“Dear Soldier” (병정님) is the first movie I’ve seen from Korea which was made while they were under Japan’s rule giving an interesting insight into how the Japanese expected the Koreans to live and speak (as in live and speak like they were in Japan).  The whole movie is spoken in Japanese, showing just how [...]

Watch the full 1-hour movie right here for free: This is a very fascinating video, one of only two documentaries I have seen of North Korea, the hermit nation.  A team was allowed a rare opportunity to film inside of North Korea, though there were many restrictions and I’m sure the video that came out [...]

  I’m just going to make some notes and observations that I find interesting as I read each chapter of Mastering Business in Korean, so don’t expect an exhaustive review. The first chapter is a brief history of Korea that the author says Koreans might expect people to know about and would help with their [...]

Dokdo is a very hot topic for Koreans so I’m going to tell what the situation is and leave it at that. Dokdo is the name of an island between Korea and Japan that the two countries constantly fight over. While Korea currently inhabits the island, Japan claims ownership of it. This constantly comes up [...]

원스 어폰 어 타임 is an adventure story set in the Japan-occupied Korea. There’s a diamond which the Japanese army is trying to take out of Korea while the Korean Independence Army struggles to keep it in their country, preserving the precious part of Korean history. I really enjoyed the movie; it shows the dedication [...]