by Administrator | Nov 27, 2020 | Readers & Writers
Flight KE 908 departs Seoul Incheon International Airport, firing north-east and turning away from the bulging North Korean shoreline ahead of it – an experience both almost unique to here, and completely normal. I look down at tufted tropical-looking islets in the...
by Administrator | Nov 13, 2020 | Quick Reads
‘I see someone’, says Seoyoung, looking up from her binoculars and pointing. Elongating my zoom lens, I home in on a man walking along a field, then bending to pick something up. Then we notice other people nearby, all dotted around and doing the same thing. Then,...
by Administrator | Nov 6, 2020 | Readers & Writers
‘Bucheon is not beautiful – well, not like Nottingham.’ That was Seoyoung, of Bucheon UNESCO City of Literature, when my Zoom interview for this residency came to a close back in May. I laughed – it was hard not to. Besides, being interviewed by Seoyoung and her...
by Administrator | Oct 30, 2020 | Readers & Writers
‘People call him “Fat Man” but I call him “Crazy Fat Man”.’ Fair enough. I’m with seven other people on a minibus that is bowling out of Seoul beside the Han River, and Sunny, our guide, is giving a very personalised history of Korean relations. ‘When I was young, I...
by Administrator | Oct 23, 2020 | Readers & Writers
It is day ten of my fourteen-day quarantine, and I am on the eleventh floor of The Splaisir Hotel in Myeongdong, Seoul, one of the busiest shopping districts on earth. This is one of many hotels within range of Incheon International Airport that is being used by the...
