SeoulPodcast #28: Super Party Blowout
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America.
We’re back. Sorry for the wait.
PANELISTS
Stafford Lumsden (The Chosun Bimbo)
Regina Walton (Where the Hell Am I, Look to the Stars)
Soutthida (aka lao-ocean-girl)
Rob Ouwehand (Roboseyo)
David Harris (SeoulLife.net)
Luke Martin (ROKetship)
MAIN TOPICS
Is there a disproportionate conservative bias in Korea ex-pats and bloggers compared to other places?
- One of the last fronts of the Cold War (similar to Miami?)
- Does Korea’s cultural conservatism come into play?
- The economic environment – other than English teachers, the other major ex-pat groups are in finance/trade and the military
Post-election rundown
- How did voting and this campaign work out for you?
- SBS said Obama was a muslim??
The economy
- Won soars 16.5 pct on currency swap deal
- Gov’t to ‘Help’ Foreign Media Better Understand Korean Economy
Fashion Week
- Stylecaster : Posts by Maisie Wilhelm
- Dazed Digital | Seoul Fashion Week S/S 09
- Seoul Fashion Week S/S 2009 « Always in Wonderland
- Where The Hell Am I?: Seoul Fashion Week, S/S 2009, is kind of blah.
- Seoul Fashion Week Lost Some Sparkle
Can this be applied to many situations here?
- Group Pride Rooted in Insecurity - Yahoo! News
New education “reforms”
- Hagwon Tuition Regulators Step In
- Six English hagwon franchises fined.
- EPIK essay contest: deadline November 21.
- “Korean Middle School Students Study A Lot But…”
OTHER RANDOM STUFF

Spider guy (Constant Crafter)
Apocalyptic visions on College Humor
PLUGS
Survey
Buy Us a Beer (Thanks Aaron)
Facebook Group
YahooGroup
GoToMyPC
Ex-Pat Living (The Korea Herald)
ESL Planet Recruiting
SEOUL Magazine
ZenKimchi.com
KOTESOL
NEXT WEEK
Panelist: Joe (Joe SeoulMan)
MUSIC
Main Theme — Ben McPherson - “2wksnyc”
Job of the Week — Bit Rationale - “Orthodox Pleasure”
Things That Make You Go Whaa? — cjacks - “Candyland”
Pan
Devin Anderson
DJ R-Qubed
George Wood
High Alert Status
Kathy Reynolds
Ray Sr.
David Gielan
Dave Gwyther
Shannon Richardson
Mark Jungers
Conconquidore Truidore
miEki
one blue nine
WeakLazyLiar
Vegitation
Deyo


November 9th, 2008 at 10:07 pm
Strange to hear Regina talking about “bias” considering the content of most of her posts, and that she doesn’t have a K-blog anymore anyways. I consider ROK Drop the best Korea blog out there, and though he writes about a lot the military, and though that’s considered inherently conservative, it’s a voice that needs to be heard.
November 9th, 2008 at 11:12 pm
If biased people can’t talk about bias, then no one will talk about bias.
November 10th, 2008 at 5:51 am
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November 11th, 2008 at 1:28 am
I always thought us Canadians drove Americans in Korea to become right wing. Or maybe a tag team effort between Canadians and Koreans. When you find yourself as an unwitting representative of your nation in Korea and people are always trying to make you pay for your nation’s crimes (even though you got out of the USA to escape the lunacy), you begin to circle your wagons and start defending that which you thought previously was indefensible.
November 11th, 2008 at 2:18 pm
I think there are more conservatives in Korea
Nothing
Maybe there are more conservatives in Korea because they like it here.
Korea is kind of conservative.
November 14th, 2008 at 9:17 pm
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