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...last two years, he worked in a Seoul, South Korea law firm, translating documents from Korean to English. And through all of it--since he was 12 years...
...imperialism of the imagination, a process of acquisition: the mind collects cultures and experiences and souvenirs. The children of the industrial age poured south to dream upon the ruins. Motives are always rich and varied: travel means forms of freedom. Japanese men flock to sex tours in Seoul, Bangkok and Manila (a woman waiting in the lobby of the hotel when you get off the bus from the airport...
...Paik is the sage and antic father of video as an art form-"the George Washington of the movement," as another experimental artist, Frank Gillette, dubbed him at the end of the '60s. He began by emigrating from his native Seoul in the '50s, first to Tokyo and then to Germany, to study music. In Germany he met Composer John Cage, that perennially controversial guru of the avantgarde, and he was soon busily involved in the multimedia "events" and benignly neo-Dadaist actions of a European artists' group that called itself, for its commitment to change, Fluxus...
...standard, the security was extraordinary. As U.S. Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger and South Korean President Chun Doo Hwan watched a joint demonstration of South Korean and U.S. military power near Seoul a fortnight ago, they were protected by a shield of thick bulletproof glass and surrounded by heavily armed presidential bodyguards. VIP spectators at the military display had been carefully screened before being invited, and were required to pass through metal detectors set up on a slope near the target area. News cameramen were kept 328 ft. from the presidential bunker and warned not to point their cameras...
...those forgotten American children in Asia, life is just a misery. The harrassment never seems to end. Sometimes they are beaten, stoned, kicked and reduced to a subbuman status in ways I could never begin to describe." Father Alfred V. Keane, head of a home for Americans in Seoul, said recently to Time Magazine...