By John M. Glionna, Los Angeles Times, April 15, 2012 SEOUL, South Korea — For years, I walked untouched among the ranks of the surgically enhanced — all those nips…
By John M. Glionna, Los Angeles Times, April 15, 2012 SEOUL, South Korea — For years, I walked untouched among the ranks of the surgically enhanced — all those nips…
By John M. Glionna, Los Angeles Times, April 3, 2012 PHOTOGRAPH by the Daily Mail SEOUL — Most mornings, when the slanted dawn light hits the nearby Tower Palace luxury…
By John M. Glionna, Los Angeles Times, March 8, 2012 PHOTOGRAPH by the Los Angeles Times SEOUL — It began when an out-of work math professor who had just lost…
By John M. Glionna, Los Angeles Times, March 5, 2012 PHOTOGRAPH by Chosun Daily SEOUL — Hong Seok-cheon stands beaming before an adoring studio audience. It’s a place he has…
By John M. Glionna, Los Angeles Times, January 27, 2012 SEOUL — For more than 46 years, they’ve been inseparable, this quirky barber and his ramshackle excuse for a shop….
By John M. Glionna, Los Angeles Times, January 8, 2012 BUSAN, South Korea — Joseph Michael Murphy had the defeated look of a man on a losing streak at the…
By John M. Glionna, Los Angeles Times, December 26, 2011 PHOTOGRAPH by Matt Douma BUSAN, South Korea — Buddhist monk Ando remembers the toil of all those years, trying to…
By John M. Glionna, Los Angeles Times, December 20, 2011 PHOTOGRAPH by the Los Angeles Times SEOUL — The sudden death of Kim Jong is forcing North Korea’s prosperous southern…
By John M. Glionna, Los Angeles Times, November 18, 2011 SEOUL — Every week, Kim Ou-joon does what was once unthinkable in South Korea: He gleefully lampoons the president. At…
By John M. Glionna, Los Angeles Times, November 7, 2011 PALGONG MOUNTAIN, South Korea — The hunters kneel before a tiny altar of fresh persimmons, paper cups of alcohol and…