Elizabeth Shim

BTS' Suga: It's not wrong to be different 👏👏👏

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Singaporean-South Korean collab Ajooma uses inter-Asian connectivity as a backdrop – need more movies like this! youtube.com/watch?v=A9Akuk…

The Korean Wave is one of many phenomena that interconnects Asia "spatially and temporally, materially and imaginatively" (Koichi Iwabuchi).

Two biggest surprises: Korean in the Philippines and Malaysia, and Swedish in Sweden.

Ai Weiwei: "China has no political environment. There's no ecosystem in the political situation." youtube.com/watch?v=b47Ub9…

I wrote a short blog post about the H Mart on 32nd Street globalasianculture.com/blog/we-are-wh…

FIFA World Cup schedule for South Korea: Thu 11/24 vs. Uruguay at 8am ET, Mon 11/28 at 8am ET (Ghana), Fri 12/2 at 10 am ET (Portugal). South Korea beat Portugal in 2002, but it's going to be a tough game

This resonates -- and it hasn't even started yet. Byung-Chul Han: Psychopolitics and The Burnout Society youtube.com/watch?v=BX-FK_…

@hanjoseph @TIME That's incredible. Congratulations!

Thank you @TIME for selecting NUCLEAR FAMILY as a must-read book of 2022!! time.com/collection/mus…

Two South Korean miners who were rescued after being trapped underground for nine days say they survived on instant coffee powder and water falling from the ceiling of a collapsed shaft. apnews.com/article/busine…

(3rd LD) 2 trapped miners miraculously walk out alive after 9 days en.yna.co.kr/view/AEN202211…

Love this ... artists moving ahead of the realities youtube.com/watch?v=1H1Mh5…

I'm calling out the reckless behavior of people who did not heed the calls for help of the people being crushed beneath them.

Respect my personal experiences with crowds, and being crushed by bigger people than myself. And don't deliberately misinterpret my statements to mean I am denigrating the victims in Seoul.

@ajosshi I've been in packed subway cars, and crowded Seoul buses in the 1980s, when I was a child and I would lose sight of my mom. I could only feel her holding my hand. Crowding has always been a massive problem but it turns deadly when people stop tackling it collectively.

CNN is calling the event “crowd surge” or “crowd crush,” and not “stampede.” The latter implies that the crowd was running, which is contrary to the authority’s understanding.

@ajosshi While there is government failure this is also a failure to be mindful of public safety. People recklessly pushing each other should take responsibility for their own actions. We all make decisions -- taking personal responsibility for those decisions is the right thing to do.

S Korea is a paradox. It's post-industrial & advanced; public safety, efficiency, public etiquette has risen to new heights. But society remains cutthroat. An every man for himself mentality was the price of capitalist-led advancement. Is this the price of getting ahead?

Echoes of the Sewol ferry sinking here. Major policy changes likely to follow. But crowding remains a major issue in public places. A transformation in the quality of social interactions is key, something that has happened in the past decade. More needs to be done, however