BLOGS
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It has only been about a month since the opening of the National Memorial of the Korean Provisional Government (국립대한민국임시정부기념관) in Seodaemun-gu (an event commemorating the building of the museum was held on the eleventh to coincide with the 103rd anniversary of the founding of the Korean Provisional Government in Shanghai in April 11, 1919).…
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Tomorrow, the ninth of March, is election day in South Korea. The campaign, a particularly negative one featuring a slate of candidates with plenty of both populist followers and glaring personal flaws, has left a particularly foul taste in people’s mouths. The general expectation is that of continued political polarization and acrimony after Wednesday’s vote,…
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Perhaps no single industry in the global marketplace has faced quite as much disruption from the COVID-19 pandemic as the aviation industry. With the ossification of national boundaries and de-facto elimination of passenger air travel between countries and within countries, commercial aviation is now looking forward to perhaps its single worst year this century, if…
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Iksan (익산) is a city too small to be considered big yet too big to be considered small. Nestled in its rural surroundings in remote North Jeolla Province, much like Naha vis-à-vis the island of Okinawa (which has a similar population), the city is disproportionately large. But the raw population of three hundred thousand pales…
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I made sure to get a long night’s sleep before waking up intentionally late on the morning of January 11, 2020. I knew I would need the rest. I was in Zhongshan District 中山區, Taipei, having finally made my way back to Taiwan more than a year and a half after my previous gap year…
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In 2015, I won the grand prize in the 20th 3.1 Essay Contest held in Koreatown, Los Angeles. I subsequently won a scholarship and an opportunity to participate in a homecoming program in Korea hosted by an organization of the R.O.K. Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The award winning essay, written in Korean on the great…
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This past fall semester, I received an invitation by Yonsei University’s English magazine, The Yonsei Annals, to write an op-ed piece on a topic of my choosing. At the time, the Seoul Metropolitan Government had just announced that it was suspending its erstwhile vast redesign and expansion plans for Gwanghwamun Square in Jongno District. I…
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Hi, I’m Andrew. I am a second-generation Korean-American born and raised in California. A former homeschooled student, I now attend UC Berkeley as a history major with a regional concentration on East Asia. I have study abroad experience in Taiwan and South Korea. My main interests are East Asian history, politics, and culture. I will…
