Books, blog and other blather
Okay, so I decided to get with the time and finally try out a responsive design for this blog. I’m not entirely sure how this tech works, so please let me know if it does not show up properly on your browser.
It’s still a bit ugly. I guess I’ll have to refine things over the next few weeks. But I do like having my books up there in the header. Or perhaps I’ll rotate images or something like that…
Not sure why this took me so long, but at last I have imported all of Korea Pop Wars, my first blog, into this current site. I guess that does not help much with old incoming links to KPW, but at least it makes all that information more easily available for people who read my little website.
It is kind of fun looking at those old posts. After all, I started the last blog in 2006, during perhaps Korea’s best movie year ever. So you had posts like this box office update, when there were zero Hollywood films in the top 10 — seriously, there were eight Korean films, one Japanese movie, and a Spanish film. And here is a post about the Korean country singer (and friend) Jimmy Lee Jones. Last I checked, Jimmy is still going strong, with his bar down in Daejeon.
Anyhow, if you were looking for my old posts about movies or music or whatever, hopefully they will be easier to find now.
Hi all. Just a little reminder about some updates going on over at my real blog — some music updates from Korea, an interesting video about motivation and money, and a bit of talk about PiFan.
Apologies for the lack of updates, but I am really swamped at the moment. I hope to have something interesting up in a couple of days…
Hey, look at that. We are now at www.koreapopwars.com. More changes to come in the near future…
And please let me know if anything here is acting buggy on your computer.
Hi all. As you can see, I am giving advertising a try out on my site for a while. I’m sure there will be plenty of fiddling with the design and such over the next day or so while I work the bugs out (and get those ad links to work). Please be patient.
And drink lots of Tiger Beer.
Pop Goes Korea: Behind the Revolution in Movies, Music and Internet Culture (2nd edition) is the only English-language book to examine the whole of Korea's entertainment industry and how it became such a powerhouse over the past 20 years. With profiles of many of Korea's top stars (including Lee Byung-hun and Rain), Pop Goes Korea features chapters on movies, music, television, comic books, the Internet, and more.
On sale now at:
Amazon.com
Kobo eBooks
And hopefully more ebooks stores very soon.
The original edition of Pop Goes Korea is now out of print.
K-Pop Now! takes a fun look at Korea’s high-energy pop music, and is written for its growing legions of fans. It features all the famous groups and singers, and takes an insider’s look at how they have made it to the top.
You can buy at:
Amazon.com
Chapters Indigo
Tuttle (my publisher)
Kyobo Books (in Korea)
Goodreads (not for buying, but still a good link)
© 2024 Mark James Russell
Theme by Anders Noren — Up ↑