A reader has called to declare that the so-called Immaculate Conception of Jesus is such a jumble of irrationality that any discussion of it like my theory of improbability regarding the birth of Jesus is pointless waste of mental energy, noting: His mother Mary must have shown the usual symptoms of pregnancy resulting from sexual […]
On April 5, 2026, Easter Sunday, my wife drags me to a Korean American church in North Jersey. Spread out among the pews are about 30 people. A loud praise band of 4 is the orchestra for the 5 female singers lined up against the back wall of the stage, at the front center of […]
Truly mind-boggling is the enormity of the Universe, the totality of 2 trillion galaxies, one of which is the Milky Way with half a trillion stars, our Sun with Earth and 7 other planets one of them. Am I, an advanced octogenarian quickly approaching the terminus of my earthly existence, any wiser as to the […]
Posted Apr 21, 2017: The Polyglot Adds Another Dimension to the Korean Diaspora, typakmusings.com, now typakmusings.net Koreans are all over the world. Not too long ago I read a moving story about a dynasty of Koreans in Cuba whose progenitor had been an indentured farm laborer, a slave, that is, sold to a plantation in […]
This is my email, dated May 30, 2024, to Ty Kim, Emmy winning Director-Producer of the documentary, Earl. Dear Ty, Your magnum opus, Earl, puts Earl Kim among the world’s greatest composers through the interviews with his luminary peers like Itzhak Perlman and John Harbison and selected performances of his music, thus immortalizing him and […]
Dear Luck-Hyun Sung, My heart breaks to hear you have left us. I’ll be following you soon, judging from the persistent geriatric signs like lightheadedness and heaviness in the legs, but in the meantime who shall I turn to, tell me, to unload and be unloaded to, refreshing and recharging our minds? I […]
The title of the 97-page novella on amazon.com is A Petition to Supreme Leader of North Korea Jongeun Kim with the subtitle Dangoon II, the Second Coming in 4,357 Years of Dangoon, the Birch King, Founder of Korea. I quote the published synopsis: Upon hearing North Korean Supreme Leader Jongeun Kim’s renunciation of Korean unification […]
Dear Supreme Leader of North Korea Jongun Kim: Heartbroken by reports that you have seemingly given up on unification with the south, denying kinship with anyone living there, excising the word Unification from Unification Station, a subway hub in the capital city of Pyungyang, and banning the 2-System 1-Federation notion, touted as a preliminary […]
Some people, especially retirees with means and time on their hands, take to travel, ostentatiously, in the belief that it cloaks them with an air of savvy and success. Indeed in the olden days an aristocrat had to have traveled far and wide and brag about it to uphold his or […]
J is a high school alum of mine and a billionaire, his private hedge fund valued at 10 digits. Actually my class had a few billionaires, including the late Woojoong Kim, founder of Kia Motors. We thought we were the unluckiest class because 2 months after our admission to the nation’s toughest secondary school to […]