Prologue

Having just graduated from university and not knowing the next step I should, as a conscientious citizen of the world, take,  I looked for information in the one medium I have learned to trust more than any other as a Humanities major: the printed word.

I knew that I wanted something different, something that I could experience that would awaken a part of me that was disabled so that I could concentrate in my literature classes. In effect, this disability allowed me to read, and not yearn to do.

 Now the wandering beast of adventure, my version of D. H. Lawrence's Bitch Goddess of Success, has devoured me and I intended to follow it to the ends of the earth, quite literally, until my thirst for adventure is satiated.

I have decided to settle on the notion forwarded by J.K. Rowling in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince on page 56 of the hardback copy sold in the United States when Dumbledore is talking to Harry:

"And now, Harry, let us step out into the night and pursue that flighty temptress adventure."

My adventure will begin in South Korea.