OK, at first glance it ain’t so bad. Situated Only 12km from Pyongyang’s city center, Mangyongdae is a place for thrill-seeking North Koreans to come to and unwind after a hard week of slave labor, ...
Campers and counselors at Korean Culture Camp in St. Paul, Minnesota, start the day by chanting “hello” in Korean. After a brief group session, campers are off to a day of activities from drumming and ...
As a K-drama tragic I have long wondered what qualities it has that make me marvel so. K-drama and K-pop are the clearest manifestations of the Korean cultural wave sweeping the world, but it also ...
Who said North Korea wasn’t a fun place? The totalitarian state opened a brand new water park this week in an apparent attempt to convince the world, along with its own citizens, that life in a nation ...
Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Joan Vos MacDonald is a New York-based writer who covers Korean media. Love k-pop but wish you had a better idea of what those ...
The theme of this week’s episode of “Idol Room” was “Hello, Foreign Idols”! On April 16, NCT Dream’s Renjun and Chenle, PENTAGON’s Yuto and Yan An, Samuel, JBJ95’s Kenta, (G)I-DLE’s Yuqi, Shuhua, and ...
No matter how many blogs I manage to write about North Korea before I die, I’ll never be able to hammer home just how much fun it is. And I say that even though I was once held ransom there, and on ...