A Content Creator’s Magazine

I started thinking about creating an online magazine after I edited and compiled an anthology for my horror publisher in the winter of 2019. As with many people, it’s been a strange two years. COVID has thrown the world for a loop, and its effects don’t seem to be going anywhere any time soon.

Who would have thought

at the beginning of 2019 that they would be where they found themselves at the end of 2020?

The world has experienced something unexpected in the last 24 months, and I am no exception. I discovered the addictive fulfillment of drama writing. I participated in a 3 month web series in Taiwan. I edited and compiled the aforementioned anthology for my publisher. I started a YouTube Channel where I interview publishing writers in English from around the world. I moved back to South Korea after a two year hiatus during which I lived 19 months in Taipei.

And now, I’ve founded

an online magazine: Samjoko.

I’m too much of a hodgepodge of competing and paradoxical whims to have a set aesthetic to this magazine. If the content is good, it’ll find a home at Samjoko. For now, we’re only publishing 15 pieces seasonally. Perhaps that will change if we attract steady readers who want to help us grow through financial support. To reach semi-pro rates for our Contributors is a goal, a wish, a hope.

Professional rates would

be nice, but perhaps if that were to happen, too many strings would be attached.

And so why the title Samjoko? I’ve had a fascination with crows since I used to walk my dog in the park near my home in the 1990s. When I was told about the 3-legged crow of Asian mythology over dinner one night in Seoul, I knew I would adopt the idea, as I’ve absorbed so many concepts over my lifetime.

Samjoko is a magazine of words, of images, of dreams, of philosophies. It is a place of discovery, the meeting place at the crossroads, the fork in the road.

Feel free to explore at your convenience.