Where Have All the Soju Tents Gone? Part 1
Send us Fan Mail There is no Waffle House in Korea. For decades, the pojangmacha was the last line of defense against going home hungry, broke, or blackout drunk. It was cheap, social, messy, and huma...
31 Des 202554min
Christmas Nightmares 2: Holiday Crimes
Send us Fan Mail Christmas is often framed as a moment of peace, forgiveness, and reflection. But in Korean history, Christmas Eve has repeatedly been chosen for violence, punishment, and erasure. In ...
24 Des 202538min
Christmas Nightmares 1: Darkest Holiday Stories
Send us Fan Mail 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 Christmas Nightmares series, we explore some of Kore...
17 Des 202550min
K-Hacked: How Coupang Exposed Korea’s Cybersecurity Mess
Send us Fan Mail Shawn and Joe dig into Korea’s crumbling cybersecurity myth and the Coupang leak that exposed almost every user in the country. Korea sells itself as an IT powerhouse, but behind the ...
10 Des 202555min
Weird Tours
Send us Fan Mail Shawn and Joe trade war stories from the front lines of Seoul’s tour scene. Influencers melting down in costume, drunk guests apologizing between vomit breaks, bathroom disappearances...
2 Des 20251h 20min
Short: The Expat Quest for Thanksgiving
Send us Fan MailThis is a blog post I (Joe) wrote on ZenKimchi.com in 2012 about the extreme lengths expats in Korea would go to for creating Thanksgiving in their adopted country. I exhume this post ...
24 Nov 202514min
The Secret Military Club That Hijacked Korea
Send us Fan Mail Korea’s modern history has plenty of villains, but Hanahoe might be the most quietly terrifying. This was the private club of military officers that spent decades pulling strings behi...
19 Nov 202546min
Moving Graves
Send us Fan Mail 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 is really like to exhume and relocate family gr...
15 Nov 202553min
