DATE: Tuesday. May 28, 2024. 7:30PM (Seoul)

VENUE: Fifth floor (Conference Room) of FAST FIVE Tower (Namdaemun-ro 9-gil 24, Jung-gu, Seoul)

ADMISSION (Online & In-person): Free for Members; W10,000 for Non-members; W5,000 for Non-member students (Student ID requested)

• If you would like to attend online Zoom, RSVP by May 27 (Monday). We will email you the link on Tuesday.
• To attend in-person, RSVP is not required.

When Colin Marshall’s first book 한국 요약 금지 (or No Summarizing Korea) came out this past February, it became a surprise bestseller, not least to the author himself. Its essays on various aspects of Korean culture — from its film and literature to its cities and architecture to its language and trends — have drawn a great deal of attention from Korean readers and the Korean media. But what does it mean for a foreigner to write about Korea for Koreans, and what can a foreigner write that most satisfies, fascinates, or shocks a Korean readership? The experience of writing the book, and more so of giving interviews about it, has revealed some answers to these questions, many of them unexpected.

Colin Marshall is a cultural essayist who has contributed to publications like the New Yorker, the Guardian, and the Los Angeles Review of Books, whose Korea Blog he wrote for six years. Since first coming to Korea in 2014, he has written for Korean newspapers and magazines like the Dong-a Ilbo and Axt, and hosted the interview podcast 콜린의 한국 (Colin’s Korea). His first book, the essay collection 한국 요약 금지 (No Summarizing Korea), was published this year.

VENUE: Online Zoom & In-person