{"id":2763,"date":"2015-02-22T11:15:32","date_gmt":"2015-02-22T19:15:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/?p=2763"},"modified":"2015-04-06T09:03:57","modified_gmt":"2015-04-06T16:03:57","slug":"notebook-on-cities-and-cultures-korea-tour-one-long-bike-party-with-coby-zeifman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/?p=2763","title":{"rendered":"Notebook on Cities and Culture’s Korea Tour: One Long Bike Party with Coby Zeifman"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"cobyNotebook 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 Changwon, “Environmental Capital of South Korea,” Colin Marshall talks with Coby Zeifman, former outreach coordinator for Nubija<\/a>, the city’s bike share system.\u00a0They discuss what makes Changwon a cool town; why a feature like Nubija, despite its impressiveness, needed the kind of outreach he has tried his utmost to provide; Changwon’s history as a manufacturing town for the conglomerate LG; what makes it a “Young City,” including its plan modeled after Canberra; how the city expanded, and how Nubija expanded along with it; how he got to Korea in the first place, on nothing more than the advice of two friends who already lived there; how “livable” he found Changwon even at first; what makes Nubija inconvenient for foreigners; why so many services in Korea require a Korean cellphone; how Changwon’s Nubija compares to Daejeon’s Tashu; when he started to get the sense that he could not use Nubija, but contribute to it; how he began Changwon Bike Party (by “Tyler Durdening it”); where he’s gone with the Bike Party he might not have gone otherwise; the scrutiny he underwent before Nubija let him help out; his experience learning bicycle repair, a subject he didn’t know well, in Korean, a language he didn’t know well; what Nubija’s “smart” information technology architecture does for the system; whether Seattle, where he came from, has got ready to become a 21st century; the glories of the T-Money card; the assumption that certain public conveniences “wouldn’t work in America”; Mia Birk<\/a>‘s theory of shining a light and scattering the cockroaches; what we can learn from New York City’s solution to graffiti in subway cars; his imminent return to the United States, and the reverse culture shock for which he has prepared himself; his hopes for sustained carless “freedom and happiness” in America, and the multimodalism that still requires; how Korea’s cycleability ranks overall; and what it takes to complete the country’s Four Rivers Tour and receive the best souvenir of all of his time in Korea.<\/p>\n

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

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