Cycling the Urban Jungle: The Oncheon Stream
Freddie Mercury never made it to Busan. Though I’m sure if he did (ignoring the impossibilities of time travel and necromancy), he’d want to…
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Beyond the DMZ: You Too Can Visit North Korea
The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea: a socialist paradise guided by the hands of the eternal president Kim Il Sung… or an Orwellian state…
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Strays
Cats: The internet is full of them. So, in a vain attempt to pull more traffic to Monkeyboy Goes, I’ve finally stooped to this…….
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K-Pop
With so little time to do anything productive this month, you’d think I’d find something better to do with myself. I could have studied…
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Hoods: Painting In Dongpirang
Korea’s cities can be obnoxiously monotonous at times. And thanks to the country’s fixation with capitalism, everywhere on the southern half of the peninsular…
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Korean Street Food: A Peninsular Culinary Adventure
Korean cuisine is a cornucopia brimming with hot soups, stringy noodles, barbecued meats, unidentified vegetables and lip melting spices. With every pyeong of Korea’s megalithic cities given over to dining, it’s…
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The Weekend Warrior’s Guide To… Busan
“A Weekend Warrior as defined by urbandictionary.com: A person who holds a regular job during the week which restricts their ability to party/go on…
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Bite Me: Misozoonistic Advertising
At what point in the slaughtering process do animals go from sentient beings to cuisine? Is it when they appear in front of us…
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Road Trippin’ Geoje-do
Before spring’s beautiful embrace makes way for the crushing humidity and biblical rains of summer, get yourself some wheels and venture forth to Gyeongsang…
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A Fortress in Jinju
It was late in the autumn of 1592; the gravely outnumbered and perilously outgunned defenders ran out of bullets, cannonballs and arrows to fire…
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