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human- a professor of #Korean and East Asian Studies. Research on performing arts (traditional mask dance dramas, K-pop and hip-hop), media, museums, tourism... #kpop #kdramas 한/영. 합기도, cycling, food, coffee
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4 sep 3pm New Zealand Dr. #YoshihiroOgata #Zainichi Koreans and the 1965 Normalization Treaty between Korea and Japan Register for zoom: auckland.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Awww, thank you. Somehow I have this bad habit where my mind rushes ahead and I forget to explain B when I'm rushing from A to C... and it gets worse when I have nerves. These students don't know me, they need me to be a little less high strung. Maybe skip morning coffee?
Me, too. It's nonsensical, they don't start knock with a K sound. Also, when Yi has been used for half a century in English scholarship.... there's an alternative
My husband doesn't quite get why I have so many clothes, but when part of the year is this hot, and part of the year is biting cold, you need quite a few pieces...
Okay, blocked. Jeez, as if it's not hard enough to actually get a tenure track job...
Reminder to all fellow parents that we have two jobs: keep our kids safe and give them a future The climate crisis is a parenting crisis. Among other things. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
My husband and I generally speak together in Chinese (the only language we're both fluent in, although it's his second and my third) and in that language they often use 听话 (tīnghuà) which literally means listen + speech but like... it has the standard meaning of obey. Drives me nuts.
I just don't get that. WHAT IS THE POINT? And why doesn't it bother Koreans?
I was at a KOREAN STUDIES conference in June, at a table with 6 people, 4 were Korean, and this Korean professor comes, joins us and says his name is Choy. Like, really? It's a Korean Studies conference, we all speak Korean. In fact we were speaking Korean until you came to our table....
They aren't even accommodating, if you're in Korea, they're just confusing people. Like everywhere they go someone will say "배산" and then they'll be on the damn subway or bus and it will say "비아산" -- who does that even help?
Someone liked my old post which reminded me.... #Korean buses, subways, and etc. still mispronounce Korean place names. It drives me crazy. In Korean the pronunciation will be perfect, then they will switch to English, and say it TOTALLY WRONG. Which just confuses everyone.
Thank you so much
Some people collect watches or kpop albums....
These effers don't care about humanity. They have no morals or empathy
Be nice to have a link to follow up and see these media literacy modules
Call for interviewees (Asian representation in Australian theatre) Journalism student Luca Daniel (Curtin University) is seeking performers or scholars for short interviews on Asian representation in Australian theatre. interested? ) email Luca at luca.daniel@student.curtin.edu.au by Tues, 2 Sep.
An M.I.T. study found that 95% of companies that had invested in A.I. tools were seeing zero return. It jibes with the emerging idea that generative A.I., “in its current incarnation, simply isn’t all it’s been cracked up to be,” johncassidysays.bsky.social writes.
Removing graffiti is an unnecessary expense because of selfish people, I just cannot understand why this is suddenly happening so often. This article mentions a case last week of someone who may have been mentally ill writing on the palace wall. koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/news/2025-08...
And right after this happened, some #Kpop fan (or maybe anti-fan) wrote K-pop related things before they had cleaned up the previous writing (they don't see which group, but... damn, there's no K-pop idol that wouldn't have been embarrassed koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/news/2023-12...
Here's another article, where you can see more photos, the writing on the wall was huge! koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/news/2023-12...
People are so twisted. This guy paid high school kids from Daegu to go to Seoul and deface Gyeongbok Palace to advertise his gambling website. WTF?!!! It's a national heritage site for crying out loud. #Korea #Heritage #문화유산 koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/news/2025-04...
Afraid of color, what bitter fuc*heads
Seeing LinkedIn posts from many students who despite receiving scholarships have not been issued visas. US has become an unreliable destination now for many
Feels like I am melting here
So depressing
What f-ing moron kind of prof pulls this crap?
My cynical side says they can do this and say they're doing something
I don't like it, but on the other hand, I understand it. This country has always been big on protectionism, so this tracks
I would bet dollars to donuts that it is MEANT to target China, but...
There are new restrictions on owning multiple properties that (if I understand it) makes the taxes go up a lot if you own too many properties, which is part of what's going on with the rental market these days-- people are trying to sell their extra places, not rent them out.
#MonstaX "Do What I Want" versus #CORTIS "What You Want" -- which am I supposed to pick? Monsta X is focused on themselves, but CORTIS isn't asking a question, they're making a statement. Hmmmm.... which one do you want?
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Considering that the areas affected are all dealing with horrible housing prices and shortage of affordable housing, I fully support blocking anyone (Korean or foreign) from speculatively buying real estate w/ no plans to live there. n.news.naver.com/mnews/articl...
