Voice Phisher Interviewed in Joongang Ilbo
The crime of voice phishing has gotten regular play in the Korean media the past few years, with blame usually falling on Chinese-Koreans. But the Joongang Ilbo recently interviewed one person...
View Article“Escaping North Korea” Author on Daily Show
Mike Kim, founder of Crossing Borders and author of the new book “Escaping North Korea”, was recently interviewed on The Daily Show. It’s an excellent interview, and Jon keeps the jokes to a minimum so...
View ArticleDan Choi Interview
With a hat tip to Andrew Sullivan, Washington, DC’s Metro Weekly has a good interview with Dan Choi, the Korean-American soldier discharged for being gay: — My parents always brag about me in church,...
View ArticleInterview with the ‘sexy bar’ owner
One Korean blogger recently wrote about how sexy bars choose their bartenders. Some say “sexy bars” are the most lascivious and sensational form of public temptation. Though of course there is physical...
View ArticleLA Times interviews Anti-English Spectrum head
Lee Eun-ung, leader of the infamous Anti-English Spectrum outfit – or, as we are apparently now to say, Yie Eun-woong from citizens for Right English Education – was interviewed by the Los Angeles...
View ArticleBong Joon-ho interviewed by AV Club
My favorite pop culture site recently sat down with the famed director. Read the results here.
View ArticleInterview with writer of scandalous new drama
Ask a Korean! has translated an interview with Kim Su-hyeon, writer for a new SBS drama drawing plenty of criticism for its portrayal of a gay character. Give it a read.
View ArticleLee Eun-ung gets another soft interview
I missed this earlier in the week due to a combination of illness and my parents coming to town, but the bete noire of foreign English teachers in Korea — Anti-English Spectrum’s Lee Eun-ung – got...
View ArticleKorean interview with Australian ESL teacher
Original article in Korean is at this link. Korea is in a situation where you cannot live well if you cannot speak English, where you need a high TOIC score to get a job, where everyone competes over...
View ArticleKorea: The Impossible Country
Journalist Daniel Tudor has written an introduction to modern Korea, titled “Korea: The Impossible Country” and published by Tuttle, who were nice enough to send a copy to me. And I have to say, it was...
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