{"id":2757,"date":"2015-02-18T10:10:13","date_gmt":"2015-02-18T18:10:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/?p=2757"},"modified":"2015-04-06T09:04:18","modified_gmt":"2015-04-06T16:04:18","slug":"notebook-on-cities-and-cultures-korea-tour-por-que-corea-with-sofia-ferrero-carrega","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/?p=2757","title":{"rendered":"Notebook on Cities and Culture’s Korea Tour: \u00bfPor Qu\u00e9 Corea? with Sof\u00eda Ferrero C\u00e1rrega"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"sofiaNotebook 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

At a coffee house somewhere in Busan, Colin talks with Sof\u00eda Ferrero C\u00e1rrega<\/a>, film critic and enthusiast of Korean cinema. They discuss whether she’d recommend other movie-lovers move to Busan; how the Busan International Film Festival attracted her to the city (and the importance of its parties); why, in Busan, “everybody says yes”; the state of Korean film criticism in Spanish; how she first encountered Korean cinema, and how its auteurs got her to know Korea; the bad first impression Korean culture can sometimes give on film; what happens when you mention kimchi in Argentina; why her move\u00a0to Korea became\u00a0inevitable; her experience of understanding nothing in Korea even after having studied the language for years before arriving; what makes the dialogue in Hong Sangsoo movies easier to understand than the dialogue in other movies (and why Korea struck her as a real-life Hong Sangsoo movie when she arrived); whether she feels a kinship with Isabelle Huppert’s character in\u00a0In Another Country<\/em>; the shock of finding out that, in Korea, she’s white; the understanding she gets by standing outside society, and the “healthy jealousy” she feels for those inside; the difference between Korean conception of history and the Argentine conception of history; how\u00a0Korea’s heavily advertised matchmaking services speak to the cultural importance of marriage; why to learn about a culture from its independent films, not his mainstream one; how Korean social life “flows” from one place to the next; the role\u00a0of the Seoul International Women’s Film Festival; what happened in the world of Korean film festivals in the wake of the Sewol disaster, and how all the elements aligned to match the national mood; what it felt like to live in a silent Korea; the strong identification within Korean generations; her critical interest in connecting Korean film to the conditions\u00a0in Korean society; why she waited on reading about Korea until she’d lived here a while, then picked up Michael Breen<\/a>‘s\u00a0The Koreans<\/em>; the difficulty of explaining Korean food and drink to friends and family back in Argentina; the Korean penchant for “crowded” food and “crowded” web sites; how the culture has turned her “no”s into “ne”s; and what hour she (as well as the Argentine ambassador) woke\u00a0up to watch the World Cup.<\/p>\n

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

Notebook on Cities and Culture‘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. At a coffee house somewhere in Busan, Colin talks with Sof\u00eda Ferrero C\u00e1rrega, film critic and enthusiast of Korean cinema. They discuss whether she’d […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,5,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-busan","category-korea","category-notebook-on-cities-and-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2757"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2757\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2869,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2757\/revisions\/2869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}