Korean culture

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Silicone and the City: Is Life In Plastic Fantastic?

It seems that one can’t throw a rock into the dense proverbial forest that is K-entertainment without hitting something — or more accurately, someone — ...

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Korean Language Through K-pop 101: Assa!

By now, most of our readers will have heard PSY‘s follow-up effort to the smash hit that was “Gangnam Style,” the slightly less awesome and ...

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Calm Down, Hyori — South Korea Isn’t Banning Miniskirts

As North Korea steadily ratchets up its bombastic rhetoric and slowly pushes the Korean peninsula towards the brink of what could rapidly turn into a ...

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Korean Culture Through K-pop 102: Korean Nationalism Uncovered

We here at Seoulbeats have talked on occasion (and sometimes at length) about Korean nationalism: a perhaps unique brand of ethno-nationalist feeling that, despite their ...

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Korean Through K-pop 101: The Bean Paste Girl

If you have read any of the more analytical pieces done by Western journalists on Psy‘s viral success “Gangnam Style,” you may have come across ...

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Korean Culture Through K-pop 102: Dynamic Korea

Thanks to Psy, you’d be hard-pressed to find a K-pop fan (or really, any human being with a pulse) who hasn’t heard the word “Gangnam” — ...

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Korean Culture Through K-pop 102: Let’s Talk About Sex

At this point, it is probably fair to say that everybody who is at least somewhat attuned to the K-popiverse has seen the infamous picture ...

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The Good Sans the Bad and the Ugly: October

First things first: in October, Koreans celebrated Hangeul Day (the 566th, to be more precise) and from the bottom of my heart, thanks to King ...

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The Good sans the Bad and the Ugly: September

Welcome to another article where we glance over the good things that have happened in South Korea as of late. Since we spend a great ...

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Korean Culture Through K-pop 102: Cooking Cooking!

A couple of months ago, we here at Seoulbeats shared our favorite Korean foods in a Roundtable discussion.  But do average Koreans really eat the ...

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