This is my email, dated May 30, 2024, to Ty Kim, Emmy winning Director-Producer of the documentary, Earl. Dear Ty, Your magnum opus, Earl, puts Earl Kim among the world’s greatest composers through the interviews with his luminary peers like Itzhak Perlman and John Harbison and selected performances of his music, thus immortalizing him and […]
Dear Luck-Hyun Sung, My heart breaks to hear you have left us. I’ll be following you soon, judging from the persistent geriatric signs like lightheadedness and heaviness in the legs, but in the meantime who shall I turn to, tell me, to unload and be unloaded to, refreshing and recharging our minds? I […]
The title of the 97-page novella on amazon.com is A Petition to Supreme Leader of North Korea Jongeun Kim with the subtitle Dangoon II, the Second Coming in 4,357 Years of Dangoon, the Birch King, Founder of Korea. I quote the published synopsis: Upon hearing North Korean Supreme Leader Jongeun Kim’s renunciation of Korean unification […]
Dear Supreme Leader of North Korea Jongun Kim: Heartbroken by reports that you have seemingly given up on unification with the south, denying kinship with anyone living there, excising the word Unification from Unification Station, a subway hub in the capital city of Pyungyang, and banning the 2-System 1-Federation notion, touted as a preliminary […]
Some people, especially retirees with means and time on their hands, take to travel, ostentatiously, in the belief that it cloaks them with an air of savvy and success. Indeed in the olden days an aristocrat had to have traveled far and wide and brag about it to uphold his or […]
J is a high school alum of mine and a billionaire, his private hedge fund valued at 10 digits. Actually my class had a few billionaires, including the late Woojoong Kim, founder of Kia Motors. We thought we were the unluckiest class because 2 months after our admission to the nation’s toughest secondary school to […]
Born in 1938 I am blessed with two young grandchildren, Naomie, 8, and Naela, 5, who give me a second grandfatherhood. All grown up are the other five in their early or mid twenties, busy with their profession or schooling all over the country, some thousands of miles away, and surprised at my still […]
Hey M, I missed you at T’s funeral last night. Of course I didn’t expect M there, because he probably didn’t know T too well, not to mention the whole continent to cross. There was a big turnout of mourners, however, at least a couple of hundred, because a whole church congregation was there and […]
I feel resurrected, not just restored, after unaccountably losing 335 blogs and being banished from blogging altogether, worse than death itself. I owe this new lease on life to the dedicated efforts of Hari Muhic (Watch out! Auto Edit keeps changing h to s.), my son Woody Pak’s star graduate student at Berklee College of […]