Who Should Still Be Driving in Korea?
Send us Fan Mail South Korea became a super-aged society in 2025. The effects are showing up everywhere, but nowhere more visibly than on the roads. In this episode, Joe and Shawn talk about the sharp...
14 Jan 59min
Where Have All the Soju Tents Gone? Part 2
Send us Fan Mail 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 Seoul’s soju tents went from survival spaces to c...
7 Jan 49min
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 Dec 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 Dec 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 Dec 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 Dec 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 Dec 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
