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 ›
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 ›
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 ›
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 ›
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