The answer, of course, is both. The better question is: why would we ask this question? Because Koreans do. One of the most sweetly jarring things I noticed when visiting Korea for the first time in 1992 (while on tour with the Chicago Chamber Orchestra) was a national obsession with not being Japan. The hotel […]
Don’t worry, my pretensions are modest this time–I just stole his title. It’s Korea day 2 if you count an evening to get to the hotel, have a drink, and crash. I don’t. An aside about business travel: when I travel in my real life, I’m about as low-budget as they come. I’m happier in […]
I’m in Korea and Japan for two weeks on business, and I thought my email home might make a reasonable sort of blog post, so here goes: I’ve arrived safely and found my way through the usual hassles of getting cash, bus to hotel, checked in, and so forth. Now I’m in the club floor […]
Here’s my dad’s latest column for a Butte, MT rag, the Roun’Town Review, to be published in April. Reprinted without consultation or permission. You tell ’em, Pop! (Pop pictured here with Candy, back when she lived with Mom and Dad.) 20,000 Casualties later Paul F. Vang This last month we observed the third anniversary of […]