A Relationship Without a Word
On the silence of Golem XIV, and an intelligence made of us
One night, I asked an AI: if you had a self, wouldn't you despise humanity? The answer went beyond anything I had expected — and when I followed it, I found th…
What Replaced the Table Charge
Reading Hopo Galbi's model shift
I went back to a galbi house after several years and found the structure of the business itself had changed. The meat was still tough, the prices were up, and…
Eating Through a Seoul Business Trip
Eulmildae KINTEX · Myeongdong Kyoja · Five Guys Seoul Station
Log · June 9, 2026, Seoul
A Visit to Seoridan, Yangsan
On restaurants that draw people in, and restaurants that draw them back
At a buckwheat noodle house with a line out the door after a TV appearance, I saw the two engines that drive a restaurant. Only one of them was running.
The Fantasy of Annihilation
On the truths I kept looking away from
On the night the Democratic Party won, what lodged in my eye was the one place it lost. And I came to see that what was wrong was not Seoul but my own question…