In the city where the law of seasons doesn’t exist and the forecast never really helps you pick today’s outfit, we’ve learned to adore capricious Karl the Fog and to always welcome the rain albeit uninvited. When there’s rain we think of dry grass on the hill and the half-filled…

I love it when my friends send me a link out of the blue. Links usually contain articles, blog posts, podcast episodes, or youtube clips. The more random, the better. It feels like a surprise gift. This week, a friend sent me a piece written by a young poet, Ocean…

When I was twenty-something years old, I was never really curious about the life of being thirty-three. Or forty-two. Or fifty. Old folks like telling young people that the youth doesn’t last forever so they should enjoy the freedom and the beauty of the youth. So I automatically assumed in…

Last fall and winter, I worked on translating a book. English to Korean. It will be published in Spring, or even next month at the earliest. This news surprised a few friends of mine greatly. “Are you a translator now? I thought you liked working in design.” “Didn’t you…

I just fired my writer who had been writing my diary for as long as I remember. Don’t get me wrong. She IS a good writer. She is detail-oriented, analytical, and insightful. Very good at finding problems. Her skills got me many jobs. The strategist jobs, the researcher jobs. The…

“Am I say[ing] right?” Walking down from what New York Times called “the best acceptance speech of the night,” Yuh-Jung Youn questioned herself aloud in the air. Watching Youn’s numerous interviews during this year’s marathon of movie festivals, I found her fascinating. She seemed unsure of her own ability to…

I looked up those Spas in Atlanta on google. There are many reviewers who boast the experience of “a strong happy ending”, compliment “Korean female hands”, and complain about “nice but greedy Asian workers”. The terrorist claimed he was one of those kinds of customers. The police officer, who proudly…

Spivak’s Representation and the Work of Margaret Keane in the Dialectical Reversal of Otherness — The story of the painter Margaret Keane and her portraits of children with oversized eyes, called ‘Big Eyes’ exemplifies the paradox of the Dialectical Reversal of Otherness (DRO) as it relates to Feminism. Despite the feminist value in Keane’s artwork, it was not evaluated in the context of the Feminist…

My Fair Lady focuses on the story of a low-class flower girl who becomes a fair lady that everybody admires. This article mainly focuses on the journey of the protagonist Eliza Doolittle from the perspective of Carl Gustav Jung’s ideas about the Self. …