{"id":2777,"date":"2015-02-25T09:38:29","date_gmt":"2015-02-25T17:38:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/?p=2777"},"modified":"2015-04-06T09:03:35","modified_gmt":"2015-04-06T16:03:35","slug":"notebook-on-cities-and-cultures-korea-tour-gangbuk-style-with-daniel-tudor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/?p=2777","title":{"rendered":"Notebook on Cities and Culture’s Korea Tour: Gangbuk Style with Daniel Tudor"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"danielNotebook 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 Hongdae district, Colin Marshall talks with Daniel Tudor, former Economist\u00a0<\/em>correspondent in Korea, co-founder of craft beer pizza pub chain The Booth, author of the books\u00a0Korea: The Impossible Country<\/em>,\u00a0A Geek in Korea<\/em>, and (with James Pearson)\u00a0North Korea Confidential<\/em>.\u00a0They discuss the difference between Gangnam and Gangbuk style; the recently emerging trend toward Korean nostalgia, and what happens when you pull out an two-year-old mobile phone; what he discovered in Korea during the time of the 2002 World Cup; his time among the “studying machines” that constitute Korean youth, and why so few want to break from that hard-driving mode; education, especially abroad, as a means of “jumping the queue” back in Korea; the progressivism he’s found among Koreans who’ve never left the country; why it matters when a foreigner voices\u00a0the same criticism of Korea that Koreans think; whether he felt any fear of legal action when he publicly stated that Korean beer sucks; why Korean beer has continued to suck for so long; what it takes to get decent beer into Korea today; the “emotionalism” of Korean conversational style, and whether it plays in the wider world; to what extent Korea may westernize, given the presence of a certain “spineless love of all things American”; whether Korea’s narrative of weakness can accommodate the country’s new strength; what it was like writing for\u00a0The Economist<\/em>, a\u00a0magazine<\/del> newspaper given to short sentences, cynical humor, and an interest in “North Korea, North Korea, and sometimes North Korea”; where\u00a0he still feels the presence of Park Chung-hee, and the backlash to his “developmentalist” mindset that seems to have begun; the possibility of “de-Seoulification”; what he experiences on train trips that tells him too much has concentrated in Seoul; the parallels between Park Chung-hee and Margaret Thatcher; Korea’s nature not as a conservative country, but as a country with a conservative veneer; the “natural socialism” that coexists in Korea with extreme capitalism; why Koreans believe their food too spicy for any foreigner to handle; why he hates even to hear the Korean term for “foreigner”; whether Korea can afford to continue burning so much energy on purely internal competition; the parallels between the chaebol system and North Korea; how soon a Pyongyang branch of The Booth would open after reunification; and what the English could learn from the attitudes of the Koreans.<\/p>\n

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

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