What could be more fun than a Jenga Truth or Dare challenge with Megan aka Chonunmigooksaram on YouTube! Recently I was out shopping for something and came upon I saw a box of Jenga tiles in the store. I thought ‘Wow, I haven’t played this game in a minute. Let me buy that!’ And good [...]

For those of you who have been watching my videos for a while, you may recognize my friend Seung Hee. One of my oldest friends here, she was the secretary at the college where I used to teach at 4 years ago! I have always thought that she was really pretty and her makeup, while [...]

We are starting a new weekly series everyone! YAYYYYY for new video segments! In brainstorming ideas for new videos, Richard and I both decided that we are just surrounded by too many items in Korea not to share them with you. By now having both lived here over 5 years, so many products that we [...]

I’m still stuck on You Who Came From The Stars, as is evident by this photo from as recent as yesterday eating chicken and beer with the hubz. I’m so happy that this drama came out and that Kim Soo Hyun blew up in popularity! This man has so much going for him. He can [...]

I love T-shirts! Patterned T-shirts, band t-shirts.. Heck, I love pretty much all cool t-shirts, especially now that I’m a student and I can wear them to class anytime I want! So, I was super excited when we got contacted by Carrie at Robot Luv who wanted me to check out her brand. You guyz, [...]

Kim Soo Hyun is SUCH A CUTIE!!! He’s also the currently the ‘IT’ guy in Korea, and maybe even in all of Asia. If you’re reading this, and you’re a fan of Korean dramas, there is virtually no way by now that you haven’t heard of this guy. He’s out of this world.. literally! Kkk [...]

Stephanie is one of my inspirations, no doubt about it! This is true for so many reasons I probably couldn’t even count them all. For instance, Hallyu Back started when she was still only 25 years old, and since then I’ve watched her work her butt off. Me at 25? I was living in California [...]

Hey guyz! LIVE CHAT #10 is scheduled for Saturday March 8th 2014 at 11pm Korean time!!! I’ve been in South Korea now officially for 5 years and been doing Kdrama, Jdrama and TWdrama reviews for less than 2. Let’s celebrate and hang out together for this exciting occasion! ^^ #dramatalk! TWEET THIS LIVE CHAT! ► [...]

Ever since You Who Came From The Stars started, I’ve been getting requests to give my opinion on it. Now that it’s said and done, those requests believe it or not have actually increased. And.. well….. I’ve watched the entire drama, so I thought ‘Why not’?!?   Since I’ve begun using Tumblr for Hallyu back, [...]

Hey everyone!! Richard here. While taking a walk to Suwon Station to do some small shopping I addressed a set of questions and comments we get A LOT! What are the qualifications to an English teaching job in Korea? What are other jobs besides English teaching that are available in South Korea? What is it [...]

For anyone who is familiar with Korea, you probably have heard of the comic ‘My Korean Husband’. While I myself have never been with a Korean guy, I can still understand and find humor in her comics because of my Korean guy friends. The comics they make are about the cultural differences and quirks that [...]

Hey guyz! Live from Korea LIVE CHAT #9 #dramatalk is scheduled for Sunday Feb. 23rd 2014 at 1pm Korean time!!! For this LIVE CHAT I have a special guest joining me in the Hallyu Back household: Nichola from ‘My Korean Husband’! She’s an Asian Drama fan just like me! This is gonna be so much [...]

Valentines’ Day is coming up quickly and I’ve noticed that chocolate has practically exploded in the different stores around our home in Korea for the holiday. Korea and Japan have their own unique way of celebrating Valentine’s Day that you may have seen in manga/manhwa, anime and dramas. If you’re not familiar with it, let [...]

Hey everyone! Richard here. When Mr. Popo TV was here in Korea we had the opportunity to shoot two videos with him! The first was a Korean Snack Food Challenge that he and Steph did together. That was a lot of fun! He actually guessed some of his mystery snacks correctly, and got introduced to [...]

Hey guyz! LIVE CHAT #8 is scheduled for Sunday Feb. 2nd 2014 at 1pm Korean time!!! A whole lotta new Korean Dramas in 2014 to make a fuss about! Jdramas too! Let’s hang out and CHAT about it! ^^ #dramatalk!

I had the honor of hanging out with one of the coolest Kpop vloggers yesterday: Mr. Popo for MrPopoTV fame on YouTube! When I heard he was coming I had Richard contact him to see if we could possibly meet up. He said yes of course, and we scheduled a special 2 hour LIVE CHAT [...]

If you didn’t know, I recently started daily vlogging Monday – Thursday on the bonus channel for the new year while I’m on vacation.  That means until March you’ve got an inside look into my life, what it’s like to live in Korea and the like.  In turn, I get to try out some concepts [...]

