"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…"

"Far from being settled, this bright part of Korea screams defiance. And that blast of light, just a short drive from …"

"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 …"

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