highest concentration of Starbucks stores within a 1 km radius. “Starbucks Near Soongsil University in Seoul” In the southwest of Seoul, ...
The aircraft departing from Kansai Airport fortunately arrived safely at Incheon Airport. Upon arrival at Incheon Airport, a noticeable chill was in the air. While the average daytime temperature in Japan ranged from 28 to 30 degrees Celsius, Incheon Airport was around 20 degrees Celsius. Granted, there was a time difference, departing during the day from Kansai Airport and arriving ...
Living in the bustling modern society, encountering pure literary works is not easy. During middle and high school years, exposure to pure literature works is natural for educational purposes. However, as adults, finding time to engage with pure literary works becomes challenging. At some point, reading novels starts to feel like a “luxury” due to time constraints. Nevertheless, by chance, ...
Kim Nando was once a hugely popular author whose best-selling books, “To be sick is to be young” and “To be shaken a thousand times is to become an adult.” He was welcomed by the public because his books fit the “healing” concept that boomed in the 2010s. Nando Kim is a professor at Seoul National University’s Department of Consumer ...
Sun Dae-in is known as a leading real estate bull. In 2013, when his book “Crazy Real Estate” was published, he used all kinds of different data to predict that real estate would crash, but in the end, real estate prices continued to rise. The upward trend in real estate continued until 2022, after the pandemic, but recently, the U.S. ...
Park Ji-sung, who played a prominent role in Korean football for a long time, created various viral moments. One interview from a documentary video became a topic of discussion, and the scene where he performed a walking celebration after scoring a goal against Japan is still vivid in many people’s memories. The “Ah… This Isn’t Manchester United” meme, which gained ...
In football matches, there are special celebrations used to express joy after scoring a goal, and one particularly well-known celebration is Park Ji-sung’s “Walking Celebration” that left a strong impression and is still remembered to this day from the 2010 national team match. “Park Ji-sung’s ‘Walking Celebration’ in 2010” Among Park Ji-sung’s celebrations, one of the most well-known is the ...
South Korea and Japan are often referred to as “close yet distant countries.” Geographically close and sharing cultural similarities, they can also feel psychologically distant from each other. In that sense, one might consider South Korea and Japan to be countries that are truly close yet distant. Author “Hanmin” delves into the comparison of these two close yet distant countries ...
Hosaka Yuji is currently serving as a professor at. Sejong University’s College of Ocean Humanities. He graduated from the University of Tokyo and. completed his master’s and doctoral degrees at Korea’s Korea University. In 2003, he naturalized as a citizen of the Republic of Korea. He is now well known as an expert in Korean-Japanese relations. Despite being Japanese, Hosaka ...