Culture
Crying in H-Mart, by Michelle Zauner
It started as a New Yorker essay. The editor-in-chief on why the book is brave, and what it means on a re-read.
Victoria Oh/Dec 2025
61 stories found.
It started as a New Yorker essay. The editor-in-chief on why the book is brave, and what it means on a re-read.
Victoria Oh/Dec 2025
Do Ho Suh's fabric houses, and why home can be made from all the places we have been.
Seoyeon Jeon/Sep 2026
Why only females bite, why the bite itches, and why mosquito prevention is a small part of protecting community health.
Yena Seo/Sep 2026
Available on Baemin and Coupang Eats. Start at level 1. Nine toppings the writer will vouch for.
Hayeon Son/May 2026
Two alternative R&B records, one from DEAN in 2016 and one from Frank Ocean in 2012, for anyone starting out.
Uibin Lee/Feb 2026
A triathlete on what starting the day with a run does for deadlines, expectations and everything before first period.
Hakyoon Lee/Feb 2026
France, Australia and the courts. A Pediatrics study links preteen smartphone ownership to depression and lost sleep.
Jalen Park/Dec 2025
Matthew 6:6. Prayer is talking to God with your heart.
Dongyun Hwang/Nov 2025
The most American thing there is did not start in America.
Juwon Kim/Sep 2026
Billions of prescribed pills, idols as diet inspiration, and a culture that treats appearance as a credential.
Jalen Park/Sep 2026
Back from summer and out of practice? Ten well-placed lines to fix your social life. Satire, probably.
Caiden Kim/Sep 2026
Everyone knows Spider Man; almost nobody remembers Peter Parker. Tom Holland is back for an emotional new chapter.
Sungyoon Park/Sep 2026
A titan, a book of maps, a mountain range and an ocean. How one name ended up on all of them.
Juwon Kim/Sep 2026
A camp with no lake, one hole a day, and a mystery under the dirt. 10/10, would dig again.
Seoyun Lee/Sep 2026
Three-hour lines at Gangnam, bowls from 12,800 won, and a four-step guide to ordering your first one.
Yujin Lee/Sep 2026
Billions of neurons, electrical and chemical signals, and what studying them may teach us about being human.
Yebynn Son/Sep 2026
Earworms, and why the same five seconds of a song can play on a loop all day.
Hanna Seo/Sep 2026
Final exams begin next week, and the break behind them is the only thing left between students and summer.
Hanna Seo/Jun 2026
92% of students use AI tools. Detection software flags non-native writers at 61.2%. Nobody has drawn the line.
Jalen Park/Jun 2026
The unpressed submit button, the notes-page alibi, and two more. Flagged by the editor as satire (probably).
Caiden Kim/Jun 2026
Matcha is only popular because it looks aesthetic.
Seoyun Lee/Jun 2026
Nine siblings, a pet wild hog, Cast Away, and why she is leaving VIS after two years.
Valor Times Staff/Jun 2026
Bone is living tissue. Three sessions a week at a decent intensity, and it remodels itself around the load.
Hyunji Song/Jun 2026
Held at Once Upon a Nature: dresses, suits, raffle tickets and an awards ceremony to close the night.
Hanna Seo/May 2026
Weeks of FRQs and last-minute cramming end, and the conversation turns to summer, graduation and prom.
Hanna Seo/May 2026
Many teenagers sleep under six hours on a school night. Counselors say pressure, phones and no rest are the cause.
Dongyun Hwang/May 2026
Ten tracks, thirty-three minutes, no filler. Released February 13th and possibly his best.
Sungyoon Park/May 2026
"you seem pretty sad for a girl so in love" lands June 12th. Two songs are already out, and fans are reading the lyrics closely.
Yujin Lee/May 2026
Nobody sat next to them on the subway. It was not what they thought it was.
Juwon Kim/May 2026
On being a scholar before a teacher, League of Legends, pineapple pizza, and whether he is leaving Valor.
