Category Archives: Health and wellness

Imagine an island filled with people with a physically degenerating disease. Prejudice and discrimination like that on the Hawaiian island of Kalaupapa are only part of the trauma you experience. You are torn from your family, experimented upon, forced to … Continue reading →

Vanessa Hua, SF Chrinicle writer takes you, step-by-step, through a San Francisco "jimilbang".  The article mentions a jimjilbang here in the OC (Garden Grove). Hmmm. Maybe I should try it.

The NY Times had an interesting article on jjimjilbang (찜질방), or Korean saunas. While we have a few here in Hawai`i, none are co-ed (i.e., men are not allowed). That’s o.k., I’d rather go to one of the more popular jjimjilbang in … Continue reading →

My mother, who is a board member for the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Fdn. of Orange County, would kill me if I did not promote one of the causes very dear to her-Breast Cancer Awareness month. She has had … Continue reading →

My songsaenim who graduated from the famous Ewha Women’s University, did not tell me that in addition  to being intellectually strong, that the girls from Ewha were just as physically strong.  These pictures from Chosun-Ilbo show girls smashing tiles at a recent … Continue reading →

A few of the forums I read on Korean pop culture are interesting, while most of the entires are a waste of time . But one recently cqught my eye.  A video from a t.v. show has been going around … Continue reading →