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Long strings of time inspire questions that were thought to have been buried years ago. After 18 years in the American education system, on paper the preparations for…

There was a pillar in the center of the taekwondo studio. Painted a cheap white, the sort that’s haphazardly brushed onto warehouse walls; but in the center, a dark spot—there the…

Catching up with a friend visiting Seoul, he quoted something he’d overheard from a Hollywood screenwriting stalwart: “No matter where you are, your work in your twenties is…

There were two goals I determined for myself before departing for Korea in July. The first was open-ended and simple: Grow closer to my Korean heritage, through language study…

The last week of the fall semester classes brings up another group of questions, this time perhaps more big picture ones. The conundrum: Who am I teaching? Or…

Living in Seoul a few summers ago brought out the first layer differences: the food, the people, the culture, and the habits of all three. Over time, however,…

Before setting one foot into the English classroom, two people of power—first Director Shim of Fulbright and then my principal here at Youngsaeng High School—gave me the same…

One of my favorite bloggers once wrote that “Life is a picture, but you live in a pixel.” That is, life isn’t experienced in decades and lifetimes, but instead in…

Thanksgiving day in America may have been the newly revised date of the Korean SAT (수능), but that wasn’t going to stop me and the other Fulbrighters from having a…

After previous week’s long-winded, single story content, time to put on the brakes a bit and toss the net wide rather than sink the hook deep. If I learned or…