By 3WM (the author wishes to remain anonymous here due to the situation; contact e-mail below)
I need to get out of here. I need to sell my stuff and just focus on recovering from an unexpected surgery.
Tried to pay the hospital bill, but my insurance had been canceled. Knowing I was to be released on Tuesday, the company had called and canceled my insurance Monday. The bill tripled.
I explained to the hospital I didn’t have the money. I explained that once I sold my furniture from my house, I could pay.
The company told me I might as well stay in the hospital and think over my situation. Essentially, I was locked in the hospital for two days for lack of payment.
While in the hospital, the company entered my apartment and changed the locks.
By Iwazaru I shall assume that your silence gives consent. —Plato
Be constructive or be silent. — Former ATEK president Greg Dolezal
Back in March of 2009, ATEK’s spokesman Tony Hellmann promoted the “Equal Checks for All” campaign, declaring that “…all teachers should have the same standard that Korean teachers have: no drug tests and no HIV check.” The campaign was part and parcel of ATEK’s mantra and Hellmann, as its voice, set himself up for any criticism. Much of the criticism came because ATEK seemed focused on the E-2 crowd and the checks it faced.
By Joshua Richman
Korea’s green tea, like its ginseng, is excellent. I could have written about Art Street without visiting again, but the taxi dropped me off in the vicinity and I felt like a cup of tea. Later, I’d make sure my facts were correct about Bosung Plantation’s production. I was not happy with these two paragraphs and spent hours once I got back to Seoul trying to come up with something stronger. A basic rule of travel writing is that you try to make people feel, smell, taste, hear, and touch whatever you’re writing about. Even after multiple revisions these paragraphs seemed flat. Writing in second person is tricky. It’s hard not to write ‘you’ every other sentence because when you do use you too much, you won’t get published nor will you get paid.
By Felix McGee
On March 7, 2011, it transpired that the police in South Korea were looking at the possibility of reopening the rape-abuse case of Jang, Ja-yeon. On March 6, SBS TV ‘News at 8’ had run a special, questioning the thoroughness of the initial investigation.
SBS also appeared to be in possession of new letters, though much like many other aspects of the case, this was never solidly established.
On March 8, police obtained the rights to re-open the case.
By 3WM In association with Seoul Players: Amy Mihyang, New York actor and writer, will present the Asian Premiere production of “between” in April.
“Dear….mother.” How do you write a letter to the woman who gave you away 20 years ago? Combining adapted work by Asian and adoptee writers and Amy Mihyang’s original writing, “between” encapsulates her experiences as a Korean American woman, a New Yorker, and most of all, a transracial adoptee. Bringing the audience with her on the plane en route from NYC to Korea, the author contrasts her journey with the echoes of other adoptees and those touched by the act of adoption. Mihyang makes us ask ourselves, “Do we need to know where we came from in order to know where we’re going?”
Nearly two months after the sinking of the Cheonan warship in the Yellow Sea that left 46 South Korean seamen dead, the government came forward on last Thursday morning with detailed evidence (including recently recovered parts of the torpedo used with written Korean characters and an accompanying blueprint of the torpedo taken from a weapons brochure the North offers to potential customers) presented in a lengthy press conference…
There is no truth. There is only perception. —Gustave Flaubert
Barely two years ago, The Association for Teachers of English in Korea (ATEK) officially stepped on stage to begin a show that by now has resembled something of a Shakespearean tragedy or the recent Broadway musical “Spider-Man: Turn off the Dark” which has turned into a $65 million debacle. ATEK’s vision was grandiose, its staff ambitious, its message scripted, its theater vast.
“We need information that helps us understand, protects our rights and gives us better access to services, improves our teaching, and makes living and working in Korea more convenient,” said founding President Tom Rainey-Smith of New Zealand, then 27, and one of the founding triad, at a press conference on March 11, 2009 to announce the launch or, if you will, the beginning of Act I.
By Joshua Richman
I could not write about the two things of real interest at Kwangju’s National Museum. The first was the location itself. The building and landscaping around it were well done. A long promenade lined with landscaped trees and blooming flowers leads up granite steps to the huge sloped-roofed museum. Stylish tinted windows and mighty wooden crossbeams added a simplistic yet modern touch, but no one goes to a museum to look at its exterior. It’s what’s on the inside that counts: a parable that applies to museums as well.
By J. Lee
Okay, so let me slowly walk you through the ROK’s Achilles’ heels. I don’t like to rehash old ideas, but this time, I feel I must. They warrant attention in that they provide clues as to how the DPRK may lash out against its southern brethren. They also matter in that they reveal the ROK’s scheme to unite the divided minjok to be a quixotic pipe dream.
First, the ROK remains militarily vulnerable. According to a 2010 study conducted by the ROK National Assembly, it was revealed that the ROK Armed Forces had sufficient munitions to fight for one week only.
With support from KoPAS the same folks who brought the DRIPAN art walk are putting on a collaborative event Sunday, March 27 · 7:00 – 10:00 p.m. to warm up to a summer of mixed media events and festivals. Static, performance, sound and video art all mixing and intermingling in one space with interactive pieces and exhibits. Come out, get involved and get free.
By Felix McGee The suicide-abuse case of South Korean actress Jang Ja-Yeon, who was found hanged from a stairway banister by her older sister on March 7, 2009 at 1942, has recently come back into the public, private and government spotlight.
Born on December 8, 1982, the actress was 27 years of age at the time of her death. It was believed that Jang had been residing with her older sister and younger brother in Bundang, Seong-nam, Gyeonggi-do since the death of both her mother and father in a road accident in 1999.
Most folks who fancy becoming travel writers don’t want to write. They want to travel. Jaded, I ride on a bus, notebook handy as emerald rice fields and angular mountains slide past. A dream has come true. I am living it. I am a travel writer. An in-flight magazine is paying me $750 to write up Kwangju, the fifth largest city in South Korea. After publishing stories on South Korea in newspapers and harassing the editor of the in-flight, finally, I get monthly assignments.
By Stella Jang
On February 7th, I graduated from a foreign language high school in a rather mundane and boring ceremony, the only highlight being when the boy who was chosen to give a speech to the graduating class—he was a student from the program in our school that prepares students to enter universities abroad—broke away from his scripted Korean address, which was rolling on a giant screen at the front of the auditorium, into a humorous rant in English that criticized the school and had teachers scowling.
Please share this video to family and friends and help create awareness and educate those that don’t know the situations that the unfortunate North Korean victims encounter.
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