We talk about the first two episodes of the hit Netflix series “Squid Game.” Our guest Michael Hurt (Translator for “The Host”) discusses issues in translating and subtitling.
Korea’s news industry is prolific, but the most common observation from international journalists working with South Korean media is its lack of professionalism and ethics. The ruling party is about to pass an unpopular “fake news” law.
Is this necessary?
2008 MBC “PD Notebook” episode that sparked the Mad Cow protests by using unrelated footage doctored to make it look like the U.S. beef industry was full of mad cow diseas
A mainstay in the English media in South Korea, Yoo Jee-ho has been a sports writer for Yonhap News for around a decade now, covering everything from baseball to football, including four Olympics. He’s been featured on ESPN, talking about the KBO, and just recently returned from covering Team Korea in the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.
(He’s also a former co-worker of Emma’s, who is still a massive fan of his baseball coverage.)
Emma takes an evening off from her job covering the Olympics for a Korean broadcaster to discuss her job covering the Olympics for a Korean broadcaster.
PLUS–The K-Gov says it’s not concerned about the Delta plus variant a little over a month after it said it’s not concerned about the Delta variant. More hubs. More vows. Listen here.
Shawn Morrissey (The Dark Side of Seoul Podcast) joins us to discuss foreign teachers being omitted from vaccination lists. Plus these amusing and sometimes hair-pulling stories:
The K-gov again not anticipating things, like the Delta variant
And that there are more 55-59-year-olds than there are vaccines
Does a car-bound protest violate social distancing protesting rules?
CNBC praises a 26-year-old ESL teacher for saving money on her meager salary
Movers move the wrong apartment
BTS accidentally promotes American butter instead of Korean food
KDCA on some foreigners not being able to reserve vaccine: “Foreigners who have an ARC (Alien Registration Card) can reserve vaccine same as Korean nationals. But names are processed as initially registered for ARC” In other words, take out the spaces & look closely at card.
The Seoulite’s Sean Lim joins us for our first ever mukbang while regaling us with his stories of suing the Korean government and his journeys as an expat entrepreneur in Korea.
Sean Lim is the founder of The Seoulite blog (theseoulite.com) and YouTube channel (youtube.com/theseoulite) focused on news, politics, opinion, business, fiction, and style from the lens of modern Seoul, a useful peek into the Korean mindset for expats and fans of K-culture.
