This blog is a tribute to Korean pulp in all of its forms, mostly forgotten, from the fifties until now. Thousands of low-budget and a few high-budget pulp movies have been made during those six decades, lots of LPs with awe-inspiring pulpy covers were produced and tens of thousands of pulp books and comics written and drawn. They featured gangsters, martial artists, freedom fighters, Manchurian bandits, femmes fatales, crooked and honest cops, innocent girls and female street fighters. Most of these movies, music and magazines and their heroes have been forgotten, like the hero of a few of them, the eponymous crime fighting Hapkido expert Master Lee. This blog commemorates and enjoys their contributions to Korean popular culture. And everything else that Master Lee thinks is worthy of the name pulp. And that means everything, including your friend's friend's poodle.

While we add new entries as often as we possibly can, we also update all older ones, so please don't be put off by the date of a first posting or the small or large size of a specific category in the tag cloud below. In Master Lee's words, "do not despise the snake for having no horns; it might turn out to be a dragon" (Lee 26:32; indeed, these words were later used for the opening title roll of the 1970s series Lin Chung).