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Writings: Essays

“100번이나 불합격 통지를 받은 당신에게 [To Those Who Have Been Rejected 100 Times]"

Chosun Ilbo, April 2009

"A Lifetime of Reading Taught Min Jin Lee How to Write About Her Immigrant World"

The New York Times, April 2021

"After the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics, Healing the Deepest Fracture"

The New Yorker, February 2018

"Asian Americans Have Always Lived With Fear"

The New York Times, March 2022

"Biblical Illiteracy or Reading the Bestseller"

ABC News, June 2007

"Book Notes – Free Food for Millionaires"

Largehearted Boy, June 2007.

"Breaking My Own Silence"

The New York Times, May 2019

"In Praise of bell hooks"

The New York Times, February 2019

"Love in the New World"

Literary Hub, November 2017.

"Low Tide"

The New York Times Magazine, February 2012

"My Korean New Year"

The Wall Street Journal, January 2010

"North good, South bad? Time to shed the Korea stereotypes"

The Guardian, February 2018

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