I wish I could remember where I was and what I was doing on January 15, 2001. I know I was living in Austin, Texas and working as a proofreader at McElroy Translation Company. I was also in the middle of writing Home Field / An Illustrated...
It was February 1994, almost 27 years ago. I was on a memorable three-part trip to the Far East, gathering information for Coming to Texas / International Students at the University of Texas. I had already met with Dr. Kim Soo-gon in Jeonju...
The recent death of Floyd Little—an all-America running back at Syracuse and then a star for nine years with the Denver Broncos—has sparked a series of obituaries and retrospectives. Number 44 deserves it because he really could play. Versatile...
There are now 284 Starbucks stores in Seoul, more than in New York, Shanghai, London or any other city you care to name. I recall once standing at a big intersection and seeing a Starbucks at three of the four corners—how’s that for saturation? I...
Although I admire King Sejong, Admiral Yi Sun-shin, Park Chung-hee, Kim Yuna and all seven members of BTS, I admire Jeon Bong-jun even more. For that reason, on consecutive days I journeyed to the intersection of Jong-ro and Ujeongguk-ro in...
After reading an article by Pat Forde of Sports Illustrated, it appears that I am a hater and a troglodyte, and my masculinity is easily threatened. I beg to disagree. Unlike Forde and some others in the American media, I have a deep and abiding...
Every Korean schoolboy or -girl, every taxi driver, every computer programmer, everybody from the highest to the lowest levels of this society knows the glorious tale of how King Sejong took it upon himself in 1443 to construct an entirely new...
Jimmy Jones, Steve Jones, Red Robbins, Gerald Govan, Larry Brown and Doug Moe were key players for the New Orleans Buccaneers of the American Basketball Association in the late 1960s. When visiting Dallas to play my beloved Chaparrals, they too...
My young friend Daryl Deanne Dayanan is a junior at the University of Negros Occidental-Recoletos in the Philippines. She is majoring in secondary education with a focus on math, and making excellent grades. DD, as I often call her, contacted me...
Six months ago, I penned a Korea Times column entitled “In dire need of political maturity.” In it, I urged a hyper-conservative Korean friend to accept—or at least not actively oppose—the liberal government of President Moon Jae-in. Doing so, I...
A fellow American-Korean named Ron Roman invited me to visit him in Pyeongtaek last month. He first got here in 1977. We had a nice time, and our discussion ranged over many topics. One was our mutual love of reading. A few days later, Roman...
After I got a University of Texas diploma on May 22, 1976, the decades have rolled by. That’s one form of distance, another being the 6,000 or so miles separating the USA from Korea. If the bonds between me and my alma mater are not as strong and...
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