Category Archives: Korea
HJ Freaks FTW
Kudos to Hyunmo Kim of HJ Freaks, the cross-dressing Korean bassist the Meg Whitman campaign made into a star this week by accidentally leaving a letter off their tweet of their endorsement by the San Diego Sheriff’s Association, sending their … Continue reading
Filed under Korea, Korean Punk, Korean Queer, politics
Banksy, the Simpsons and the DPRK
Banksy’s Simpson credits have made a bit of a splash because he’s an art sensation, but watching it I understood he meant to dramatize the role inexpensive North Korean animation labor plays in the creation of much of what we … Continue reading
The Warrior’s Way
Some Korean news I’m thinking about: Kim Jong Il is not so busy with the Euna Lee and Laura Ling controversy that he doesn’t have time to, uh, give notes to the performers of Eugene Onegin. Also, North Korea has … Continue reading
Filed under Korea, Korean Cinema, politics
An Army of Dancing Cats With Pistols Can Never Be Defeated
This might be my favorite collection of post tags ever. For today’s post, some out-takes from a day of teaching. First up, from a discussion in my graphic novel class of Guy Delisle’s Pyongyang, a North Korean animated children’s show, … Continue reading
Filed under anime break, fiction break, graphic novels, Korea, Koreanish
A Million Writers
Put yourself in the way of your fate, I tell my students, on the last day of the Wesleyan conference. It’s advice I got from a horoscope back when I was either getting into or out of graduate school. I … Continue reading
Filed under author's own, blogs, books, fiction, Korea, Korean America, Korean American, MFA programs, novels, writers, writing
Our Robot Masters Will Know How To Clean This Mess Up
My new favorite band. If you’ve been sitting down for more than an hour, maybe press play and stand up and see what happens. “It was more terrifying than facing the god of death.” “My mother destroyed all pictures of … Continue reading
Filed under current events, Korea, politics
Tomorrow’s Koreanish Stars Today
People Magazine is catching a certain amount of flack this morning for having published an item that misidentifies a photo of Karl Yune as Rain, in the new Speed Racer film. Speed Racer, it’s worth pointing out, has 3 young … Continue reading
Filed under film, Korea, Korean America, Korean American, Korean Cinema, Korean life, Koreanish, koreanish headers, Uncategorized
Back In The Town Where I Met Stephen Beachy And Had Blue Hair
When I was an MFA student, Stephen Beachy’s beautiful debut novel, The Whistling Song, was one of my talismanic objects of worship kept close to my bedtable (Anna Karenina is there right now). Stephen is one of my heroes, and … Continue reading
I don’t know, I just do.
On my visits to Korea, I felt very much like the wrong sort of grandchild, the lumpen half-breed, who couldn’t speak Korean and who couldn’t look Korean. How do you tell them apart, a cousin asked me, about Americans. I … Continue reading
Filed under author's own, fox demons, Korea, Korean America, Korean American, Koreanish, product, writers, writing
No Regret
From yesterday’s search term traffic stats, my favorite one so far: korean artistes and sleep around This week’s new Google Search header image for this week comes from the film No Regret, a Korean independent film released last year, a … Continue reading
Filed under blogs, film, Korea, Korean Cinema, Korean Queer
