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Alright - it's Friday of a long weekend. Let's be happy and talk about something fun. Let's talk about music and K-pop. Let's talk about ... trot music. Here comes

I've been pushing the "S Korean politics is a five year preview of the US politics," but even I could have never imagined that US politics will follow S Korea's

Western media keeps searching for the "Korean gov't made K-pop" and the "dark side of K-pop" storylines because they don't take K-pop seriously. It's inconceivable that K-pop is popular because

Uh, yes? You are supposed to wear a mask during flu season.https://twitter.com/AbbyJohnson/status/1260606155132416000 Why do so many people delight in being assholes who don't care about other people? If we have

A lot of the confusion about the definition of "K-pop" comes from the failure to realize that the term "K-pop" is not a Korean term. The term "K-pop" emerged as

A bit of a meta-point about Korea watching - As we could see from S Korea's Assembly election, there is a sea change in the people who are forming the

Here's a thread about competent civil service, and the idea that gov't is bad and inefficient. It's about how S Korea handled its public education system amid the pandemic.School year

I promised a Justice Party thread, so here it comes. The peak of the progressive parties in S Korea was back in 2000, when the Democratic Labor Party had 10

Starting a new thread for post-election analysis. Disclosure: I'm about as big a Democratic Party homer for S Korea as they come. And I thought the over-under for the Dems

Been seeing people talking about food shortages here and there, like flour for example. A lot of the issue seems like the "last mile" problem rather than an actual shortage.

S Korea's Assembly elections are on April 15! Let's pick a district that seems interesting from the replies to the QT below.District of the day: Seoul Yongsan-gu. Several requests for

If you want to see some very detailed steps of how an international visitor quarantine is working in S Korea, check out this thread by a Korean Am returning to