"As “Paris is France,” so Seoul may be said to be Korea, for it is the centre from which nearly every thing for the co…"

"As Paris was for France, Seoul was not simply Korea's largest town. It was Korea. Government was a great vortex summo…"

"What Seoul represents to [South] Koreans is above and beyond all our hopes, aspirations, and collective imagination. …"

"Lying between chill sheets that night in my icy room, I tried to organize my first impressions of Seoul. In the back …"

"It has already become easier to imagine Seoul with a Kim Il Sung statue than to imagine Pyongyang without one."

"The twin obsessions of the foreign press corps in Seoul are a) North Korea and b) K-Pop, K-Film, K-Anything-But-Polit…"