War Remains by Jeffrey Miller: An Accessible Account of the Korean War
By Konrad Kostecki Other features by the reviewer: Losing Katherine: Death of a Korean Girlfriend: Part 1 and Part 2 Turning 30 on the 13th floor of a Korean dorm: Part 1 and Part 2 In his novel, “War...
View ArticleThe Tokyo Game Show 2011: Games and Gals in Costume
Photos and write-up by Kyle McGregor There are those who mark fashion events on their calendars, and those who circle electronic gaming shows. I am of the geeky latter and I mark my calendar in January...
View ArticleCraftworks: Epicurean perhaps, Bohemian, Hell No
By Mizaru Craftworks Brewery and Bistro is located just a little off the thoroughfares dividing Kyungnidan from Haebangchon; the two expanding eat and drink destination areas for foreigners and...
View ArticleRestaurant Pyongyang: Food, Drink and Propaganda in Phnom Penh
By SmurfyStew Writers in Cambodia are relentless in their pursuit of a story. So much so, in fact, that a chain of North Korean restaurants has been covered numerous times, by both bloggers and...
View ArticleLive Review–Rockadelic Night in HodgePodge: Vidulgi OoyoO, Wagwak, On Sparrow...
By Mizaru Editor’s Note: This is a loose-leaf, round the dial, yawp heard round the world on diverse (hopefully) neighborhoods in Seoul. Introduction: In the middle of typing a part 4 of 5 echo- piece...
View ArticleScott Bukatman on “Terminal Identity” and our Contemporary Lifestyle
By Haerin Shin and Angela Becerra Vidergar Editor’s note: This is part one of an interview with Stanford professor and author Scott Bukatman. Four months have gone by since what I’d call Korea’s first...
View ArticleScott Bukatman on the Art of Comics and Comics as Art
By Haerin Shin and Angela Becerra Vidergar Part II Part I can be read here. Introduction This interview was originally part of the previous article on “Terminal Identity and the Contemporary...
View ArticlePhnom Penh Tour by Cyclo: A Beautiful Intrusion
Editor’s note: A slightly modified version of this was published in The Phnom Penh Post By Scott Liam Soper “Without architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.”–Frank Lloyd Wright...
View ArticleThe Phnom Penh Post–7D: Cheapening the Experience of Life Abroad
Mizaru Po Box 1901 Phnom Penh 1200 Cambodia An Open Letter to the Editor(s). “I’m just saying, take courage. That and pretty much that alone is never the incorrect thing to do.” ― John Jeremiah...
View ArticleCan Ye Not Serve God and Mammon? ‘Quo Vadis, Korean Megachurches?’
By Donald Kirk The Yoido Full Gospel Church in Seoul. The growth of megachurches worldwide is a global phenomenon, a mass movement in which thousands of individual churches or parishes each claim more...
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