Great to see the coverage of Egypt on Al-Jazeera:

http://english.aljazeera.net/watch_now/

Al-Jazeera’s news abilities have been underrated for years. Sure, the channel has its problems and biases. But its coverage of Africa is so much better than any other major news organization I know of. And it is been really great reporting the uprisings around the Middle East over the past couple of weeks.

As someone who spent so many years in South Korea, I found there was always the ghosts of Korea’s democracy movement lurking in the shadows around many of my stories (even those not directly related to democratization). Now, watching these uprisings in Egypt and around the Middle East, I cannot help but wonder how similar these scenes are to what happened in Korea in 1987 (and 1980 and other key dates).

Amazing times…