Perhaps, getting old, you begin to smell sour on the inside first. Challenges are no longer exciting. You acquire a certain numbness to the injustice that had you enraged. Small, mundane things satisfy your hunger. You repeat yourself, again and again. You wear the ragged mantle of self-importance and feel defeated at the same time.

30 is not an ( Read more... )

While the government is desperately campaigning to encourage women to have more children, the average age of marriage for women in Korea hit 30. As an unmarried single 30-year-old myself, I can attest that Korea is not the most attractive place to get married and have kids. High inflation, rock-bottom job security, long work hours that often extend ( Read more... )

I've been wanting to complete the second part to my survival log. What's going on here hasn't been so encouraging. But hey, not everything is doom and gloom ( Read more... )

After losing to AlphaGo three consecutive times, SEDOL LEE JUST WON THE FOURTH MATCH ( Read more... )

Sedol Lee, Korean genius Go(baduk) player, is having a face-off with the supercomputer AlphaGo. In October last year AlphaGo has beaten Fan Hui, the Chinese Go champion, and we will see if the computer will continue its winning streak.

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My prediction is that over the course of the battle AlphaGo would suddenly come to realize his deep hatred for ( Read more... )

-15 C (5F) today! Going to get colder tomorrow! Well done, Korea, well done. We were again deceived by the meteorologists who predicted a warm, snowless winter.

The Elementary Particles by Michel Houellebecq: I can't decide whether I admire or hate this novel. Probably precisely what this megalomaniac author intended.

Don't even get me started on this government's idiot deal with the Japanese government on "comfort women"(more accurate term is military sex slaves). Abe said something in line of "now our next generations do not have to apologize anymore." Congrats. Let's have Angela Merkel go, "We paid Israel so that our next generations don't have to feel sorry ( Read more... )

If there is anything called a writer's bug, it bit me and I've started writing three stories at the same time. The first time I'm embarking on short story writing since I was 18. It's been almost a decade ( Read more... )

A few numbers were a little off from my latest health check-up and I found myself waiting for hours in a cancer wing of the hospital last week. The nurse did not give me any information except that I was simply to go to the cancer center. Shifting nervously on my feet in the waiting room, surrounded by faces grim and blanched with fear and ( Read more... )

- In 2016, I will fly to the States and marry Steven Yeun somehow so help me God ( Read more... )