Entertainment/Culture pages

  1. The Korean government’s YouTube video recipe contest

    Hi everyone, I wanted to tell you about a new contest put on by the Korean Presidential Council for Nation Branding and YouTube. The purpose of the contest is to promote Korean food around the world through video recipes on YouTube. You can find the details here, but basically you need to make a video […]

  2. Leaving for Boston

    Hi, everybody, I’m leaving for Boston soon this morning. One of my long time blog readers, my website supporter, and Harvard film student Paul Whang invited me to act in his film. I met Paul about 1½ years ago at my LA meetup. He volunteered to be my cameraman at that time. Recently I got an […]

  3. Maangchi in Korean media

    I sometimes think Maangchi is not me but kind of 3rd person! So I’m calling myself “Maangchi in …” As I mentioned before, I have been interviewed by Korean radio broadcasting companies and newspaper reporters. Some readers told me that I was on the Korean news on Monday night. Here’s the clip from KBS (Korean […]

  4. What’s happening to Maangchi these days?

    Hi, everybody, You might be wondering why some people are leaving illegible comments on my website, or if you have Korean fonts installed, you might wonder why there are so many Korean comments these days? Dakshana Bascaramurty wrote about me in The Globe and Mail last week, which is Canada’s biggest newspaper. Ever since then I’ve […]