In her review of Sung J. Woo’s Love Love, Euny Hong describes the book as both “a dirge and a paean to the second-generation Korean American.” by EUNY HONG Sung […]
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First-World Problems: Love Love and Porn
by SUNG J. WOO From time to time, at a slightly greater frequency than a visit by Halley’s Comet, people ask me what my second novel, Love Love, is about. I […]
First-World Problems: Lessons from the Court
by SUNG J. WOO For the first 10 years of my life, I was the man of the house. I didn’t have a father, for he was in the United […]
First-World Problems: In the Palm of My Hand
by SUNG J. WOO I grew up in a no-frills apartment in New Jersey, surrounded by a whole lot of whiteness. Mostly this was due to my mother, who was and […]
First-World Problems: Welcome to the Club
by SUNG J. WOO This past New Year’s Eve, I was on the second floor of Terminal 5, a concert hall in New York City’s Hell’s Kitchen. Leaning over the railing, […]
First-World Problems: The Forbidden Fruit
by SUNG J. WOO |@sjwoo Costco is one of my mother’s favorite places in the world. As a child of the Korean War, scarcity has always carried psychological weight for her, […]
Introducing New Columnist Sung J. Woo: Here to Entertain You, Dear Reader
“FIRST-WORLD PROBLEMS” by SUNG J. WOO Hi there. My name is Sung, and if you’ve been a longtime KoreAm reader, you may have read some of my essays in the […]
