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 The beach was almost empty, which was surprising given the warmth, and the fact that hours earlier there had been almost a million people crammed on to the little stretch of white sand. But now it was four in the morning and the sun had not yet begun to show. The temperature was perfect, though: not too hot, not too cold, and not threatening to go either way until midday pulled around. The moon lit the beach, and the water was perfect. For Jack and Edward, this was prime beach time in B...

 Indeed, it may be “the cabbage you can ravage with the chilli paste taste,” but kimchi isn’t that amazing. I mean, taste is subjective and everything, but can anything really be so awesome that an entire nation of people could be obsessed with it? Even in America people vary their fast-food diets. One day it’s fried chicken and the next it’s hamburgers, and sometimes it’s a pizza. But in Korea, people are so crazy about kimchi that it goes beyond ridi...

 I didn’t bother trying to learn Korean in my first five or six months here. It seemed like a mammoth task that just didn’t appeal to me. Sure, I hated being the idiot foreigner that couldn’t express himself or ask for anything he wanted, but I didn’t realistically see that changing within my time in Korea anyway. Whenever I heard a Korean person speaking English, they’d say things like “I’m learning English for eight years,” and ...

 I spent New Year in Beijing, searching for Communism in post-Olympic China. I couldn’t really find it.   China is a nation of over one billion cheap hustlers and hookers with hearts of fake Olympic gold. They seem united by lies and delusions of superiority, or maybe these are not delusions at all. China is huge in every sense. It is overwhelming. And it is nothing, nothing like you can imagine until you’ve been there. Yet, until recent that wasn’t really the done...

 ‘I think I’m a racist.’ ‘You’re right. I’ve noticed it for a while now.’ ‘Is it a bad thing? I think it’s a bad thing…’ ‘Everyone’s a little racist. But it’s like going crazy. The fact that you notice probably means you’re not all that racist, y’know?’ ‘I guess. I don’t want to be racist.’ ‘Nobody wants to be racist.’ ‘I just hate Koreans.’ &ls...