Colin Marshall

Articles

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  Revisiting 301, 302, Park Chul-soo's Stylish Film About Food, Sex, and Other Horrors

  Colin Marshall considers the grotesque sensory of experience of Park Chul-soo's film "301, 302."

  Colin MarshallDec 9, 2018
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  Stuffed Animals, Dust Masks, Pet Food, and Sex Toys, All Side-By-Side in Korea's "New Shopping Paradigm"

  Colin Marshall on Pierrot Shopping, Korea's "new shopping paradigm."

  Colin MarshallNov 25, 2018
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  An Existentialist Seoul Bookstore Owner's Message to His Countrymen: Goof Off for Once

  Colin Marshall on the Seoul Bookstore A Glass of Book on the Way Home, and its proprietor Kim Jong-hyeon's book "I'll Goof Off for Once."

  Colin MarshallNov 11, 2018
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  Philosophy, Dystopia, Fountain Pens, and Other Preoccupations of a Twentysomething Korean Book Vlogging Star

  Colin Marshall on the YouTube book vlogging channel Winter Bookstore.

  Colin MarshallOct 28, 2018
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  A Python Goes to Pyongyang (and Well Beyond): Michael Palin in North Korea

  Colin Marshall reflects on "Michael Palin in North Korea."

  Colin MarshallOct 14, 2018
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  The Colors of Pyongyang, Seoul's Shadow Self

  Colin MarshallSep 30, 2018
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  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.

  Colin MarshallSep 16, 2018
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  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."

  Colin MarshallSep 2, 2018
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  A Traveler's Video of Seoul Astonishes, while Official Promotion of Korea Embarrasses

  Colin MarshallAug 19, 2018
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  What Jonathan Gold Understood About Korea

  Colin Marshall on Jonathan Gold's appreciation for Korean food and Los Angeles's Koreatown.

  Colin MarshallAug 5, 2018
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  The Useless French Language and Why We Learn It

  Colin Marshall examines English speakers’ relationship to the French language, which is the subject of a growing number of books.

  Colin MarshallAug 2, 2018

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  • Cultural Studies

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  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.

  Colin MarshallJul 22, 2018
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  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.

  Colin MarshallJul 8, 2018
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  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."

  Colin MarshallJun 24, 2018
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  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."

  Colin MarshallJun 10, 2018
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  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.

  Colin MarshallMay 27, 2018