Year: 2010
A Visit to North Korea: 3WM Throwback Piece from the N.Y. Review of Books
By Suki Kim On February 16, 2002, the sixtieth birthday of the Great Leader Kim Jong Il, I was standing...
Dancing with Nietzsche— A tiger, a bear, a lot of soju and an MTV gig
By Tiger and Bear with illustrations by James Wilson. The town was a far cry from the Asian space-age metropolises...
Guarding Seoul from the Mountains: Letter from a Korean Soldier
From Chuck Kang I’m in a mountain. My main goal is to protect a “VIP facility” (and I’m pretty sure...
Oh G-20! Shame on a Dire Idea
By Maire Kulik Oh G-20 how you torment the masses! It’d be better if we listened to the wisdom of...
Hail to the G20!
by April Kim This is what some people feel like about the the G-20 meeting: president mouse invites nineteen foreign...
Art Exhibit by Vincent Troia Opening Nov. 13
“This is the problem of the artist generally: that he creates his own new meanings and must, in turn, be...
Dancing with Nietzsche— A tiger, a bear, a lot of soju and an MTV gig
By Tiger and Bear Our mission for tonight was clearly set: Get to the festival, get on MTV Korea and...
F1 Fever: Braving the Rain, Mud and Rickety Stands in Mokpo
By K. McGregor We who had trudged under rainy skies to a raceway with muddy, gravel parking lots, consoled ourselves...
Korean Dolls v. Australian Slobs—the View from Home
By Konrad Kostecki I am staying at home with my folks at the moment. It is good to see them...
Choe Seung-ja’s “Love in this Age”: Exploring a Modern Same-Sex Poet
By Gabriel Sylvian with Iwazaru The Eternal of My Youth I want something different that is not this. I want...
The Three Wise Monkeys Get Locked Out of Facebook
By Lee Scott Leveraging social media is a new headache for webmasters. Recently, I listened to a friend of mine...
The Sexualization of Korea (lawmaker proposes ban on “forced excessive body exposure”)
By Iwazaru The ROK airwaves and broadband are buzzing this week with a story about a 30-something-year-old female middle school...