MuteHouse x Chincha Skate Deck Giveaway!
Design duo MuteHouse have just arrived in Seoul and are celebrating with a MuteHouse skate deck giveaway. Two of each deck design from the most recent pressing have also made it to Korea and are ready to be thrashed on (or hung on a wall). This is the first time the limited edition decks, which...
Looking Back: Chincha’s 2012
This year has been immense! This is a list our favourite events, moments and articles from the last 12 months. We started 2012 off with a bang, reviewing the Crystal Castles and Justice gig at Seoul Electronic Music Festival before settling down to hibernate as much as possible throughout freezing JANUARY. In FEBRUARY it was all about...
Chinchagram: looking up
Another month has passed and another round of amazing #chinchagram photos have been enjoyed. November got cold in a hurry, but that didn’t stop everyone from taking their mittens off long enough to snap a shot for the November “looking up” themed Chinchagram photo contest in Instagram. There were tons of excellent submissions, but this...
Chincha Garage Photobooth!
We put up a bunch of unedited photobooth shots on our Facebook page (don’t forget to like us, please) but couldn’t resist choosing our favourites to preserve forever in an article. See all the pictures from the Aweh Block Party here. Photos by Tor.
BLOCK PARTY
As part of the inaugural Zandari Festa in Hongdae, the international “casual creative” website AWEH is throwing a block party and has asked Chincha along for the ride. Loose Union, Oh! Records and a bundle of other cool cultural collectives in Seoul are also involved, meaning this joint party is going to be MASSIVE. Zandari...
365 Days of Chincha
We’re celebrating Chincha’s first birthday today and are currently in a food coma from too much galbi meat and Baskin Robbins ice cream cake. If we were sober we would be taking this time to tell you what a fabulous and wonderful time we have had in the last year and to thank you for...
Seoul’s Walls and Doors
Every day I walk by a brick wall in my neighborhood and every day I think, “this is art”. This art is simply someone’s terrible attempt at curb appeal for a coffee machine which mistakenly, yet perfectly matched the wall behind it. I had to photograph it so its beauty could be shared. I noticed more walls...
