{"id":4465,"date":"2018-07-15T17:31:06","date_gmt":"2018-07-16T00:31:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/?p=4465"},"modified":"2018-07-15T17:31:06","modified_gmt":"2018-07-16T00:31:06","slug":"cyberpunk-seoul-seoul-urbanism-on-tbs-efms-koreascape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/?p=4465","title":{"rendered":"Cyberpunk Seoul: Seoul Urbanism on TBS eFM\u2019s Koreascape"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-4466\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/KB-Noe-Alonzo-1-1-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"601\" height=\"338\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/KB-Noe-Alonzo-1-1-1024x576.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/KB-Noe-Alonzo-1-1-300x169.jpg 300w, http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/KB-Noe-Alonzo-1-1-768x432.jpg 768w, http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/KB-Noe-Alonzo-1-1.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 601px) 100vw, 601px\" \/><\/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>\u00a0on Seoul\u2019s English-language radio station TBS eFM, for\u00a0an exploration of one of Seoul\u2019s urban spaces. This month we talk about Seoul&#8217;s chances of becoming the next great cyberpunk city (subject of <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.lareviewofbooks.org\/the-korea-blog\/seoul-next-great-cyberpunk-city\/\">my latest piece in the <em>Los Angeles Review of Books<\/em> Korea Blog<\/a>), following the likes of the future Los Angeles imagined in Ridley Scott&#8217;s <em>Blade Runner<\/em>, Chiba City in William Gibson&#8217;s <em>Neuromancer<\/em>, and New Port City (or Hong Kong) in Oshii Mamoru&#8217;s <em>Ghost in the Shell<\/em>. Expatriate photographers have found much of cyberpunk&#8217;s &#8220;high tech meets low life&#8221; sensibility in Seoul&#8217;s cityscape, especially on rainy nights in the parts of town full of old neon, crumbling alleys, and visible technological infrastructure. We ask what else Seoul needs to achieve proper cyberpunk status, and whether certain other cities in Africa or India might get there first.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/472167027&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\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/colin-marshall-26\/sets\/seoul-urbanism-on-tbs-efms-1\">here<\/a>\u00a0or\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/tbs-efm-koreascape\/id1039228397?mt=2\">download them on iTunes<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Each month\u00a0I join\u00a0Kurt Achin, host of\u00a0Koreascape\u00a0on Seoul\u2019s English-language radio station TBS eFM, for\u00a0an exploration of one of Seoul\u2019s urban spaces. This month we talk about Seoul&#8217;s chances of becoming the next great cyberpunk city (subject of my latest piece in the Los Angeles Review of Books Korea Blog), following the likes of the future Los [&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-4465","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\/4465","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=4465"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4465\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4467,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4465\/revisions\/4467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}