I like to say that since moving to Korea 10-plus years ago, I have come to disregard big-time sports. The NBA playoffs? The NCAA Final Four? The World Series? Wimbledon? The Indy 500? The Olympics? University of Texas football? The passion I long...
June 6 is a national holiday in Korea, when people (are supposed to) pause and reflect about the sacrifices made during the 6-25 War, as it is usually called here. Of course, June 25 is the day in 1950 when Kim Il-Sung’s soldiers, with Soviet and...
George Halas was certainly in the twilight of his pro football career—player, coach and owner—in the mid-1960s. He had his critics, even though the Chicago Bears had won the NFL championship in 1963. Papa Halas fully understood that drafting...
There are many beautiful women in the Philippines, and I can name a few myself. But the loveliest of all is a stout 78-year-old grandmother named Aida D. Fariscal. A humble housewife, she joined the Manila police force after her husband died in...
There is a fundamental difference between receiving an invitation to somebody’s house, and just walking up and knocking on the door. In the first case, you will most likely be invited in and treated with a measure of respect. While that’s...
Bryan Adams’ two feeder junior high schools are Robert T. Hill and William H. Gaston. According to Google, they are just 3.1 miles apart. I propose to take a quick look at these educational institutions and the men for whom they were named. Since...
On the way to Express Bus Terminal for a late-afternoon departure, I ran into a former law-firm colleague named Jang Du-Hyun. We had only a minute to talk. He knew about my many travels and thus was not surprised to learn that I was going to a...
South Korea’s Moon Jae-In and his North Korean counterpart, Kim Jong-Un, met at Panmunjeom on April 27, 2018. Amid considerable theatrics, they shook hands, hugged, ate a super-fancy dinner and shared toasts. Early in the summit, they moved apart...
I have mentioned before that I felt somewhat out of my league when I was bumped up to the accelerated class (6B) at Hexter Elementary School in September 1964. All those kids were smart and none more so than Kathy Ann Downer. A 5-star student In...
Approximately 750,000 Texans (12,000 of them female) served in the American armed forces during World War II. And of that number, 22,000 died—1.19% of all men between the ages of 19 and 44. None dare say that Texans failed to do their patriotic...
It was 9 p.m., four years ago today. Four hundred and seventy-six people—33 crew members and 443 passengers, most of them 11th grade students at Danwon High School in Ansan—boarded a cruise ship named Sewol at Incheon. They headed south, bound...
During my 10 ½ years in Korea, I have inhaled vast amounts of second-hand smoke. I have never smoked and would never do so, believing it to be a vile and disgusting habit. The deleterious effects of smoking on the human body are legion. People...
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