Since late November of last year, room 23 of the Yeoksam Livingtel has been my home. This red-brick edifice, located at 47 Bongeunsa-ro 30-gil, Gangnam-gu, is about a mile northeast of the Yesung Life Officetel, where I resided for more than 14...
Sixteen-plus years have passed since I moved to Korea, during which time I have traveled, read, studied, asked questions and cogitated about the country’s history and culture. Having done this, I submit that Kim Il-Sung came perilously...
As a freshman at the University of Texas (Fall 1971 and Spring 1972), my head was spinning. I had serious doubts about whether I could compete, academically and socially, and had no direction to speak of. In such a confused and insecure state, I...
Genealogy is something to which I have devoted little time or energy. But I know that before trekking southwest to Texas, the patrilineal side of my family had been in Kentucky and Tennessee. I also heard from one of the old folks that our...
The Camden Panthers have won the 2024 New Jersey Group 2 state basketball championship, beating Newark Arts High School by a score of 69-50. When those young men raised the trophy at Jersey Mike’s Arena on the Rutgers University campus, it would...
Three months after I graduated from the University of Texas (May 1976), a young man from the rough-and-tumble oil-patch town of Freer matriculated there. He would go on to much greater heights than I have. Steve McMichael—dubbed “Bam-Bam” by...
People who know boxing far better than I have mixed opinions about Tyson Fury. He has impassioned supporters and vociferous critics. I have seen a few of his fights (highlights, that is, on YouTube) and must say I like him. He has no tats, he...
Early in my tenure at Hansung Intellectual Property, I went to lunch once a week with the senior partners—boss-man Kyu-Pal Choi and three or four others. I usually followed along to whatever sikdang he had in mind. But once I surprised him with a...
On a recent bone-chilling Saturday morning, I took the subway to Samgakji Station and walked five minutes to the War Memorial of Korea. I had been to this place before, in 2009. There was a certain exhibit I wanted to see, about a Korean freedom...
’Tis the season. Not the season for giving and receiving presents, for depictions of Santa Claus and his reindeer, for cheesy commercials or for obligatory gatherings of people who sometimes can barely stand each other. But the season to...
She was one of the gentlest, sweetest and kindest women I have ever known—easy on the eyes, too. So I was saddened to learn of the troubles she endured in her later years, and her death on October 28. My connections to Peggy Crippen were few. We...
For brief stretches in 1973, 1974 and 1978, I lived with my family in the bedroom community of Livonia, Michigan. Of those college and post-college days, I retain memories both painful and amusing. What follows is one of the latter. I had a blue...
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