What happened to the Korea posts?

Someone emailed me recently and asked why (in her mind) I had stopped posting about Korea issues. The short answer is I haven't. 

The long answer is I've only recently been able to carve out the time to start semi-regularly posting again, but the Korea-related posts usually require a lot more energy and thought to be put into them. 

I will try to write more later. Among the topics I hope to address: 

1. the Chinese students run amok in Seoul during the Olympic torch relay

2. President Lee Myungbak's apparent appeals to the Christian right in South Korea

3. the out-of-hand candlelight vigils against beef imports ostensibly due to concerns about Mad Cow Disease but, behind the scenes, really about sticking it to President Lee

4. the Beijing Olympics and what it means to Chinese nationalism and how other countries should view China

5. the impending collapse of North Korea (?)

6. Cho Seung-hui

7. comparing Korea's economic crises due to mismanagement and deceit with America's economic crises due to mismanagement and deceit

8. making nice with Japan in a post-Roh Moohyun Korea (or a return to the days of the Kim-Obuchi accord)

9. the future of the ROK-US free-trade agreement and why I might not vote for Obama because of that one issue

I'm sure you're all waiting with bated breath.