{"id":4216,"date":"2017-09-12T15:51:41","date_gmt":"2017-09-12T22:51:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/?p=4216"},"modified":"2017-09-12T15:56:43","modified_gmt":"2017-09-12T22:56:43","slug":"seoul-urbanism-on-tbs-efms-koreascape-industry-meets-culture-in-mullae-dong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/?p=4216","title":{"rendered":"Seoul Urbanism on TBS eFM\u2019s Koreascape: industry and culture grapple in Mullae-dong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-4217\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Koreascape-Mullae-dong.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Koreascape-Mullae-dong.jpg 1020w, http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Koreascape-Mullae-dong-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Koreascape-Mullae-dong-768x513.jpg 768w\" 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 go just south of the Han River for a nighttime journey \u2014 punctuated by cats, coffee, ukulele riffs, tap dancing, and showers of sparks \u2014 through <a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/colin-marshall-26\/seoul-urbanism-on-tbs-efms-koreascape-industry-meets-culture-in-mullae-dong\">Mullae-dong<\/a>. There an established generation of industrial operations now coexist with a new generation of cultural venues, putting metalworkers and craftsmen right alongside artists and baristas. We&#8217;re joined by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yolantasiu.com\/\">Yolanta Siu<\/a>, whose recent piece <a href=\"https:\/\/placesjournal.org\/article\/collective-dust\/\">&#8220;Collective Dust&#8221;<\/a> in\u00a0<em>Places Journal<\/em>\u00a0\u00a0warns that &#8220;the situation in Mullae now calls for artists and factory owners to unite in resistance to speculative capitalism. Otherwise the neighborhood will follow the model of Daehangno, Bukchon, Seochon, Garosu-gil, and Jogno in becoming a generic shopping district,&#8221; whose popularity led to rising rents that brought about &#8220;not prosperity but hollowness.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/342098583&amp;color=%23ff5500&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 go just south of the Han River for a nighttime journey \u2014 punctuated by cats, coffee, ukulele riffs, tap dancing, and showers of sparks \u2014 through Mullae-dong. There an established generation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[78,77,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-koreascape","category-radio","category-seoul"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4216","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=4216"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4216\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4220,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4216\/revisions\/4220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}