Literature
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My Korean Deli
Thursday, May 12, 2011 | 6:30 PM- Event Content: itms://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/corporate-views-on-korea-from/id210903888?i=116217418#
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Ben Ryder Howe, formerly of The Paris Review and a contributor to The New Yorker, Atlantic Monthly, and Outside, discusses his recently published memoir, My Korean Deli. Howe describes the trials and triumphs of his Korean-born wife’s decision to repay her parents' self-sacrifice by buying them a store. My Korean Deli follows the store's tumultuous life, and paints the portrait of an extremely unlikely partnership among characters from Brooklyn, Seoul, and Puritan New England. Owning the deli becomes a... Read More -
Homer Hulbert: Crusader for Korea
Wednesday, April 6, 2011 | 6:30 PM- Custom HTML field content:
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The Korea Society presents Dong Jin Kim, author of Crusader for Korea, a biography of Dr. Homer B. Hulbert (1863-1949), a “hidden hero” of Korean independence. The publication is the culmination of years of effort by the author to secure a proper place in Korean history for the accomplishments of foreigners, such as Dr. Hulbert, who lived their lives in the service of Korea. Wednesday, April 6 Homer Hulbert: Crusader for Korea with Dong Jin Kimauthor of Crusader for Korea American-born Hulbert came to... Read More - Custom HTML field content:
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Please Look After Mom
Thursday, March 24, 2011 | 12:00 PM- Event Content: itms://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/corporate-views-on-korea-from/id210903888?i=97327274#
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Prof. Jin Young Choi speaks with author Kyung-sook Shin about her novel 'Please Look After Mom' March 24, 2011 Read More -
Brother One Cell: An American Coming of Age in South Korea
Thursday, November 29, 2007 | 6:30 PM- Event Content: itms://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/corporate-views-on-korea-from/id210903888?i=121345686#
- Event Link: <p style="text-align: justify;">Cullen Thomas grew up in Port Washington, New York and graduated from Binghamton University in 1992 with a degree in English. While teaching English in South Korea in 1993, Thomas was convicted on a narcotics charge and served a 3 ½ year sentence. Released in 1997, he returned to New York, working as a writer, teacher and editor of The Princeton Review. From 2002 to 2005 Thomas served as a staff writer and assistant editor at Current Biography. His writing has appeared in the New York Times Magazine, Washington Post, Salon, Rhythm, Chamber Music Magazine, and the Korea Times.</p>
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In 1993, Cullen Thomas was a young man who wanted to see the world and South Korea was one of his first stops. Convicted of smuggling hashish and sentenced to 3 ½ years in Korean prison, the world he ended up seeing—one in which the Confucian customs of Korean society take on a harsh character—wasn’t the one he expected. Reading from his new memoir Brother One Cell: An American Coming of Age in South Korea’s Prisons (published by Viking in March 2007) and taking questions, Thomas will share the gritty... Read More