We would not expect the feeble, octogenarian POTUS to abandon the White House or the British prime minister to leave 10 Downing Street, or the Philippine president to quit Malacañang Palace or Kenya’s president to desert the State House or the...
Yong Yoon, Jeong Choong-jae and I hope to convince some enterprising Americans to come here and do a movie based on Mr. Jeong’s 2010 book Golden Lily Operation. Why not? Yamashita: The Tiger’s Treasure premiered 20 years ago and did quite well...
In President Richard Nixon’s memoirs, he wrote thus of Charles Colson: “His instinct for the political jugular and ability to get things done made him a lightning rod for my own political frustrations…. When I complained to Colson, I felt...
I played church baseball with Kevin Nietmann in Dallas nearly six decades ago. After high school graduation, I went to Austin and he went to Annapolis. Not only is Kevin an alumnus of the U.S. Naval Academy, he is also an arch-conservative. That...
I have never had a Jewish girlfriend. The number of Jewish students at the four Dallas public schools I attended between 1958 and 1971 certainly did not exceed 100. As for my time at the University of Texas, I often passed by the Texas Hillel...
The area around Gangnam Subway Station is crowded with people and cars, the air is bad, real estate prices are sky-high, and stores open and close with numbing regularity: A restaurant becomes a real estate office becomes a juice bar becomes a...
Has professional basketball ever seen a more foolish move than when Michael Jordan said toodle-oo to his Chicago Bulls teammates after three straight NBA championships so he could play baseball—rather badly—with the Birmingham Barons? That...
What a coincidence that less than a month after I sent a final (and pointed) letter to the French ambassador and tossed out all but a few pages of the petition seeking the repatriation of Jikji, I was invited back to Cheongju. An event was due to...
Determined not to obsess and worry about my ongoing prostate issues, I had a ticket to Jeonju in hand on Friday morning at Express Bus Terminal. The place was packed, as the Chuseok holiday had begun. Since traffic was stop-and-go nearly all the...
The news feed on my outdated smart phone is very irksome. I scroll down it and find a lot of silly, stupid, offensive or irrelevant stories. I ignore most of them, look at a few and hit the don’t-send-me-such-crap button for the others. The...
Henry Kissinger (USA, 1973), Menahem Begin (Israel, 1978), Aung San Suu Kyi (Myanmar, 1991), Rigoberta Menchú (Guatemala 1992), Yasser Arafat (Palestine Liberation Organization, 1994), Kim Dae-jeong (South Korea, 2000), Wangarĩ Muta Maathai...
Kim Haeng-seok’s family has been living in Jeju for 14 generations, or roughly 350 years. One of his long-ago antecedents must have done something to offend the king (Hyeonjong [r. 1659–1674] or Sukjong [r. 1674–1720] if Haeng-seok’s guess is...
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