Stray cats, long considered “pests” by the US military, were shot in the head at the Osan Air Base in South Korea last year. Have things changed? A military wife speaks out. In May, the South Korean media revealed shocking images from the Osan Air Base in Pyeongtaek, Gyeonggi Province. Not only were stray cats…
A Beagle Rescue Network volunteer guides the blogger to a beagle shelter in the central part of South Korea. Many of the dogs come from laboratories. It was beaglemania at the Beagle Rescue Network’s shelter in Nonsan, South Chungcheong Province, when I visited in July 2019 with longtime animal volunteer Jeong Buyun. A magical place…
Pandora the Jindo dog went missing in Seoul in 2012. She was never found. “Don’t give up. You can find Pandora. She is out there and she is waiting for you. She is trying to get home. I lost my own dog when I foolishly left her on a leash unattended for a few minutes…
After teaching business in Seoul and Hong Kong for many years, retired Professor Ted Wallin mentors and encourages students at Syracuse University. There’s a catchy song about train safety that takes me back in time, back to Professor Ted Wallin’s marketing class at Sejong University in Seoul. Professor Wallin taught in the Sejong-Syracuse MBA program…
Adjusting to a new country can bring huge amounts of stress. But Adam Czelusta powered through and built a life here — and an art career too. Adam Czelusta and I first crossed paths around 2014, when we both did some work for Groove magazine’s 100th edition. I got to interview human rights champion Yiombi…
The House of Sharing is a residence south of Seoul for elderly survivors of Japanese military sexual slavery. It’s supposed to be a refuge and a center for activism. But staff members have made disturbing allegations about the organization that runs the House of Sharing. It’s taken some time to put together this third post…
Every Wednesday, activists gather in Seoul to support the survivors of Japanese military sexual slavery. But counterprotesters gather nearby, calling the movement a fraud and denying the victims’ testimonies. A Japanese expat and longtime ally of the grandmothers explains what’s behind the denials. On Wednesday, May 5, protesters gathered outside the former site of the…
Korea’s elderly survivors of Japanese military sexual slavery continue to fight historical revisionism. How can we support them? One of the grandmothers shares her thoughts in a Zoom interview. “I was not paid when I was in the comfort station in China,” said Lee Ok-Seon Halmeoni. “That’s why I didn’t have any money to buy…
University English instructor Sonia Knapp thought her Korea adventure might last a year. That was more than two decades ago. When Sonia Knapp set out for Korea in 1998, it was supposed to be short term. A New Orleans native, she was teaching at a high school in Moab, Utah, and getting tired of it….
A Korean charity collaborated with Korean vets and US military personnel to neuter about 200 feral cats at the soon-to-be-former Yongsan Garrison in Seoul. What will happen when the base closes? (Continued from part 1.) Despite its increasing popularity as a humane, effective way of controlling feral cat populations, trap-neuter-release has its detractors. Cats get in…