Greetings from New York! As you can tell, I’m trying out a new format for my sporadic, Kyoung Updates. As it turns out, my mailing list has grown to a point where I need an e-mailing service to catch up with you all. Hopefully, this will be a better way for me to communicate with […]
Read MoreGreetings! I hope you can come see my latest project: Walkabout Yeolha, an adaptation of Samshik Pai’s play “Inching Towards Yeolha,” directed by Kon Yi and produced by Columbia Stages/Columbia University. There are short features on the play published by the Korea Daily and the Columbia Spectator. You can read more about the project in […]
Read MoreGreetings from Chile! I returned to Santiago, Chile this Monday after participating in a 3-month international exchange program with Augusto Boal’s Theater of the Oppressed in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Augusto Boal, 2008 Nobel Peace Prize nominee and 2009 UNESCO Ambassador for Theater, unfortunately passed away a month after I arrived in Rio. My experience […]
Read MoreDear friends, I hope you can come see “Big Love,” my newest project at Kyung Hee’s Suwon campus. “Big Love,” by Charles Mee, tells the story of 50 brides that flee their fifty grooms and seek shelter in Italy. The grooms find the brides and force them to marry. Unable to escape, 49 of the […]
Read MoreHello everyone! Greetings from South Korea! I returned to Korea two weeks ago and I’ve had to promptly adjust back to life in Suwon. Things are going very well. I’m currently directing Kyung Hee University’s School of English Language and Culture’s production of Charles Mee’s “Big Love.” It’s the biggest show I’ve ever been involved […]
Read MoreGreetings! Two weeks ago, I took a day-trip to North Korea’s Gaesong Industrial complex and finally crossed the DMZ line. I cannot explain how or why we managed to finally enter North Korea, but I can share with you a short article I’ve written (published in the Korea Times) and some pictures I took of […]
Read MoreGreetings! Kyung Hee University supported my school to embark on a mission to Hanoi, Vietnam to begin a new chapter of the university’s GCS movement–a global coalition of goodwill and international cooperation for peace. I include pictures from the trip and more information about what I saw and learned below. Enjoy! ************************************************************* Our trip consisted […]
Read MoreHello everyone! Kyoung will talk in third-person for a bit because Kyoung has been lost for a while. It may be Kyoung’s zany life winning him over again, or perhaps all this North-Korean crisis making him go cuckoo and bonkers. I have to begin by apologizing for all the amazing people who have written to […]
Read MoreHello everyone! I owe everyone huge apologies for not writing and/or calling. In the meanwhile, really briefly, I thought I’d share some photos with you instead. I will write soon, sooorry! Much love, kyoung
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