Seoul’s rush-hour vendors

A piece in the Korea Times about Seoul’s subway vendors caught my eye this morning. You see them regularly on the trains here, hawking their wares to mostly indifferent passengers. I do see occasional purchases, and my wife likes to buy stuff from them if for nothing else than to support them. The last item [...]

Only in America

Yesterday as people in my office in downtown Seoul gathered around the TV to watch Obama deliver his speech in Denver, a colleague from Sudan turned to me and said, a smile playing on the corners of his mouth, “who would ever have suspected that 49 years ago an African man in Kenya would father [...]