Happy New Year everyone! LIVE CHAT #6 is scheduled for Friday Jan. 3rd, 2014 at 11pm Korean time!!! It’s a new year with tons of potential! Let’s start it off right talking dramas and hanging out! ^^ #dramatalk!

This has to be one of the most, if not THE MOST sincere and heartfelt videos I’ve ever been a part of. I’ve always loved cats. Growing up, cats have always been a part of my life. We had two cats run away when I was 3. Then when I was about 5 until the [...]

Anyone who is interested in Korea knows that Korea has a unique sense of style. Now that its November and the weather is beginning to turn, it’s getting colder. This of course affects fashion.. unless you’re a fashionable Kpop star in a music video. Somehow they managed to do tank tops, bare mid-drifts and mini [...]

We ate Jim Dak! ( 찜닭 ) This was the scenario: It was last Sat. afternoon and I had invited my friends Seung Hee and Gi Yeon over to the house to film two videos about Korean Dramas and Korean Fashion Police of November. I used to work with Seung Hee at Suwon Science College [...]

Campus is so lovely and colorful this time of year in Korea!! So, we could not pass up this opportunity to walk around and show you guys where I go everyday. For those of you that are already familiar with our YouTube channel and have seen some of my drama videos, this might not be [...]

I’m keeping this short. I’m Richard. I teach at Kyung Hee University in South Korea. I’ve been teaching here for five years. I ran into a student the other day Sang Chul and recorded a short conversation. Then, the battery ran out on the camera. And that was it.

Going to the DMZ to look at North Korea is a MUST DO day trip for all visitors to South Korea.. in our humble opinions. There are several tour companies that provide this service to and from the DMZ area, and from Seoul by bus it take only about an hour to get there. For [...]

After a week in Seoul where we literally had the time of our lives, we got to attend the first ever YouTube Music Awards concert! From our hotel the YouTube crew we had been with all week left on a bus with purple shwag velvet interior for the concert. We knew that Sistar, Miss A, [...]

What better way to combine the YouTube talent we’ve been hanging out with this week, and my love for Kdramas and Asian dramas than to make a video about it! And that’s exactly what we did! We were commissioned by YouTube to make 2 videos for our channel with all the members of our group [...]

Oh my gosh guys it’s YTMA week! I feel like we’ve been anticipating it for months and not weeks, but it’s finally here and things are going and have been going non-stop since we got here. That’s not to say that we haven’t been also having a blast. There’s something to meeting like-minded driven people [...]

YTMAs in Seoul Korea are happening this week, and are we ever excited to be here!! We arrived on our first night to check into the hotel here and Seoul, and immediately ran into Callum of the YouTube Channel Callux. The guy is class and is so much fun to hang around and film. Peep [...]

So lately, Richard has really gotten into Kpop! The other week he came up to me with a shocker: ‘You know’ he said, ‘I think I’d like to have my makeup done like some of the best Kpop stars.’ I wasn’t shocked, because not a lot shocks me with him anymore. But as somebody who [...]

YouTube is holding its first ever video music awards ceremony (the ‘YTMAs’) this coming November 3rd, 2013. YouTubers are being flown to New York City, London and Seoul to participate in the ceremony. We were selected to represent YouTube in Seoul and.. we are psyched! ^^ We were contacted by YouTube earlier this month, and asked [...]

Block B and Tiny G – What a combination! ^^ These recommendations were so good this week! I wasn’t expecting to like both groups so much. I most definitely think I still need to hear more of their music, but what I saw from these two videos is enough to make me a fan now. [...]

We love Busan!!! We have always stayed in Haeundae when we visit Busan because the Love Motels are really nice and relatively inexpensive, and who doesn’t want to wake up and be able to walk to the beach? Haeundae is a fun place for us to go in Korea because it has one of the [...]

HOLY SMOKES!!!!! I’ve made a Kpop music video!!! Well….. not exactly, but only 3 weeks into the Kpop vlogs, and I’m already making music videos, pretending to be a Kpop star.. What has gotten into me?!?!! First can I say how much of a G-Dragon fan I have already become in just a couple of [...]

I wanna dance dance dance da dance Boom-sha-ka-la-ka, Boom-sha-ka-la-ka – FANTASTIC BABY!!! I freaking love it! I have mad respect not only for G-Dragon and Tae-yang but for Big Bang as a whole. As far as I’m concerned (and I’m positive others will feel differently), they carry the Kpop hallyu wave to a whole ‘nother [...]

OMG OMG OMGGGGGG!!!!!!!!!!!!! It’s my first EVER yellow umbrella you guys! I’ve always wanted one, and have intended on getting one since I started reviewing dramas. Heck, I even painted one into one of my paintings not too far back. It has been a dream of mine that I have never fulfilled.. mainly because our [...]

