Where Have All the Soju Tents Gone? Part 2
Send us a text Our 300th episode! Pojangmacha didn’t disappear by accident. In Part 2 of Where Have All the Soju Tents Gone, Joe and Shawn trace how S...
Where Have All the Soju Tents Gone? Part 1
Send us a text There is no Waffle House in Korea. For decades, the pojangmacha was the last line of defense against going home hungry, broke, or black...
Christmas Nightmares 2: Holiday Crimes
Send us a text Christmas is often framed as a moment of peace, forgiveness, and reflection. But in Korean history, Christmas Eve has repeatedly been c...
Christmas Nightmares 1: Darkest Holiday Stories
Send us a text Christmas is supposed to be a time of warmth, safety, and reunion. But history doesn’t always cooperate. In Part 1 of our two-part Chri...
K-Hacked: How Coupang Exposed Korea’s Cybersecurity Mess
Send us a text Shawn and Joe dig into Korea’s crumbling cybersecurity myth and the Coupang leak that exposed almost every user in the country. Korea s...
Weird Tours
Send us a text Shawn and Joe trade war stories from the front lines of Seoul’s tour scene. Influencers melting down in costume, drunk guests apologizi...
Short: The Expat Quest for Thanksgiving
Send us a text This is a blog post I (Joe) wrote on ZenKimchi.com in 2012 about the extreme lengths expats in Korea would go to for creating Thanksgiv...
The Secret Military Club That Hijacked Korea
Send us a text Korea’s modern history has plenty of villains, but Hanahoe might be the most quietly terrifying. This was the private club of military ...
Moving Graves
Send us a text Special Guest: Ron Chang Korean graves do not always stay where you put them. In this episode, Ron Chang joins us to talk about what it...
The West Comes Knocking | The Fall of Joseon, part 18 (1791-1801)
Send us a text When a Dutch sailor shipwrecked on Jeju in 1627, he thought he’d been captured by cannibals. Instead, he became Korea’s first Westerner...