You can download every individual interview by following the links below:
- Hyunwoo Sun, founder of the Talk to Me in Korean language-learning podcast empire
- Bernie Cho, president of DFSB Kollective, a creative agency that provides digital media, marketing, and distribution services to Korean pop music artists
- Laurence Pritchard, writer, teacher, enthusiast of Korean literature, and “English gentleman”
- Mark Russell, author of the books Pop Goes Korea, K-Pop Now!, and Young-hee and the Pullocho
- Mipa Lee, proprietor of Itaewon’s vegan (!) bake shop and café PLANT and author of the blog Alien’s Day Out
- Marc Raymond, film scholar, teacher at Kangwoon University, and author ofHollywood’s New Yorker: The Making of Martin Scorsese
- Adrien Lee, French-Korean host of Arirang TV’s Showbiz Korea and Arirang radio’sCatch the Wave
- Michael Breen, author of The Koreans: Who They Are, What They Want, Where Their Future Lies
- Stephen Revere, CEO of 10 Media, co-founder and managing editor of 10 Magazine, author of two Survival Korean books, and for three years the teacher on Arirang television’s Let’s Speak Korean
- Open Books acquiring editor Gregory Limpens
- Charlie Usher, author of the blog Seoul Sub→urban and the book 찰리와 리즈의 서울 지하철 여행기 (Charlie and Liz’s Seoul Subway Travelogue)
- Danny Crichton, researcher and writer on regional innovation hubs and a contributing writer for TechCrunch
- Darcy Paquet, critic of Korean film, founder of koreanfilm.org and the Wildflower Film Awards, author of New Korean Cinema: Breaking the Waves, teacher, and occasional actor
- Stephane Mot, “conceptor,” writer of fiction, nonfiction, “nonsense,” and author of the blog Seoul Village as well as the collection Dragedies
- Jon Dunbar, urban explorer, editor of long-running Korean punk zine Broke in Korea, and author of Daehanmindecline
- Nikola Medimorec, co-author of Kojects, an English-language blog on transport, urban planning, and development projects around Korea
- Chance Dorland, host of TBS eFM’s “Chance Encounters” segment and the podcasts Chance and Dan Do Korea
- Keith Kim, creator of the travel and culture site Seoulistic
- Steve Miller, creator of the Asia News Weekly podcast and the vlogger formerly known as QiRanger
- Charles Montgomery, editor of the site KTlit.com and global ambassador of Korean literature in translation
- Alex Jensen, host of weekday news show This Morning on TBS eFM
- Daniel Gray, creator of the site Seoul Eats, proprietor of craft beer restaurants Brew 3.14π and Brew 3.15π
- Barry Welsh, host of the Seoul Book & Culture Club and Seoul Film Society
- Writer Krys Lee, author of the acclaimed short story collection Drifting House
- Literary translator Bruce Fulton
- North Korea analyst B.R. Myers, author of A Reader’s Manifesto and The Cleanest Race: How North Koreans See Themselves and Why It Matters
- James Turnbull, author of The Grand Narrative, a blog on Korean feminism, sexuality, and popular culture
- Broadcaster, teacher, rapper, and television star Chad Kirton (a.k.a. Fusion)
- Jeff Liebsch, managing editor and partner at the magazine Busan Haps
- Sofía Ferrero Cárrega, film critic and enthusiast of Korean cinema
- Changwon bikeshare system outreach coordinator Coby Zeifman
- Daniel Tudor co-founder of craft beer pizza pub chain The Booth, author of Korea: The Impossible Country, A Geek in Korea, and (with James Pearson) North Korea Confidential
- Andrew Salmon, author of To the Last Round: The Epic British Stand on the Imjin River, Korea 1951; Scorched Earth, Black Snow: Britain and Australia in the Korean War, 1950; and All That Matters: Modern Korea
- Michael Elliott, creator of the English-learning site for Koreans English in Korean and the Korean-learning site for English-speakers Korean Champ
- Architect Minsuk Cho, principal at Mass Studies, designer of the Golden Lion-winning Korean pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale 2014
- Matt VanVolkenburg, author of Gusts of Popular Feeling, a blog on “Korean society, history, urban space, cyberspace, film, and current events, among other things”
- Brother Anthony of Taizé, renowned translator of Korean poetry, president of the Royal Asiatic Society Korea Branch, and naturalized citizen of South Korea
Marketplace of Ideas interviews:
- So Yong Kim, filmmaker and director of the Korean-themed In Between Days and Korea-set Treeless Mountain [MP3]
Supplementary material:
- My series of essays on South Korea for the Guardian, all of which you can find on my contributor page there: the first on Seoul, the second on the Cheonggyecheon Stream and Dongdaemun Design Plaza, the third on Paju Book City and the “smart city” of Songdo, the fourth on the formidable bike-share system in Changwon, and the fifth on Busan
- My essay for Boom: A Journal of California on finding the Korea in California and the California in Korea
- My essay for the Los Angeles Review of Books on the novels of Kim Young-ha
- My essay for The Quarterly Conversation on the films of Hong Sangsoo