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Korean blind dating. Awful. Painful. Haven't quite figured it out yet. I'm going out on a limb here to present my lack of confidence personal experience on the subject. I hope you'll forgive me for being frank. 소개팅 is just about as comfortable as a root canal. It's a standard game - single guy and single girl meet up in a safe, well-populated environment in hopes of finding a relationship. But it wouldn't be Korea without a twist. Let's talk about the third wheel. This person is a mutual friend that hooks the two people up. Perhaps this person might meet both people together at a cafe - and all three might sit down for a cup of coffee. The friend will try to stimulate conversation and sort of acts as a temporary match-maker. If... Show more

We started making more homework videos so that more people can participate in them and make their own videos, but we didn't expect that we would get so many response videos in such a short time! Thank you very much everyone for your participation and all the amazing videos! And if you haven't participated in making videos in response to our "Answer Me in Korean" videos, please feel free to make a video response to any of the existing videos or to our future videos as well! Thank you everyone!!! Keep on practicing!! We're looking forward to more videos!!! Thank you all once again!

Congratulate Daniel Rhodes for being the first runner-up for our Mail Bag Contest #2! Daniel lives in Korea and teaches English as a second language.  He's very enthusiastic about learning the language and increasing his cultural knowledge.  Read Daniel's great story he sent us: "I started to learn Korean after I moved to Daegu, South Korea to teach ESL in September 2004.  I immediately felt an overwhelming desire to connect with the Korean people and to  have a more intimate understanding of Korean culture to avoid feeling like an outsider.  I, therefore, asked a friend to teach me how to read Hangul and I started to study basic Korean grammar. Now, after living in Korea for over four years, and learning more and more Korean... Show more

Before I say anything else: over on KoME we had the chance to interview the very successful, and my personal favourite, hiphop trio Epik High. We asked them about their upcoming album Map The Soul, their musical influences, and they even gave us their opinions on issues such as censorship in the Korean music industry (something I wrote about last year right here), and music in the digital era. You can check out the interview here. They had plenty to say! So. 서태지 is on a mission to foil my plans every Wednesday. The MV for Juliet still isn't out yet (okay, so I have no idea when it's even supposed to be released, but considering how long the single has been out now I just assumed the MV would be out already too). But there is a 15... Show more

김치. Delicious. Bold. Distinct. (see also: Smelly. Spicy. Scary) It's true, not everyone likes kimchi. Then again, not everyone likes soju. Or chocolate for that matter. If you detest kimchi, I weep for you. Moving on. Yes, I'm being biased. Of course I am. I frakin love kimchi. It's comfort food. It goes with any dish. It smells good. It's dynamic. It's essential. What was my life before kimchi? We don't speak of that time... My history with kimchi is a sad one. We got off on the wrong foot - kimchi and I. See, when I got in trouble as a small boy, my father used to say to me, "You're in deep kimchi now, mister". Well, it didn't take much for me to put two and two together to assume that kimchi was something bad (in this case, a... Show more