War of Words over the State of South Korea

We live in an interesting time. Some of you may know I published an opinion piece [http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/13/opinion/south-koreas-textbook-whitewash.html] in the New York Times last month condemning the South Korean government’s move to overhaul history textbooks. I didn’t know but apparently the foreign ministry “lodged a protest against the New York Times” for publishing my piece, according to [http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/nation/2015/12/120_192627.html] the Korea Times. I