<소년이 온다> (2014) 글. 한강 리뷰. 그레고리 C. 이브츠 2016년 10월 11일 짙고 짙은 어둠이 현대 한국 사회에 드리워져 있다. 안 그렇게 들리겠지만 북한에서 저질러지는 잔혹한 행위는 아니다. 이 짙은 어둠은 38선 이북의 공포보다 더 소비주의와 산업화에 가깝다. 이 어둠은… Read More ›
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“Human Acts” (t. 2016) by Han Kang — a book review
“Human Acts” (t. 2016) by Han Kang “소년이 온다” (2014) 글 한강 a book review by Gregory C. Eaves Tuesday, Oct. 11, 2016 A dark, dark pall hangs over modern-day Korea, and it’s not the atrocities being committed in North… Read More ›
Eat Your Way across Korea: Army Base Stew
In the early days of the 1950s and 1960s there was a plethora of U.S. military stationed across Korea but a dearth of harvestable grain, food distribution networks, or luxury meals. The desperation and poverty, and man’s ever-blossoming inventiveness when… Read More ›
How to launder money: a domestic tale
People often ask me about money laundering. It’s not that complex. First, sell drugs in America. Receive cash. How do you get those millions of filthy USD cash bills into the banking system so that you can actually use it… Read More ›
Happy Fourth of July
Militarily it was a hardpressed time [for the Americans]. A crushing defeat in the Battle of Long Island in August, 1776, had left the British in control of access to New York and the New York coast. Washington had, at… Read More ›
Are You a Traveler or an Immigrant?
I’ve never bought the travel-as-transformation narrative fluff that’s mongered in such tracts as Cheryl Strayed’s “Wild” or in Elizabeth Gilbert’s “Eat, Pray, Love.” Travel, at least the kind of travel so often coded as “real” or “authentic,” as opposed to,… Read More ›
Seoul: Emergent Urbanism
Do you live in Seoul? Do you think a lot about your city? The greater Seoul area has about 26 million people in it. It’s about 50% of Korean GDP and about 50% of the population. Seoul proper, just the… Read More ›
Thank you, France
This Thursday is the Fourth of July. Every Fourth of July, I say a little prayer of thanks to France. France bought from the fledgling U.S. its first-ever tranche of federal bonds, thereby giving Washington enough cash to buy guns…. Read More ›
O Captain! My Captain!
O Captain! my Captain! our fearful trip is done, The ship has weather’d every rack, the prize we sought is won, The port is near, the bells I hear, the people all exulting, While follow eyes the steady keel, the… Read More ›
Gettysburg Address
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing… Read More ›
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