{"id":2678,"date":"2015-01-17T08:23:09","date_gmt":"2015-01-17T16:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/?p=2678"},"modified":"2015-04-06T09:12:20","modified_gmt":"2015-04-06T16:12:20","slug":"notebook-on-cities-and-cultures-korea-tour-korean-dreams-with-alex-jensen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/?p=2678","title":{"rendered":"Notebook on Cities and Culture&#8217;s Korea Tour: Korean Dreams with Alex Jensen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-2679\" style=\"border: 0;\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/alex-jensen.jpg\" alt=\"alex jensen\" width=\"299\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/alex-jensen.jpg 299w, http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/alex-jensen-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 299px) 100vw, 299px\" \/>Notebook on Cities and Culture<em>&#8216;s Korea Tour is brought to you by Daniel Murphy, David Hayes, and <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.polarinertia.com\/\">The Polar Intertia Journal<\/a><em>, an outlet for artists and researchers documenting the urban condition.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In Seoul&#8217;s Itaewon district, Colin talks with Alex Jensen, host of weekday news show\u00a0<em>This Morning<\/em> on TBS eFM.\u00a0They discuss whether he envisions who he&#8217;s talking to when he&#8217;s talking on-air; what first strikes him about the Tube whenever he goes back to London; when he very first took to the airwaves; how much he knew about the existence of English broadcasting in Korean when he headed there in pursuit of the probable love of his life; how he developed his professional broadcasting life in Korea through &#8220;friends of friends&#8221;; what put him off music radio, and &#8220;the full breadth of life&#8221; offered by current-events radio; his grasp of the &#8220;raw emotions&#8221; of Korean, and how they came into play when he reported the sinking of the Sewol (and how it compared to his newsroom experience during the London bombings of 2005); his preference of fairness over neutrality; how the movies introduced him to the depth\u00a0of Korean sentiment; why Seoul doesn&#8217;t confront you with packs of drunken fifteen-year-olds on the way home; what Korean freedom consists of today; whether he, too, has a &#8220;Korean dream&#8221;; his very first impressions of Seoul, and how he sought out similarities\u00a0to London while receiving them; the utmost importance of simply getting to know people; how much an English-speaking job impedes the learning of Korean; why Korea has so much English radio in the first place; the culture that develops in major media not in a country&#8217;s dominant language; the questions he can ask that a Korean might hesitate to; the sensationalism over North Korea in foreign media versus the shrugging in South Korea; how different Itaewon, where he lives, feels from the rest of Korea; where he sees the emergence of a more international Korea; where to find the best British food in Seoul; and how having a\u00a0long, large-scale media conversation with Korean society has\u00a0helped him integrate into it.<\/p>\n<p>Download the interview\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/colinmarshall\/NCC_Korea_Tour_Alex_Jensen.output.mp3\">here as an MP3<\/a>\u00a0or on\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/notebook-on-cities-culture\/id266539442\">iTunes<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Notebook on Cities and Culture&#8216;s Korea Tour is brought to you by Daniel Murphy, David Hayes, and The Polar Intertia Journal, an outlet for artists and researchers documenting the urban condition. 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