Ask a Korean Dude

The book every expat has been waiting for!


Ask a Korean Dude asks all the questions and provides all the answers:

all you have to do is sit back and read.


- Foreigners’ questions answered by a real Korean

- Clears up all your doubts regarding Korean culture, lifestyle and history

- Discover the Korea you want to see, not the Korea Korea wants to show you

- Contains years of knowledge and experience accumulated by writer who was a former reporter


An Authoritative and Irreverent Guide to the Korea Experience


KOREA: a country where tradition and rapid modernization meet in a dynamic dichotomy full of seemingly incongruous, yet somehow germane ethnic charms. It is these very elements that truly set Korea apart from its Asian colleagues as a bombastically inclined but strangely endearing little country.


This book is a collection of articles from the "Ask a Korean Dude" column Seoul Selection's monthly travel and culture magazine, SEOUL, ran to answer questions posed by readers regarding aspects of Korean society and culture. Fielding the questions with sincerity and a dash of humor, the "Korean Dude"—frequently making use of his own endearing personal experiences—turned cultural quirks into cultural understanding, providing insight into the workings of Korean culture.


This book is a tool with which you may come to not only understand the distinctly curious aspects of Korea, but also appreciate the deeply running veins of traditional and modern culture interlaced into this complex—but actually rather simple—society.