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Advice for Kim Jong-un?
I was recently asked by an expert on North Korea what I would tell dictator Kim Jong-un if I had a chance to meet him. My response: “Nothing.”
2015-01-27 17:19
An expatriate encountering myself
When people ask me if I have read a certain book that I indeed have read, I often hesitate to confirm. Reading"To Kill a Mockingbird" or a book about dating is a different experience at age 16 compared to 36 or 56. I first read the late Paul Fussell's provocative collection of essays "Thank God for the Atom Bomb" as a graduate student. When I reread it a few years later, I noticed that I had completely skipped the chapter about traveling.
2015-01-13 17:08
Authoritarian mentality lives on
By Casey Lartigue, Jr.The next time Seoul Mayor Park Won-soon speaks about innovation and new ways of doing business being “deeply rooted” in city administration, I hope he will surround himself on stage with police officers and prosecutors.The authoritarian mentality is still alive in Korea, as Mark Clifford wrote in his 1994 book “Troubled Tiger.” Korea remains a “country of elite control” in which “the state oversees everything from wedding ceremonies to corporate investment.”Korea then had 500,000 local government officials, reaching into e...
2014-12-30 16:08
Rushing to judgment on a defector
Have you ever read an article that you knew was wrong or incomplete based on your inside knowledge? That was the case as I read a 3,000-word commentary by reporter Mary Ann Jolley challenging statements by North Korean refugee Park Yeon-mi.
2014-12-16 17:09
Both sides of Ferguson
Shortly before 11 p.m., on or about May 18, 1989, a white police officer stopped my younger brother Michael and I just minutes from our home. He flashed his lights, got out of his police car and asked where we had come from. I pointed to the trolley stopped at the light.
2014-12-02 17:00
Rejecting a dream job - and loving it
Dearest Casey, During your current trip to the USA to give a series of speeches in New York, D.C., Tennessee and California, you were delightfully blindsided by a job offer that would pay you more than three times as much as you are now making in South Korea. A few years ago, after a health scare, you began reflecting on your life and decided that you would only do the things that you wanted to do. People who try to pressure you to do things you don’t want to do have a 100% chance of failing. As you tell such people: ``I don’t have to eat everything put on my plate.”
2014-11-18 17:08
A meaningful experience
Congratulations! Your colleague Yeonmi Park has been named in the BBC’s Top 100 Women in the World 2014. This has meant she has given speeches around the world and been featured in major media such as the New York Times and Huffington Post. This all occurred in the last two weeks of October. Who would have believed she would become so well known internationally?
2014-11-04 17:13
An ambiguous man
I should expect it, but I occasionally get blind-sided in political discussions: A critic will bring up my race. I'm not saying that race is always irrelevant, but I reject it as a legitimate point in discussions about economic policy or North Korea. In most cases, the people who bring up my race in non-racial discussions are progressives (and usually white, although some blacks join in).
2014-10-21 17:07
What a coincidence!
Back when I was a young man working as an English teacher in Taipei, Taiwan, I skipped a friend’s birthday party because of work. The party was canceled, but rescheduled two nights later. I hit it off with an absolutely lovely lady there.
2014-10-07 17:05
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There's an old joke about two Jewish friends, one of whom subscribes to a Nazi newspaper. "How can you read that trash?" one friend asks the other.
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