Author: Yongho Kim 김용호

  • Unidentified partisan canvassing at the WCKNC Elections

    Yesterday I voted at the Los Angeles Neighborhood Council elections at the Wilshire Center Koreatown Neighborhood Council (WCKNC). I went to the polls at Seoul International Park around 5:40pm. As I headed to the park gym, I could see two booths – one with personnel who seemed Korean, and another with personnel who seemed.. South Asian? […]

  • Live Korean viewer comments during the Hanoi summit

    I watched a bit the US-DPRK Summit of yesterday, towards the end, after people had left for the expanded meeting and reporters were wondering why they were getting delayed beyond their original schedule, until the no deal debacle that followed soon thereafter. I watched it on JTBC, one of Korea’s post-media reform (2009) TV channel […]

  • one disadvantage to watching stuff with captions is…

    one disadvantage to watching stuff with captions is that they spoil the song that starts playing real low volume a full 10 seconds before you can identify the main melodic line

  • I was feeling sick and going over my…

    Designated Survivor feels like a comical satire of the Trump administration.

  • I recently noticed and was bewildered that the…

    I recently noticed and was bewildered that the coloring and notation of Western Avenue in LA changed to that of a highway, with the yellow color and the numbering “258” – looked it up and it turns out to be something known as an “unconstructed state highway” – “their routings have been defined by state […]

  • If we gotta rig the vote, lets rig it by sunshine, not race

    Your ignorance of history and the importance of the electoral college is appalling. Without the electoral college, the president would only care about satisfying the will of the people in about 15 states. The rest of the states would be totally forgotten. — Justin T. Haskins (@JustinTHaskins) January 26, 2019 Since someone was bringing up […]