Photo: Lee Yoo-mi as Ji-yeong and Jung Ho-yeon as Kang Sae-byeok in “Squid Game” (YOUNGKYU PARK/Netflix). Read the full Salon article here. Squid Game first came to my attention via Korean friends astonished at seeing their childhood games (if horrifically perverted) onscreen as a central plot point in a blockbuster Netflix series that seemed it could be as […]
After the birth of her autistic child prevents a Korean-American woman from going to church, she beings a spiritual journey from Christian to pantheist. Read the original article. I would have made a good 17th-century melancholic. Even as a child I was dreary. I remember my mother yelling at me to smile more, like the […]
We live in an unclear world. The murkiest of times. It makes us long for the known. For clarity. But as we’re learning all over again, reality isn’t like that. Consider my mother: She was 14 and living in North Korea before she escaped in 1945. So when I was invited as a faculty advisor […]