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Series: Beef Protests '08

A series of posts discussing the “US Beef Protests” that took place in Seoul in the summer of 2008, and what they were really about—which goes beyond a moral panic over the importing of US beef into into Korea, and into the heart of the sociopolitical malaise that still plagues South Korean politics today.

For the Two People Interested…

This entry is part 13 of 14 in the series Beef Protests '08

I’ve uploaded the last of my 2MB Demo pics, from the last big night (July 5th), here. Oops! Some were from the Catholic “Emergency” Mass, and thus are now in this set. Some were from the last big night, July 5th, in this set. I found some pics from earlier on, too — the best […]

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July 14, 2008August 19, 2019 gordsellar6 Comments

On the Ajumma Slain in North Korea, and Anti-Communist Paranoia in the South

This entry is part 9 of 14 in the series Beef Protests '08

Well, I heard about this when I got home last night, and when I got up this morning, I found that Marmot’s Hole had a post up on the story. The comment thread, and a subsequent post by Andy Jackson (and its comments), were of course filled to the brim with vitriolic snark on the […]

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July 13, 2008October 19, 2013 gordsellar4 Comments

Fake Beef Consumers? Media Failsafes and Media’s Future

This entry is part 12 of 14 in the series Beef Protests '08

It’s true that Koreans are not nearly so freaked-out about US beef as they were a month or two ago. The numbers are changing. ROKDrop writes that: With pictures of people lining up outside of meat markets with coolers in hand to buy US beef undoubtedly public opinion is going to shift greatly in favor […]

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July 10, 2008October 19, 2013 gordsellarNo Comments

V and the Protesters

This entry is part 11 of 14 in the series Beef Protests '08

Some of the protesters have been using references to V for Vendetta during the demonstrations. Turns out Scott went up and talked to them, and asked whether they knew that V is an anarchist, or that the V sign is an inverted anarchy symbol. They didn’t. Scott thinks they’re “retards” who are guilty of “ethnocentric […]

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July 8, 2008October 19, 2013 gordsellar26 Comments

Catholics 1, Riot Cops 0

This entry is part 10 of 14 in the series Beef Protests '08

A brief note: as always with blogs by foreigners in Korea, caveat emptor. I’ve done a lot of work confirming a lot of this, but there are many points of view I’ve not represented. Yes, some protesters have been badly behaved. Yes, I haven’t been at the protests daily, like Scott Burgeson. Yes, I rely […]

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July 1, 2008August 19, 2019 gordsellar18 Comments

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RECENT/UPCOMING PUBLICATIONS

Now available: FERMENTVM NIGRVM DEI SEPVLTI (Black Yeast of the Buried God) from LotFP! Text by me, illustrations by Gonzalo Æneas, layout by Jacob Hurst, editing by Joshua Blackketter, maps by Alex Mayo. OSR adventure set in a brewing abbey in historical Westphalia.

EU Webstore | US Webstore US Webstore | PDF at DTRPG

My OSR Conversions Guide for the Koryo Hall of Adventures 5E setting book is now available for €4.25, over at the publisher's website.

My short story "Sojourn" appeared in A City of Han.

Available on Amazon.com, or, in Seoul, from the Fiction Writers in Seoul website.

The current issue of Asimov's SF includes my novella "Winter Wheat", an epic of gene-hackers and small-farmer resistance, as well as a tale of growing up in a near-future Saskatchewan.

Among the many places to get a copy or subscribe, I recommend the publisher's website, which offers print issues and subscriptions, as well as digital.

"Alone With Gandhari" has been reprinted in David Higgins' Bloody Red Nose: 15 Fears of a Clown.

Available at Amazon (US/UK), Kobo, or Barnes & Noble (nook/print).

The June 2019 issue of Clarkesworld contains both a translation of Myung-Hoon Bae's "The Peppers of GreenScallion" (translated by Jihyun Park and me) and my interview with Korean SF author Soyeon Jeong.

Support Clarkesworld either with a subscription (Amazon.com | Itunes | Barnes & Noble | Google Play | Weightless Books) or by pledging at the magazine's Patreon.

My co-translation with Jihyun Park of Soyeon Jeong's short story "The Flowering" is in Clarkesworld 151 (April 2019).

Support Clarkesworld either with a subscription (Amazon.com | Itunes | Barnes & Noble | Google Play | Weightless Books) or by pledging at the magazine's Patreon.