Parts of Korea are now prohibiting real estate investment by foreigners who don't take up residence at the property they bought for two years after. #realestate #speculation #Korea #housingshortage
I was just on Arirang TV and my co-panelist was Dr. Kim Youngdae who is a well known music critic (and someone I've known for years) and he called "Golden" the "Let It Go" of 2025. That's SO PERFECT. #KpopDemonHunters #Kpop #Golden
#Wonho keeps making music like this, it's not that original, but in the sub-genre of pop that is watching a charmer with #muscles, it feels like each release is getting a little more perfect, in a cheesy "you are welcome to objectify me" sort of way. #kpop youtu.be/aY7hdsPoRso?...
27 Aug 3pm MELBOURNE Dr. #NohJaeeun #노재은 #Gender narratives in #Korean Aid @MonashUni Registration : docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Then when a larger piece of dirt appears or when I bend down, suddenly I realize my floor is in need of a thorough clean. But like life is busy and I literally go through this cycle of cleaning everything then not noticing it's dirty until... again and again.
Okay, maybe I'm just a dirty person, but ... is anyone else dealing with this? My eyes have always been bad, and I now have to use separate glasses for reading and distance, and in the home b/c cooking and computer it's almost always the former. So I can't REALLY see the floor.
28 Aug, 10am KOREA Dr. #HuangQingming #NorthKorea and #SouthKorea: Monopolizing #Nationalism in a Divided Peninsula. This talk sounds rad! #Kyujanggak #SNU Registration required: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
It has to be mental health, but still....
Jeeeeeez other foreigners can be so effing embarrassing. #Korea koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/news/2025-08...
Maybe even a requirement for holding an E1 for more than 4 year tied to a basic Korean exam. TOPIK Level 4 required to get tenure? I mean, it seems weird if you think about it that I've never heard of a teaching job here that required it.
I think it should be right there in the contract for tenure track jobs. Successful advancement past XXX dependent on learning the Korean language. At least somewhat. Of course, I also think the university should provide the classes and maybe provide some course relief to study Korean.
Something I am sure will be a very unpopular opinion, but.... If I apply for a job in the Netherlands like one of my good friends, I'm given 4 years to get my Dutch to the level of participating in a faculty meeting. Basically this is true for faculty jobs ALLOVER the world, but in Korea? Nope.
I took a native plant conservation class through the State Botanical Garden of Georgia last weekend, and our instructor threaded a lot of memes throughout her lessons. This one was my favorite 🌱 🌺 #nativeplants
Much better to know in advance than to get scolded^^
I totally get that. I mean, I completely completely get that. And that's fine. I'm just saying that based on Oli London, there is no getting a white face to ever look like a Korean....
p.p.s. Do not think for a minute that I have any patience with foreigners who come here and expect Korea to change to *their* way because *obviously* it's better. You can jump right off a cliff with that isht. Korea is not your country, and if that place is better, go back there.
I see a foreigner on the train (KTX) and I'm like "please don't have them having loud ass conversations in the car when you're supposed to go in between cars to talk on the phone" because.... the odds are high.
I guess I mean she has a pathway-- if she achieves very good Korean, dresses like a Korean, behaves like a Korean, she can just live without her foreignness being front and center. But like I have no such pathway.
Right now, other than for foreigners who can pass as Korean, there is no path to just being universally accepted in this country. You're always foreign/other. It's kind of exhausting. p.s. this thread is inspired by protectionism around insurance.
insisting non-Koreans do everything in the Korean way is just frustrating AF. Even if you totally assimilate, you have to prove that assimilation to each Korean you interact with for the first time, because the baseline assumption is you do not belong.
As I tell my students, Korean policies towards foreigners such as marriage migrants are also based on *assimilation* as the mark of *good* foreignness. In some ways I'm all for #assimilation (learn Korean, understand Korean etiquette), but if you won't be accepted as a Korean,
Things could be improved if 1. Koreans in general had a more comprehensive knowledge of non-Koreans (not from Hollywood movies) 2. Isolationists didn't freak people out that foreigners are taking *their* resources.
As a long term #foreigner in #Korea, it's tough looking at the policies towards foreigners and not seeing them from my own perspective. There are legit Korean concerns about foreigners here, but there is a lot that's ... well.... #외국인 #외국사람
One on one #bgirl battles in #Japan live right now. Really fun. www.facebook.com/watch/live/?...
17 Sept 4pm EASTERN Dr. Michelle Ho Emergent Genders Living Otherwise in Tokyo's Pink Economies HYBRID Register: rutgers.zoom.us/J/9198068606...
It's going to work great for lots of other people!!!
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This is amazing
Ugh EDT, won't work well for me, though
Awesome sauce.
