By Geoffrey CainPRI’s The World Mar 10, 2015 1) The food is tangy, piquant, pickled, and awesome. Just about every corner watering hole whips up dazzling barbecues, stews and pickled vegetables. It’s spicy, and that’s a good thing. 2) The locals will go...
By Geoffrey CainPRI’s The World Mar 5, 2015 SEOUL, South Korea — Wearing traditional garb and wielding a 10-inch fruit knife, the assailant stood up and shouted for the unification of the two Koreas before slashing his supposed enemy: the guest of honor, US...
By Geoffrey CainPRI’s The World Feb 18, 2015 SEOUL, South Korea — Pyongyang is drab and colorless, known mostly for its blockish, retro-Soviet architecture and socialist realism. But colorful propaganda posters stand out garishly, perhaps deliberately, in the...
By Geoffrey CainPRI’s The World Feb 14, 2015 SEOUL, South Korea — Ever since the 2008 economic crisis, Americans have bemoaned the impunity and influence-peddling of Wall Street. But South Koreans have long complained that their country, nicknamed the “Republic...
By Geoffrey CainPRI’s The World Feb 10, 2015 SEOUL, South Korea — Is the sun setting on the brotherly bond between North Korea and its biggest patron, China? North Koreans often compare the indefatigable relationship to “lips and teeth.” China is North Korea’s...
By Geoffrey CainPRI’s The World Feb 2, 2015 SEOUL, South Korea — Of course, China is renowned as a tough place to do business. But world’s biggest brand names have a long history of investing major bucks in booming South Korea — only to whiff. Chalk it up to...
