The Cost of Achievement: a Front Row Seat for the Korean CSAT
The Cost of Achievement: a Front Row Seat for the Korean CSAT John Cowie, Contributor 6 December 2018 I have been a teacher at a college-prep boarding school on an island in Incheon for the last seven years. It is the most successful school in Incheon and...
Life Under the Button: The Go-Bag, Kim Jong Un and Me
Life Under the Button: The Go-Bag, Kim Jong Un and Me John Cowie, Contributor 2 November 2018 November 27, 2010 was the most frightening day in my time here in Korea. Just after lunch, sitting at my desk at work, the news reports started. There was an ongoing...
Reluctant Romantic
Reluctant Romantic Jeffrey Barken, Contributor 13 October 2018 Why can’t I remember his name? I quote him often… I’d gone West after graduating. It was election night, 2008, and Jackson Hole Wyoming was a tiny blue dot in a vast red state, landlocked yet suddenly...
Raising a Honyol
John Cowie John Cowie, Contributor 30 April 2018 As a foreigner living in the Republic of Korea, it can be a rewarding existence with little financial anxiety, ultramodern infrastructure, and almost no violent crime to fear. There is, however, a cost—a pervasive and...