A big beagly day

A friendly beagle jumps on a fence to greet the photographer at the Beagle Rescue Network shelter in central Korea in July 2019, as beagles and other dogs wag their tails in the background.

It was a big beagly day at the Beagle Rescue Network shelter in Nonsan, South Chungcheong Province, when I visited in July 2019. The group’s head volunteer, Jeong Buyun, led me to a magical place full of wagging tails, inquisitive…

Promoting veganism in Seoul

Masked animal activists show graphic footage on a busy street in Seoul.

The first time I observed a Cube of Truth event in Myeong-dong, the busy shopping area in downtown Seoul, I’d followed the group’s activities on social media for some time. The activists were representing Anonymous for the Voiceless, and on…

No offense, but …

A motorcycle leans away from the camera and casts a shadow.

Sometime around 2007, a woman I barely knew started a thread on a message board and addressed it to me. She made sure to tell me to fuck off in the subject line. Another member of the same site sent…

A new content strategy

A road sign reads "New Chapter Ahead," against a sunrise.

Since I started my first blog sometime around 2008 or 2009, I’ve had to reevaluate my content strategy many times. My first blog was part tech experiment, part creative outlet, part rant. I wrote in response to social media discussions,…

A talk with a Korean animal activist

Heeji in 2019 in a café, wearing an animal liberation T-shirt

Looking back on my 2019 conversation with Heeji Yi, maybe I was too optimistic. She was in her late 20s at the time and we met up at a café in Ansan, Gyeonggi Province, just outside Seoul, to talk about…