Colin Marshall reflects on "Michael Palin in North Korea."
A Python Goes to Pyongyang (and Well Beyond): Michael Palin in North Korea
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.
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The Colors of Pyongyang, Seoul’s Shadow Self
Much of South Korea had some or all of last week off work, owing to the chuseok fall harvest festival. …
Talk Like a Busanian: How to Master the Ever-Trendier Dialect of Korea’s Brash Second City
Colin Marshall on the distinctive dialect of Korea's second-largest city, Busan.
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.
