January 30th, 2017 | by weshareinterests | published in FASHION, FILM & MUSIC, FEATURE | Comments Off on Black and White – Go Soo (고수)
| One of our visitors sent in some black and white photos of Go Soo (고수) that caught their eye. They thought they might catch ours and they did. We thought they might catch yours, so here they are. Questions or comments: [email protected] Like us on Facebook: facebook.com/sharedinterests Follow us on Twitter: twitter.com/interestsshared
September 11th, 2016 | by weshareinterests | published in FEATURE, SOCIAL SCIENCES | Comments Off on Priyanka Yoshikawa / Ariana Miyamoto: Japanese Beauty Queens, ハーフ, and Pop-Culture Disconnect
| This week, one of our readers tipped us off on a story about beauty in Japan. For the second straight year, Japan will be represented in one of the Big 4 beauty pageants by a poised, intelligent, strong woman who happens to be racially mixed and unwaveringly proud of who she is. Last […]
May 27th, 2016 | by weshareinterests | published in FEATURE, LITERATURE & VOCAB | Comments Off on Shinji & Obachan Go West
| On a warm evening in 2005, I was walking the girlfriend home and had just stopped by the neighborhood Family Mart for some Jeti, a beverage apparently for children but that I’d grown addicted to because, well, it’s chocolate so it’s good. On our way out of the store I witnessed something strange to […]
July 21st, 2015 | by weshareinterests | published in FEATURE, LITERATURE & VOCAB | Comments Off on Esther Lee and Remmington Chow Got Together
| 2010. Olympics year. 30 year. Back in Vancouver after nights and days in my “F”th floor apartment on Bangbae’s Café Golmok (방배 카페골목) thinking about culture shock and how I would ever bring myself to working in Canada. Here would be no there. English education isn’t a pillar of the Vancouver economy unlike Seoul’s […]
August 12th, 2014 | by weshareinterests | published in FEATURE, LITERATURE & VOCAB | Comments Off on Gavin Meet Garrett, Hmong
955 pm. It’s 2005. Fall. Or was it spring? Evening classes end on Pyeongchon’s Hagwon-ga. Rows upon rows of buses (some like Greyhounds, others like mini-vans) are lined up against the curb. Drivers are standing around, smoking cigarettes, wishing they had cigarettes, bumming cigarettes. They’re there to wait. Wait for…it. Within minutes, hundreds of bodies […]
July 2nd, 2014 | by weshareinterests | published in FOOD | Comments Off on Seoul Food-돈 day
Coming from a multicultural city like Vancouver, I thought I had been exposed to cultures of all kinds. I had, but not to the extent I thought. It was amazing being able to experience so many new dishes (both Korean and non-Korean) in my time Seoul. 돈 day is a BBQ restaurant. “Don” (pronounced with […]