After four years or so with the same layout, I've been making small tweaks to the blog and the sidebars: the names appearing there will...

When news of the latest "Final deal" regarding the Comfort Women came out on December 28, I wasn't as excited as a few of my ...

There was a Star Wars movie out, did you hear? It was pretty good, and it's making tonnes of money, so... there's that. I finall...

I.Seoul.U.  World Taekwondo Federation. How did we get here? Sometime in August, I heard Seoul City was taking submissions for a new ...

Yes, it's already October 21 in Korea. Too bad it's a Wednesday. If it were a Friday, we could call it Marty McFlyday ( get ...

Subtitle: aw heck, why not make it a blog post. Somewhere around 2011, thoughts that would have become blog posts suddenly became long-f...

Earlier this year I said to myself, "Self, if you can't write three blog posts a week like you did back in 2008, you can at leas...

I am intrigued by the way these two articles came across my feed around the same time. Because they are the mirror images of each other. ...

I just watched Kingsman: The Secret Service, the film responsible for the surge in popularity of double-breasted suits  in Korea ( it was H...

It's a year after the Sewol Ferry disaster. Later today I'll walk around a few of the mourning and commemoration sites. Perhaps I w...

As I clear out the dropbox photo upload folder, and the iPhoto photo album (which is a pain in the ass to clean up), I come across many ph...

This is the essence of a list I presented on TBS Main Street, on TBS English Radio, where I do a weekly countdown at 10:30 every Thursday m...