Tell the story of your first day of kindergarten. What’s the best meal you’ve ever eaten? Describe the best party or celebration you’ve ever attended. Tell about the first time someone ever paid you for work (first job, chores for a neighbor, babysitting, etc.) and how it made you...
Only, doing my due diligence, I’m sorry to report thattoday I learnedmy experience isn’t at all universal (let alone my nonexistent experience of female spaces). That the initiative stalled, and that as of 2019, many Seoul subway stations still have almost entirely female caregivers in th...
Most South Asian men in Korea, for instance, are laborers, which obviously puts them at a big disadvantage to middle-class White teachers. Also, as one Korean female friend put it to me, while White guys tending to be taller has a great deal to do with their attraction to some Korean ...
A new day is indeed dawning in the Islamic world. In a matter of just a few weeks we shall see where all this is leading. Western media is still euphoric; spouting “democracy for everyone!” while misunderstanding that democracy in other Islamic revolutions has led to places like Iran, an...
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“Thou shalt not spread a false report” is itself a false report (lol) if it is taken to be inherently imperative. Humans lie when they say that they ‘must’ not lie. So what is going on with that? We humans are so crafty. It is deception to claim t...
For non-Korean speakers, what Sunwoo was actually doing there was promoting Earth Day last spring, as well as an environmentally-themed music event she was to perform in. But the only connection whatsoever was the song title. And, perhaps learning fromArirang’smistake three weeks earlier,KTVma...
basically for the first time since they were enacted in 1953. But while the news that the Korean government isactually enforcing its own lawsmight usually be cause for celebration, unfortunately its abortion laws are amongst the most restrictive in the world, only allowing it in the case of he...
5) Menses celebration day established Granted, this news sounds a little strange at first, and theyoung girls themselveslook somewhat less than thrilled about it. But I thinkthis ideadeserves some definite respect: Young girls who started menstruation early cut a big rice cake with representatives...