Episode 4, part 3 of 3: Fashion and Politics with Michael Hurt
Podcast April 21st, 2008
PANELIST
Michael Hurt (Scribblings of the Metropolitician, Feetman Seoul, Bomb English)
NEWS AND STUFF
The space tourist controversy - Is Yi So-yeon just a space tourist? What’s the difference?
The professional Korean journalists trying to make a fool of Yi So-yeon
Too much cramming of Korean culture in one space mission?
The Nintendo Wii is Coming to Korea April 26th
“THINGS THAT MAKE YOU GO… WHA…?” KOREAN POLITICS AND SOCIETY
The differences in human rights protection for violent sex offenders
1988 Seoul Olympics: The burning of the live doves…oh, lighting of the cauldron
The Drummer
PLUGS
Ex-Pat Living (The Korea Herald)
SEOUL Magazine
ZenKimchi.com
KOTESOL
NEXT WEEK
Rosa Pae
MUSIC CREDITS
Main Theme — Ben McPherson – “2wksnyc”
DJ R-Qubed
megaphone
Darryl
Adam Schmitt
REGGAE FAR EAST
Musicos Unidos de Latino America
Outside
Devin Anderson
Chris Townsend
El Soter
Guinea C
Father Rock
Vegitation
Kathy Reynolds
April 23rd, 2008 at 3:43 pm
Wow… 239 minutes! Great job! I’m really looking forward to hearing Rosa back and for some survival Korean! Last time I wrote, I said I was waiting to hear if I am going to Korea or not. I just got good news, so I’ll be studying hard and listening carefully next week!
Just wanted to say how much of a wonderful chance it is to hear about the expat community and different blogging communities in Korea through the podcast. Being new to Korea, I’m also new to all of these blogs – it’s been great to read through people’s websites after hearing from the different authors directly. This podcast has turned me onto a handful of new blogs (even the one about knitting haha). I’ve been recommending them all to my friends who claim to be having more fun in Japan (I’m sure you know the type).
I don’t know if I could survive the last few months of my job without having these marathon long podcasts to listen to. This stuff is like crack for those waiting for their time to go abroad to teach…!!
Keep up the good work!
April 23rd, 2008 at 3:59 pm
Awesome! Well, you know that you were the catalyst for this upcoming podcast. So it’s dedicated to you.
April 25th, 2008 at 3:33 am
Wow, that was a long podcast. I think I listened to it over the course of the entire week. I continue to find everything about Korea to be fascinating – especially through North American eyes. Not so keen on the conversation of US politics – I get enough of that from CNN and Fox News – but I guess you can talk about whatever you want on your podcast. Did you skip your regular stuff – English T-shirt finds and kids say the darndest things?
Keep up the great work … hearing all this stuff makes me realize that I don’t really have to visit Korea to know what life is like there. Thanks for saving me the airfare!
April 25th, 2008 at 9:01 am
Next podcast is shorter… but again, that’s not hard to do after that last one. Sorry about the politics. There are so many Korean blogs out there that bombard us with a single point of view, and I think Mike and I felt the urge to try to balance that.
Engrish T-shirts and the other stuff are in the show when we have material. The thing is, Jennifer and I work a lot more hours than Karl did and don’t wander the streets long enough to take pictures of t-shirts. But we do have a segment in the next podcast. We try to compensate by putting in more news and talk about topics foreigners are discussing these days.
Thanks for getting through that long ass podcast!