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a critical or discursive introduction to a book.
Ā Features Section chroniclesĀ unique perspectives on diverse topicsāinformed, honest, provocative, and unbounded. Features are updated weekly.Ā
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Itaewon, Part I: Seoul’s Little America ā A Depravity in Four Acts
These places exist around the world, these āPleasure Islandā communities near current or former army installations: Bangkok, Tijuana, Saigon, Manila, Okinawa to name just a few, all with a parallel motif of booze, hookers and cheap souvenirs.
The Cost of Achievement: a Front Row Seat for the Korean CSAT
“…relative strangers, with whom I once shared joy, laughter and mischief in class, extraordinarily bright and happy kids reduced to empty eyes and blank faces.”
Life Under the Button: The Go-Bag, Kim Jong Un and Me
Dooms day preparations are often ridiculed, but what about when you live under the credible threat of nuclear war? Cowie pokes fun at his own fears even as he takes a sober look at “life under the button” in South Korea.
Reluctant Romantic
Why canāt I remember his name? I quote him oftenā¦Ā Iād gone West after graduating. It was election night, 2008, and Jackson Hole Wyoming was a tiny blue dot in a vast red state…
Raising a Honyol
Raising a racially mixed child in an insular society. As a foreigner living in the Republic of Korea, it can be a rewarding existence…
America(ns) Around the World
As an American, more specifically a southern Californian living in South Korea there are a litany of comparisons and contrasts I can make, a pedestrian fish out of water story of living in another culture…
Popular Posts
Itaewon, Part I: Seoul’s Little America ā A Depravity in Four Acts
These places exist around the world, these āPleasure Islandā communities near current or former army installations: Bangkok, Tijuana, Saigon, Manila, Okinawa to name just a few, all with a parallel motif of booze, hookers and cheap souvenirs.
The Cost of Achievement: a Front Row Seat for the Korean CSAT
“…relative strangers, with whom I once shared joy, laughter and mischief in class, extraordinarily bright and happy kids reduced to empty eyes and blank faces.”
Life Under the Button: The Go-Bag, Kim Jong Un and Me
Dooms day preparations are often ridiculed, but what about when you live under the credible threat of nuclear war? Cowie pokes fun at his own fears even as he takes a sober look at “life under the button” in South Korea.
Reluctant Romantic
Why canāt I remember his name? I quote him oftenā¦Ā Iād gone West after graduating. It was election night, 2008, and Jackson Hole Wyoming was a tiny blue dot in a vast red state…
Raising a Honyol
Raising a racially mixed child in an insular society. As a foreigner living in the Republic of Korea, it can be a rewarding existence…
Popular Posts
Itaewon, Part I: Seoul’s Little America ā A Depravity in Four Acts
These places exist around the world, these āPleasure Islandā communities near current or former army installations: Bangkok, Tijuana, Saigon, Manila, Okinawa to name just a few, all with a parallel motif of booze, hookers and cheap souvenirs.
The Cost of Achievement: a Front Row Seat for the Korean CSAT
“…relative strangers, with whom I once shared joy, laughter and mischief in class, extraordinarily bright and happy kids reduced to empty eyes and blank faces.”
Life Under the Button: The Go-Bag, Kim Jong Un and Me
Dooms day preparations are often ridiculed, but what about when you live under the credible threat of nuclear war? Cowie pokes fun at his own fears even as he takes a sober look at “life under the button” in South Korea.
Reluctant Romantic
Why canāt I remember his name? I quote him oftenā¦Ā Iād gone West after graduating. It was election night, 2008, and Jackson Hole Wyoming was a tiny blue dot in a vast red state…
Raising a Honyol
Raising a racially mixed child in an insular society. As a foreigner living in the Republic of Korea, it can be a rewarding existence…