Yes, sometimes hard work does pay off. Google led CNNGo’s editor to Feetmanseoul.com, which led them to employ us as stringers covering Seoul Fashion Week. And all the video editing, runway shooting, and making connections in the industry paid off in our coverage — we got text, photos, and edited videos into our first story.
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For those of you interested in clothing and culture, this weekend there’s a “Museum Fashion Show” going on at the National Museum over in Yongsan. The idea is that “culture is worn on clothing” and will take a look at the past, present, and future of representative Korean designs for women. It’s going to be [...]
[Source: NYT]
My MOM just called me at 8 in the morning about this, and is ecstatic. Funny how that Korean pride never dies! I don’t know ANYTHING about golf, besides the fact that me and Tiger apparently share the same amount of black (and not), but there was much rejoicing across the Korean world from [...]
This site was hit by an exploit that sent some people to go00ogle.net, as a minimal harm piece of malware that periodically attacks many Wordpress installs now. So some of you got some warnings, or the redirect madness even caused your browser to crash.
No more. We got it, zapped it, and know how to rezap [...]
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Boy, we can pick ‘em, huh? Lee Seul-gi, the cover model we picked from Seoul Fashion Week, has become Miss Korea, after having already qualified by picking up the prize as Miss Kangwon Province!
[Source: Good Day Sports]
I still remember seeing her in Yang Hee Deuk’s show two seasons ago, when I [...]
Spam sucks. And spam robots, as these automated programs that exploit weaknesses in sites and wander the ‘net independently are called, suck even more. Sometimes, they get into your server and leave little bit of weird code as redirects of pop-ups that happen when readers enter a page. For you Sparklers complaining about aome weird [...]
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On this Friday, May 22nd at 7pm, watch me roll out our book to the Korean media — IN KOREAN! I’m planning to talk about not just the Korean fashion scene and photography, but also about Korea’s nation branding efforts from the point-of-view of a member sitting on President’s Council on Nation Branding. This book [...]
[Shot by Alii Higham for the Korea Herald]
Thanks for the write-up, KH! For those coming in from that story, please refer to a few links to get you oriented. Registration for May classes is underway, and you can prepare for the classes and get some good photo info from my “Photography in Korea” series:
“Photography in [...]
This is actually a crosspost from my Metropolitician blog, but someone suggested I crosspost it here.
Blogs around the world are overflowing with “top ten” and “most lame” and all sorts of other lists, especially around the end and beginning of years. I’m not going to continue them, but merely begin a master list of things [...]
