Geoffrey Cain first arrived in South Korea in 2009, spending a lot of time in Uijeongbu and Yangju, two military towns north of Seoul. As a journalist, he was eager to get out of the city and cover life outside the capital; these gritty camp towns became a bed of coverage for his magazine writing at Time.
By Matthew Fennell
Asia Society
Sep 14, 2017
SEOUL, South Korea — Perched above the shimmering cityscape, in an old stone house with a makeshift aluminum roof, is an elderly shaman who goes by the spiritual name “Lotus Prophet.”
By Geoffrey Cain
PRI’s The World
Nov 6, 2014
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