Osaka Rising: Japan’s Most Overlooked City?
by Michael Johnstone • June 18, 2013 • Comment
Tokyo and Kyoto certainly get their fair share of attention from the world. But Osaka has it’s own thing going on, and it’s rather unique.
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The Night I Slept in a Tube: Japanese Capsule Hotels
by Michael Johnstone • June 4, 2013 • Comment
The Japanese are known for efficiency. They pride themselves on it. So when it came to making a hotel as cheap and efficient, Japan found a way to make it surprisingly minimalistic. And shockingly homey.
Read more →Korean Beauty Clones: It’s Not as Bad as You Think
by Michael Johnstone • May 23, 2013 • Comment
Last month a global conversation on the prevalence of plastic surgery in South Korea was started when a Reddit user posted side-by-side images of the Miss Daegu pageant contestants and revealed an eerie set of clone-like faces.
Read more →No Moses Required: The Parting of the Sea on Jin Island
by Michael Johnstone • May 12, 2013 • Comment
One of the most well-known bible stories is that of Moses parting the sea to allow the Jews to escape their Egyptian masters. But there’s an annual sea parting that is much lesser known that proves that you don’t need divine intervention to walk across the ocean floor.
Read more →The Waste Land: Photos from Inside a Ghost Town in Korea’s Capital
by Michael Johnstone • May 6, 2013 • Comment
Seoul, like most large cities, is in a constant state of construction and demolition. Here’s a look inside one of Korea’s ghost towns, an entire neighbourhood marked for destruction.
Read more →No Dancing: Japan’s Anti-Dance Law is Strange, But True
by Michael Johnstone • May 3, 2013 • Comment
It might seem like an old puritanical Calvinist idea, but Japan still holds to a strict law on dancing in public. No need to rub your eyes, you’re really reading that correctly. NO DANCING.
Read more →7 More Images of Random Weirdness in Korea
by Michael Johnstone • April 29, 2013 • Comment
Life in Korea is a never-ending stream of Konglish, cuteness, and random things that make you scratch your head. It’s time for a few more images of random weirdness in the ROK. You don’t have to seek these out when you’re living here, they find their way to you.
Read more →WTF? Superstitions and Unique Ceremonies of Korea
by Katie Fumerton • April 25, 2013 • Comment
I may still do double take of the severed pig’s head that is waiting for me at the peak of a mountain, but I just stop and think sarcastically, of course that’s happening. Why wouldn’t that be happening?
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