I’m Colin Marshall, a Seoul-based essayist, broadcaster, and public speaker on cities, language, and culture.
You’ll find my essays here. I write for outlets including the New Yorker, Guardian Cities, Open Culture, the Times Literary Supplement, the Los Angeles Review of Books (including its Korea Blog), KCET, Boom: A Journal of California (and guest-edited its issue on architecture, infrastructure, and the built environment), Bookforum, Boing Boing, Put This On, The Japan Foundation, The Millions, 3Quarksdaily, The Quarterly Conversation, and Maximum Fun.
Each month I appear on a Seoul urbanism radio feature on TBS eFM’s Koreascape. Previously, I hosted and produced the world-traveling podcast Notebook on Cities and Culture [RSS] [iTunes], which evolved from the public radio program The Marketplace of Ideas.
My video essay series The City in Cinema examines cities (especially Los Angeles) as they appear on film.
My public speaking tends to cover the same suite of subjects referenced above, especially cities in cinema. I’ve presented at events like Portland and Los Angeles: The Cities in Cinema at the Hollywood Theatre and the San Francisco Urban Film Festival as well as at schools like Seoul National University, Yonsei University, Chapman University, and California State University Long Beach. If you’ve got any inquiries, please do feel free to send them along to the e-mail address below.
You can keep up with me on Twitter and Facebook as well.
contact: colinjmarshall at gmail
photo: Noé Montes
Recent press and guest appearances:
- Interview on the Korea Deconstructed podcast
- Interview on the Conversations Late at Night podcast
- Discussion of the music of the Beatles and Peter Jackson’s Get Back on the Pretty Much Pop podcast
- Discussion of the films of Martin Scorsese on the Pretty Much Pop podcast
- Interview on the Settlers of Seoul podcast
- Interview on The Blunt Report podcast
- Appearance on Monocle magazine’s podcast The Urbanist talking about Seoul’s Ikseon-dong
- Segment on Who Framed Roger Rabbit? and the Los Angeles streetcar conspiracy on KPCC-FM’s Take Two
- Conversation about Philip K. Dick’s Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? on USC’s Bedrosian Book Club podcast
- Interview on Busan eFM 90.5’s Inside Out Busan (5/13/2015 broadcast, begins 56:24)
- KoreAm magazine profile and interview
- 중앙일보 Korea Tour profile (Korean-language)
- 11 Points Countdown with Sam Greenspan, on fun things ruined by technology
- Co-hosting appearance on Podcast Squared
- Conversation about Los Angeles with editor Andrew Tuck on Monocle magazine’s podcast The Urbanist (segment begins 22:27)
- Interview on Podcast Squared, and a review of Notebook on Cities and Culture
- 11 Points Countdown with Sam Greenspan, on underwhelming United States landmarks
- 11 Points Countdown with Sam Greenspan, on the benefits of high gas prices
- The Auteurcast with Rudie Obias and West Anthony on Stanley Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange
- 중앙일보 interview (Korean-language)
- Second, three-hour appearance on K-Town Tonight with Mike Kim
- Battleship Pretension with Tyler Smith and David Bax: a three-hour course in the nineties’ “Indiewood” movement
- The Criterioncast on Chantal Akerman’s Jeanne Dielman 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles
- The Criterioncast on Abbas Kiarostami’s Taste of Cherry
- G.I.O Get It On with Giovanni Giorgio the third time
- G.I.O Get It On with Giovanni Giorgio the second time (can’t find this one, for some reason)
- G.I.O. Get It On with Giovanni Giorgio
- K-Town Tonight on Radio Korea with Mike and Elli
- The Creative Community on Channel 21 with David Starkey
- Radio Causeway on KCSB with Tim Grigsby and Pav Aulakh
- Think Different TV with Ben Casnocha
- Full-Stop.net with Michael Schapira
- Broadcasting Brain with Mark Dykeman (this might not be on the net anymore)
- The People You Don’t Know with Eugene Ahn
