{"id":4269,"date":"2017-11-13T15:51:08","date_gmt":"2017-11-13T23:51:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/?p=4269"},"modified":"2017-11-13T15:51:08","modified_gmt":"2017-11-13T23:51:08","slug":"seoul-urbanism-on-tbs-efms-koreascape-seouls-development-seen-through-tv-commercials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/?p=4269","title":{"rendered":"Seoul Urbanism on TBS eFM\u2019s Koreascape: Seoul&#8217;s development seen through TV commercials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-4270\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/63-Building-commercial.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"454\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/63-Building-commercial.png 1014w, http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/63-Building-commercial-300x227.png 300w, http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/63-Building-commercial-768x582.png 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, building on <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.lareviewofbooks.org\/the-korea-blog\/watching-korea-develop-sixty-years-commercials\/\">a piece I wrote for the Los Angeles Review of Books Korea Blog<\/a>, we talk about the development of Seoul as you can see it over sixty years of television commercials. These spots advertise things like Lucky household goods, the 63 Building (subject of <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/?p=3669\">our first Seoul urbanism segment<\/a>), the Kia Pride, the 1988 Summer Olympics, the ill-fated <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/cities\/2015\/may\/27\/seoul-sampoong-department-store-disaster-history-cities-50-buildings\">Sampoong Department Store<\/a>, and the Seoul Cityphone (the predecessor of the kind of cellphone service literally everyone in Seoul seems to have today). They also reveal a culture scrambling to change fast enough to keep up with the economy of a rapidly developing country \u2014 and an even more rapidly developing capital.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/355342154&amp;color=%23ff5500&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false&amp;show_teaser=true\" 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, building on a piece I wrote for the Los Angeles Review of Books Korea Blog, we talk about the development of Seoul as you can see it over sixty years of television [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,78,77,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-korea","category-koreascape","category-radio","category-seoul"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4269","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=4269"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4271,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4269\/revisions\/4271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}