Hyon-Joo’s Everyday Life

S. Korea is one of the few non-Muslim countries where an extramarital affair makes a criminal offense. Under the adultery law, the convicted can be sent to jail up to two years. For the last two decades, there have been a few challenges to overturn the law, but the country's constitutional judges upheld it every time. This issue became huge again in 2008 when a well-known actress Ok So-ri was indicted on charge of adultery. Short history of Korean Adultery Law There were various kinds of adultery laws throughout many Korean dynasties as in most countries . The first modern-age law was ...

Sansung(산성, 山城) in Korean means a mountain fortress wall. A good example is the Great Wall in China. Obviously, the main purpose of sansung is to prevent enemies from invading one's territory. Many great kings and leaders of old Korean dynasties built sansung throughout history. So this Korean president, Lee Myung-bak, deeply worried about safety, decided to build some sansung himself. When? On June 10, 2008. Koreans wanted to hold candlelight protests against US beef imports as well as commemorate the revolutionary gathering for democracy of June 10, 1987. Where? In the main streets of Seoul such as Sejong-ro ...

So Koreans can watch a popular talk show on their cell phone in a moving bus. How cool is that? This fast-developing technology cannot always have benefits, but at least it's moving forward in the sense that it makes our lives more convenient. What direction does the Korean government heading into then? Stupidly and sadly, it looks like it's heading toward one of its gloomy dictatorship eras such as the president Park' or Jeon's governments where they created conspiracy to brainwash, torture and kill people. Why do I think like this? There have been quite a lot of incidents last year that ...

I was never a big fan of Choi Jin Sil, but I admired her when she got her children's custody after her painful divorce. I gave her big claps - quietly in my mind - when she succeeded in changing her kids' last name to hers because I know how tough it is to make it done in Korea. She might not have had a grand intention to achieve something in Korean women's equalization movement, but at least she did her best not to follow unjust social conventions and she made it! I was also delighted when I heard ...