Half of all anorexia patients in 2024 were teenagers, 82% of them girls www.koreaherald.com/article/1057...

'Keep it on': Shirtless joggers are frowned upon in Korea, but some push back www.koreaherald.com/article/1057...

‘Men don’t know why they became unhappy’: the toxic gender war dividing South Korea www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Beginning to get the hang of this professoring thing...🤓 With the last, during the group work on giving their thoughts and feelings about school uniform rules, many students struggled to express themselves in English. So I relented and suggested they use translation programs. 1/

Japanese Police Consider Changing Anti-Stalking Law After Murder unseen-japan.com/japan-stalki...

Unknown Korean Artist, Tigers (smoking opium) Source: www.tumblr.com/nobrashfesti...

Thousands of women writing and speaking for decades with all the creativity and feeling possible about the wrongness of rape can’t make sexual violence stop or even be understood as real violence but RFK Jr croaking “beef tallow is the philosopher’s stone” has the force of policy now

The extent to which ICE is ignoring all civil rights and due process is astounding — and indicative of a culture where they’ve been told they can do literally no wrong. Agency and admin leaders must face sanctions and legal consequences.

The Woman Scientist and Artist Who Revolutionized the Study of Mushrooms hyperallergic.com/1029741/mary...

The Fear of Bare, Naked Ladies’ Faces The mask, like the veil, is seen by the anxious West as concealing a racialized female subject in need of liberation from a backward culture. daily.jstor.org/the-fear-of-...

In South Korea, Rising Cost of Sanitary Pads Spurs Backlash and Calls for Support koreabizwire.com/in-south-kor...

"Blossom of Moonlight II" by Choi Yeong-Geol (Korean, B. 1968) Source: www.christies.com/en/lot/lot-5...

How to get help at a Sunflower Center in Korea (Content warning - Sexual Assault) www.reddit.com/r/korea/comm...

[Women in Politics] Rep. Kang Kyung-sook says politics is for the weak and solidarity is key www.newscj.com/news/article...

Navigating South Korea’s “Unwritten” Societal Rules: Lessons from ‘Our Unwritten Seoul’ disq.us/t/4vd9itq

Western Travel Writers or Japanese War Propagandists? daily.jstor.org/western-trav...

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that any gentleman *not* in possession of a working aircon, must be in support of #freethenipple. Am not being facetious—*I* at least, have the privilige of being virtually naked right now to help endure the heat (and you're welcome). 1/

The only thing I can say about this paragraph is read it. Sit with it. Read it again. @michaelharriot.bsky.social

Didn't see that one coming: a greater share of Korean women doing medical studies is one factor cited for a dire shortage of doctors, especially in rural areas. The reason being, male medical graduates are able to avoid 18 months of military service by... 1/ koreabizwire.com/doctor-short...

On mothering men open.substack.com/pub/tracycla...

"Mankeeping" is Just a Variation on "High Maintenance." www.hpluckrose.com/p/mankeeping...

Beauty, Knowledge, Patriarchy, Power: A Book Review of Jill Burke’s How to be a Renaissance Woman: The Untold History of Beauty and Female Creativity (Pegasus Books, 2024) nursingclio.org/2025/08/13/b...

By the standards of his *usual* sweaty, sleep-deprived, and smelly customers though, I'd say I'm quite the princess actually 👸💋

From Daido to Araki: Inside Japan’s Postwar Avant-Garde Art Scene www.anothermag.com/art-photogra... via @AnOtherMagazine

(A MUST READ) Age verification: what’s the harm? www.girlonthenet.com/blog/age-ver... While "protecting children" from the evils of the internet is an obvious societal good, setting arbitrary, black and white definitions of what those evils are render age-verification systems...1/

"The Backbone of Korea" Source and info: www.reddit.com/r/korea/comm...

Women's rights groups rally in Yongsan after string of dating violence stabbings v.daum.net/v/2025073112...

Legal Blind Spots Leave Victims of Digital Stalking Unprotected koreabizwire.com/experts-warn...

Criminal Punishment under Korean Law for Child Abduction by a Non-Custodial Parent www.thekoreanlawblog.com/2025/07/kore...

Why South Korea's legal system fails victims of dating violence 14 women killed in intimate partner violence, even though they had police protection www.koreaherald.com/article/1054...

Understanding Teacher Transfers in Japan From A Parent’s Perspective Why do teachers in Japan change schools so often? (As far as I know, Korea has this policy too.) savvytokyo.com/understandin...

Between Pleasure and Precarity: Surviving [LGBTQ+] Love and Labour in Southern China’s Urban Villages madeinchinajournal.com/2025/07/15/b...

Two Dutch female engineers have redesigned the speculum after 180 years. www.instagram.com/p/DMsezxftelC/

No, I didn't pick up any free samples. And yes, I do like to think all the soju sterilized all the bloody cuts on my hands! 🤷‍♂️😆

What a delightfully Korean start to my holiday to the UK: that's me in the blue helping to clear the road of broken soju bottles, after a car ahead of us crashed into the back of a truck 🤷‍♂️😆

Open Access Book Announcement: "Opposing Desires: The Contentious Politics of the South Korean Anti-LGBT Movement" (2025) by Hendrik Johannemann networks.h-net.org/group/announ... Download: www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-7...

‘Ghost Children’ No More: Korea’s Protected Birth System Reduces Infant Abandonment koreabizwire.com/ghost-childr...

The Korean Far-Right Infiltrates Elementary Schools “The patriotic youth should infiltrate the schools to teach the correct history.” www.blueroofpolitics.com/post/the-far...

Beyond the Miracle: Inequality in South Korea’s New Economy thediplomat.com/2025/07/beyo...

I mean, I already figured this was AI, but I'm glad to see it being openly acknowledged. Think this is the first time I've seen text like this in an ad 🤔

"Transplants" by Daniel Tam-Claiborne asianreviewofbooks.com/transplants-... via @BookReviewsAsia

Wow—22 years living in Busan, and I don't think I've ever seen Tsushima Island so clearly! 😯 (It's 50km away. Most days you can't see it at all!)

A Nepali worker in Korea died after horrific abuse and no one is talking about it. www.reddit.com/r/korea/comm...

Why Koreans Swim Fully Clothed: The Enduring Appeal of Rash Guards koreabizwire.com/why-koreans-...

‘Scenes From A Yellow Peril’ is a deep yet funny exploration of Asian identity beingasianaustralian.net/2025/07/18/s...

At Seoul’s Communal Dining Tables, a Recipe for Fighting Loneliness koreabizwire.com/at-seouls-co...

‘You Need a Man’: How Sexual Harassment and Patriarchy Silence Women in Uzbekistan When the law functions more as a threat than a safeguard, silence becomes a survival strategy. And in that silence, impunity flourishes. thediplomat.com/2025/07/you-...

Instant noodles, foot spas and counsellors: Seoul tackles loneliness with ‘mind convenience stores’ As South Korea grapples with an epidemic of loneliness, the capital city has launched an ambitious new programme to address it www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

What is the Canon of Erotic Literature? And What Might We or Can We Even Mean by the Erotic Literary Canon? (Embarrassed to say I've only read two on this list. And agree with the author that one of them, "Lolita," has no place on it.) cynthagp.substack.com/p/what-is-th...

Snapshots of Losing Jenna An anthropologist offers a lens on how losses from war dramatically alter a family—and a society. www.sapiens.org/culture/anth...