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heydelores
Joined: 24 Apr 2006
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 Posted: Sun Aug 06, 2006 3:58 am Post subject: last issue of K-Scene? |
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| I just picked up a copy of K-Scene today, and the publisher's message on page 3 says it is the last issue. They still have an ad on page 26 to subscribe to the magazine, though. Is it really the last issue, or simply the last free issue, or was the ad an oversight? Anyone know about this? |
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jinju
Joined: 22 Jan 2006
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| Posted: Sun Aug 06, 2006 4:58 am Post subject: Re: last issue of K-Scene? |
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| heydelores wrote: |
| I just picked up a copy of K-Scene today, |
why would you do that?!  |
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animalbirdfish
Joined: 04 Feb 2004
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| Posted: Sun Aug 06, 2006 5:00 am Post subject: Re: last issue of K-Scene? |
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| heydelores wrote: |
| I just picked up a copy of K-Scene today, and the publisher's message on page 3 says it is the last issue. They still have an ad on page 26 to subscribe to the magazine, though. Is it really the last issue, or simply the last free issue, or was the ad an oversight? Anyone know about this? |
Maybe you should ask the other two people who read it. |
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SuperFly
Joined: 09 Jul 2003
Location: In the doghouse
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| Posted: Sun Aug 06, 2006 5:02 am Post subject: |
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| Tokyo has Metropolis,Osaka has Kansai Time Out, why can't Seoul have a decent print/online magazine like the expats in Japan do? Btw, the print editions have been around a long time I believe...I have a couple from 1995-96 |
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RACETRAITOR
Joined: 24 Oct 2005
Location: Seoul, South Korea
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| Posted: Sun Aug 06, 2006 7:32 pm Post subject: Re: last issue of K-Scene? |
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Things have been incredibly rocky over there. It sounds like the publisher has his head up his arse. He was firing people who knew how to do their job.
I submitted an article to KScene a short while ago. It was about (surprise!) Korean punk music. I was writing a bit about the lead singer of Couch who was later arrested for streaking on national TV. He was offered a major endorsement deal from Casio in February 2005, which he turned down angrily when the woman called him at work.
Here's what I wrote:
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"I'll never farking do that," says Urchin, lead singer of the simply named pogo band Couch.
He's on top of a partially built building, blowtorch in one hand and cell phone in the other. It's February 2005, and on the other end of the line is a woman from a major electronics company with a bag of cash and an endorsement deal. She has her answer; he is not going to be her clown on TV.
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They sent me an edited copy so I could see how it would appear in the magazine. See if you can spot the differences:
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Not so. "I'll never do that," says Urchin, lead singer of the simply
named pogo band Couch.
In February 2005, Urchin agreed to an endorsment deal and a generous sum of money from a major electronics company. The first gig was on live network television.
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When I saw this, I sent a correction before it was published. At that point I knew I would never ever write for this shiatrag again. |
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kermo
Joined: 01 Sep 2004
Location: Eating eggs, with a comb, out of a shoe.
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| Posted: Sun Aug 06, 2006 7:57 pm Post subject: |
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I personally wanted to kick them around the block when they wrote an article around Korean blogs, and big-upped the Yangpa...
"Hooray!" I thought. Then I saw the address they gave...
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StAxX SOuL
Joined: 04 Jan 2006
Location: London
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| Posted: Mon Aug 07, 2006 7:21 am Post subject: |
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Unsurprising...
I had a brief talk with the new editor via the PMs here... having helped successfully launch a magazine back home I offered good input and a plan that could have actually seen the magazine progress somewhere but it wasn't really taken onboard... for whatever reason there was the suggestion that the long term goal of working towards a well written and priced publication, well lets just say that when the pricing kicked in they thought the magazine would stop being printed, totally unaware of the fact that it would cease distribution long before that if they continued along their current path...
Seemed they figured paying over the odds for a generic Publisher layout would see the sales increase... ultimately it was still the same poorly written mag that it had been for the longest time... doesn't help when the writing has to be sourced from a bunch of unskilled wannabe journalists who think they can emulate a style they've read but fail miserably... seriously, half of the stuff wouldn't have made it into the high school paper |
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heydelores
Joined: 24 Apr 2006
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| Posted: Mon Aug 07, 2006 4:06 pm Post subject: |
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| That's really too bad, StAxX. I'd gladly pay a reasonable price for a well-written magazine for the expat community and I imagine others would too. |
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brento1138
Joined: 17 Nov 2004
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| Posted: Mon Aug 07, 2006 5:31 pm Post subject: |
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| kermo wrote: |
I personally wanted to kick them around the block when they wrote an article around Korean blogs, and big-upped the Yangpa...
"Hooray!" I thought. Then I saw the address they gave...
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That Yangpa page looks like the pages I made in grade 11 infotech class. Not that I could do better now, but... come on! |
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mindmetoo
Joined: 02 Feb 2004
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| Posted: Mon Aug 07, 2006 7:38 pm Post subject: |
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| kermo wrote: |
I personally wanted to kick them around the block when they wrote an article around Korean blogs, and big-upped the Yangpa...
"Hooray!" I thought. Then I saw the address they gave...
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The wordpress version is brilliant at times, especially in terms of graphic content. Isn't that trollbait's site? The other yangpa is pretty hack. |
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