Since it hosted the 1988 Summer Olympic games, Seoul, South Korea has never looked back. Today the booming metropolis (population around 10.5 million) boasts one of the highest city GDPs in the world (competing with cities such as Tokyo, New York, London and Los Angeles). Thriving corporations like LG, Samsung and Hyundai are headquartered in Read More
For anyone upset that there was no IMterview on Friday, here is a longer-than-usual excerpt from Hillary‘s speech yesterday at the Jewish Community Relations Council‘s annual legislative breakfast at the 92nd Street Y.
Hillary connects the port security issue with the national economy. Then, while not exactly promising to an IMterview Read More
The New York Times today has a piece about wealthy immigrants moving to the U.S. to take advantage of our sub-par schools.
Meet the Shins: 40′s, married with children, well-off and well-established back home in Seoul. But the problem was the academic grind their kids would face if they stayed.
Mrs. Shin tells Read More
What happens when, on the very same day, New York Social Diary and Page Six run items that interlock in a quite fantastic manner?
I inherited my dry cleaner. My mom and dad had used a particular store up the block since moving to the Upper West Side from Brooklyn in the early 1960′s. Its appearance was nondescript, but it had come highly recommended by a neighborhood maven, and my parents’ fealty never faltered. Their loyalty outlived six Mayoral Read More
Singer and bassist Maggie Kim came to New York five years ago to become famous. First she got a job as a fashion writer at Glamour magazine. Then she played in a couple of local rock bands and dated a rock star.
Finally, last June Ms. Kim answered a want ad in the Village Voice Read More
