Tag: Seoul

to your health

Why the world is going blind.

December 24, 2023

The cause: not enough exposure to sunlight. “In China, up to 90 percent of teenagers and young adults are myopic. In the 1950s the figure was as low as 10 percent. A 2012 study in Seoul found that an astonishing […]

thoughts of food

Kimchi-making and microbiology.

October 21, 2021

“But when it comes to pre­paring South Korea’s national dish, there are myriad modi oper­andi and many subtle­ties even within those. Each region in the country has its own trade­mark pickled piz­zazz. The further you stray from Seoul, the more […]