{"id":4164,"date":"2017-08-10T17:24:52","date_gmt":"2017-08-11T00:24:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/?p=4164"},"modified":"2017-08-10T17:24:52","modified_gmt":"2017-08-11T00:24:52","slug":"seoul-urbanism-on-tbs-efms-koreascape-seouls-identity-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/?p=4164","title":{"rendered":"Seoul Urbanism on TBS eFM\u2019s Koreascape: Seoul&#8217;s identity crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4166\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Seoul-slogans.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Seoul-slogans.png 600w, http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Seoul-slogans-300x200.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Each month\u00a0I join\u00a0Kurt Achin, host of\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/tbsefm.seoul.kr\/efm\/koreaScape\/introduction.jsp\">Koreascape<\/a><\/em> on Seoul\u2019s English-language radio station TBS eFM, for\u00a0an exploration of one of Seoul\u2019s urban spaces. This time we talk about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/cities\/2017\/jul\/18\/seoul-south-korea-identity-crisis-brand-psy-gangnam-style\">my recent\u00a0<em>Guardian\u00a0<\/em>article on the branding of Seoul<\/a>\u00a0and the city&#8217;s efforts to resolve its ongoing identity crisis: hiring place-branding consultants, importing foreign architectural prestige, launching high-profile urban regeneration projects, putting up posters that encourage Seoulites to feel good about their city, introducing slogans like &#8220;I.Seoul.U,&#8221; and even more besides.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/337372224&amp;color=ff5500&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Stay tuned for further explorations of Seoul\u2019s architecture, infrastructure, and other parts of the built environment. You can hear our previous segments <a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/colin-marshall-26\/sets\/seoul-urbanism-on-tbs-efms-1\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Each month\u00a0I join\u00a0Kurt Achin, host of\u00a0Koreascape on Seoul\u2019s English-language radio station TBS eFM, for\u00a0an exploration of one of Seoul\u2019s urban spaces. This time we talk about my recent\u00a0Guardian\u00a0article on the branding of Seoul\u00a0and the city&#8217;s efforts to resolve its ongoing identity crisis: hiring place-branding consultants, importing foreign architectural prestige, launching high-profile urban regeneration projects, putting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[78,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-koreascape","category-seoul"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4164","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=4164"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4167,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4164\/revisions\/4167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}