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Mickey Paulssen is schilderes, etser en tekenaar ook creëert ze prachtige onderwater landschappen.

18/06/2026

🇯🇵 Is the Koi Hobby Dying in 2026?

Many people say the koi hobby is dying. Clubs are struggling, hobbyists are aging, costs are rising, and newcomers feel intimidated. But is that really what’s happening? In this interview, Hana Kim speaks with longtime koi enthusiast Hugo J. Smal about the koi hobby dying concerns, aging hobbyists, rising costs, social media, mentorship, Japanese breeders, and why the future of nishikigoi depends on transmission — not panic. 📌 Key topics in this conversation: Is the koi hobby really dying, or is it simply changing? What the 2004 Chūetsu Earthquake in Niigata teaches us about resilience Why mentorship matters more than trophies How social media distorts the hobby but also introduces koi to new audiences What businesses, clubs, and hobbyists need to do to keep the hobby healthy 👉 Read here: https://koitalk.app/koi-hobby-dying-2026/ The future of koi will not be decided by one breeder, one dealer, one app, one club, or one show. It will be decided by thousands of people who choose, over time, to care for something larger than themselves.

14/06/2026

🇰🇷 This Week in Korea: What Is Being Built?

This week is less about what happened, and more about what is being built — from South Korea's World Cup campaign to a new lavender garden in Goyang, from a Feyenoord midfielder making headlines again, to long-term projects quietly advancing across the Mantifang ecosystem.

📌 In this weekly:

South Korea's 2–1 victory over Czechia and Hwang In-beom on football's biggest stage

How a Feyenoord player creates an unexpected bridge between Rotterdam and Seoul

The Baedagol Lavender Garden in Goyang-si: more than just a garden

New archaeology cluster on Mantifang covering Goguryeo, Baekje, Silla, and Gaya

KoiTalk: what should good koi food contain?

Miroshaki.com: underwater nature and aquascaping

The Jijang Fractal: a literary and ethical concept linking East and West

👉 Read here: https://mantifang.com/en/this-week-in-korea-24/

Some things are built from stone.
Some from memory.
Some from attention.

25/05/2026

The JIjang Fractal is now public

After years of writing around Korea, memory, philosophy, public life, symbolism, and responsibility, something that lived quietly in the background has now taken public form.

The Jijang Fractal is now public.

Not the novel.

Not the entire literary universe around it.

But the first official doorway.

A compact philosophical work about responsibility, compassion, recurrence, moral presence, and the patterns human lives carry forward.

Deeply shaped by Korea.
Not as decoration.
As symbolic home.

The first official editions are now available in English, Dutch, and Korean.

This is an original literary-philosophical concept by Hugo J. Smal.

Official home: https://jijangfractal.com
Background and context: https://mantifang.com

24/05/2026

Buddha’s Birthday and Pentecost Sunday fall on the same day, lanterns still glow across Seoul, and late spring settles gently around places like Goyang’s Ilsan Lake Park.

For me, this week also marks something deeply personal: the public launch of The Jijang Fractal — a philosophical-literary guide I have been carrying for a long time.

It is not a novel. Not a religious manual. But a reflection on responsibility, compassion, moral return, and the patterns that quietly repeat through human life.

Now available in English, Dutch, and Korean.

Read this week’s reflection here:

https://mantifang.com/en/this-week-in-korea-week-21-2026/

Explore The Jijang Fractal:

https://jijangfractal.com

10/05/2026

This Week in Korea — Week 19 is now online.

This week, lantern season opens in Seoul, Goyang remains in flower, and Mantifang quietly opens two new companion gateways:

https://koitalk.app
A practical koi and pond-care knowledge hub.

https://jijangfractal.com
A quiet literary-spiritual gateway connected to my writing mission and the book that is now moving toward completion.

Mantifang remains the wider archive: Korea, culture, memory, ritual, landscape, water, koi, Buddhism, and lived attention.

Read the new weekly here:
https://mantifang.com/en/this-week-in-korea-9-may-2026/

02/05/2026

This Week in Korea, spring feels settled, shared, and full of public meaning. The K-Royal Culture Festival continues through 3 May across Seoul’s palaces and Jongmyo Shrine, lantern season is becoming more visible ahead of Yeon Deung Hoe on 16 and 17 May, and family-oriented rhythms are growing stronger as Children’s Day approaches. In Goyang-si, the flower festival remains in full progress through 10 May at Ilsan Lake Park, offering one of the clearest pictures of spring as a lived civic season rather than a passing spectacle. https://mantifang.com/en/this-week-in-korea-2-may-2026/

26/04/2026

This week in Korea, spring feels less like arrival and more like presence.

The K-Royal Culture Festival has opened across Seoul’s palaces, lantern season continues to shape the city ahead of Buddha’s Birthday, and Goyang-si has entered full flower season with the opening of the International Flower Festival.

At the same time, I have added a new authority cluster on Korean Shamanism and mudang traditions to Mantifang — because ritual in Korea is not only history, but still part of daily life, protection, balance, and memory.

This week’s reflection follows how palace culture, lantern light, flowers, and living ritual all belong to the same public season.

Read here:
https://mantifang.com/en/this-week-in-korea-week-17-25-april-2026/

19/04/2026

This week in Korea, spring begins to settle.

The first rush of blossom season softens into something quieter. Petals remain, but attention shifts — toward palace courtyards, lanterns, and the slower rhythm of public life.

In Goyang, that change is already visible. Around Baedagol, spring feels less like a moment and more like a place you can stay a little longer — perhaps with coffee and something sweet after a walk.

A new weekly reflection is now live.

→ Read here: https://mantifang.com/this-week-in-korea-18-april-2026/

12/04/2026

Mid-April in Korea feels quieter than the first rush of bloom. Blossoms are beginning to fall, Wednesdays have taken on a new cultural rhythm under the expanded Culture Day program, temple lanterns are returning to public view, and the next layer of spring heritage festivals is drawing closer. This week’s piece follows that softer transition, with a stop in Goyang-si, where Ilsan Lake Park and the coming flower season give spring a wider, calmer shape. https://mantifang.com/en/this-week-in-korea-week-15-spring-public-life/

04/04/2026

Spring has arrived in Korea — not suddenly, but collectively.

Blossoms begin to shape movement, culture finds a weekly rhythm, and the city opens again.

This week on Mantifang:
https://mantifang.com/this-week-in-korea-spring-public-life/

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