Korea (South) Archives

Korea (South)

Woman with the Beauty Spot

by Asmaa al-Ghoul, Selim Nassib,

From A Rebel in Gaza, published last month by DoppelHouse Press. Translated from the French by Mike Mitchell. Among the memories I brought back home is a meeting with our…

Eat Me

From translations into English of dishes served at 274 restaurants in Seoul, South Korea. The list was compiled by the Korea Tourism Organization and included in a report that suggests…

From nicknames given to participants on Let Me In, a South Korean reality-television show, in which a panel of beauty experts approves contestants for a plastic-surgery makeover. The nicknames describe…

The Old Women and the Sea

by Youngmi Mayer,

From an interview conducted by Youngmi Mayer with Jung Won Oh, Ko Jun Ja, and Mun Yeon Ok, female divers on Korea’s Jeju Island, published in Lucky Peach: The Gender…