Exactly. It's so fuc*ed up. On Threads someone mentioned that it was necessary to not let Russia take it all, but if Korea had been united, how many lives would not have ended in the Korean War? What ifs work like that...
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Nothing like a communist bogeyman to excuse trampling on other people's rights. (or killing them -- Jeju, Gwangju)
Also, any of the history books in my pinned list of reading recommendations that cover 1945 will include more details on how Korea (the peninsula) was screwed over by Cold War machinations (bullsh*t) of the "great powers"
So yes, Korea was liberated from Japan, but then denied self-determination and self-government, their land split in half randomly, and in the south all but the most right wing of Korean leaders were totally side-lined. As an American, today feels like shame.
US arrived in Korea (weeks later) and they refused to even acknowledge the interim government or the Korean leaders. And the US and Russia split up Korea into their zones, and in the southern zone the US took control of everything. Imperialist f-ing bulls*it, in other words.
As someone from the USA I always have a hard time celebrating Korean Liberation Day (Aug 15th), because I know what happened. The Koreans had spent 35 years trying to get free, and they immediately began putting into action the plans they'd made. Was it perfect? No, of course not. But then the
I have an academic article where I talk about ilwolobongdo showing up in K-pop videos^^
Revised and reuploading for Korea’s Liberation Day (Aug 15). I re-edited my first reel after revisiting the 1919 New York Times report on Korea’s independence. Same story, cleaner pacing. Long live Korean independence! (대한독립 만세!) #LiberationDay #KoreanHistory #KoreanIndependence #광복절 #SouthKorea
I emailed two *super* senior scholars yesterday to get their out of print book chapters from an edited volume (harder to get even than articles!) and less than 24 hours later, I have both.
Almost anyone will email you their article. Why? They worked hard on this and want people to read it. You're literally a person who wants to read it! YESSSSS!!!!! If they don't respond, maybe they're having a crisis, or that email address no longer reaches them. Don't take it personally.
You want to read that article, but it's behind a paywall. What to do? 1. Find the email: The author's email might be right there on the article. If not, their workplace faculty pages should have it. 2. Email them and ask nicely (maybe say why you're interested, but it's not essential). 3. Wait
How can that be (as a scholar of MDD, that just makes me sad)
As always, Ted Chiang is great in this interview. cdh.princeton.edu/blog/2025/08...
I have asked my pansori research friends, no response, and my one Noh performer friend, and he wants to see it but hasn't. I can at least offer you this, it's from a Korean mask dance + Noh show that I saw last winter here in Busan. www.youtube.com/shorts/ii5J_...
This list (you can also sign up to get weekly emails) has many talks in Korean Studies, hybrid, zoom, or in person. It also has calls for contributions to edited volumes or conferences. Of course since it's crowd sourced it doesn't have everything (and ANYONE can add events) kstudies.info
Back at my cptr I will ask someone who could know
I totally understand the venues control when it's hybrid, I just also think a lot of people on my socials might be interested in your project^^
If you're into #hiphop and you haven't previously listened to some of the amazing releases coming out of Asia, there's a world of great music waiting for you. This week I keep listening to #Vannda, who is #Cambodian. Thinking of Cambodia/Thailand a lot these days. www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4vQ...
Is it hybrid?
This sounds fabulous for the right person
In your part of academia, who are the carpetbaggers?
Well, you're going to get plenty of iron
That's a subunit
30 Sept 3:30pm Melbourne time Dr. #RoaldMaliangkay is one of the most amazing scholars and his work on fandom and COLLECTING is legendary (he is quite a collector himself). You should def. attend this talk, zoom registration through the QR code.
if I include them I have to include Mamamoo+ and a host of other symbols that can be mathematically interpreted
Yes, they were on my first list, but fans assure me it has no connection to 9, only to ALL AROUND HALL OF FAMER
And here's the latest list because preposterously people are still suggesting more, even groups I should have remembered like TwoTwo. #KpopMath #Kpop
Every year @GW_IKS runs an amazing program to educate people about #DPRK #NorthKorea. The program is free, although you need to SHOW UP (hybrid) so they have an application fee (to weed out non-serious people). docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
I woke up to one of my Korean friends adding a whole 8 new groups to the list despite the fact that we've really really got everything here. #kpopmath #Kpop
Glad to amuse (infinite did belong last, right?)
thank you. so many contributors.
okay, i still can't find one person's suggestions, and hope they were doubled up with someone else, but maybe I got everything?
I hope you all enjoy. And if I forgot to add your suggestion, it's just because i got overwhelmed with a lot of submissions, so please just let me know and I'll revise again. #Kpop #Numbers #KpopMath
