A portion of the following article was originally published in the Global Times. --- The coarse sweater was making him visibly uncomfortable, further forcing him to squirm in his chair like a student avoiding the questioning gaze of a professor. He paused, unsure of how to start the introduction -- more for linguistic reasons than …
Category: Out-there Asia
That eccentric edge
5 Customs in Taiwan
Chinese culture plays a predominant part of our modern homogenous society. After all, it is hard to find a major city these days that doesn’t have a Chinatown. The smells and sounds of a Western Chinatown bring nostalgia to people from all regions of Asia, but don’t always indentify with core Chinese principles found back …
Beyond the Border, North Korea
Portions of the following article originally appeared in The Groove, a Seoul-based expat magazine, on August 7, 2007. Update: Geumgangsan, the tourist village covered in the post below, was closed in 2008 after a 53-year-old South Korean woman was shot and killed by North Korean soldiers when she mistakenly wandered into a military zone. As of …
Justin Calderón 