S. Korean Girl Removes Makeup After 2 Years: Stunning Realization Ensues

Did you know you can have "makeup" permanently tattooed onto your skin to avoid the annoying habit of taking it off every night before you go to bed? No one told 20-year-old Dal-mi Bae, who has re…

South Korean Soldiers Strip to Train in Snow and Ice

American marines are known for their stamina "from the halls of Montezuma to the shores of Tripoli.” Surely most of us in our right minds, however, would agree that stripping to perform military …

South Korean Prison to Implement Robot Guards

A jail in Pohang, which lies on the east coast of South Korea, dropped 1 billion won (about $886,000) to implement a new security measure that soon will replace live guards with robots. Thankf…

South Korean Company Turns Human Ashes into Decorative Beads

Forget the urn, or, if you're a Lebowski lover, a coffee can, because South Koreans have come up with a novel, albeit rather odd way to keep your loved ones' remains close to you. Due, in part…

South Korean Jets Grounded: Time for College Exams

It’s pass or bust in an intense and highly pressurized vigil of silence and prayer for the South Korean nation as teenagers take entrance exams for the country’s top universities. . More tha…

Expectant Korean Mothers and the Number 111111

What’s in a number? Apparently the answer is just about everything auspicious when it’s a special binary day like November 11, 2011, or 111111. The date was such a momentous occasion that e…

Korean “Simpsons” Cosplay Is Utterly Terrifying

The Japanese love cosplay, and in most instances they're pretty awesome at it. The Koreans, however, seem to have missed the mark a bit with their "Simpsons" cosplay. I'm not quite sure if it's…

South Korean Farmer Gets Rich by Massaging Fish

In many respects, Han Sang Hun is a typical South Korean farmer. He works hard; he sows and he reaps. But he doesn’t raise crops. Hun raises sturgeon, and has discovered a way to feel when the fi…

English Student Lengthens Tongue to Speak Korean Better

Although a rose by any other name is and always will be still a rose, learning how to to say the word, rose in other languages can be difficult.   One student of the Korean language, Rh…

Best Wedding Photo Ever…Or Is It?

Every couple wants memorable pictures on their big day, the problem is that most of them turn out to be pretty ordinary.  Beautiful and memorable, yes, but ordinary.  That is until Korean couple…

Skyscraper Shaken by Vigorous Tae Bo Workout in Seoul

A group of well-meaning recreation enthusiasts in Seoul inadvertently caused the upper floors of a 39-story building to shake, resulting in a mass evacuation. Set to the tunes of pop group Snap…

A Man Who Sits Down To Pee Smiles Brightly

Fifty four year old Hyun Soo Kim, a South Korean town leader, goes on the record about the benefits men can receive when they sit down to pee. Kim is not the first man to pee sitting down, but he mig…

The Korean Mud Festival: Unexpected Fun and Frolic

The old saying about one man’s food being another’s poison can also apply to attitudes about play. One person’s idea of having fun might not coincide with those of another, but in South Korea ha…

Kibot: KT Corporation’s Babysitting Robot

Although robots have infiltrated our daily lives in many positive ways, part babysitter, part teacher appears to be a new role. A Korean telecom company, KT Corporation, has invented a robot named Kib…