Elizabeth Shim

South, North Korea, deconstructing EA || Formerly @UPI @AP, now StratComms || 'Media Technologies for Work and Play in East Asia' (Bristol 2021) || Views own

[Elizabeth Shim @GlobalAsianista]

BTS' Suga: It's not wrong to be different 👏👏👏

[CSIS Korea Chair @CSISKoreaChair]

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[Elizabeth Shim @GlobalAsianista]

Singaporean-South Korean collab Ajooma uses inter-Asian connectivity as a backdrop – need more movies like this! https://t.co/g6J5ENKIrS

[Elizabeth Shim @GlobalAsianista]

The Korean Wave is one of many phenomena that interconnects Asia "spatially and temporally, materially and imaginatively" (Koichi Iwabuchi).

[Jojje Olsson @jojjeols]

Two biggest surprises: Korean in the Philippines and Malaysia, and Swedish in Sweden.

[Elizabeth Shim @GlobalAsianista]

Ai Weiwei: "China has no political environment. There's no ecosystem in the political situation." https://t.co/HJ0tZgKTj0

[Elizabeth Shim @GlobalAsianista]

I wrote a short blog post about the H Mart on 32nd Street https://t.co/kvb9484Bz5

[Elizabeth Shim @GlobalAsianista]

FIFA World Cup schedule for South Korea: Thu 11/24 vs. Uruguay at 8am ET, Mon 11/28 at 8am ET (Ghana), Fri 12/2 at 10 am ET (Portugal). South Korea beat Portugal in 2002, but it's going to be a tough game

[Elizabeth Shim @GlobalAsianista]

This resonates -- and it hasn't even started yet. Byung-Chul Han: Psychopolitics and The Burnout Society https://t.co/KcExbmjtvH

[Elizabeth Shim @GlobalAsianista]

@hanjoseph @TIME That's incredible. Congratulations!

[The Associated Press @AP]

Two South Korean miners who were rescued after being trapped underground for nine days say they survived on instant coffee powder and water falling from the ceiling of a collapsed shaft. https://t.co/RvodASrnGY

[Yonhap News Agency @YonhapNews]

(3rd LD) 2 trapped miners miraculously walk out alive after 9 days https://t.co/EGj8Zx9eNx

[Elizabeth Shim @GlobalAsianista]

Love this ... artists moving ahead of the realities https://t.co/I1eWSqZu4n

[Elizabeth Shim @GlobalAsianista]

I'm calling out the reckless behavior of people who did not heed the calls for help of the people being crushed beneath them.

[Elizabeth Shim @GlobalAsianista]

Respect my personal experiences with crowds, and being crushed by bigger people than myself. And don't deliberately misinterpret my statements to mean I am denigrating the victims in Seoul.

[Elizabeth Shim @GlobalAsianista]

@ajosshi I've been in packed subway cars, and crowded Seoul buses in the 1980s, when I was a child and I would lose sight of my mom. I could only feel her holding my hand. Crowding has always been a massive problem but it turns deadly when people stop tackling it collectively.

[Jake Kwon @therealjakekwon]

CNN is calling the event “crowd surge” or “crowd crush,” and not “stampede.” The latter implies that the crowd was running, which is contrary to the authority’s understanding.

[Elizabeth Shim @GlobalAsianista]

@ajosshi While there is government failure this is also a failure to be mindful of public safety. People recklessly pushing each other should take responsibility for their own actions. We all make decisions -- taking personal responsibility for those decisions is the right thing to do.

[Elizabeth Shim @GlobalAsianista]

S Korea is a paradox. It's post-industrial & advanced; public safety, efficiency, public etiquette has risen to new heights. But society remains cutthroat. An every man for himself mentality was the price of capitalist-led advancement. Is this the price of getting ahead?

[Jake Kwon @therealjakekwon]

Yonhap: “Some of the people on the ground had their faces covered in sheets and clothes. One passerby, Lee, who was nearly crushed said that after the crush the area could not be controlled. People only watched those crushed.” ‘https://t.co/MDScdGAZVv

[Elizabeth Shim @GlobalAsianista]

Echoes of the Sewol ferry sinking here. Major policy changes likely to follow. But crowding remains a major issue in public places. A transformation in the quality of social interactions is key, something that has happened in the past decade. More needs to be done, however

[John Lee @koreanforeigner]

It doesn't yet appear that we know what caused this madness. The police will investigate.

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