Jarod Guillette

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Jan 27, 2016, 12:45 PM

An Open (and final) Polemic to a World Not Listening

I've decided to stop writing at TOI blogs. I was never much of a blogger anyway and what's the point? Preaching to the crowd never offered salvation and the larger congregation, humanity, has stopped listening. So this is my...

Jan 1, 2015, 10:30 AM

When I talk with Jews from Europe in Korea and then talk to an American who studied in Sweden (Part 1)

The Jewish community in Seoul is served by a wonderful Chabad family. The community here is truly blessed. Rabbi Litzman is front and centre of Jewish-Korean relations and education and there is always something interesting going on at the...

Aug 31, 2014, 10:22 AM

Landscapes of Hate

Often the things that are right in front of our faces, are the things we can't see, the things we miss. It isn't until those things are placed in a framed view or a new perspective that we actually...

Jul 27, 2014, 7:22 AM

The View from Korea on Operation Protective Edge…it’s a complex picture.

My original intention for my blog contribution to ToI was to just focus on Jewish life in Korea, landscape architecture and other lighter topics. I try to avoid politics and the problems in the world as much as possible....

Jun 18, 2014, 1:13 PM

Mirae Electricity and the Dreams of Children in Gaza (at least according to this stupid advertisement)

Being Jewish in Korea is for the most part awesome. I mean where else in the world am I admired for the size of my nose. When I see a book titled "유대인 파와, Jewish power that runs the...

Jun 6, 2014, 4:08 AM

Ma koreh? Ma Korea? Landscape architecture thoery with Israelis in Seoul

Seoul, Korea, wait is there any other Seoul? I don't think there is but I'm not a geography expert, I'm more into just landscape. Seoul has a Jewish community. We are served by a wonderful Chabad house, under Rabbi...

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About Me

Jarod Guillette is originally from a small town in Maine near Canada. He met his wife, who is Korean, in Canada and they wound up in Korea. There, he is a graduate student of landscape architecture, a husband and now a father. He runs a small design/media thingy that does environmental research and comedy all related to landscape architecture and the environment.