Colin Marshall on the distinctive dialect of Korea's second-largest city, Busan.
Talk Like a Busanian: How to Master the Ever-Trendier Dialect of Korea’s Brash Second City
The Korea Blog
Dispatches on the literature, cinema, current events, and daily life of Korea from the LARB’s man in Seoul Colin Marshall and others.
You can follow Colin Marshall at blog.colinmarshall.org, on Twitter @colinmarshall, or on Facebook @ColinMarshallEssayist.
Short Skirts and Flying Chopsticks: Revisiting the “Worst” Essay on Korea, 10 Years Later
Colin Marshall revisits Gabe Hudson's famously bad "Urban Seoul" and discusses Reif Larson's recent New York Times essay "Finding Yourself in Los Angeles."
A Traveler’s Video of Seoul Astonishes, while Official Promotion of Korea Embarrasses
A video that recently hit the internet may well turn out to be the year’s most effective piece of Korea-promotion …
What Jonathan Gold Understood About Korea
Colin Marshall on Jonathan Gold's appreciation for Korean food and Los Angeles's Koreatown.
The Secret Koreanness of Sticky Monster Lab, the Character Brand I Struggle to Resist
Colin Marshall on the charm of the Korean Sticky Monster Lab products.
Could Seoul Be the Next Great Cyberpunk City?
Colin Marshall looks back at the great cyberpunk novels and movies and posits that Seoul might be the next site of cyberpunk.
How Anthony Bourdain Revealed Korea — and Los Angeles’s Koreatown
Colin Marshall reflects on Anthony Bourdain's visits to Korea and Koreatown on "No Reservations" and "Parts Unknown."
The Essential Korean Fashion Accessory of 2018: A London Review of Books Tote Bag
Colin Marshall notices the latest trend sweeping the streets of Seoul: tote bags from the "London Review of Books."
Burning: an Acclaimed Korean Auteur’s Explosive, Haruki Murakami-Adapting Indictment of Inequality
Colin Marshall on "Burning," Lee Chang-dong's latest film based on a Haruki Murakami short story.
On Not Being Interested in North Korea
Colin Marshall the cultural obsession (or lack thereof) with North Korea.
