Silent Disco Squad at E. Broadway, 100 in 1 Day Vancouver 2015 ⓒ Lea Chambers Community driven, city-wide place making festival will activate 100+ fun, innovative pop-up ideas all over Canada. Imagine the possibilities for our city if hundreds of people united to participate in small initiatives to […]
Nothing beats the summer heat like going to a concert and cheering until your head is numb and voice gives out, especially if the music you were listening to was K-Pop – the most infectious music in the world. I attended an event called “KPop World Festival 2015” […]
It’s time for another one of my5 lists. I crafted this compilation using anecdotal evidence so although it may not appeal to some, I am confident it will to most because these are what we have all heard of or/and played before. They are: my5 Korean Drinking Games. […]
The Future of Football and the players who are being shipped out of Korea for greater achievement!
Prime Minister and I: Nam Da Jung walks into a Subway to attend a meeting of the wives, where she heartily chomps down on a Subway sandwich. The Greatest Love: No one drank anything but Vitamin Water, and being the celebrity printed on the bottle was pretty much […]
I am not an extreme feminist, however, I have to say we can quite often see “Woman power” in every field in the world now, and even careers people used to be traditionally male such as politician (South Korea had recently its first female president!), top-level chef, orchestra conductor, or scientist. Here I present a […]
My goal as a Korean mom living in Canada (and also as an international-marriage couple) is to give my children a “positive Korean heritage” and let them be proud of it. Kids are “the future of the country” and raising our children as both 100 percent Korean and […]
When she came to Calgary during her university days simply on a break to study English, Sylvia Lee would probably never have guessed the moment she stepped off the plane that her future was tied to this city. Over a decade later, she’s nurtured and developed her family […]
(continued) She lived in 5 different cities in her 7 Canadian years – Vancouver, Toronto, Calgary, Winnipeg, and finally Edmonton, where they settled last year. She says she liked Winnipeg the most. At the beginning, she didn’t like the small-city feel and underdeveloped circumstances, but people there were […]
There is a special section in Mr Gale’s first impression of Korea; that is, the fear of tigers in Korea. While traveling to Haeju, and as the darkness of the night creep towards him, Gale notices that his companion, Mr. An, is increasingly nervous as they approach a […]
“The most beautiful people I’ve known are those who have known trials, have known struggles, have known loss, and have found their way out of the depths.” – Elisabeth Kübler-Ross That is my favorite quote about success. What is “true success” to you, fame, wealth, or a promising […]
When you read IMDb-style or blog profiles of Korean celebrities, you may notice a random section called “Blood type” along with “Favourite food” and “What’s on my iTunes”. This isn’t a case of an overly cautious individual scoping out for a kind soul for a blood transfusion in the event […]
Here is another Korean woman who is trying to give back to Canadian society the help she got as a newcomer, via helping other immigrants. As a Korean who knows “Jeong (affection)”and also a sincere Christian, her dream is to run a nursing home connected to ISC services in the future. Let’s look at her story. […]
One of my interests in joining this blog is to write a series of articles about Korean women’s life and work in Canada, and give them a space to directly tell their own stories to you, the reader, as they try to adapt and make themselves contributing members […]
What would be that one essential item you would bring to the deserted island? Predictably, this is a question the casts of the reality TV show Survivor get asked for their profile pages all the time. Of course, their deserted island isn’t quite so Robinson Crusoe, so answers […]
A few years ago when one could not possibly enter a theatre without seeing Will Smith’s name plastered everywhere, he was asked what the “magic formula” was to his successful career in film. Creatures and special effects, he answered rather frankly. Ask me what the magic formula is […]
