J. Haan

Longer Than the Losing Streak Itself Was the Team’s Stagnation Bringing in a rookie in the middle of a losing streak is common enough. In most cases, though, the rookie …

hince Now Has a Launch Date at Ulta Beauty in the U.S. Color cosmetics look pretty different in a photo than they do once you actually put them on. Lip …

The Gim From Your Side-Dish Container Just Rewrote an Export Scorecard Seasoned gim sitting off to the side of the table is so familiar that it can stop feeling like …

The Earthen Fortress That Once Looked Down on the River Walking between Seoul’s subway lines, apartment complexes, and roads thick with traffic, one can pass the low, long earthen mound …

This Wasn’t an ADC Swap. It Was a Reallocation of Team Trust. In the LCK, ADC-for-ADC trades tend to get explained in the language of roster reinforcement — whose average …

I Opened a Freezer Door and There Was Kimbap Finding kimbap in the frozen food aisle of a grocery store abroad feels a little strange at first. In Korea, we’re …

On August 1, a Conversation We Thought Was Over Opened Back Up Even after the last episode of a dating show airs, viewer timelines rarely go quiet. Who kept in …

Keep an Eye on the Moment a Shampoo Walks Into Sephora When you walk into Sephora, you probably head straight for the lip products or the serums. This time, though, …

Step Out of Mangwon Station Exit 2, and the Market Is the Neighborhood’s Center Mangwon-dong is a neighborhood that feels a little incomplete if you only pick one destination. Come …

A Translation Is Not a Copy of the Original, But a Rewriting in Another Language The moment a translator carries the first sentence of a Korean novel into English, several …