... don't know what website you have been using to keep up on expat life and what to do in Korea but for me it has always been Zenkimchi. Over the course of my life here in South Korea I have gottten to know the creator of ... also reliable voices for the expat community. Now they have upgraded Zenkimchi to a more extensive and useful website: Chatjip or The Teahouse. There you can get connected to ...

Cuisine: Burgers Price: $ Reservations: None Suggested Items: All the burgers, Chili, Sloppy Joe “Big Kev” Cyr started Chili King as a street food cart in Itaewon.  He now has a brick-and-mortar location there.  The namesake chili is indeed the king of chilis in Seoul (though a Texan purist may disagree).  The burgers are hearty, and he even includes chili dogs, a Sloppy Joe ...

Zenkimchi Joe got married a couple of weekends ago now... which totally means I bet you he and his wife did it by now! A lot of other people have posted better pictures than I took of the wedding, so I won't bore you with those, and joe's covered the whole thing extensively on his blog, but here's the video I made: this cute old lady wouldn't stop fussing with Eunjeong's ...

... blog, anyway?). While walking down the street by city hall, I saw a foreigner and asked him if Bando and Luni's bookstore was nearby. He swiftly responded, "Are you Gangwon Notes?" It was nice to bump, completely randomly, into ZenKimchi. He didn't know where the bookstore was, but may soon have a book published to be placed in such a store. Congrats on his recent wedding.

... friends. To help me navigate my way through the bewildering array of Korean food choices, I met up with three of Seoul's top food experts: Dan from Seoul Eats, Joe of ZenKimchi, and Jennifer from FatManSeoul. Over the course of several meals with my hosts, I began to get a sense of the surprising, subtle and savory flavors that make Korean food so special. Want to get a taste of what Korean ...