Futuristic cities and urban development beyond Songdo, covering Korea, Taiwan, Japan and China.

The head of ADS talks to me about space and science in an exclusive interview for Insight.

In Kenji Araki’s Once Upon a Time Amid Trees (Japan, 2014) potential apocalypse comes in the form of a teddy bear from outer space.

Twomyung were my favourite discovery while living in Seoul a few years back, coming across a monthly residency they’d co-headline in the chic Hapjeong district of the city.

The average cyberpunk fan has probably seen both the original Ghost in the Shell anime and its sequel Innocence; if feeling generous, they may have also checked out the 2002...

Leafing through an old blog to realise this was my longest entry on it; the rest were barely a 100 words per post!

Appearances can be deceiving. Wrecked Hearts may look like a Japanese manga, and may read like a Japanese manga, but is actually an English work from two French artists as...

A few years ago I decided to embark on two crazy errands... The second was to leave my home in the UK to live in and travel around South Korea...

Found in the south east of Korea, Busan is deservedly most famous for its seaside views, as dominated by the pair of famous beaches known as Haeundae, which you should...

South Korea’s Sherlock themed cafe 221B opened in Seoul this year as tribute to the BBC Sherlock, and boasts its own Sherlock Coffee on the menu, which is like a...

In my first post I wrote about a paperback anthology as found in a Seoul love motel, and thinking about it, love motels and cafes of the book or comic book variety are probably the only places where you’ll see Koreans holding actual paper comics in their hands. Even then, these comics are not what’s currently in vogue, and more often than not are simply Korean translations of long-running Japanese series.