• Making
comparisons with your mother country is inevitable after living abroad for a decent interval, and this is especially true of teachers here, since we, as opposed to...
ulsan, korea
05th Jan2012
28th Dec2011
• On understanding, or 언어보다 행동, 백문이 불여일견.
My profession and lifestyle rarely require me to communicate ideas more complicated than ordering a malted beverage in a foreign tongue. I teach in my native language;...
22nd Dec2011
• One
way Marxist dictators like to prove their mettle is by doing something stupid, and I’m hoping the newly-minted autocrat to the north isn’t as insane as is...
10th Dec2011
I shouldn’t have a job.
But I do, because Korea spends the most money on private education among all OECD countries. Fees at my school range from ~$150-300 per month, depending on the...
10th Nov2011
• So I drank a bottle of soju
and decided to write an op-ed for The Korea Times, one of Korea’s two English dailies. The text follows. At the time of this writing, hundreds of...
07th Nov2011
• Every Korean should be required to listen to this
They corrupted the priceless African image of Isis Replaced it with a lifeless, anorexic white bitch The fashion industry got ‘em in a funny spot Self-hatred leaking...
10th Oct2011
• Ill fares the land
to hast’ning ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay - Oliver Goldsmith, The Deserted Village, 1770 It was a bad time to read Tony Judt’s...
17th Aug2011
• About
once a year I find myself listening almost exclusively to derivative, repetitive, and occasionally horrible dance music. Years of willful abuse have transformed this hitherto bad habit...
07th Jun2011
• By my count,
I’ve broken six chairs here. The figure is disputed, as some claim it’s too conservative, but I am confident that it is accurate. I have no regrets....
14th May2011
• 내가
후회는 결정을 많은 한다. • God can’t love all men equally. Otherwise, we should all escape the womb armed with a matching set of titanium-tungsten alloy testicles,...