COVER STORY
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How Geography Shapes Koreanness: Why Korea and Poland Feel Curiously Familiar
Koreanness may have been shaped as much by geography as culture. Living for centuries between empires, invasions, and instability created a society deeply attuned to speed, adaptation, and survival. Looking at Poland reveals an unexpected resonance, suggesting national character is often formed less by identity than by historical pressure.
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Busan is not Seoul by the sea.
Named “cauldron mountain,” Busan is a city of ports, hills, markets, baseball songs, pork soup, shipyards, beaches, and unfinished edges. From Yeongdo to Haeundae, Jagalchi to Centum City, it carries a rougher, warmer, more physical version of Korea.
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T.O.P’s New Album, and Koreanness
T.O.P의 새 앨범은 단순한 컴백이 아니라 그의 서사와 태도를 드러낸다. 한글과 영어 발음을 활용한 딜리버리로 코리언니스의 새로운 감각을 만든다.
T.O.P.’s first full-length solo album reveals his narrative and attitude, creating a new sensibility through the interplay of Korean and English sounds, suggesting a distinct form of Koreanness beyond familiar storytelling.
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Koreanness, and What Comes After
Koreanness, a new book by The Kosmosis, expands into a pop-up exhibition and space, exploring everyday Korea through images, objects, and conversations.
코리언니스는 코스모시스의 두 번째 책으로, 전시와 공간으로 확장되며 이미지와 오브제, 대화를 통해 한국의 일상을 탐구합니다. -
Rootless Seoul: Why We Need Memories Over Landmarks
서울은 새로운 랜드마크가 필요 없습니다. 우리에게 필요한 건 땅의 기억, 바로 ‘터무늬’입니다.
Seoul doesn’t need new landmarks. We need ‘Teomunui’: the true patterns of the land. It’s about finding the ‘Top Feels’, not just ‘Top Places’.
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Haebangchon: A Bitter Sweet Symphony
Haebangchon is not where the journey starts upon arrival, but where it begins before you reach it. Here, where the incline speaks to the body, we find the narrative of reaching.
해방촌은 도착해서 시작되는 곳이 아니라, 도달하기 전에 이미 시작되는 동네다. 경사가 몸에 말을 거는 이곳에서 도달의 서사를 발견한다.
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2026 New Year’s Greeting: From the Pleasure of Seeing to the Joy of Reading
2026 New Year greeting. Transitioning from the pleasure of seeing to the joy of reading. Look forward to Vol. 2: Identity.
2026년 새해 인사. 보는 재미에서 읽는 재미로 진화하는 여정. 아이덴티티를 담은 Vol. 2를 곧 선보입니다.
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