2013-12-22 Mulmangcho Christmas Party

Thanks to our friends at HOPE (Helping Others Prosper Through English), the kids at 사단법인 물망초 - Mulmangcho had a spectacular Christmas party. From start to finish, it was action packed, fun, and exciting.

Special thanks to Edward M. Robinson for putting on yet another fantastic party. He shocked them back at Halloween--this time, they were expecting to be entertained--and Eddie didn't let them down!

Thanks to our regular Mulmangcho volunteers Cielo Yoon, Lovy Kim, Sayaka Morita, Kristen Alice and Laura Nell. And we were joined by first-timers Erin and Dannie from Kangwando, and Alison and John from Nowon. Kristen led the actual classroom time in the morning, the last time for a while. She just got a great job offer down south, so she won't be volunteering as regularly as before.

I will wait for Eddie to give me the names of the HOPE volunteers, but one I must single out is Star Martinez. Instead of buying gifts for her nieces and nephews, she bought gifts for the kids at Mulmangcho. That means she won't be well-liked within her own family for a while, but she will always be welcome at Mulmangcho!

Pierrot the Magic Artist entertained the kids, just as he did the previous week at the Severance Hospital.

What a day. It started with the first group taking the bus from Seoul at 9:20 a.m., arriving in Yeoju at 10:25 a.m., teaching from 11-12:30. While the first group kept the kids distracted, Eddie and his crew arrived after noon and started setting up the party. I guess it finished up around 5? I got home around 8 p.m.

2019-12-19 Interview with Japanese reporter

"The interview is the honeymoon, publication is the divorce." --Shinae Chun I had a GREAT and FUN interview today with a reporter from Japan. Let's hope publication will also be great! www.lovetnkr.og

Chosun Monthly magazine [Korean language]

Chosun Monthly Magazine has made an announcement (in Korean) about the Seoul Honorary Citizenship award that I received on December 9, 2022. Our Korean staffers say that the magazine is a big deal in South Korea. Here's the overall roundup of media about the award. In the next two months, I have extended interviews coming up in two different magazines, one in the USA and one in South Korea. Both articles will be in respected publications so they should raise awareness of FSI's work that your support makes possible. * * * Support FSI via Stripe or PayPal . https://donate.stripe.com/3cs28F5IAcc85IAaEF or PayPal .

North Korean defector seeks justice (Korea Times)

It was international news when 12 North Korean waitresses and a male manager who worked at a restaurant operated by the North Korean regime in China arrived in South Korea in 2016. The waitresses have mostly maintained a low profile. There have been numerous accusations and assertions, with some saying the waitresses didn't want to escape, some accused the Park Geun-hye administration of playing politics by releasing details of the case, etc., etc., etc. My blog at the Korea Times today features an exclusive interview with one of the former North Korean waitresses who filed a criminal case against the former manager. You can read about it here on the Korea Times website. https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/opinion/2023/02/728_345165.html Keep in mind that there are many more facts to the case and that it is much deeper than this brief excerpt of her comments. She also shared legal documents that I shared with the Korea Times well in advance to give them time to review t...

On The Character Of Characters

What Casey hits on in the post below, regarding "character" and Rush's blatant misunderstanding of same, highlights the problems of people who are not terribly literate or educated (regardless of their claims) attempting to interpret 200 year old language. I discovered this in elementary school, looking at older documents that were full of "ye" and stange looking "f" letters. Turned out that the "y" in "ye" is actually shorthand for "th," while the funny "f" is actually the equivalent of the German S-zet - a double "s." What Adams or Madison or Hamilton (whenever Rush finally gets it right) describes in the Federalist #69 is not the "character" of the executive, but rather what today we would call "characteristics of the office of president." There is, by the way, excellent reading in there for those few still interested in comparing the current administration's actions with wh...

Michael Vick ain't got nuthin on me!!!

After football player Michael Vick admitted that he had been running a dog-fighting business I wrote that he was an idiot. If he was going to engage in such activity he should have gone to Indonesia or somewhere else. He certainly had the money to do so at that time. If he knew then what he knows now then he would have spent $10 million to run his dogfighting ring in Manila. Today I did something that probably not even Michael Vick ever did: I ate dog meat. I never expected that I would do so. It is a bit scandalous because Koreans don't just kill the dogs and eat them. Rather, they will beat them to death while they are still alive. That allegedly is to get the adrenaline flowing which allegedly makes the meat more tender which allegedly improves a man's stamina. I had told a friend that I wanted to give it a try. But as we sat down to eat I said: "I want to try this but don't give me any details until after we are finished eating." It just looked like regular me...

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