All market futures are pointing down, while bombmakers like Lockheed and Raytheon are up.
This is free capital at work, since capital flows to where returns are highest. At least that's the theory.
Which means as of the moment, the returns are highest in 'literally killing people.'
Korean citizens have been nominated for Nobel Peace Prize for defending democracy against martial law.
Since Trump foams at his mouth for the Nobel, it humors me to picture a fictional matchup between
'The people who eat authoritarian presidents for breakfast'
vs
'The menu item on that breakfast'
Yoon has been sentenced to life in prison. And of course, he'll likely receive a special pardon from the president. That's what happened to the others who went to prison.
But beyond that the Korean people finally have justice for what was done, please take note.
This is what should happen. Always.
Passage from Oxford Soju Club by Jinwoo Park —- Canadian author
Loving this passage from “Oxford Soju Club” by @jinwoo-park.com
'But the Dow is at 50K' summarizes exactly what's wrong with the US right now.
When the answer to grotesque and overwhelming injustice is 'The rich are getting richer, that's all that matters,' it's time to throw out the entire system for a reset.
Someone was abducted at 10 AM by ICE on Central Ave. Their coworker says they’ve lived here for over 20 years, are documented, and have 3 kids who were born here.
Don’t be fooled by headlines when they’ve been lying to us the whole time. We still need you out patrolling until every agent is gone.
Puerto Ricans fought in the Korean War, and Koreans should not forget that.
I've never heard anyone complain about the Italian in a Verdi or a Puccini, because we all had an understanding that there was artistry in language that went beyond the meaning.
There's so much beauty in how a word sounds. And if you really love music, you should be able to appreciate that.
Oh you got one of these ones! So in the beginning there was a lack of inventory, so a print on demand shop was tapped to print out more copies, but there was a mistake with the cover. And a total of 170 of them were printed like this before we noticed what was happening.
A nurse. A researcher. A helper.
A video of Alex Pretti reading out the final salute of an unnamed veteran he cared for until the end of his life in the ICU, posted to Facebook by his son.
For everyone who's still hesitant to 'talk politics' at this point, even Korean salarymen went out to protest the military government.
Actually, this isn't Gwangju 1980, where Chun Doo-hwan's regime tried to hide their crimes, because despite their brutality, they understood their actions as moral debt they'd have to answer for.
I see none of that with the current US regime. So this isn't Gwangju. It's potentially much worse.
Icetapo just pistol whipped a man and executed him in broad daylight in Minneapolis. And there are still people thinking I'm exaggerating when I say this is Gwangju in 1980
Trump has said, in response to Carney's speech "Canada lives because of the US", giving more credence to Carney's words and proving how urgently the world needs to decouple from the American hegemony.
So apparently Hootsuite is cozying up to ICE for business.
It's one thing to be a software specifically built for imperial and authoritarian militarism like Palantir and then serve that exact purpose.
It's another thing to be a social media tool and then still line up to be part of that.
When Park Chung Hee realized he'd lose the next election, he told his prime minister that he was considering something 'special'. A year later, he abolished democratic elections and crowned himself as leader-for-life.
Yesterday, Trump said that there shouldn't even be a midterm election.
In another big thing that happened this week, Oxford Soju Club was picked by the James Bond Book Club from Ian Fleming Publications
ianfleming.com/the-james-bo...
Oxford Soju Club by Jinwoo Park, Canada Reads 2026 Longlist
I never imagined that my book, which is so unapologetically Korean, would be marked in the tapestry of Canlit. In fact, the longlist is so multicultural this year.
And in times like this, when immigrant communities are being assaulted everywhere, this really shows the cultural leadership of Canada.
Thank you CBC Books
A graphic showing that Oxford Soju Club is on the Canada Reads 2026 Longlist
A graphic showing that Celestina's House is on the Canada Reads 2026 Longlist
We're thrilled to share that OXFORD SOJU CLUB by Jinwoo Park (@jinwoo-park.com) and CELESTINA'S HOUSE by Clarissa Trinidad Gonzalez are on the #CanadaReads 2026 longlist from CBC Books!
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NEWS: In a heartbreaking video, after ICE shot and killed a woman in Minneapolis, a woman who was in the same SUV cries out: “They killed my wife. I don’t know what to do."
“We stopped to videotape, and they shot her in the head,” the distraught woman sobs.
www.advocate.com/news/minneso...
The “prosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028.
At this moment, I don't think it's alarmist to say that the US now closely resembles 1980 South Korea.
About time: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/w...
For Korean adoptees, this is how they justified exporting us. On the back of this. This is the hard truth I had to win and I'm still bitter about it.
With this swift illegal stroke against Venezuela and Maduro, the US made its position clear: might is right. And that is not good for anyone.
2025 was full of firsts.
First appearance at literary festivals as a writer.
First time I got on a radio show.
First time I was paid to translate a whole novel.
First time I got to read for a literary prize.
And of course, my first book, Oxford Soju Club.
May they be the first of many in 2026.
And 70s and 80s!
It's a new year new you, so you should write that book.
Because while you wait for that mythical 'right time', you're letting go of the fire and passion of your 20s, 30s, 40s, and on, all of them unique literary selves that you'll never get back.
So don't miss out. Just make the time.
Write.
Novel Oxford Soju Club in front of Christmas Tree
Just realized my book is kinda Christmas colored
