L.A. Times Eats Scraps from OFK’s Table

Everything you didn’t learn about Seoul Mayor and presidential aspirant Lee Myung-Bak in my piece on him last week is here at the L.A. Times, by Barbara Demick. Unlike me, she leaves out most of the dirt. Lee is right, of course, to say that Seoul is an ugly city and shouldn’t be, although I happen to be one of the billion or so people who would have preferred a different approach than paving over swathes of city–including some places of real cultural value–under ingots of tax-geld.