As of March 27, 2025, the North Gyeongsang Province fire has spread to over 36k hectares. At least 26 deaths and 30 injuries have been reported since March 14 when the fire started. Sadly, the Gounsa Temple, built in 681AD, was completely destroyed. The fire is only 54% contained.
We have covered quite a bit of related fire topics:
Firefighters part one
Fire prevention and Safety: part one and part two.
The 2025 season for the Korea Baseball Organization (KBO) kicked off to sold-out games on Saturday March 22, 2025. According to the Korea Herald, this was the third season that opening day games sold-out for Korea Baseball.
Want to learn vocabulary on attending a baseball game? And there’s a part two. And vocabulary about playing baseball.
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The Korea Herald has an article today suggesting that ceetain middle-aged men are becoming cool with younger generations. Whether it’s a TV personality or someone famous on social, young people are finding these middle-aged men to be authentic, down to earth, and relatable.
아저씨 (ajeossi) – middle-aged man
Check out part 1 and part 2 of our series on men.
Update 4/3/2025 Cherry blossom season has begun!
Cherry blossoms will start to bloom on Jeju Island around March 22 and then work their way up the Korean Peninsula. They’ll start to bloom in Seoul around April 1 and reach peak bloom there by April 8.
For those in Seoul, Yeouido is a famous place to see the cherry blossoms.
Cherry blossom – 벚꽃 beot-kkeot
It’s no wonder that Melting Soul is a championship burger maker. Look at how fun this is.
Located in MyeongDong’s Lotte Department Store food court (B1 level), this is a fun an inexpensive burger to try. They offer both a yellow melting cheese and white-ragu melting cheese among other more standard type burgers. Here’s a walk through their full menu.
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For 2025, TripAdvisor has rated Seoul as the World’s Top Solo-Travel Destination. The score is based on “a high volume of above-and-beyond reviews and opinions from the Tripadvisor community over a 12-month period. Out of 8 million listings, fewer than 1% achieve this milestone.”
Seoul is clean, safe, has accessible public transportation (subway, bus), and has many tourist-friendly destinations to see.
We have written quite a few articles on Seoul that you can find here. As the Ambassador Team leader for Gangnam District’s Public Relations team in 2011, I wrote a series of 25+ posts in Gangnam News about destinations in Seoul’s Gangnam District. And an interview in Korea Herald about Gangnam, another here.
The topic of free size clothing, where “one size fits all”, came up in a recent Korea Herald article. The discussion was about the Korean fashion industry squeezing all female customers into one size group in order to reduce costs and logistics in production.
A Korean “free-size” is intended to cover the Korean S-M-L range, though it more closely equates to a U.S. women’s size Small.
프리사이즈 – peuri-saije
We wrote several vocabulary-filled articles on fashion and clothing.