A guide at the Kimjongilia Exhibition in Pyongyang, North Korea



Suki at Songgwangsa, South Korea

 


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.

 

The eyewitness report from Pyongyang, North Korea during the 60th Birthday Celebration of Kim Jong Il “the Great Leader”; THE NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS, Feb 13, 2003:
A Visit to North Korea