korea

Some interesting Korean book titles …

… discovered recently: ‘I Have the Right to Destroy Myself’* ‘Mommy Must Be a Fountain of Feathers’ ‘Poor Love Machine’ ‘Look, Calendar Factory Manager’ ‘The Korean Way of Tea’ ‘Lebanon Emotion’ ‘Happy People Don’t Check the Time’ ‘The Outings of…

Taking Kylie To Korea

Last year, as part of my Asialink residency in Seoul, I wrote an article for the Australian National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) on the subject of my experience of teaching a course on Australian culture at Sogang University. Here’s a…

Sixty PC Bang signs

A PC is obviously a personal computer but “bang” is the Korean word for “room”, so a PC Bang is a computer room, slightly akin to what we would call an internet cafe in Australia and elsewhere.