Caiden Kim/May 2026
Four teams, three countries, and a trip the paper reports back on after the fact.
Seoyun Lee/Mar 2026
4.7 million accounts revoked. The minister calls it 'behavioural cocaine'. Teenagers call it unnecessary.
Yujin Lee/Mar 2026
Five years for obstruction. Prosecutors asked for death. Seven trials still to come.
Jalen Park/Mar 2026
Badges, points and leaderboards look like engagement on a dashboard. The argument here is that they destroy it.
Jalen Park/Mar 2026
New power units, a Mercedes loophole, and drivers warning that the energy-saving rules are dangerous.
Valor Times Staff/Mar 2026
Their first road playoff win in 33 years, and what it means to a fanbase that had stopped expecting one.
Sungyoon Park/Mar 2026
From Jesus is King, 2019. Gospel-inspired, imperfectly sung, and better for it.
Sungyoon Park/Mar 2026
Sixteen million viewers, a village head with a scheme, and a boy king sent into exile.
Kai Lee/Mar 2026
Yeouido, Seokchon, Bomun, Nami, Jinhae. Go in the early days of April or you will miss them.
Caiden Kim/Mar 2026
The Head of Upper School on a fast transition, hobbies she jokes she doesn't have, and not rushing the next stage.
Victoria Oh/Mar 2026
Students stop the clock for bathroom breaks and cry over eight hours. The correlation is weaker than expected.
Hayeon Son/Mar 2026
The limbic system versus the prefrontal cortex. Procrastination is not laziness. It is emotional regulation.
Yebynn Son/Mar 2026
Foot-in-the-door and door-in-the-face. Your friends use both, and so do advertisements.
Seohyun Choi/Mar 2026
An hour and forty-five minutes of songs, and a man who collects people society calls unique.
Juwon Kim/Feb 2026
Four steps to a fully functioning coin farm run by hard working crows. Requires a bucket and a lot of bread.
Caiden Kim/Feb 2026
Two thousand middle-aged people, eleven years, and a 70% lower risk. Speed turned out not to matter.
Hyunji Song/Feb 2026
Most people are too busy worrying about themselves to focus on you. Knowing that helps.
Seohyun Choi/Feb 2026
The least-popular site by distance, and a country that leads on conservation, renewables and tourism.
Victoria Oh/Dec 2025
The Christmas Community Event lands at the Samjung Hotel on 16 December, with YANA, Miral and IFCJ.
Hayeon Son/Dec 2025
Fifty things, possibly heavily inspired by what the writer wants for Christmas.
Yujin Lee/Dec 2025
Published at eight in the Boston Herald, dead at thirty. The paper prints Mirror, Edge and Lady Lazarus.
Victoria Oh/Dec 2025
Six kilometres into the Run for One, a sheep appears. A three-step guide to riding it across the finish line.
Caiden Kim/Dec 2025
Gentle strings, light jazz, and a reminder that the season is not about expensive gifts.
Sungyoon Park/Dec 2025
Talent Show 2nd place winner. Weird, unique, humorous, and a conspiracy theory about where the rain comes from.
Victoria Oh/Dec 2025
A new organelle, found in ocean algae at UC Santa Cruz. New organelles almost never appear.
Hyunji Song/Dec 2025
Two letters back to the club: one from Ezer after a fire in the Philippines, one from Beirut.
Valor Times Staff/Nov 2025
City beat Villarreal 2-0 on October 22. Haaland now has 24 goals in his last 14 appearances.
Jongchan Yoon/Nov 2025
세계를 건너 너에게 갈게, by Lee Kkot-nim. A letter written in 2016 arrives in 1982.
Hannah Cho/Nov 2025
Twenty years in Korea, board games and fantasy football, and why he would pick teleportation.
Caiden Kim/Nov 2025
Microplastics, acidification and bleaching, and the small things students can actually do.
Hyunji Song/Nov 2025
Three steps (praise, repent, ask help) drawn across four panels.
Hailey Hong/Nov 2025
