Korea has many, many beauty standards. This is evident in the number of aesthetic shops you will see in the alleys, and perhaps most clearly in the plastic surgeons that line up Apgujung and Chungdam, each specializing in a very, vast array of procedures. You can also catch a glimpse of them in the ads in the subway or the bus, from eyelash extensions, calf muscle reductions to fat implants undern ...

Dressing up to fit in as a woman in Korea is a trying challenge for all of my non-Korean friends.   The fact is, to dress as the "Korean Girl" is no easy feat, even for a native, like me.      So why do we put ourselves through this struggle with makeup and shoes every day?  In a city like Seoul, a girl has to continually keep up with the Joneses.  Seoul can sometimes ...

A lot of our reservation required events are linked to Interpark.com, but as you may have noticed, Interpark does not have an English page. Which tends to make reservations difficult if you cannot read Korean. (They do offer English booking for a very limited number of events, but HiExpat provides a lot more than a limited number of events, right?) So, to make things easier for you, here is a step ...

Guess what tomorrow is! If you answered the 17th, well, then you can go add another entry at FAILblog. It’s St. Patrick’s day. And yes, there are tons of ways you can celebrate St. Patties Seoul style. So here’s what’s going down this week.