Hey everyone! Richard here. ☺ I’m sure by now that any of you reading this know me as Stephanie’s husband. I edit the majority of what you see on Hallyu Back. (But not everything! Steph does know how to edit, and has edited a some of the TOADS you’ve might have seen.) I love making [...]

My first EVER collaboration with another YouTuber in Korea! Yippeeee!!! I’m really excited about this video you guys! First off, I’m really happy to be doing more Korea-related videos other than just drama reviews. I love reading fashion columns and, more than anything I made this video with the one and only ChoNunMigookSaram! If you [...]

What girl doesn’t like to pamper herself? Don’t we all? One of my favorite stores to head to for its’ enormous amount of variety of beauty and body products is Olive Young. This store is pretty popular and while it doesn’t really have much along the line of pharmaceuticals it reminds me of a Walgreens [...]

My top 50? I was a little bit nervous to talk about this topic. I don’t necessarily like to talk about myself. And.. I think the funny thing for me personally was I could disclose 50 things and still not purge myself. I do that a lot more through my painting than I do my [...]

Prior to going on our (second!) honeymoon, I had a conversation with hubby that went something like this: Me: I want to get my hair cut before going to Thailand. Rick: Why don’t you consider getting it cut in Thailand? Me: I’m afraid I won’t get the cut I want because I won’t be able [...]

Koh Samui, Thailand had to be one of the coolest places we visited while on our honeymoon. It really does have everything: beautiful beaches, lots of things to see and do, reasonable accommodation, night life and.. great food! This was our 3rd destination out of 4 places we visited on the trip. We arrived on [...]

Ahh Thailand, why did I have to leave you so quickly? This video was shot near Namuang Waterfall, otherwise known to locals as Waterfall 2. You can ride elephants there, feed the elephants, go hiking, and swim under waterfalls. Sound perfect? It pretty much is, or at least for Rick and I it was. The [...]

I grew up Christian, I’ll admit that. I even majored in religious studies in college. However, I do not know as much about Buddhism as some of the other religious throughout the world. This is most likely because Buddhism isn’t as popular in the U.S. as the man Christian denominations that we have. Anyhoo, this [...]

Oh my gosh, making this video was brutal. We had just stepped off of a very rolling boat to land on the docks in Koh Samui. I typically never get motion sickness, but I was totally seasick for once, and being on dry ground still wasn’t helping. But, we hadn’t eaten in hours and as [...]

While away on honeymoon I was fortunate enough to visit Koh Phangan island in Thailand, home of the Full Moon Beach party every month. This place has become quite famous for the party, and people from all over the world attend it. We weren’t there during the right part of the month so I didn’t [...]

I think most of us can agree that marriage is one of the most important steps people can take in their lives. It’s something I’ve thought about since I was a little girl. We develop ideas of how we want our wedding to be like, with details about everything from flowers and brides maid’s gowns, [...]

Picture a typical kid in a candy store for the first time ever in their life. Got your image? Does that image look anything like me? I as because this is exactly how I felt on my first night in Fukuoka, Japan. I cannot even begin to explain how exciting it was for me to [...]

After two exciting evenings in Japan, New Years day was our last day here. We were catching a flight around 8pm so we had all day to do whatever we wanted. I’ll admit, I love traveling, but I’m not the type to plan everything out and bring Lonely Planet guides with me. Rick is better [...]

On New Years Eve Dec. 31st 2011 we had sushi for dinner in Fukuoka, Japan. This wasn’t a place that was recommended in a tour book or by our hotel front desk. We had decided to walk around the city a bit and just see what we could find. Unlike in Korea, the weather was [...]

December 30th is Rick’s birthday, and in 2011 we decided just a day or two before this that we would take a last minute get-a-way to Korea’s neighbor Japan. We decided to visit the city of Fukuoka for two nights: Dec. 30th and 31st 2011. Even though this was a last second trip, this ended [...]

Wow this video seems so old. We made this video in 2011 more or less as a video to share with our friends and family back in the US. With our busy schedules (teaching and video making) we had to plan a special time to go do our Christmas shopping, since we were buying for [...]

Finding this place was an adventure! I couldn’t believe how cool it was as we walked through it, and it happened almost literally in the blink of an eye. I treasure this memory now and will forever. Most importantly, I have only the kind gentleman in the video who was quickly escorting us through this [...]

By far the most impressive of ALL the Cambodia ruins we came across on our trip had to be Bayon in Angkor Thom. From the detailed rock-carvings within it to the strategic point where it was located within the city, this ancient monument to Khmer people sits alone as reminder to just how progressive their [...]

More than 2 years ago I visited Cambodia for the first time with my then boyfriend Rick. We were there for a week, and spent at least half of it exploring the ruins outside of Siem Reap. If you have not been to Cambodia, I highly recommend it! It is indeed a poor country, poorer [...]