A few random notes for this Saturday…
- Of course, now that a spate of K-pop stories in the Western press has my tiny blog getting an uptick in visitors, my website goes down. It seems to be up and running again. Sadly, I cannot blame my ISP or anyone else for being incompetent, as the incompetence seems to be all mine. That’s what I get for trying to make changes a few hours before getting on an airplane.
- There is yet another story out there with my gabbing, Don Kirk’s latest in the Christian Science Monitor. It’s about Psy, of course, but focuses on his free concert to 80,000 people from City Hall. I wonder if Don’s reportage came from the Seoul Foreign Correspondence Club last Friday — it’s in the 18th floor of the Press Building, which is right behind City Hall … great views there for downtown street protests.
- Just a reminder that, if you are in Washington DC on Oct. 16, you can catch me, along with Marja Vongerichten (Host of PBS’s “Kimchi Chronicles”) and Grady Hendrix, talking about Korean culture. Grady, of course, will be talking movies. And I am told there might be one more “special” guest, but I’ll let you wonder who that might be. I will be talking K-pop and the Korean Wave. RIDING THE KOREAN WAVE takes place at 6:30 pm at George Washington University.
