Hard to believe it has been over a year since I updated this blog. Sorry for the silence, but—what can I say?—the family and work thing really eat up a lot of time. And when I do find some time, I prefer to use it to write.
And I am still writing. On several different things, actually, but nothing that I can talk about yet. Hopefully there’s one in particular that I will be able to talk about soon.
As for the year that was … Well, I guess it was a huge year for K-pop. BTS absolutely blew up in the West, which was pretty cool to see. And that led to a bunch of journalists asking to talk to me — which is quite flattering, but I decided that I’m just not in the loop enough anymore to be commenting, so told everyone to talk to other experts.
Korean movies have had an off year, at least in commercial terms — with a week left, it looks like they’ll have the lowest box office in five or six years, and the lowest percentage for local movies in four or five years (although it could be the biggest grossing year overall, thanks to rising prices). But there was one big of really fun news – the success of Lee Chang-dong’s BURNING, which has been shortlisted for Best Foreign Language Film at the Academy of Motion Pictures Awards. It would be pretty awesome if it was the first Korean movie to get nominated for a foreign-language-film Oscar.
Oh, and the Raptors look to be having their best season ever. That’s pretty exciting.
Apropro of nothing, here’s a photo from Jakarta, from a recent trip I took there. Quite a place. And I hope to have some fun updates coming here before too long.
