Say You Love Kimchi, And Nothing Else If You Want in

When a Palestinian student — an avid K-Pop fan at the time — said to me some years ago that she wanted to visit South Korea, I told her she should just videotape herself in her usual hijab and abaya gushing “I love Korea. I love kimchi”. Then the government would surely send her a round-trip ticket for a little tour of South Korea, a great center of culture and innovation beloved by the world, which she, a young Muslim woman with her telltale signs of otherness, would represent on some publici