Many people don’t know why you have to eat miyeok-guk on your birthday in Korea but the answer is quite simple. Miyeok-guk, or Korean seaweed soup, is the traditional meal that Korean mothers eat multiple times per day after childbearing to help heal her body and produce milk to feed her new baby. Because of…
Most people are unaware that the physical postures or “Asanas” are only one of the 8 limbs of yoga. Equally as important, and particularly during these current challenging times, are the other life practice branches that sprout from the 8 limbed path of yoga, including those of non-violence towards the self and others; self care…
A look back at the violent protests that is now seen as the first shot in the mass movement that swept aside a quarter-century of dictatorship to create one of the world’s most impressive democracies. On May 18, South Koreans paused to mark the 40th anniversary of the Gwangju Uprising of 1980, one of the…