I thought Mike Breen and Scott Bug might enjoy this article. Mike is always telling me that I should stop writing about Korean ghosts and instead concentrate on writing about the dead Westerners and Scott is always looking for stories of strange foreigners.
One of Joseon Korea’s most notorious Americans was undoubtedly George W. Lake. He lived in Chemulpo in the late 1890s but avoided his fellow Westerners and Japanese (despite speaking Japanese well) and preferred only the company of the Chinese. Lake had a sordid history of sex and depravity that he was running from – a history that most of his peers should have known but didn’t. This is his story.
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Sounds like fodder for a 10 part series in the hanky.
That’s awesome. Traveling the world, leaving a string of single moms in your wake, drinking, whoring and pointing guns at the cops. Reminds me of grandpa ;_;
He doesn’t sound much worse than some of the characters I’ve met over the years in the Seoul Pub or 3 Alley!
Ahh… the days before telephones and valid forms of ID. If only I could have been born then!
Please make another post for part 2 when it comes out.
…I was sorely disappointed by the ending of the article… not even a promise of a part 2… and let’s be honest: it looks like the full story was already written and it was cut into sections by a cruel editor.
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