You will find me at Tapgol Park on the first day of March, every year—no exceptions. Of course, 2019 was especially important as it marked a century since the promulgation of the Korean Declaration of Independence. The air was bad in Seoul on...
Magnolia Park is just a few miles north of downtown Beaumont, Texas. That is where, in the early 1960s, high school football players gathered to practice and play informal games. Recreation for black kids then was minimal, so they created their...
My life changed for the better when the Brandeberry family moved from Omaha to Dallas in the summer of 1969. The oldest of its three children was a girl named Carol. She enrolled at Bryan Adams High School, and her locker had by the luck of the...
I recently attended and enjoyed an exhibition about the life and music of John Lennon and the Beatles at the Seoul Arts Center. However—and I am afraid I will sound like an insufferable snob here—I learned little since I lived through the Beatles...
According to Stanley Woodward of the New York Herald Tribune, some major fireworks went off just three weeks after Jackie Robinson began his career with the Brooklyn Dodgers on April 15, 1947. Certainly there had been opposition to Robinson...
On this 223-kilometer bus ride to Korea’s east coast, I had two seat mates. The first was a young woman who had recently been through plastic surgery; I could see her bruised face underneath a mask. The second was a burly man who reeked of...
Not until 2016 did I get on Facebook. I have, for the most part, enjoyed and benefited from it. Facebook has enabled me to find people with whom I had long lost contact. But, as with every form of social media, things are not always what they...
Having lived in Texas (mostly Dallas and Austin) for half a century, I still have some affinity for the place. And as a serious amateur historian, I recognize the centrality of the Korean War in my adopted land; you will find me at Seoul National...
Having known Dr. Myline Cornel for more than a decade, I was aware of her son Kean. I knew he had graduated from a maritime university in the Philippines and that he was struggling to get hired by one of the country’s shipping companies...
I was on a radio show about 20 years ago. One of the other interviewees was Dr. John Butler, a faculty member at the University of Texas. Dr. Butler, a tall, savvy man of African descent, had helped integrate Louisiana State University as an...
After lots of discussion and planning, Lee Su-hyeon (“Vicky”) and I arranged for me to visit Hayang, her hometown in North Gyeongsang Province, to give a talk about Jikji and my NGO’s efforts to extricate it from the clutches of the French...
I am told that high school football in Texas these days has evolved. As in college and as in the pros, the game is now more about pitching and catching, tossing it around the old ball yard as Steve Spurrier once said. When I was a student five...
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