On the pleasures and paranoia of being a mostly clueless white guy in the company of Third World hosts.
Song of the broken road
For adventurers headed overland to Angkor Wat, Cambodia’s Route 6 is Disneyland gone bad.
A spy on “The Beach”
Our correspondent reports from behind the scenes of Leonardo DiCaprio’s new movie.
Getting stoned with Mr. X
Rolf wanders in search of an Indiana Jones adventure in Thailand’s gem country.
Penny Pinched
In the first installment of “Vagabonding,” Rolf pays through the nose for his penny-pinching ways.
Korea’s no-man’s land
Rolf describes a visit to Korea’s DMZ, one of the planet’s oddest tourist attractions, where visitors can pick up everything from propaganda to perfume.
Storming “The Beach”
When he tries to infiltrate a movie set on a heavily guarded Thai island, Rolf embarks on a rollicking post-modern travel adventure, somewhat starring Leonardo DiCaprio.
Man bites dog
Koreans and Americans both love dogs — they just have a different way of showing it.
Letter from Pusan: The party’s over
Rolf describes the heady rise and wistful fall of expat life in South Korea.
Staring Off Into Space is an Investment in the Soul
Poetry: “Looking at a steer and / imagining balls is not / nearly so hard as / looking at balls and / imagining a bull.”
A look back at the Korean presidential election of 1997
Political commentary: Dissident politician Kim Dae-jung was not (as Time declared upon his inauguration) “Destiny’s Choice” to lead Korea into the new millennium, but the beneficiary of mudslinging, opportunism and circumstantial luck amid a wacky 1997 election season.