"The Incursus by Asimov-NN#71" is now appearing as a reprint in the February 2019 issue of Lightspeed.

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Readymade Bodhisattva: The Kaya Anthology of Korean Science Fiction collects the work of many of South Korea's science fiction luminaries. It contains two stories and an essay I cotranslated with my wife Jihyun Park, as well as third story the translation of which I revised.

Buy it from Amazon.com | Barnes & Noble | Whatthebook (in Korea) | Kyobo Books (in Korea)

"Vol De Nuit" is in Broken Eye Books' Ride the Star Wind: Cthulhu, Space Opera, and the Cosmic Weird is available now!

Get it in Kindle/Paperback formats at Amazon.com or order a Paperback or Hardcover straight from the publisher!

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"Prodigal" was reprinted in The Year's Top Ten Tales of Science Fiction 9 edited by Allan Kaster, published by AudioText. Audiobook version read by Tom Dheere, Nancy Linari and Henrietta Meire.

Buy it now in a range of formats: Audiobook: Audible; Ebook: Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble, or iTunes; Trade paperback format: Createspace; Audio CD collection: Audiotext.

"Prodigal" was reprinted in The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Fourth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois (St. Martin's Griffin, July 2017).

Buy it at Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk, Amazon.co.jp, Barnes and Noble, iBooks, Kobo, eBooks.com, Google Play, Books-A-Million, Indiebound, or Powells.

"Focus" was recently published in Analog Science Fiction and Fact (May/June 2017).

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"Prodigal" was reprinted in The Best Science Fiction of the Year, edited by Neil Clarke. (Night Shade Books, April 2017).

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"Prodigal" (Czech translation by Ľudovít Plata) appeared in XB-1 (06.2017).

Il paese della giovinezza. (Future Fiction: 25 March 2017). Digital collection of short stories in Italian translation. (Edited by Francesco Verso, translated to Italian by Fabiano Fiore, cover art by Chiara Topo.)

Available at Amazon.it or from the publisher's website. 

"Prodigal" appeared in Chinese translation in Science Fiction World (03.2017).

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“Prodigal” in Analog Science Fiction and Fact, December 2016.

Get a copy on newsstands, at Amazon.com, direct from Analog, or through one of these digital vendors listed on Analog's website: Barnes & Noble | iTunes | Google Play | Magzter | Kobo

“The Incursus, by Asimov-NN#71” at Big Echo, Summer 2016.

“ἱερὸς γάμος [Hieros Gamos]” in Cthulhusattva: Tales of the Black Gnosis. Martian Migraine Press. 23 May 2016.

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“The Bernoulli War” reprinted in Forever. Issue 14, March 2016.

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"Beyond Mere Lotophagi." (A Scenario Generator for Lamentations of the Flame Princess and Other FRPG Games.) Green Devil Face #6. (March 2016)

Available in Print from the LotFP webshop. Print edition sold out, but coming soon in digital format!

"Sunshine," free to read online at Cosmos, 4 January 2016.


See a complete list of my publications and forthcoming work.

Stuff to Read

An annex of free stuff to read: stories, poems, and nonfiction.

SERIES & STANDOUT POSTS


ON WRITING & READING

For Writers. A collection of exercises & Intuition Pumps

My ongoing series Blogging Ezra Pound's The Cantos.

My ongoing (but only occasionally updated) series on SF in South Korea.

ON MUSIC

What We Talk About When We Talk About Music. A lengthy discussion of music and the arts, and what we've let corporations do to our culture:

ON KOREA & LIVING THERE

Five Expat Social Fallacies, a riff on the famous geek social fallacies.

On Teaching Writing in a Korean University

ON RPGS & GAMES

With a Side of Kimchi: My First Brush with Fiasco, an actual play report on my first game of Fiasco.

Talent Night: a prep/actual play report on my first RPG game in a decade and a half, back in 2013, played with Dread, including a free copy of the scenario.

ON OTHER SUBJECTS

How to Kill Your Successful Business in Five Easy Steps, a series on really bad business practices I've seen in action.

MUSIC

Dabang Band/다방밴드

Check out the Dabang Band website:

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My SoundCloud Stuff

You can also check out a lot of my own music over on Soundcloud.

CONSUMPTIVE

  • What I'm reading now.
  • What I've read this year.
  • TV/movies I've watched this year.
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