Flying into Panmunjom with CNN — June 14, 2001

Of all the cool things that I got to do when I was a feature writer for The Korea Times, one of the coolest things was flying into Panmunjom in a Blackhawk helicopter with CNN on June 14, 2001. In 2001, the U.S. Army switched from their green/camo fatigue hats to black berets and the [...]

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On the Waterfront

I’m not sure what’s going on in this photo via the Chosun Ilbo. Doesn’t look like too many people want to go swimming. Maybe the waves are too high. Where’s the fun in this just standing on a crowded beach?

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Black Roses

Sometimes a writer needs the luxury of time and distance to finish a story or to revisit one. Such is the case with “Black Roses” a story that I wrote way back in 1986 when I was attending Eureka College. I got the idea for the story during a trip to Chicago with one of [...]

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Black Death

  Black Death I had plenty of cultural things to learn when I arrived in Korea back in 1990 such as the black cylindrical briquette canisters, about the size of a can of motor oil that were once predominantly used as a source of fuel for cooking and heating in Korea. Problem was when these [...]

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July 27, 1953

This year marks the 60th anniversary of the end of the Korean War when the armistice was signed at Panmunjom. For some families though, the war has never ended. http://amzn.to/ZAcFu8

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Multicultural Festival 2013: Our diversity makes us one

One of the highlights of the school year at the SolBridge International School of Business is the annual Multicultural Festival. It is a chance for students to share their cultures with their classmates and faculty through song and dance as well as traditional clothing. It is more than a celebration of culture, though. It is [...]

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François Truffaut’s 400 Blows (Les quatre cents coups)

Took me long enough. I’m embarrassed that I hadn’t seen this film until now. François Truffaut’s first feature, The 400 Blows (Les quatre cents coups), is also his most personal. Told through the eyes of Truffaut’s life-long cinematic counterpart, Antoine Doinel (Jean-Pierre Léaud), The 400 Blows sensitively re-creates the trials of Truffaut’s own difficult childhood, unsentimentally portraying aloof [...]

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Indonesian students perform traditional Indonesian dance at SolBridge

The annual Multicultural Festival at the SolBridge International School of Business is one of the highlights of the semester and the school year for students, whether as a performer or a member of the audience. The festival celebrates the school’s diversity but it’s through this diversity which makes all of the students, faculty, and staff [...]

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This Photo Rocks!

I normally don’t pat myself on the back for the photos I take, you know, let the photos speak for themselves (a picture’s worth a thousand words, that sort of thing) BUT this photo that I took during SolBridge International School of Business’s Spring 2013 Multicultural Festival, ROCKS!

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You’ll love this story

Why Ice Cream Headache? Why not. This story works on many different levels, but what I wanted to show with this novella was a microcosm of America in 1968 that had already been turned upside down by the Vietnam War and the assassination of Martin Luther King. And there would be so much more before [...]

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