My Financial Times TV columns from 1999-2001 are sort of available on this page.
Culture and Politics:
New York Times Op-Ed: How “Past Lives” Changed My Mind About My Relationship. 8 March, 2024
New York Times Op-Ed: In Paris, I Get Judged on What I Speak, Not How I Look. 8 August, 2023
New York Times Op-Ed: I May Have Started a Rumor About K-Pop, and It May Be Ruining My Life, 3 January 2023
New York Times Book Review: In this Korean Best-Seller, A Young Woman is Driven to Psychosis.
Politico EU: America ruined pizza, St. Patrick’s Day, and “House of Cards.” Now they’re going to ruin Eurovision
New York Times Op-Ed: Why I’ve Stopped Telling People I’m Not Chinese, 15 May 2020
CNN: K-pop fans deserve credit for tanking Trump Rally. (June 22, 2020)
Washington Post (behind paywall): Korean pop culture is everywhere. And it’s taken on a life of its own. 22 Feb 2020
CNN: ‘Parasite’s’ win is an awesome test of the one-inch barrier of text 10 Feb 2020
New York Times: The Korean Secret to Happiness and Success 19 Nov 2019
Lenny Letter: Kimchi Temper 6 July 2018 (Note: After Lenny Letter’s dissolution, my byline was removed and all articles were attributed to “Elizalde.” I can only assume this is because they obliterated the author pages?)*
Lenny Letter: I Love Spam Madly, Deeply, Unironically 21 February 2018 (also inaccurately credited to Elizalde)
New York Times Op-Ed: I Grew Up Around Korean Beauty Products. Americans, You’ve Been Had. 8 Dec. 2017
CNN Opinion: The Age of Vampires Has Given Way to the Age of the Zombies. 31 Oct 2017
Quartz: Unfamous Valley: Why it sucks to be not quite famous 21 July 2017
CNN Opinion: The President who got impeached for being embarrassing 12 March 2017
Lenny Letter: The President and the Ghost Whisperer 25 Jan. 2017 (also inaccurately credited to Elizalde)
Quartz: Please stop saying the Japanese are descended from Koreans 27 April 2017
Quartz: Sid and Nancy and Me (chosen as one of 10 best personal essays on Quartz for 2016) 12 October 2016
Quartz: 23andMe has a problem when it comes to ancestry reports for people of color 26 August 2016
Wall Street Journal Op-ed: K-Pop Music and the Hallyu Hullabaloo 17 June 2016
Quartz: Justin Timberlake is going to ruin Eurovision 13 may 2016
Los Angeles Times Op-ed Resilience in Paris 13 November 2015
Quartz: Conan O’Brien accidentally exposed the culture gap between Koreans and Korean-Americans 16 April 2016 (one of the 10 most-shared articles on Facebook for that date)
Quartz: How Snoopy helped make ‘Peanuts’ the definitive Sunday comic strip 15 August 2015
Quartz: How I made the leap from being Korean to being Jewish 25 June 2015
Quartz: Korea’s newest slogan is Seoul stupid 11 November 2015
Quartz: Charlie Hebdo’s Gross-out Humor is a Tradition Worth Preserving 15 Jan 2015
New York Times Book Review: Suki Kim’s ‘Without You, There Is No Us 14 Dec 2014
Newsweek UK: Korean Cool Is The Ultimate National Marketing Ploy – Newsweek 8 Aug 2014
Quartz: Tiger Mom is Many Things, but She’s No Racist, 26 Jan 2014
Wall St. Journal Op-ed: I Got Eyelid Surgery, but Not to Look White 13 Oct 2013
Quartz: Formula One, like soccer and the metric system, is OK for everyone except Americans
The Formula One contestant list is a veritable multinational hodgepodge: Germany’s Sebastian Vettel, the young racing prodigy who claimed his third Formula One victory at… (November 28, 2012)
Women senators hit the porcelain ceiling as a bill for more bathrooms circles the drain
Following the Nov. 6 US elections, there are now an unprecedented 20 women in the Senate, up from 17. This has led to what you… November 15, 2012
Eton: Why James Bond’s and David Cameron’s prep school still makes leaders
Arthur Wellesley, the First Duke of Wellington, upon defeating Napoleon at Waterloo in 1815, famously said, “The Battle of Waterloo was won on the playing…
Thank goodness it’s Friday, the day no one will ever read about this story, ever
People get fired on Friday more than any other day—perhaps because bosses hope that by Monday, the… November 09, 2012
Why is American Express paying people to play Halo 4?
Microsoft’s Halo 4, being released worldwide on Nov. 6 (Nov. 8 in Japan), is by far the most expensive game in Microsoft history, and has… November 05, 2012
Proof that Starbucks is the new public utility: Panic erupts when it closes, even during a hurricane
Weather.com wanted New Yorkers to know about three closures as they prepped for the Hurricane Sandy: subways, schools, and Starbucks. Yes, Starbucks. The coffee chain… October 29, 2012
What is global climate change doing to our favorite wines?
This article is part of a series on the 2012 wine harvest and how certain vineyards have been coping with the effects of global climate… October 04, 2012
France 24 articles here
Boston Globe: We’ll Always Have East Berlin: Germany’s Strange Nostalgia for Life Behind the Wall 8 Sep 2003
New York Times: Teaching Germany to Grin and Bear Cheerleading 30 November 2003
New York Times: Rise of the New Europe in Euro Pop 26 May 2003
My first-ever op-ed in the mainstream press: WSJ op-ed on Estonian accession to the E.U. 2002
Financial Times: nam june paik guggenheim review 26 Feb 2000
France
The biggest royal event in France since Versailles: Burger King is coming back, Quartz 30 November, 2012
After being deposed 15 years ago, the King is back in France. Burger King, in partnership with the Italian company Autogrill (which specializes in restaurants…
Charlie Hebdo’s gross out cartoons are an ancient French tradition worth preserving Quartz 9 Jan 2015
Thought Leader Handbook, Rule 1: After disaster, lie in wait. Wait until the “What hath God wrought” phase is over, usually about 12 hours. Rule…