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 ...

There was a woman that I saw once in Tonle Sap Lake in Combodia. Lake Tonle Sap is the largest freshwater lake in South East Asia. For most of the year, its size gets to 2,700 square km, but it can increase to 16,000 square km due to flooded water from Mekong river during the monsoon season. This is Tonle Sap from Google Map: I was enjoying the vastness of the lake with my three travel mates and a few strangers in a small boat. I'd never been to such a huge lake. It felt like we were sailing in the ocean. It ...