Date: June 14th, 2015 10:59 AM Author: Pontificating temple shitlib
Wholly shit. In this article she talks about how Seoul has many more men than women. Then at th end it's revealed that even though she's in Korea for 3 months, she's dating an american expat there instead of a Korean dude. LJL
Date: June 14th, 2015 11:51 AM Author: Pontificating temple shitlib
Most people who didn't grow up around a lot of Asians are horrible at judging Asian woman aesthetics, a fact ruthlessly exploited by fugly Asian bitches
Date: June 14th, 2015 11:31 AM Author: massive disgusting rehab fortuitous meteor
Patricia Park, a native of Douglaston, Queens, is spending the semester in Seoul, South Korea, where she is teaching English literature and dating an American who is not from New York; she blogs at newyorkerinseoul.com.
Patricia Park is the author of the debut novel Re Jane, a Korean-American retelling of Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre set in NYC and Seoul (Viking/PDB, Penguin Random House May 5, 2015). She was born and raised in Queens and graduated from the Bronx High School of Science. She received her BA in English literature from Swarthmore College and her MFA in fiction from Boston University. She has taught writing at Boston University, Ewha Womans University Graduate School of Interpretation and Translation, and CUNY Queens College. She was a Fulbright scholar to South Korea, an Emerging Writers fellow with The Center for Fiction, and a Fellow with the American Association of University Women. Her essays have been published in the New York Times, the Guardian, Daily Beast, Slice Magazine, and others. She has been interviewed on MSNBC "Book Report," NPR "Here and Now," WNYC "Brian Lehrer," CBS Radio, and others.
Her abbreviated CV is below:
Education:
Boston University, MFA in Fiction. Thesis advisor: Ha Jin
Swarthmore College, BA with High Honors. English major, Psychology minor
Bronx High School of Science
Teaching:
Lecturer in English, Queens College, City University of NY
Lecturer in Creative Writing, Boston University
Lecturer in Writing, Ewha Women’s University, Graduate School of Interpretation and Translation
Fellowships:
Emerging Writer Fellow, The Center for Fiction
Research Fellow, American Association of University Women
Fulbright Scholar in Creative Arts, South Korea
Translation Studies Fellow, Korean Literature Translation Institute