Sweet potato vs. lemon-lime soda

I have no idea what idiomatic phrases or colloquial expressions are commonly used in Korean, much less slang.

On reading Han Kang

When I read The White Book, I felt a kind of desolation. It wasn’t agony like Human Acts, but a quiet, persistent sadness.

After more than a year of attending advanced Korean classes and regularly writing and reviewing 500-800 character essays with my … More

Confession time. I tend to get defensive when people ask me if I’m learning Korean because of K-pop. That’s because … More

In all honesty, I never liked setting personal goals because why bother when there’s good chance that I’ll just fail … More

It’s been a few years now since I stopped being excited about my birthday. Every year, the weight of my … More

It’s so strange to realize that 성균관 유생들의 나날 was one of the first Korean novels I ever bought, at … More

So after many months of not really studying Korean (despite what it looks like on my blog, I rarely pick up … More

Jeannie asked: Omg why did you change your URL? Astute readers of this blog might’ve noticed that my URL is no … More