It’s been about ten years since the last time I went to the Korean Street Festival in Chicago and not much has changed since then. It’s still small, noisy and dirty. All of the booths seem to have been thrown together pretty haphazardly. Aside from the exhibitions that are scattered throughout the weekend there really isn’t a large display of Korean culture; unless you count the various array of food stalls that make up the majority of the booths lining the street.

Interview and Concert Review

I sat down for a telephone interview with David Yoo, the author of Girls for Breakfast, on a Monday evening.

In today’s media, Asian-American’s lack a voice, leaders, and top celebrities. Asians in America comprise approximately 4.2% (11.9 million) (US Census 2000) of the US and in my estimation, that’s a large enough number to show the media that there’s actual reason to involve this section of the population.

Nick Park is your average teenaged boy. He plays sports, goes to school and is obsessed with girls. David Yoo’s debut, Girls for Breakfast, tells the life of a Korean-American boy stuck in the white suburban hell of Connecticut. At first reading, Nick appears to be nothing more than a colossal pervert with a preternatural precocity for female breasts.

I was watching a Korean television show with my parents which focused on ordinary people doing extraordinary things.

Most of the worship-praise stuff is a bit too dramatic for my tastes and some of the Christian artists seem to be permanently stuck in the 80’s. But most importantly, none of the singers looked like me.

Although it is sad that he is often relegated to the sub-genre of animation — Spirited Away should have been in the Best Picture category — it is of note that, along with Brad Bird (The Iron Giant, The Incredibles) and others, animation post-Eisner’s Disney is being lifted from the mass-production assembly line and back into the respectable realm of auteur filmmaking.

Kazuo Ishiguro is perhaps most widely known for his novel, The Remains of the Day. Like this earlier work, Never Let Me Go is narrated from a first-person perspective by a narrator who is looking into her past and trying to make sense of her life, especially her childhood.

Humanity does not understand what God wants and, according to Neale Donald Walsch, author of the phenomenal bestselling series, Conversations with God, this is the cause of the suffering and violence in our world today.