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	<description>&#34;Robert Cohn was once an &#039;English teacher in Korea&#039;. Do not think I am impressed with that as a job title, but it meant a lot to Cohn.&#34;</description>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tiger Woods cheated on his wife with some cocktail waitresses and the world is a-twitter. How did we get here? Perhaps it was around the time of Watergate and Ball Four, the early &#8217;70s, when journalists decided that it would be better &#8212; more profitable &#8212; to start hero-bashing. And from its humble start, this [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gwakpyunghwa.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1754580&amp;post=208&amp;subd=gwakpyunghwa&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Korean Youth: &#8220;Hitler is Cutie Boy&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Feb 2009 11:55:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The middle school speaking test always brings out an eccentric answer or two: Q: &#8220;Who do you admire most? Why?&#8221; Minho: &#8220;Hitler. Because he is cutie boy and belly blaybuh [very brave].&#8221; I glance at the other children &#8212; a few are dozing off, foreheads smack down on the table; some are fidgeting restlessly, scanning [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gwakpyunghwa.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1754580&amp;post=30&amp;subd=gwakpyunghwa&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Status Anxiety&#8221; &#8211; Alain de Botton</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Feb 2009 06:44:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Excerpts from the introduction: Status Anxiety A worry, so pernicious as to be capable of ruining extended stretches of our lives, that we are in danger of failing to conform to the ideals of success laid down by our society and that we may as a result be stripped of dignity and respect; a worry [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gwakpyunghwa.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1754580&amp;post=189&amp;subd=gwakpyunghwa&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Canadian Expat Goes 13 Days Without Pre-emptively Telling People He&#8217;s From Canada.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Feb 2009 05:52:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[SEOUL &#8212; Digger Smythe just survived a rough couple weeks. Friends say the 25-year-old from Fairfax, Manitoba has noticeably aged, with pronounced dark circles and emerging gray hairs. What the heck happened? &#8220;I had a bet goin&#8217; with a couple of friends about who was gonna go the longest time without sayin&#8217; they&#8217;re Canadian. I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gwakpyunghwa.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1754580&amp;post=180&amp;subd=gwakpyunghwa&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Public Ballad-Singing Among Asian Metrosexuals.</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Feb 2009 05:13:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[SEOUL &#8212; Sometimes I&#8217;ll be walking in the park and notice a young metrosexual &#8211; someone who looks like the guy on the right: He&#8217;ll be walking and singing a ballad. Upon noticing me it seems he sings a bit louder and brings out more passion in his facial expressions. Maybe I&#8217;m dumb &#8211; Is this the universal call of challenging one to a singing duel, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gwakpyunghwa.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1754580&amp;post=155&amp;subd=gwakpyunghwa&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Grinch Who Killed Halloween</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Nov 2008 13:45:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Cohn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The vice-principal of our school recently said that next year there will be no Halloween party. Yet this year&#8217;s fete was one of the highlights of our recent school festival. The room was filled with fun stuff: all kinds of costumes and masks, a photo area, plentiful candy, an arts and crafts table where students [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gwakpyunghwa.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1754580&amp;post=113&amp;subd=gwakpyunghwa&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Korean Parents, Hagwon: Pernicious to Life</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Sep 2008 17:53:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s the weekend of &#8220;Chew-suck,&#8221; a.k.a. Korean Thanksgiving. &#8220;Happy Chuseok,&#8221; I chanted to a trio of tremendous middle-school students. &#8220;Are you excited about Chuseok?&#8221; &#8220;No way,&#8221; replied a girl. &#8220;What?&#8221; &#8220;I have to go to hagwon every day during the vacation,&#8221; she whined. Hagwon are after-school academies, the Korean equivalent of, say, a Sylvan Learning [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gwakpyunghwa.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1754580&amp;post=101&amp;subd=gwakpyunghwa&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Surreal Charm of Save Me the Waltz</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Aug 2008 15:51:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Zelda Fitzgerald wrote her only published novel, Save Me the Waltz, while being treated for schizophrenia at Johns Hopkins Hospital, in 1932. It&#8217;s a semi-autobiographical story about a beautiful, fun-loving Southern girl, Alabama Beggs, who marries a successful painter, David Knight. Despite their shared travels and adventures in Europe, she is bored and not a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gwakpyunghwa.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1754580&amp;post=66&amp;subd=gwakpyunghwa&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Iowa City, 2001</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Mar 2008 10:34:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Stew emerged from the darkness with a chess set. &#8220;Here we go,&#8221; he said, and placed it on the living room table. He blew; dust danced in the air. &#8220;Maybe this will get our minds off the war. Before we kill each other.&#8221; &#8220;Maybe, but you&#8217;re still wrong, ass,&#8221; Lars said. &#8220;Don&#8217;t deny it. By [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gwakpyunghwa.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1754580&amp;post=27&amp;subd=gwakpyunghwa&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Brian Glanville and the Three Wise Monkeys</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Mar 2008 06:08:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Cohn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Brian Glanville might be the best sportswriter in the world. His Story of the World Cup is a classic, and his weekly articles provide vivid and entertaining commentary on the world of soccer. Here is a sample of his writing: (World Soccer, 8 May 2002) AN OUNCE of prevention is worth a ton of cure, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gwakpyunghwa.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1754580&amp;post=47&amp;subd=gwakpyunghwa&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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