Do you know Sungryemun? It is one of the Eight Gates in the Fortress Wall of Seoul,South Korea, which surrounded the city in the Joseon Dynasty. The gate is located in Jung-gu between Seoul Station and Seoul City Plaza, with the historic 24-hour Namdaemun market is next to the gate.

Psy released his new song entitled “Gentleman.” Here are the song, lyrics, and English translation via kpopstarz.com.   Gentleman lyrics (and English translation) Ah~!알랑가몰라 왜 화끈해야 하는건지 (I don’t know if you know why it needs to be hot)알랑가몰라 왜 말끔해야 하는건지 (I don’t know if you know why it [...]

North East Asians share some similar features in appearance but there are also differences as well. Korean people also have their own unique features. Lets’ find out what some of these features are.   1.  Korean people tend not to have double eyelids, and their noses are usually low. This [...]

The rules to this game are very simple. You start from one and take turns shouting out numbers consecutively, but for numbers that have a 3, 6, or a 9 in them, instead of saying the number you have to clap. Also for numbers like 33,36, and 39 which have [...]

Korean people enjoy drinking. When drinking, Korean people always play games. Learning a couple of these games will come in handy. Let me introduce one Korean drinking game. It’s 007 game. Practice a lot and try out with your Korean friends.  

Maybe Michael Aronson(마익흘) is a famous foreign youtube user in Korea. He is an M/V producer who makes variety parody M/Vs. Many Korean people celebrate his M/Vs. His first M/V of Korea is The Kim Yu-Na Song. He gained popularity from the Seoul Subway M/V. He said that the New [...]

Daum, a Korean portal site, announced the most popular search words of the year 2012. Let us check them from No. 1 to No. 10. No. 1 : Gangnam Style No. 1 song in the number of hits in the history of U-tube, no. 2 in the year 2012’s most [...]

Are you curious about how Korean young people start dating? Kholic will show you from the video. Let’s see it right now.

Daum, a Korean portal site, announced the most popular search words of the year 2012. Let us check them from No. 1 to No. 10. No. 3 : The moon embracing the sun It is one of the most popular Korean TV dramas in 2012. In Korea, recently, the dramas [...]

Daum, a Korean portal site, announced the most popular search words of the year 2012. Let us check them from No. 1 to No. 10. No. 4 : Diablo 3 The reason why this keyword became a big topic is that Koreans are so enthusiastic about the blizzard game. Korea [...]

Sabalsik is a rite of passage at Korean universities. In Sabalsik, a senior fills a freshman’s bowl up with alcohol and the freshman drinks up right away. In Korean, the word “Sabal” means bowl and “Sik” means ceremony. So it called Sabalsik. Let’s see the video. PS. Hello, this is [...]

Daum, a Korean portal site, announced the most popular search words of the year 2012. Let us check them from No. 1 to No. 10. No. 5 : Typhoon Bolaven The reason why this keyword became a big topic is that bullying had occurred within the famous K-pop group. What [...]

Daum, a Korean portal site, announced the most popular search words of the year 2012. Let us check them from No. 1 to No. 10. No. 6 : Kpop star The reason for the popularity of this keyword is that it was most popular among audition programs. The most popular [...]

Are you curious about Korean company culture? Korean industry has very strict command line structure. Let’s see REAL Korean company life. PS. Hello, this is the manager of Hallyu Magazine, Kholic.com. What do you want to know about Korea? Ask me and I can help you. Thank you!

Daum, a Korean portal site, announced the most popular search words of the year 2012. Let us check them from No. 1 to No. 10. No. 8 : Anipang The reason for the popularity of this keyword is that a game called anipang became so popular in Korea. More than 50% [...]

Hyori Lee, a CF model for ‘Cheoumcheoreom (Like the beginning)’, a Korean soju, was replaced after five years. Three persons from the Kpop group were selected as the new models, and they include Hyorin from SISTA, Koo Hara from KARA, and Hyuna from 4MINUTE. Hyuna once drew particular attentions with [...]

Korean street cheering became a big issue to foreigners from the 2002 Korea/Japan FIFA World Cup. Many foreigners showed their surprise at the Korean street cheering. Of course, street cheering is not happening only in Korea. However, it is not easy to see the great number of persons come to [...]

In fact, it originated from J-pop. When J-pop was popular in foreign countries, the group names and song titles were written in English to enter overseas markets. In Korea, SM currently leading TVXQ, Super Junior, Girls’ Generation and etc. started H.O.T and S.E.S from the middle 1990s. There was no [...]

Now, Korea is in the wave of audition programs. Even though there had been many audition programs, Super Star K gained a remarkable popularity. The final audience ration of Season 1 recorded the highest audition rating of cable TVs and Season 1 showed over 18% audition rating to break the [...]

Who has the biggest number of followers in Twitter as a Korean? Choi Siwon (twitter link), a member of Super Junior of a K-Pop groups has the biggest number of Twitter followers as 2.76 million. Thanks to his childhood language course in China, he can speak in Chinese frequently so [...]