Survive & Thrive in Korea
Boa is a Korean pop princess who conquered South Korea, took Japan by storm and now has her sights set firmly on the US market. Discovered by talent scouts, Boa, which stands for Beat of Angel, speaks Korean, Japanese, and English. She has sold over a million albums in Japan, making her one of two […]
Continue ReadingOn the heels of Hillary’s recent statements on the drug wars and the effect of American made guns in Mexico I stumbled across this apropo little gem from cartoonist Mark Fiore. If you haven’t heard I’ll paraphrase what Hillary said on her trip to Mexico: “I feel very strongly we have a co-responsibility,” Clinton told […]
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For my birthday I took the day off from work and treated myself to a good old fashioned American breakfast. For that I went to Suji’s in Itaewon. They’re located right on the corner down from the McDonald’s and next to Hahn’s Tailors. Suji’s specializes in the brunch crowd and once you sit down and […]
Continue ReadingYeah, this is a bit late, but I still think worthy of a posting. A couple of months back CNN’s omnipresent reporter at large, Christine Amanpour, undertook a herculean task of reporting inside North Korea and living to tell the tale. I had seen the commercials on CNN advertising her big special and I meant […]
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The folks at the New Yorker have a long standing tradition of political satire. From the cover of Bush and his cabinet conducting a meeting in shoulder deep water post Katrina to the cover of Bush playing house maid, dusting off a lounging Dick Cheney the staff at the magazine has long been known to […]
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Ruslana! No, it’s not a James Bond vixen with bee stung lips, hypnotic eyes, and a body to kill for, but you’d be close. Ruslana is a Russian pop princess who I stumbled upon while surfing NPR. She’s in the news not because she’s flashing her punani like a certain American pop princess past her […]
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