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Surviving Monsoon Season In Korea Posted by on Jun 28, 2016

Koreans will proudly tell you of their four seasons, no matter how much you plead with them that there is, say, the same thing in Michigan or most places in the Northern Hemisphere. But what is left out is one essential, annoying part of those four seasons: Monsoon season (장마). If you’re heading to the beaches of…

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Busan Cave Bar’s Makgeolli, Dongdongju Is Korea’s Best City Escape Posted by on May 16, 2015

Hidden to even Busan natives, “Dragon Dream” (용꿈) is a makgeolli (막걸리) bar with two twists: a former World War II Japanese bomb shelter carved into the mountain during the colonization of Korea, and a unique version of makgeolli called dongdongju (동동주). The cave (동굴) drips with water seeping through the rock, calcium deposits growing…

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Bourdain’s Survival Drinking in Korea: Customs, Expectations, and Beyond Soju Posted by on May 9, 2015

Late last month, Anthony Bourdain made headlines by opening the fifth season of “Anthony Bourdain Parts Unknown” with a trip to South Korea, a country whose social habits bind tightly with drinking and eating and eating and more drinking.  About Korea’s social life, Bourdain said, “Everything you learned, painfully, in college about drinking–don’t mix, try to…

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