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Tag: seoul
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Steam (Redux)
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5 min read
All about Steam
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How to get to (and from) Muuido
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1 min read
In 2009, during my Asialink residency in Seoul, me and a bunch of others decided to make the journey to Muuido, an island near Incheon airport. Well, it seemed like it was ‘near’. We ended up on the beach at the top right of the map near Silmido. Couldn’t get to Silmido itself because of…
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White Tiger: How I got my Korean name
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5 min read
“Hear me roar …”
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50/49 redux
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2 min read
& later I realised
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No! Sleep! Till Gangnam!
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2 min read
By this time tomorrow
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Seoul Redux, Asialink and PC Bangs 2.0
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3 min read
Korea! Korea! Korea! Korea!
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Two Signs That Speak For Themselves
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1 min read
A couple of weeks ago I tried to put up some pictures from my time as a Professor at Sogang University in Seoul in 2005. Unfortunately, the images seemed to slow down the loading of my whole site, and so I put the post on ice. Until now. Above, one of my Australian Culture students…
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So long and thanks for all the soju …
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6 min read
Well, the time has come to cease talking of many things, to stop going to PC Bangs, to pack up my bags and head for different places, to leave behind many happy and strange memories of my time here. It is hard to believe that four months ago I arrived in Seoul in the middle…
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Sixty PC Bang signs
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1 min read
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.
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Snapshots of Almost Contact
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2 min read
“A series of micro-narratives (mobile phone movies) exploring the poetics of delay. Photos, video and performances around the digital ethnographies of mobile media.”
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A poem/song by my Australian Culture students
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1 min read
I’m speechless
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More signs that speak for themselves
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0 min read
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7 steps to “I feel better (now)”
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4 min read
Well, after the trauma of last week I can say without a doubt that the last seven days have been much better. Here’s a quick rundown of my patented 7-step program for transformation from gloom and doom merchant into street-strutting writer in residence.
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Who’ll Come And Waltz With My Tilda?
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4 min read
As part of my Australian Culture course here at Sogang University (in which I now teach approximately 40 students), we spent some time learning the basics about Australia: the capital city, the system of government, what the flag and coat of arms mean and, naturally, the national anthem. I think I mentioned in a previous…
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“Borntobe Chicken”
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1 min read
Mmmm, borntobe chicken.