April! Tax month. It's the busiest time of the year for mathematicians. Tax is about summing things up, and taking percentages. This calls for a mathematician. The calls I get from accountants at this time of

There is a professor in our college that looks like Bill Clinton. I call him the Korean Bill Clinton. A handsome man with a head full of white hair. And the similarities don't end there. He

In Korea one must use Windows. All internet banking sites have ActiveX controls, and every file anyone sends you is a proprietary .hwp format that is only viewable with a Haansoft Office Suite. There is a Linux version

We go to have family photos taken. I am practicing my smile the whole way. It's not that I can't smile, my smile is just shy of cameras. Lucy is practicing too. "You

I break a tooth chewing on some Yat that someone has irresponsibly left in a bowl in the Faculty Lounge. I go to the dentist. I need a crown. The dentist evacuates the old filling, takes a mold,

God: Hi Mark. Me: Hi. What's up? G: I was just reading your blog. M: No you weren't. G: Got me there. But I did notice you've been writing a lot of

Names in Korea are almost always three syllables, written in three characters. Foreign names are longer. Mine takes five characters at best, but often they insist on my middle name, because it is in my passport, so it

Lucy started pre-school last week. She has been talking all week about her new best friend Jae-un Choi. I find it a funny coincidence that her best friend happens to have the same name as her cousin, also