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From January-April 2011, I worked compiling information for Time Out Seoul, which was just published in October 2011. I compiled half the music section, including venue and band/album recommendations and also contributed a few vintage clothing store recommendations to the shopping section.
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I was a writer for CnnGo.com’s Seoul section from July to October 2011. Here’s an article I wrote on my favorite six art cinemas in Seoul.
Not For Tourists (www.notfortourists.com) is a growing series of guides to major cities that cover everything from restaurants to nightlife, shopping, parks, public transit, sports stadium, museums, art galleries, to hardware stores and more.
They’re based in Brooklyn (after some time in Chinatown) and have been around since 2000.
I started writing for them in 2006 covering the Atlanta area, and from 2007 began writing about Seoul when I moved to South Korea.
My writings can be found here.
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This is an article I had published in Groove magazine (Korea) in November 2010. It’s about a report that was published by South Korea’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission (http://jinsil.go.kr/english/index.asp), which was launched in 2005 under the Noh Moo-Hyun government.
The report documents massacres that were carried out by the South Korean government on its own people just after the Korean war due to a red scare. Estimates of those massacred range from in the hundred thousands and up to a million.
Men, women and children were murdered, and reading the accounts of survivors is horrifying.
I wrote this article because I’d been witness to a few older Koreans making strange comments about “communists” that had insinuated that these “communists” are lurking around corners even in 2010 in the form of union leaders and who knows what other positions, waiting to turn people.
When I came across this government document, I realized that I had found a huge missing piece to my puzzle.
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Here’s an article I had published about a gay Korean man who started his obligatory 2-year military service but quit 4 months in because he was almost certain he’d be emotionally and/or physically assaulted if his fellow soldiers found out that he was gay.
In the end, he was sentenced to a year and a half in prison, of which he served one year before being pardoned on good behavior on the day of President Lee Myung-bak’s inauguration in February 2008.
It was published in Groove magazine (Korea) in August 2009.
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Here’s an article I wrote for Groove magazine (Korea) that was published in February 2009 about why I would never get double-eyelid surgery.
This is a video I produced in 2009 for Spin magazine’s website SpinEarth.tv, which was in beta and no longer exists. It’s a shame; I learned so much about the underground music scenes in northern Japan and China from that site.
In any case, for this video I interviewed Ujung Dokbo Haeng, who owns the underground music venue, Badabie, in Seoul. He tells us a little bit about his life, including how he endured homelessness and how opening this venue, which is a staple in Korea’s underground music scene, changed his life.
