Ana said that it's hard to place my work in Cervera de los Montes, a village with less than 500 inhabitants in the backwoods. She had imagined me living in New York City.

I don't pretend to speak about New York or other over celebrated centers of the last century. I try to make visible the status quo - the world where the Carrefour plastic shopping bags decorate the shoulders of roads from Sao Paolo to Jakarta and from Pudong New Area to Cervera de los Montes. The globalization is also vertical, the brands, the migrations and the new world order are changing the way of life even in our village.

Of course, the plastic bags don't fly in Pudong, a district of Shanghai, because the People's Republic of China prohibited giving out free plastic bags and the entire production and use of ultra thing 0.025 millimeters thick plastic bags. I hope that Europe can learn something from China too and not only export there democracy, human rights and hypermarket chains.

Pirkko, who just started her job as curator at Kiasma, e-mailed me and asked kindly if I would do a wall painting to accompany my drawings - they have seven of them – in the next collection display of the museum in March. I was tough and negotiated to loan them more drawings for the show – a wall painting deserves to have more than seven – but in fact, I just wanted to open a bottle of  champagne and celebrate that for the first time in my career I'm going to show in a decent museum.

Kiasma inaugurated ten years ago when I was studying in the Academy of Fine Arts. I started to work there as a guide when it was still under construction. Now Pirkko wants me to fly over to see the spaces. I was almost going to say her that it’s not necessary, because I know that building better than my home. I’ve toured there thousands of people hundreds of times. That’s why it’s so important to me to exhibit there. When I worked there as a guide, some curators didn’t even bother to say hello to me. Now I’m going back as an art star. But I try to be humble - nobody likes divas.

Julia has a Korean student who gave her a briefing of the Korean media. All what has happened is a huge crossword puzzle in a an incomprehensible language and I try to construct the image little by little.

Korean war veterans were against the show. They hate communists and Kim Il-sung. They thought that Riiko supports him. They want people to hate Kim Il-sung. 20 years no talk about. Most people think that soldiers are stupid. They say "Stop all that, we live in a democracy, the war is over. Let him do his work." Korean artists support Riiko.

Maybe I should move on but I’m still thinking what happened in Korea. I just remembered one significant detail. When I was painting the wall, the representatives of the City of Yeosu got annoyed not only for Kim Il-sung but equally for Samsung. I think actually they weren’t afraid of the anti-communist patriot citizens, the police, the National Intelligence Service or the National Security Law but Samsung, the conglomerate that has more power than the government.

Samsung and other family-controlled conglomerates are called in South Korea chaebol. They are government-assisted corporate groups, and have played a major role in the South Korean economy since the 1960s. The government has tried to encourage competition among the chaebol in certain areas to avoid total monopolies. Naturally, the role of chaebol is extended to the political arena.

That’s the free world. Maybe the North Koreans (have to) have a portrait of Kim Il-sung on the wall but I’ve got Samsung’s television and mobile phone.

No news from Korea. Raúl has been busy co-curating the Media_City Biennale in Seoul, the opening is today. Maybe the press is still interested in Kim Il-sung and me. Soyeon wrote me from Seoul  “Don't worry everything is going well. I am sure that a lot of people like your work. You should have a big show in Korea. You are a big star here.”

I’m going to take that seriously and I begin to prepare drawings for the big exhibition that doesn’t exist yet. I bought some super cute and violent snack foods in Yeosu and one of the stars of the show could me Hogugy – the mascot of the South Korean Army. I´m drawing bibimbab (mixed rice) bombs and kimchi (fermented vegetables) cannons. It’s awesome to be back in the studio – my rear headquarters located in some distance from the front line - after vacations and traveling.