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Interview: Korean American Comedian Danny Cho Tells it Like it is 5 weeks 1 day ago BUSAN, South Korea -- I was in Seoul visiting relatives the last time Danny Cho came to Busan almost two years ago, and I won’t lie, I was pissed off. I...
Feature: Red Hot Comedian Kyle Kinane One Night Only in Busan this Week 6 weeks 3 days ago BUSAN, South Korea -- Yes, it is true. It’s happening again. Every year or so, the planets align and the stars converge and an actual, living, breathing, real professional comedian stops off at our humble port city and delivers...
Tharp On: Money 8 weeks 4 days ago BUSAN, South Korea -- Let’s start with the obvious: being poor sucks. There’s nothing fun about it. A certain amount of poverty may be slightly romantic for say, six months in your early 20s,...
Feature: The Ha-Ha Hole Enters its Fourth Year of Bringing the Funny 16 weeks 2 days ago BUSAN, South Korea -- You are not a comedian. You are more than likely an ESL teacher in Busan, South Korea. (Some wiseacres might say, “You are not a teacher, either,” but that’s another story.) Tonight you are...
My Photographic History: The Lost Art of Accidents 18 weeks 6 days ago BUSAN, SOUTH KOREA -- During my first trip to Greece, when I was a mere slip of a lad, my mother made the mistake of handing me the camera whenever I wanted to take a picture. When we returned from our voyage, we developed the film only...
The Asia Fail: The Foundering of Foreigners Abroad 20 weeks 6 days ago BUSAN, South Korea -- In the Old World, people went to the New World to start anew. Once America became settled, folks would head “out West” to shake away their demons, with destinations such as California and Alaska luring folks with promises of riches and rebirth. These were places where no one cared about your history or imperfect past. You...
Tharp On: Marriage 27 weeks 1 day ago BUSAN, South Korea -- It’s done. After 41 years of debauchery, debasement and delirious distraction, I finally closed my eyes, took that deep breath and leapt from the cliff...
Expat Adjustment Syndrome: How You Can Beat it With Little or No Style 41 weeks 1 day ago BUSAN, South Korea -- Having lived here long enough for it to be pathetic that the following ideas hadn’t occurred to me sooner, I’d like to share some tips on living peacefully in K-land. Peacefully in mind, body and soul, and not turning into an angry, hate-filled man or woman who sits peering out through drawn blinds at the pedestrians below imagining they totally have an agenda against me. ...
Tharp On: Health Care 43 weeks 5 days ago BUSAN, South Korea -- This past June the United States Supreme Court upheld the Affordable Care Act—...
Tharp On: Summer 49 weeks 5 days ago BUSAN, South Korea -- It’s summer here on the peninsula – or, as I like to refer to it, The Great Gush – that time of year when sweat pours forth through my pores like a fat guy trekking in the Congo. It’s ridiculous, really. Just the mild...

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