Mar 7, 2013 | Writing
SEOUL — Now that Dennis Rodman is home, how many Washington policymakers are bitter that they didn’t get to be the first American to meet Kim Jong-un? John Kerry is perhaps one, joining a chorus of critics jabbing at the NBA hall of famer. “Dennis Rodman was a...
Feb 28, 2013 | Writing
SEOUL, South Korea — It is day three of Dennis Rodman’s surprise visit to North Korea, where today he became the first American to meet Kim Jong Un. Earlier, the NBA Hall of Famer and three members of the Harlem Globetrotters played an exhibition match against the...
Feb 26, 2013 | Writing
SEOUL, South Korea — A crowd of young women wait nervously in the lobby of a popular plastic surgery clinic in Apgujeong, the affluent neighborhood at the heart of Gangnam. Photographs of Korean pop singers and actresses line the walls, winsome customers who smile...
Feb 25, 2013 | Writing
GWANGJU, South Korea — It is a chilly day in Gwangju, the cradle of South Korea’s political left, and home to what was once a boisterous democracy movement that fought military rule in the 1970s and 1980s. That’s why many residents here look to Monday’s...
Feb 24, 2013 | Writing
SEOUL, South Korea — On a frigid winter evening in Seoul, a college student raced out of a popular bistro and vomited near my feet. The owner, Im Choo-sung, followed him out the door. “Would the kids please throw up in the bathroom?” he announced. “The neighbors get...
Feb 21, 2013 | Writing
SEOUL, South Korea — South Korean lawmakers from the Saenuri Party, the country’s conservative ruling party, stepped up their battle cry at the National Assembly this week: It’s time for South Korea to man up and make its own nuclear weapons, they said....
