J. Scott Burgeson

J. Scott Burgeson
Born1967 (age 56–57)
Lincoln, Nebraska, US
Pen name King Baeksu
Scott Bug
OccupationTeacher
LanguageKorean
English
Alma materUniversity of California, Berkeley
Notable worksKorea Bug: The Best of the Zine that Infected a Nation
Website
kingbaeksu.com
kingbaeksu.substack.com

J. Scott Burgeson (KoreanJ. 스콧 버거슨; born 1967) is an American author, teacher and specialist in oriental art based in Seoul, South Korea.[1][2][3] He has written four books in South Korea.[4]

Biography

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J. Scott Burgeson was born on 1967 at Lincoln, Nebraska. He grew up at the San Francisco Bay Area and he graduated with honors from the University of California, Berkeley in 1991 in English and Rhetoric.[5] At the U.C. Berkeley he was editor-in-chief of the campus literary journal Byzantium.[6][unreliable source?]

After the university he became critic for the San Francisco Bay Guardian,[7] the East Bay Express and The Daily Californian[8] from 1990 to 1994 before relocating to Osaka, Japan, in 1994, and he wrote for Giant Robot, Kyoto Journal, Tokyo Journal, Kansai Time Out and PLAYBOY JAPAN.[9] Before that he moved to Seoul, South Korea in 1996,[10][11] his writing has appeared in The Brooklyn Rail,[12] Newsweek Korea, The Korea Times, Korean Quarterly, The Korea Herald, Les Cahiers de Corée,[13] The New York Times and Cine21.[9][14] He was also a regular columnist for Maxim Korea and Chosun Ilbo.[15][6][unreliable source?] He published the zine Korea Bug between 1997 and 2001 about Korean culture and society.[16]

He has dedicated himself to working at universities it Korean studies like in the Hongik University.[17][18][unreliable source?]

He is considered critical of the multiculturalism that has occurred in the United States and South Korea, and has tried to foster good ties of friendship between Westerners and nationals in South Korea.[19]

Works

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  • Maximum Korea (맥시멈코리아, 1999) ISBN 8976763041, 9788976763044
  • Nasty Korean Studies (발칙한 한국학, 2002)
  • Korea Bug: The Best of the Zine that Infected a Nation (2005) ISBN 8956601097
  • Korea Consumer Report (대한민국 사용후기, 2005)
  • Outlanders (2008)[20][unreliable source?]
  • More Nasty Korean Studies (더 발칙한 한국학, 2009)
  • Waygooks: Stories From Korea (2010)[21]

References

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  1. ^ Gowman, Philip (11 August 2007). "Book review: J Scott Burgeson — Korea Bug". London Korean Links. Retrieved 27 October 2020.
  2. ^ Hollingsworth, Julia (20 June 2017). "Warmbier's tour agency stops taking US citizens to North Korea". South China Morning Post. Retrieved 23 August 2023.
  3. ^ "La rebeldía llega desde el Oriente". Página 12 (in Spanish). 29 May 2006. Retrieved 15 April 2024.
  4. ^ Herald, The Korea (30 March 2010). "Korea, the media and the scapegoat". www.koreaherald.com. Retrieved 27 October 2020.
  5. ^ Oh-jin, Kwon (30 April 2007). "J.스콧 버거슨, '대한민국은 고등학교다'". www.ytn.co.kr (in Korean). Retrieved 16 January 2021.
  6. ^ a b Ahsan, Hamja. "Zine: Korea Bug - the zine that infected a nation". 큐레이터 Curator in Korea. Retrieved 15 April 2024.
  7. ^ Marcus, Greil (30 November 2009). Lipstick Traces: A Secret History of the Twentieth Century, Twentieth Anniversary Edition. Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0-674-03480-8.
  8. ^ "Zend and the Art". caveh-zahedi. Retrieved 23 August 2023.
  9. ^ a b "스콧 버거슨(J. Scott Burgeson)". www.yes24.com. 21 March 2011. Retrieved 18 February 2023.
  10. ^ "Is Cultural Revolution Still Possible in South Korea?". 광주드림 (in Korean). 12 August 2007. Retrieved 16 January 2021.
  11. ^ "알라딘: J. 스콧 버거슨". www.aladin.co.kr. Retrieved 16 January 2021.
  12. ^ Burgeson, J. Scott (1 October 2000). "A Week in Moresby". The Brooklyn Rail. Retrieved 23 August 2023.
  13. ^ Planchot, Marie (21 June 2021). "Nuits coréennes : de la nuit primordiale aux nuits espiègles". 124-Sorbonne. Carnet de l'École Doctorale d'Histoire de l'art et Archéologie (in French). Retrieved 15 April 2024.
  14. ^ "Opinion | Overstated nationalism?; It's not just talk (Published 2008)". 19 June 2008. Retrieved 23 August 2023.
  15. ^ "[시론] 한국이 '아시아의 허브'가 못 되는 이유". www.chosun.com (in Korean). Retrieved 16 January 2021.
  16. ^ Lehnert, Tim (2010). Seoul book of everything : everything you wanted to knov about Seoul and were going to ask anyway. MacIntyre Purcell Publishing. p. 107. ISBN 9780981094175.
  17. ^ 조선일보 (11 August 2020). "[시론] 한국이 '아시아의 허브'가 못 되는 이유". Chosun Ilbo (in Korean). Retrieved 15 April 2024.
  18. ^ "연구원 북리뷰 - 발칙한 한국학." www.bhgoo.com. Retrieved 15 April 2024.
  19. ^ Lamers, Matthew. "Korea, the media and the scapegoat". Korea Herald.
  20. ^ "Expats of the Wild East". The Dark Side of Seoul Ghost Walk. Retrieved 23 August 2023.
  21. ^ "WAYGOOKS: STORIES FROM KOREA: Compiled and Edited by J. Scott Burgeson". The Brooklyn Rail. 4 May 2010. Retrieved 30 July 2021.