Tag: Korea
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Korea 2023: Daegu
The odd thing about traveling for conferences is that I often don’t see very much of the place where the conference is held. Sometimes, if the hotel and conference venue are part of the same physical structure, there will be entire days when I never even go outside. So while I can now say that…
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Weekly Wanderings: June 24, 2023
Lots of self-promotion and work talk this week, but sometimes a bunch of things come together at once … Greetings from Daegu, Korea, where I’m working at the 2023 AAS-in-Asia conference, co-hosted by the Association for Asian Studies (my employer) and Kyungpook National University. For the past few months, every time I told someone from…
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Finding My Way in Seoul
That Old Familiar Feeling I am not, I admit, all that good with maps—the old-fashioned, non-digital kind, that is. I’m generally okay with directions and excellent at using landmarks to re-trace a route I’ve already traveled, but maps and I have never clicked. Before the blessed arrival of smartphones, I spent enormous amounts of time…
Maura Elizabeth Cunningham 