Couple Story: Matching For Love in South Korea
Wearing the same clothes as your partner is a trend embraced by some couples in South Korea. It always raises a slight smile – or even a smirk – from people witnessing the phenomenon for the first time. Opinions on it are usually divided, with some people seeing symbiotic style as being immensely cute while...
Dear Korea
Jen Lee is a Korean American living and drawing in Seoul. She creates amusing, well-illustrated comics for her blog Dear Korea, randomly themed to reflect things like cultural differences, her personal life and seasonal changes in the country. With 72 comics under her belt and still going strong, we got in touch with Jen to find...
Farsickness
“Everyone makes mistakes when travelling or learns how to do things more easily, so I feel like that’s the purpose of blogs – to tell your story but then tell your readers how they could do it better than you did.” Amanda Slavinsky, a travel blogger living and working in Korea, nailed the point of...
Kimchi Tacos
As an avid blogger, photographer and vegan cook, Claire Harris’ site Kimchi Tacos covers these interests and more in a fun, diary-style record of her life. Although Claire’s blog is worth introducing in itself, the main reason we chose to do so this week is because Claire has recently joined Team Chincha as our resident...
TalkToMeInKorean
Talk To Me In Korean (TTMIK) is a website that was set up to help people all over the world learn Korean in a simple and easy manner. Through the use of podcasts, downloadable PDFs and weekly vocabulary lists, the website makes learning Korean easy and fun. TTMIK have different levels as part of a...
AKA Mag
Coming across a website as visually pleasing as All Korean Arts is like finding something precious in a bowl of beondegi. A veritable treasure trove of art, fashion, design, videography and photography – all curated from Korean creators – AKA’s focused and informative blog posts are pleasurable to view and easy to digest. We got...
The Wanderlust Project
The Wanderlust Project is an addictive read, mostly because its author, Sheryll, is such a personable writer with an awesome eye for photography. Sheryll has been blogging about her travels for around two years, and has recently taken a Korean twist with her website after moving to Yongin, slightly south of Seoul about 4 months...
Korea Gig Guide
Our Blog of the Week series has taken a minor hiatus lately, but only because we’ve been so busy interviewing the best bloggers in Korea for upcoming posts. To restart the series we asked music journalist and Korea Gig Guide blogger Shawn Despres, also a writer for Jeju Weekly, The Japan Times and Fujirock.com, some...
