You'll know you got it right if the first few sips make you cough due to the spiciness of the ginger.

Cut up a bunch of raw ginger, throw it into a crock pot, fill with water. Let it steep for hours, preferably overnight. In the morning, fill a mug, add freshly squeezed lemon quarter (or more), and then add honey.

To borrow a phrase, when everything is a critical mineral, everything is ripe for corruption, cronyism, and self-dealing critical mineral. Something like that.

A serving Japanese diplomat once called Japan a one-party state at his own dinner party.

Aunties and Grannies! And my grandfather.
Acupressure (probably originated in India) may be 5,000 years old. Acupuncture (China spreading to Korea and Japan) is almost as old. Reflexology (from the US) is over 100 years old.

That reflects my feelings about Tokyo/Seoul. Tokyo always feels like a Vivaldi concerto. Measured, precise, careful. Seoul always feels like a punk rock show. Loud, in your face, and unpredictable.

In some ways, Japan expertise is victim of its own success. The Japan field always felt more established. Korea has a way of feeling like the wild west.

This made sense to me because interest in a country would coincide with econ. development. Japan was basically the only game in town for several decades. Korea really felt relatively unknown when I moved there in 2002. It has since exploded in terms of interest.

As someone who has walked many, many of those jagged stone paths, I can attest to the benefit. Really painful at first, but worth it in the end.

The only time ever anyone has "feasted" on a sandwich.

Related: We need more mainstream resistance music right now.

Wi Sung-lac has been talking about renegotiating the 123 or coming to an understanding. Apparently those discussions are already underway with USG.

Need to look more closely, but early reports made it seem like need for HEU was explicitly mentioned. Shocking to see it included so matter of factly. Meanwhile, the Mugunghwa Forum is likely elated.