A civic group on Wednesday staged a rally in front of a police station in Seoul where Chun Woo-won -- the grandson of former President Chun Doo-hwan -- is being investigated for drug crimes, calling for greater focus on the junior Chun's non-drug related claims. The National Action to Judge Chun Doo-hwan said that rather than the junior Chun's drug crimes, investigators should prioritize his apo...

Fortunetelling for fun Outside of politics, however, many Koreans seek advice from shamans simply for fun. Most tend to take the advice with a grain of salt, much like tarot card fortune-telling in the West. Shamanistic fortunetelling usually involves face reading and "saju." The former is the practice of analyzing a person’s character from their facial features and the latter requires the sham...

"R-r-r-ring! R-r-r-ring!" Picking up the phone, I was greeted by a barrage of harsh words. “Why won’t you check your f---ing messages? You that eager to die? See what happens next,” Minji, my supposed “friend,” spat before hanging up. An alarm on my phone notifies me of an invitation to a chat room, the members of which seem to be in a competition to see who could be crueler to me. The above ...