About This Book

Bug has always been an interview magazine first and foremost, although I've tried my best to move beyond that model in recent years. On a political level, I simply felt it was presumptuous to write about a culture I had only recently come into direct contact with, and decided that listening to local people was the best approach, at least early on.

On a more basic and political level, though, I started up Bug in early 1997 mainly as a means of meeting prominent or interesting people I admired whom I probably wouldn't have had the chance to encounter otherwise; it was my way of interacting more intensly and profoundly with the new community I found myself in - "Korea"- and in fact was just the first of many subsequent levels of community involvement that I experienced through Bug, a never-ending process of almost viral-like transmission and replication that continues to this day. - J. Scott Burgeson


Contents:

Introduction : Korea Bug

STRANGE
Incredibly Strange Books about Korea Written by Honkies
Bbondegi!
The Most Famous Foreigner Who ever Came to Korea

TRADITION
The baeksu : Ahn Young-sang
The Gisaeng : Kim Ja-ya
The Mudang : Lee Sang-soon
The Taekkyon Master : Lee Yong-bok
The Chomjaeng'i : Ahn Sung-kyun
The Tailor : U.S.Kim

ARTS
Yi Paksa
Yim Soon-rye
Choi Jeong-hwa
Byun Young-joo
Hong Sang-soo
DJ Fujiwara

OUTSIDE COUNTRY PEOPLE
Ken Kaliher
Daehangno's Little Manila
Rungsit Abdul Rashid Waesoho
Texas Street, Busan
Outside Country People


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