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David A. Tizzard

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David Tizzard is a professor at Seoul Women’s University, holds a PhD in Korean Studies, and hosts the Korea Deconstructed podcast. He has lived and worked in Seoul for more than two decades. Reach him at datizzard@swu.ac.kr.

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The politics of time

It’s an understatement to say that times have changed. But this is not just to say that a passage of time has taken place or that certain things have disappeared. How we take photos, how we consume the news, how we contact our loved ones and how we measure our worth as humans have all undergone a fundamental shift. We have access to everything but own nothing. Our music, our houses, and our accounts are all temporary. But the internet is forever…at least until the bombs come.

Jun 29, 2024By David A. Tizzard
The politics of time
Opinion

NewJeans as gateway drug: The past and future of K-pop

The latest B-side from NewJeans is not mean to appeal to a wrinkled old raver like me. I’m not going to learn the names of the girls in the video, be sucked in by the girl crush concepts, and spend loads of money on their merchandise and CDs. However, “Right Now” is a great track.

Jun 22, 2024By David A. Tizzard
NewJeans as gateway drug: The past and future of K-pop
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To be Korean and progressive: Park No-hae

What does it mean to be progressive? Does progressive mean supporting or criticizing North Korea? Does it mean recognizing women as different from men or as the same as men? Does it mean championing the striking doctors or wanting more of them back in work to care for the people of the country?

Jun 15, 2024By David A. Tizzard
To be Korean and progressive: Park No-hae
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How fake are K-pop views?

“When a new song dropped, I would wake up before school, turn on five or six different devices, and log-in using my mum’s, my sister’s, and my friend’s accounts. I would then just sit there streaming the song. I wouldn’t even really be listening to it. I was just making sure to stream it. I would then be really tired at school that day but, at the time, it felt worth it.”

Jun 1, 2024By David A. Tizzard
How fake are K-pop views?
Opinion

When Koreans take off their clothes

What you’re doing right now doesn’t feel like culture. It’s just real life. Culture is what other people do. Culture is exotic, mysterious: something to be preserved, treasured, and protected from unfair use and exploitation. Korean culture features intangible concepts such as han, jeong and nunchi. It is represented by artifacts such as the hanbok, the hanok and pansori.

May 18, 2024By David A. Tizzard
When Koreans take off their clothes
Opinion

Being a white immigrant in Korea

Modern life says we are allowed to define ourselves. We become the masters of our own identity, narrative, and existence. Previous forms of control (society, religion, and science) have all succumbed to the power of the individual. The lived experience takes precedence. And while acknowledging the liberation this has brought to countless millions, I’ve often perceived myself differently from many of my kind in Korea.

May 11, 2024By David A. Tizzard
Being a white immigrant in Korea
Opinion

Bernado Kastrup and Korea's search for meaning

Human existence is a funny thing. We are smart. We are stupid. We are capable of breathtaking feats of beauty, heart wrenching moments of cruelty, and pure nihilism as we sit, glued to a rectangular square, watching video after video play, showing everything but teaching nothing. Some believe we are driven by power, some by pleasure. Viktor Frankl, however, explored our need for meaning. His was the suggestion that if we have a why, we can endure any what. Make us taskless, jobless animals and we expire. Provide our lives with a purpose, and we flourish.

May 4, 2024By David A. Tizzard
Bernado Kastrup and Korea's search for meaning
Opinion

Blue pilled Koreans

The past is a foreign country. Never is this more obvious when you speak to young Korean people today. They know everything that has happened around the world (or at least on Insta) in the last 24 hours but very little of what took place a few decades ago.

Apr 27, 2024By David A. Tizzard
Blue pilled Koreans
Opinion

The death of Taoism

There are some things that our language simply cannot convey. Some things that are beyond the world of numbers and letter. Some things that just are. And, at the same time, are not. This is the world of the Tao, symbolized so perfectly in the Yin Yang. I will not even be able to explain it here in words. I can only point to it and hope that it appears.

Apr 21, 2024By David A. Tizzard
The death of Taoism
Opinion

Fiction versus reality for Korean Gen Z

A professor recently asked me if I have a “bu-gae” on my Instagram. The answer was obvious: “Yes, of course!” I paused for a minute though. First I was worried that he might ask what my ID was. No way he was getting that. Then I was curious how he even knew about such things. Weird!

Mar 30, 2024By David A. Tizzard
Fiction versus reality for Korean Gen Z
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