An Interview with Galaxy Express
Just ahead of critically-acclaimed South Korean rockers Galaxy Express’ largest international tour, we caught them on their home turf to chat about rock star dreams, their lack of technological knowledge, and playing at weird festivals in Korea. Chincha: How did you guys meet? Jonghyun Park(Guitar/Vocals): Heekwon Kim (Drums) and I went to the same middle...
Surfing Near North Korea: The 38th Parallel Project
Surfing isn’t a sport that many associate with South Korea, although there is a small but thriving community of wave-chasers who live here. One of these is New Zealander Shannon Aston, a photographer currently living in Seoul. Shannon has documented the beaches around the 38th Parallel, the line that divides North and South Korea, in a...
IISE: Mixing Traditional Korea with Urban Street Style
The designers behind international fashion accessories brand IISE, meaning ‘second generation’, are Korean American brothers TK and Kevin Kim. Having documented the unique experience of creating their newest collection on their social media networks, much well-deserved hype has built around IISE in the last few months. We sat down with the two to chat about...
(b)racket: Capturing South Korea’s Art Scene in Print
Greg Laychak, Chris Cote, and Jess Hinshaw are the founders of [b]racket, a monthly print magazine covering various artists and their work in South Korea. The magazine is currently mainly distributed in Daegu but the aim is to make it widely available in the rest of Korea soon. We chatted to one third of the...
A Shot of Soju With: Semipermanent’s Erik & Tiffany
We started to film some of our Shot of Soju interviews and couldn’t be happier to launch this new project by chatting to the Jay-Z & Beyoncé of the Seoul expat community: Erik Moynihan and Tiffany Needham. They’re known for being the TV hosts of kick-ass Arirang documentary series, Semipermanent Seoul, and for being co-owners of...
A Shot of Soju With: Multi Seoul
Being one of the most prominent underground party promoters in the city, Multi Seoul is certainly no stranger to Chincha. We’ve featured several of their parties, mentioned their events on our weekly event posts, reviewed the Cakeshop club opening, and they joined us for the AWEH Block Party. These boys are constantly cooking up a...
Black Asteroid Hits Seoul
Techno fans! Our friends over at Less n Less are bringing Black Asteroid – who began his career in music as a sound designer for Prince – to Quadro this Thursday night. The NY DJ started crafting his style of techno in early 2011 with the release of his debut ‘The Engine EP’, which “has...
A Shot of Soju With: Model Monika Rofler
The streets of Seoul city are Monika Rofler’s personal catwalk. Before learning how to say hello in Korean, discovering the smell of kimchi, or what the heck soju even was, Monika fled to Korea based merely on a strong gut feeling. She was offered a modeling contract and after living in multiple international cities, she...
