{"id":2694,"date":"2015-01-23T10:19:49","date_gmt":"2015-01-23T18:19:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/?p=2694"},"modified":"2015-04-06T09:10:04","modified_gmt":"2015-04-06T16:10:04","slug":"notebook-on-cities-and-cultures-korea-tour-cool-koreania-with-barry-welsh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/?p=2694","title":{"rendered":"Notebook on Cities and Culture’s Korea Tour: Cool Koreania with Barry Welsh"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"barryNotebook on Cities and Culture‘s Korea Tour is brought to you by Daniel Murphy, David Hayes, and <\/em>The Polar Intertia Journal<\/a>, an outlet for artists and researchers documenting the urban condition.<\/em><\/p>\n

In Seoul’s Yangjae\u00a0station, Colin talks with Barry Welsh, host of the Seoul Book & Culture Club<\/a> and Seoul Film Society<\/a> as well as professor at Sookmyung Women\u2019s University. They discuss what Koreans know about the Isle of Man, the last place he lived; how he founded his now well-known book club; his literary encounters with the concept\u00a0of han; how\u00a0Kim Young-ha’s I Have the Right to Destroy Myself<\/em> introduced him to the real Seoul; how little time people have to waste in Korea versus how much they have on the Isle of Man; how his life in various parts of the British Isles prepared him for the kind of regional differences important in Korea; whether he endorses the view of Koreans as “the Irish of Asia”; what got him out of his homeland in the first place; the rich mundanity he experienced when he first came to Seoul; who turns up when the Book Club talks about North Korea; how Korean movies, especially older ones by auteurs of previous generations, have helped him get a grip on things in the country; howe he learned to interview writers; the first things he noticed about Seoul, such as the number of shops still open at 10:00 at night (and how that differs from his hometown of Auchterarder); with what authority he can speak on the matter of where “Scottish people eat spicy food”; how Koreans talk about “our country,” but Scots don’t; the stylistic difference in questions about books asked by\u00a0Korean readers versus foreign readers; the feeling of safety of Seoul versus the ambient threat of Glasglow; the commonalities between “Cool Britannia” and the “Korean Wave”; his non-fandom of haggis; his perspective on the issue of Scottish independence from all the way over in Korea; the advantages of book club operation as a foreigner; and his impressions of the Korean generation represented by his students.<\/p>\n

Download the interview\u00a0here as an MP3<\/a>\u00a0or on\u00a0iTunes<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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