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Selected Essays:
The inside look at
North Korean defection from Yanji, China, on the North Korean
border in HARPER'S, July 2010:
The
System of Defecting
Op-Ed, THE NEW
YORK TIMES, May 18, 2009:
Notes
From Another Credit Card Crisis
The account of following
the NY Philharmonic’s Feb ‘08 tour from Beijing to Pyongyang in HARPER’S, December 2008:
A Really Big Show:
The New York Philharmonic’s Fantasia in North Korea
Op-Ed, THE WASHINGTON POST, July 25, 2007:
Asia's Apostles
Op-Ed, THE WALL STREET JOURNAL, April 24, 2007: Globalizing
Grief
Op-Ed, THE WALL STREET JOURNAL, October
16, 2006: Great Leadership
Modern Love column, THE NEW
YORK TIMES,
September 24, 2006: On first love in London, Our Affair Was a Long Lesson...
Op-Ed, THE WALL STREET JOURNAL,
December 30, 2005: Hwang, Drawn
and Quartered?
On the paradoxically modern and ancient culture of South Korea for the
Frankfurt Book Fair Special Issue of NEUE
ZURCHER ZEITUNG (NZZ), October 15, 2005: Die Ahnen und die Wasser (The Anticipation of
the Water).
'The Next Wave,' The City Section Special: THE NEW
YORK TIMES,
November 21, 2004: Facing Poverty With a Rich Girl's Habits
On hiking to and sleeping at South Korea's famous Buddhist temple,
Songgwangsa, GOURMET Magazine, December, 2003: Night
Ride Home.
On being single in New York City: THE NEW
YORK TIMES,
June 22, 2003: Marriage of Incovenience?
On the Korean Centennial, THE BOSTON GLOBE, June 8, 2003: Strange
Centennial.
Op-Ed, THE NEW
YORK TIMES,
May 10, 2003: Korea's New Wave.
On writing The Interpreter, THE NEW
YORK TIMES,
March 2, 2003: Translating Poverty and Pain.
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