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Trumpcard
Joined: 24 Feb 2006
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 Posted: Sun Nov 12, 2006 7:57 pm Post subject: expat magazines |
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| being fairly new to Korea, and living in Greater Seoul, I'm wondering if there are any expat magazines, kind of like Metropolis in Tokyo, Kansai Scene and Time Out in Osaka... If so, where can I pick up a copy? |
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venus
Joined: 25 Oct 2006
Location: Near Seoul
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| Posted: Sun Nov 12, 2006 8:06 pm Post subject: |
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You can pick them up in Itaewon.
Good fun, if you like feeling frustrated by the ammount of utter crap people actually write in them.
The best one is called 'Seoul Magazine' Ironically it's (I think) published and written by Koreans only. |
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ThePoet
Joined: 15 May 2004
Location: No longer in Korea - just lurking here
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| Posted: Sun Nov 12, 2006 8:35 pm Post subject: |
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A good online expat magazine can be found at:
www.escapeartist.com
Enjoy.
Poet |
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mindmetoo
Joined: 02 Feb 2004
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| Posted: Sun Nov 12, 2006 9:53 pm Post subject: |
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Every now and then someone tries to start such a magazine but it quickly tanks. What's left is puffy tourist magazines. Oh great another article about some whitey living in a Buddhist temple...
A few months back there was this one edgy, promising magazine but it didn't last much more than three issues. One of the problems is Koreans have very very thin skins and they watch the expat community like hawks. We step outta line, or should I say, we act like them (prostitution, fighting, drinking stealing, lying, cheating), and there is hell to pay. Any kind of edgy magazine that doesn't suggest the teachers within their midst represent the highest Confucian virtues, well, a Naver group will be started, the offenders will be identified, their photos and addresses will be placed online, and the customary death threats will be issued.
Welcome to Korea. |
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rockstarsmooth
Joined: 01 Aug 2006
Location: anyang, baybee!
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| Posted: Mon Nov 13, 2006 5:37 am Post subject: |
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you can check out rokon magazine, a little indie mag that's pretty cool. they're also looking for people who would like to contribute. there's usually someone handing it out in hongdae (seoul) on the weekends...
www.rokonmagazine.com
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cdninkorea
Joined: 27 Jan 2006
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Mon Nov 13, 2006 6:43 pm Post subject: |
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| mindmetoo wrote: |
Every now and then someone tries to start such a magazine but it quickly tanks. What's left is puffy tourist magazines. Oh great another article about some whitey living in a Buddhist temple...
A few months back there was this one edgy, promising magazine but it didn't last much more than three issues. One of the problems is Koreans have very very thin skins and they watch the expat community like hawks. We step outta line, or should I say, we act like them (prostitution, fighting, drinking stealing, lying, cheating), and there is hell to pay. Any kind of edgy magazine that doesn't suggest the teachers within their midst represent the highest Confucian virtues, well, a Naver group will be started, the offenders will be identified, their photos and addresses will be placed online, and the customary death threats will be issued.
Welcome to Korea. |
Well put!   |
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mateomiguel
Joined: 16 May 2005
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| Posted: Mon Nov 13, 2006 6:47 pm Post subject: |
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| mindmetoo wrote: |
| One of the problems is Koreans have very very thin skins and they watch the expat community like hawks. We step outta line, or should I say, we act like them (prostitution, fighting, drinking stealing, lying, cheating), and there is hell to pay. Any kind of edgy magazine that doesn't suggest the teachers within their midst represent the highest Confucian virtues, well, a Naver group will be started, the offenders will be identified, their photos and addresses will be placed online, and the customary death threats will be issued. |
Koreans don't publish magazines about their exploits do they? |
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Ody
Joined: 27 Jan 2003
Location: over here
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| Posted: Mon Nov 13, 2006 7:36 pm Post subject: |
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| rockstarsmooth wrote: |
you can check out rokon magazine, a little indie mag that's pretty cool. they're also looking for people who would like to contribute. there's usually someone handing it out in hongdae (seoul) on the weekends...
www.rokonmagazine.com
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i enjoy reading Rok On mag. |
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rabbitsaregood
Joined: 03 Oct 2006
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Mon Nov 13, 2006 8:18 pm Post subject: |
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| mateomiguel wrote: |
Koreans don't publish magazines about their exploits do they? |
well, there's a lot of sensational stuff in the tabloids about girls working in the red light district, they've got maxim which i assume is not entirely innocent..
with ref to "edgy" magazines, depends what you mean by edgy. I don't think there's much to be said for being more edgy than maxim. There is scope for some stuff which does not involve alcohol, sex or gushing accounts of tourism though i suppose, but is there the material and the talent? A lot of stuff I've seen trying to do that, is basically laced with an 'us and them' mentality. Essentially, it often tries to either moan at koreans (esp men) or convince them that they are terrible human beings.
I think publishing to expats is a prob too. In Tokyo, for instance there's a slightly different market. In Korea, you have two main groups of westerners, English Teachers and Army personnel. They will have slightly different demands of a mag.
You don't have the flow of tourists in Seoul that you do in Japanese cities either. Thats probably quite a big market for those mags.
Then on top of that, for English teachers at least there's a distribution problem. By virtue of their job, English teachers are spread out, working in hagwons in residential areas. Unlike Tokyo where there are less who are teachers and more working in centralised city area. Most ETs in Seoul area cant/dont get to the central areas more than once a week, and when they do, they're often pissed. It's not ideal. I guess that may be why there's an apparently successful Japanese mag about. More of them in the central areas.
To be honest I think a mag would be best off aiming at English speakers in general Korean or foreign, and forget about telling people what kimchi is, or all the other 'unique' secrets of korea that people will inevitably find out anyway. |
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