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
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
The West Comes Knocking | The Fall of Joseon, part 18 (1791-1801)
Send us Fan Mail When a Dutch sailor shipwrecked on Jeju in 1627, he thought he’d been captured by cannibals. Instead, he became Korea’s first Westerner—and the first sign of change that would shake J...
7 Nov 202543min
Haunted Barracks: Korea’s Military Ghost Stories
Send us Fan Mail The Korean military is haunted — literally and culturally. Soldiers whisper about phantom footsteps, cold spots inside fences, and radio calls from the dead. In this episode, we look ...
28 Okt 20251h 6min
