{"id":2786,"date":"2015-03-01T11:41:41","date_gmt":"2015-03-01T19:41:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/?p=2786"},"modified":"2015-04-06T09:03:12","modified_gmt":"2015-04-06T16:03:12","slug":"notebook-on-cities-and-cultures-korea-tour-ruled-by-the-heart-with-andrew-salmon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/?p=2786","title":{"rendered":"Notebook on Cities and Culture&#8217;s Korea Tour: Ruled by the Heart with Andrew Salmon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-2787\" style=\"border: 0;\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/andrew-salmon.jpg\" alt=\"andrew salmon\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/andrew-salmon.jpg 300w, http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/andrew-salmon-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>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 Susong-dong, Colin talks with Andrew Salmon, author of <em>To the Last Round<strong>:<\/strong> The Epic British Stand on the Imjin River, Korea 1951<\/em>;\u00a0<em>Scorched Earth, Black Snow: Britain and Australia in the Korean War, 1950<\/em>; and\u00a0<em>All That Matters: Modern Korea<\/em>. They discuss how Korean culture has influenced the names of his cats; the dullness of London by comparison to Seoul, especially in drinking term; the provocative\u00a0positions he has taken, such as finding the Koreans &#8220;a little unfair toward the Japanese&#8221;; how he sees the conflict between Korea and Japan over the Dokdo islets; the &#8220;drab, miserable-looking&#8221; Seoul full of &#8220;fierce&#8221; people to which martial arts brought him in 1989; the Korean shift from diligence as the sole virtue to diversity of lifestyle; how Korea came to look like a place he could live; why he &#8220;wanted answers&#8221; from Korea since his time here began; how everything Korean, in this land &#8220;ruled by the heart, not the head,&#8221; opposes\u00a0everything English; the meaning of the 1988 Olympics and the 2002 World Cup as the &#8220;signposts&#8221; of modern Korea; the opening up of Korean national markets and Korea itself to international markets, resulting in the improvement of such native products as makgeolli; Korean sensitivity toward the awareness of &#8220;the Korean brand&#8221;; to what extent outside\u00a0interest has shifted from North Korea to South; why editors don&#8217;t tend to ask for\u00a0the North Korea stories that matter; what happens if reunification day ever comes; what Korean students &#8220;simply don&#8217;t learn&#8221; about their country&#8217;s history; why plaques in Korea give dimensions of bricks rather than tell stories; what the Korea neophyte should know in order to contextualize everything else they learn about the country; the mismatch between Korea&#8217;s &#8220;hardware&#8221; and its &#8220;software&#8221;; whether he hopes for a grand Korean deceleration; and what he&#8217;s stopped dreaming about quite so much before his trips to Europe.<\/p>\n<p>Download the interview\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/colinmarshall\/NCC_Korea_Tour_Andrew_Salmon.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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