It’s that time of year when the focus is all on the family, and it’s YOUR job to find activities to do together. Whether the gathering lasts a few days or a few weeks, there are more than enough options for awesome family friendly K-movies and K-Dramas that you can watch together. All the K-Dramas…
2021 has been another banner year for Korean American writing with many standout novels, memoirs, and short story collections put out by both major and independent publishers, many of them appearing on ‘best of the year’ lists and one, Grace Cho’s Tastes Like War, becoming a finalist for the National Book Award. This is not…
Whether you live far away from Korean markets or simply crave some new Korean foods selected by an expert, Seoulbox promises to come to the rescue by shipping a box of goodies straight from Korea to your door! Since I grew up in Korea, I was curious to check out what kind of merchandise was…
Sometime in the 1990s, Chinese journalists coined the word “hallyu” to describe the wave of Korean pop culture and entertainment that was gaining popularity outside of Korea. Almost thirty years later in 2021, hallyu along with 25 other Korean words, have officially found their way into the Oxford English Dictionary, the reference book that is…
What are Korean perms and why are they so popular? If you are like me and enjoy watching Korean dramas, you’ve probably noticed the long gorgeous hair of the female actresses. They’ve got such pretty hair. Yes, I know they have personal hairstylists who work on the hair for hours before a shoot but wouldn’t…
I know it is not even Thanksgiving yet, but for me, now is the time to start thinking about Christmas gifts for my family, an increasingly challenging task. There was once a time I could dazzle my children with some Thomas the Train pieces or Disney princess accessories, but every year it gets harder to…
Hometown Cha-Cha-Cha has cha cha cha’d its way to being my #1 pick this year for ‘K-Drama that will change your life for the better’. This, my friends, was therapy for a therapist. It came at a time when the world (including myself) was watching Squid Game. While Squid Game portrayed a dystopian society, Hometown Cha-Cha-Cha…
Long before the creation of Koreatown in LA, SF or NYC, there was Pachappa Camp in Riverside, CA, a settlement of Korean Americans that dates back to 1904. There are many strange mysteries about this little known town but perhaps strangest of all is that it was forgotten for so long. A new exhibit in…
Few things can make your eyes pop like long, thick lashes. I’ve tried false eyelashes in the past to achieve this look but ultimately gave up because I could never get the finicky glue application right. When Glamnetic came across my social media feed, it caught my attention because instead of glue, they utilize the…
Remembering my mother and our long journey together. I’ve often likened my relationship with my mother to a marathon. I am a serious runner. I was not an athlete in high school. I ran my first 5K in 2009 in order to keep the trains in my head running right. I’ve run five marathons in…