Below is a list of articles I have written for the Korea Times.  

The older ones seem to be off-limits for non-subscribers, though each national university library has a "hard-copy" archive available, and may even have an electronic form, as well. 

Here is a Newsvine Link to a perhaps more secure, permanent, and accessible collection of my Korea Times news articles.  

Recent Submissions:

1. Casual Theft Kills Soul of Culture:    04-25-2008 17:09

http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/opinon/2008/05/162_23130.html

Earlier Submissions:  

1.  http://times.hankooki.com/lpage/opinion/200310/kt2003101517265511390.htm

16 Oct 2003: Don’t Force Your Children to Study, in response to “Mothering in Korea.”

2.  http://times.hankooki.com/lpage/opinion/200312/kt2003122219114711550.htm

22 Dec 2003  in response to  “A Teacher’s Grief” 13 Dec 2003

3.  http://times.hankooki.com/lpage/opinion/200402/kt2004021120165611390.htm

Concern for the Heart (II)  11 Feb 04 Internet, 12 Feb paper.  In response to Dear Abby  6 Feb 2004, “Girl Who Lost her Boyfriend Assuages her Grief with Sex”

4. http://times.hankooki.com/lpage/opinion/200402/kt2004021019100011390.htm

Concern for the Heart (I)  10 Feb 04 Internet, 11 Feb paper.  In response to Dear Abby  6 Feb 2004, “Girl Who Lost her Boyfriend Assuages her Grief with Sex”

5. http://times.hankooki.com/lpage/opinion/200402/kt2004022016524111390.htm

Prisoners Beyond the Heart 20 Feb 2004, 21 Feb Paper edition,

  In Response to The Korea Herald

6. http://times.hankooki.com/lpage/opinion/200404/kt2004040520172011390.htm

Thoughts of the Times  5 April 2004  “The Color of Korea”

Here we are gathered at a family birthday party:  Spring 2008

My Family this past winter, circa February 2008.

Mom is working on her eight course out of a total of eleven required for her master's degree in English as a Second Language, at Shenandoah University.  It seems to be a good program, lacking nothing in rigor or quality of texts and pedagogy.

In her "free time," my wife is homeschooling the four older children of our burgeoning brood.  They are doing much better now that they are out of the public school system, which lived up to my wife's expectations.

Before I enrolled them in South Korean public schools, my father and I in concert felt that it would be a good experience, permitting my children to acquire some of the Korean language and absorb some of the culture during our sojourn here.  My wife said that would never happen, that we would be systematically ostracized and the teachers would not come to our aid. 

Nor would the teachers who otherwise might be inclined to help have the requisite training to understand how to teach Korean as a second language.  She avowed that the sole "benefit" from their participation in the public school system here would be what she refers to as "the babysitting function," that they would receive no academic benefit. 

After three schools and a whole lot of unchecked ridicule, bullying and abuse, I gave up and acknowledged my wife's prescience.  She went through the system; she should know what it is like far better than my father and I, with our idealistic Western notions of respect and deference for other cultures.