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
Twitter users were briefly enthralled Sunday night when North Korea issued a notice that they would be making a special statement. As the world waited without sparing a thought as to why the D.P.R.K. might be so inconsiderate of the western news cycle, speculation was rampant: would the new administration announce a nuclear test? Another rocket launch? Perhaps a threat against South Korea or even more shocking, a threat against South Korea? It was, in the end, the latter: Read More
Beyond the next peace is always some further problem. Without offering any of these as reasons for inaction on Iraq, here are three problems nearly or quite as grave.
Colin Powell proposed two links between Iraq and Al Qaeda in his speech to the U.N.: Abu Mussab al-Zarqawi, a chemical and biological warfare adept, wounded Read More
Most women in New York, whether they want to admit it or not, know that dating here revolves around fantasy: the fantasy that the underwear model you’re eyeing across the room might possibly know who Heidegger is, or that the promising surgical resident you’ve been dating for two months won’t max out his Visa after Read More
