SeoulPodcast
News, opinions, and ways to waste your time from Seoul, South Korea. Longtime Korea resident and entrepreneur Joe McPherson gives the inside unfiltered scoop on what is happening in Seoul.
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We wrap up Squid Game season one and dish out trivia, wild theories, and predictions for season two.
Guest: Roboseyo https://twitter.com/roboseyo
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We re-examine the VIP script and acting. We go between heartbreaking deaths and satisfying deaths. PLUS nitpicking the food in the angry competitive steak eating scene.
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Actor Daniel Kennedy (VIP #2) talks about the fun they had on the set of Squid Game and why foreign actors on Korean media sound odd (it’s not what you think).
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Seoul-crushing episode six. Try not to lose your marbles on this one. We pick apart these two episodes and try to tackle the question, “Would YOU treat your gganbu that way?”
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Guest: Yunjeong Hwang (lawyerhwang.com)
What legal recourse did Ali have? How could Jiyoung inherit her father’s debt? And were those Squid Game agreements really binding?
Attorney Yunjeong Hwang joins us to answer legal questions that could affect you with employment contracts, immigration policy, and whether or not you choose to swipe your mom’s debit card without asking.
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Guest: Sean Lim (The Seoulite)
Get out your needles. Wet your tongues. Sean Lim joins us and tugs his weight in talking about Squid Game episodes 3 and 4.
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Guest: Michael Hurt (Translator for “The Host”)
We talk about the first two episodes of the hit Netflix series “Squid Game.” Our guest Michael Hurt (Translator for “The Host”) discusses issues in translating and subtitling.
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Mad Cow. Sewol. Celebrity Bullying. Fan Death.
Korea’s news industry is prolific, but the most common observation from international journalists working with South Korean media is its lack of professionalism and ethics. The ruling party is about to pass an unpopular “fake news” law.
Is this necessary?
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A mainstay in the English media in South Korea, Yoo Jee-ho has been a sports writer for Yonhap News for around a decade now, covering everything from baseball to football, including four Olympics. He’s been featured on ESPN, talking about the KBO, and just recently returned from covering Team Korea in the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.
(He’s also a former co-worker of Emma’s, who is still a massive fan of his baseball coverage.)
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Emma takes an evening off from her job covering the Olympics for a Korean broadcaster to discuss her job covering the Olympics for a Korean broadcaster.
PLUS--The K-Gov says it’s not concerned about the Delta plus variant a little over a month after it said it’s not concerned about the Delta variant. More hubs. More vows. Listen here.
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Guest: Shawn Morrissey (The Dark Side of Seoul Podcast) https://darksideofseoul.com/podcast
Shawn Morrissey (The Dark Side of Seoul Podcast) joins us to discuss foreign teachers being omitted from vaccination lists. Plus these amusing and sometimes hair-pulling stories:
- The K-gov again not anticipating things, like the Delta variant
- And that there are more 55-59-year-olds than there are vaccines
- Does a car-bound protest violat...
The Seoulite’s Sean Lim joins us for our first ever mukbang while regaling us with his stories of suing the Korean government and his journeys as an expat entrepreneur in Korea.
Sean Lim is the founder of The Seoulite blog (theseoulite.com) and YouTube channel (youtube.com/theseoulite) focused on news, politics, opinion, business, fiction, and style from the lens of modern Seoul, a useful peek into the Korean mindset for expats and...
Guest
Lindsey Walker
Foreigner & Immigrant Virtual Community Center in Korea
https://www.facebook.com/groups/688953868434733
Other advanced countries have thriving immigrant communities that support each other. Where is that community in Korea? Lindsey Walker joins us to open our eyes to the progress that is happening and the fact that we in Korea are immigrants, whether we like the term or not.
Foreigner & Immigrant V...
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Peter Bint
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TikTok
https://www.tiktok.com/@seoul2london
Peter Bint has been a mainstay of Korean broadcasting since starting on TBS eFM in 2009. Now he’s a powerhouse on many TV and radio networks (KBS World, Arirang, EBS, and more) with his multitalents and his passions for sports and language.
He also has one of the smoothest dulcet voices you’ve heard. (This is h...
We chat with our viewers live on YouTube while Joe goes into a rant about the struggles of Korea’s start-up culture that is anything but a start-up culture.
Join us LIVE on YouTube at 7:30 p.m. on Fridays.
https://youtube.com/zenkimchi
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Guest
Barri Tsavaris | Voice Actor | TIGHTS
Barri Tsavaris is an international voiceover talent. She was the voice of the 2018 Winter Olympics. She’s known in Seoul as the “Queen of Textbooks.” And her voice welcomes countless passengers on Korea’s high-speed KTX train each day.
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Brittany Fanning (Artist | brittanyfanning.com)
Rob (Roboseyo)
Convenience store chain GS25 has been in hot water for camping ads that feature what some claim are militant feminist symbols and coded messages. Is this just privileged men attacking the #metoo movement, or is something else going on here?
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South Korea announced that residents who have been vaccinated inside the country don’t need to quarantine for two weeks when they enter the country. Is this the progress we’ve been waiting for?
PLUS--Inside poop on why F-2-7 visa holders can no longer own businesses.
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Fugitive astrophysicist Annie Ko is one half of Love X Stereo, along with former punk rocker Toby Hwang, the Seoul electro rock duo’s dreamy kaleidoscope of stellar synthpop anthems have enraptured music festival audiences across Asia, Europe, and North America.
LoveXStereo.com
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Japan will be releasing water from the Fukushima nuclear power plant into the ocean. Are you ready? Korea sure isn’t. Join us in our talk about the latest K-Tantrum.
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