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Sun, July 5, 2020 | 20:39

Dear critics: You may be right

After I began my professional career back in 1998, it didn't take long before I started receiving angry letters from readers. Through my two decades as a writer, speaker, talk show host, commentator, columnist, researcher, analyst and activist, I have been attacked from more angles than enemy troops at MacArthur's landing at Incheon.

2018-10-02 18:52

A conspiracy against me?

I am hereby calling a meeting of all of the people who believe I am part of a conspiracy. They seem to contradict each other so much, perhaps they can resolve their differences face-to-face.

2018-08-29 16:54

Five lessons from education warrior

When I left the stage after giving the keynote address to the 43rd World Youth Rally in Seoul on July 22, I was cheered like a conquering hero. There was so much love and admiration for me that, more than a week later, some of them may still be cheering.

2018-08-01 16:57

Is this schooling trip necessary for all?

If I told you that I had discovered a fun way for you to put yourself into debt, that you would be unemployed for months or years after going through my four-year program, and if you got hired that you would be working at menial jobs for a while?

2018-06-26 15:53

'Three kinds of people'

If you do much reading, attend public speeches or listen to podcasts, then you have come across many speakers categorizing “three kinds of people.” There seem to be as many groups of threes as there are people.

2018-05-28 16:41

Reporters and refugees

Whenever I receive a request for a media interview, I recall what the late Chun Shin-ae said about journalism: “The interview is the honeymoon, publication is the divorce.”

2018-04-24 15:59

North Korea's puppet show

North Korea's slow-motion hijacking of the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympics wasn't the usual North Korean hijacking of airplanes or abductions of people. Dictatorship 2.0 was a puppet show of cheerleaders, musicians, dancers, and athletes as part of North Korea's so-called “charm offensive.”

2018-02-26 17:57

English only for North Korean refugees

At last, I have concluded we must ban bilingual tutors who insist on using Korean when tutoring North Korean refugees in English in my nonprofit organization. This is not a rash decision and I'm still open to counter-arguments, but they will have to be damned good to counter the feedback I have heard from many refugees.

2018-01-29 18:19

Lack of donations

In late 2016, an influential South Korean colleague predicted that my fledgling nonprofit organization will have trouble raising funding because Koreans probably fear that I, an American, would run away with the money.

2017-12-25 14:29

Dumb questions about NK refugees

People who say there is no such thing as a bad question apparently haven't attended forums featuring North Korean refugees. The questioners may mean well, but some people ignorant about North Korea ask ridiculous questions that are only topped by those of experts.

2017-11-20 17:32

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