{"id":5767,"date":"2023-03-15T22:45:21","date_gmt":"2023-03-16T05:45:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/?p=5767"},"modified":"2023-03-15T22:45:21","modified_gmt":"2023-03-16T05:45:21","slug":"books-on-cities-robert-fouser-exploring-cities-with-robert-fouser-%eb%a1%9c%eb%b2%84%ed%8a%b8-%ed%8c%8c%ec%9a%b0%ec%a0%80%ec%9d%98-%eb%8f%84%ec%8b%9c-%ed%83%90%ea%b5%ac%ea%b8%b0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/?p=5767","title":{"rendered":"Books on Cities: Robert Fouser, Exploring Cities with Robert Fouser (\ub85c\ubc84\ud2b8 \ud30c\uc6b0\uc800\uc758 \ub3c4\uc2dc \ud0d0\uad6c\uae30)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/\ub85c\ubc84\ud2b8-\ud30c\uc6b0\uc800\uc758-\ub3c4\uc2dc-\ud0d0\uad6c\uae30.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5768\" width=\"375\" height=\"535\"\/><\/center><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Robert Fouser left Korea in 2014, the year before I arrived. By that time he&#8217;d spent a total of thirteen years living here, most of them working as a professor at Seoul National University. Over the previous few decades, he&#8217;d also lived for considerable stretches of time in Japan, where his work included teaching the Korean language \u2014 and doing so, I should note, as an American. This strikes Westerners as a stranger arrangement than it did his students themselves, for whom, in his telling, it seemed no more remarkable than being taught Korean by a Korean; a foreigner is a foreigner, after all, especially in Japan. Still, any American without east Asian heritage who manages to teach Korean in Japanese commands my respect, given my own years of sure-to-be-lifelong struggle with both languages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Putting teaching behind him and returning to the United States seems to have shifted Fouser&#8217;s writing career into a higher gear, especially \u2014 and ironically \u2014 his writing in Korean. Over the past six years, he&#8217;s published five books in this country: <em>A Manual of Democracy for Koreans<\/em> (\ubbf8\ub798 \uc2dc\ubbfc\uc758 \uc870\uac74), <em>Seochon-holic<\/em> (\uc11c\ucd0c \ud640\ub9ad), <em>Spread of Foreign Languages <\/em>(\uc678\uad6d\uc5b4 \uc804\ud30c\ub2f4), <em>Exploring Cities with Robert Fouser<\/em> (\ub85c\ubc84\ud2b8 \ud30c\uc6b0\uc800\uc758 \ub3c4\uc2dc \ud0d0\uad6c\uae30), and <em>Learning Foreign Languages <\/em>(\uc678\uad6d\uc5b4 \ud559\uc2b5\ub2f4). These titles suggest an uncanny overlap between his interests and my own. I have noticed, at least in my own circles, a tendency of Westerners invested in the Japanese and Korean languages also to be invested in architecture and urbanism. But as far as I know, no others have written entire books about languages and cities in Korean.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/colinmarshall.substack.com\/p\/robert-fouser-exploring-cities-with\">Read the whole thing at Substack<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robert Fouser left Korea in 2014, the year before I arrived. By that time he&#8217;d spent a total of thirteen years living here, most of them working as a professor at Seoul National University. Over the previous few decades, he&#8217;d also lived for considerable stretches of time in Japan, where his work included teaching the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[101,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books-on-cities","category-korea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5767","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=5767"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5767\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5769,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5767\/revisions\/5769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}