Matt VanVolkenburg's guest appearances

Matt VanVolkenburg

Notebook on Cities and Culture

The Korea Now Podcast

Bruce Fulton

Tom McCarthy

Chris Guillebeau

Daniel Levin

Nick Drake

David Shields

Seth Godin

Pico Iyer

Saul Austerlitz

David Starkey

Kevin Kelly

Tim Harford

Jeff Weiss

Mike Russell

Rob Walker

OwlTail

This episode of the Korea Now podcast features an interview that Jed Lea-Henry conducted with Matt VanVolkenburg. They speak about the rise of youth culture in South Korea during the 1960’s and 1970’s, the Western influences behind this movement, the challenge this represented to traditional values and ways of life, the crackdown on this youth culture by the Park Chung-hee government, and the centuries old fear that the import of Western technology might also bring about the end of Korean culture. Matt VanVolkenburg has lived in Korea, on-and-off, since 2001. His research focuses on modern Korean history, through an analysis of music, film, inter-cultural reactions, and the approach taken to foreigners. This research contributed to the United Nations Committee on the Eradication of Racial Discrimination bringing a case against the Korean government over its HIV testing of foreign professionals. Matt runs the blog ‘Gusts of Popular Feeling’ (http://populargusts.blogspot.com/). Donate at Patreon – https://www.patreon.com/jedleahenry Website – http://www.jedleahenry.org Libsyn – http://korea-now-podcast.libsyn.com Youtube – https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_qg6g1KyHaRXi193XqF6GA Twitter – https://twitter.com/jedleahenry Academia.edu – http://university.academia.edu/JedLeaHenry Research Gate – https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Jed_Lea-Henry

This episode of the Korea Now podcast features an interview that Jed Lea-Henry conducted with Matt VanVolkenburg. They speak about the rise of youth culture in South Korea during the 1960’s and 1970’s, the Western influences behind this movement, the challenge this represented to traditional values and ways of life, the crackdown on this youth culture by the Park Chung-hee government, and the centuries old fear that the import of Western technology might also bring about the end of Korean culture. Matt VanVolkenburg has lived in Korea, on-and-off, since 2001. His research focuses on modern Korean history, through an analysis of music, film, inter-cultural reactions, and the approach taken to foreigners. This research contributed to the United Nations Committee on the Eradication of Racial Discrimination bringing a case against the Korean government over its HIV testing of foreign professionals. Matt runs the blog ‘Gusts of Popular Feeling’ (<a href="http://populargusts.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://populargusts.blogspot.com/</a>). Donate at Patreon – <a href="https://www.patreon.com/jedleahenry" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.patreon.com/jedleahenry</a> Website – <a href="http://www.jedleahenry.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.jedleahenry.org</a> Libsyn – <a href="http://korea-now-podcast.libsyn.com/" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">http://korea-now-podcast.libsyn.com</a> Youtube – <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_qg6g1KyHaRXi193XqF6GA" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_qg6g1KyHaRXi193XqF6GA</a> Twitter – <a href="https://twitter.com/jedleahenry" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/jedleahenry</a> <a href="http://Academia.edu" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Academia.edu</a> – <a href="http://university.academia.edu/JedLeaHenry" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://university.academia.edu/JedLeaHenry</a> Research Gate – <a href="https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Jed_Lea-Henry" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Jed_Lea-Henry</a>

The Korea Now Podcast #23 – Matt VanVolkenburg – ‘1960’s-70’s Youth Culture in South Korea and its Suppression’

In Seoul's Sinchon district, Colin talks with Matt VanVolkenburg, author of Gusts of Popular Feeling, a blog on "Korean society, history, urban space, cyberspace, film, and current events, among other things." They discuss what it feels like to live in Seoul, of all places, without a smartphone; why navigating the city poses so much of a challenge to the newcomer; how he sees the relationship of the Korean media to foreign English teachers, "the new incarnation of the GIs"; what made it possible for the Korean media to talk freely about the acts of foreigners; the history of "Korea as a victim"; why non-English-teaching foreigners surprise Koreans; what makes some Koreans and foreigners alike see entry-level foreign English teachers as third-class citizens; the country's distinctive combination of overregulation and under-enforcement, and what it says about the difference between the legal cultures of Korea and North America; what he does on trips instead of hitting the beach; Isabella Bird Bishop, the 19th-century traveler and write from whom Gusts of Popular Feeling takes its name; why the collapse of the Sampoong Department Store didn't prevent the sinking of the Sewol; the writing of Percival Lowell and others who had more to comment on than dirtiness and superstition did about Korea in the late 19th century; the Chonggyecheon's very short history as a "clean stream"; James Wade, one of the more prolific English-language observers of postwar Korea; what he finds reading old Korean newspapers; his incredulousness at a foreigner's complaint that "you can't get cheese here"; the 1988 Hustler article on the easiness of Korean women; the importance of the Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) to Korean relations with foreigners in the country; the fallout of "Dog Poop Girl"; the thorough change he's seen in the built environment of Seoul in his 13 years there, and what he notices about the less-developed cityscape revealed in old movies; Korea's relative lack of the geek and the nerd; and what word he really doesn't want to use when describing why he likes living in Korea.

In Seoul's Sinchon district, Colin talks with Matt VanVolkenburg, author of <a href="http://populargusts.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Gusts of Popular Feeling</a>, a blog on "Korean society, history, urban space, cyberspace, film, and current events, among other things." They discuss what it feels like to live in Seoul, of all places, without a smartphone; why navigating the city poses so much of a challenge to the newcomer; how he sees the relationship of the Korean media to foreign English teachers, "the new incarnation of the GIs"; what made it possible for the Korean media to talk freely about the acts of foreigners; the history of "Korea as a victim"; why non-English-teaching foreigners surprise Koreans; what makes some Koreans and foreigners alike see entry-level foreign English teachers as third-class citizens; the country's distinctive combination of overregulation and under-enforcement, and what it says about the difference between the legal cultures of Korea and North America; what he does on trips instead of hitting the beach; Isabella Bird Bishop, the 19th-century traveler and write from whom Gusts of Popular Feeling takes its name; why the collapse of the Sampoong Department Store didn't prevent the sinking of the Sewol; the writing of Percival Lowell and others who had more to comment on than dirtiness and superstition did about Korea in the late 19th century; the Chonggyecheon's very short history as a "clean stream"; James Wade, one of the more prolific English-language observers of postwar Korea; what he finds reading old Korean newspapers; his incredulousness at a foreigner's complaint that "you can't get cheese here"; the <a href="http://populargusts.blogspot.com/2013/10/hustler-magazine-tramples-purity-of.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">1988 Hustler article</a> on the easiness of Korean women; the importance of the Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) to Korean relations with foreigners in the country; the fallout of "Dog Poop Girl"; the thorough change he's seen in the built environment of Seoul in his 13 years there, and what he notices about the less-developed cityscape revealed in old movies; Korea's relative lack of the geek and the nerd; and what word he really doesn't want to use when describing why he likes living in Korea.

Korea Tour: The Style of the Time with Matt VanVolkenburg