Korean naval clash rattles my nerves

I’ve been in Seoul long enough now that when a protest breaks out I don’t go running out with my camera to see the action. Massive oil spills or the destruction of a national treasure are so cliche as to barely be worth comment. Even a nuclear test in the North evokes little more than [...]

The language of parenting

I humiliated a little kid recently, mistook his innocent curiosity for veiled racism and threw it back at him in spades. It was a warm fall afternoon, the mountainside resplendent in autumn reds and yellows. My family and I had just come down from the peak when the boy pointed in my direction and said [...]