I’ll keep this brief because I don’t want to clog up the comments section with our discussion. First, let me just say that Bridge sounds very cool. Anything that tries to bring together the Korean and expat community is right by us. We’d love to check out a pdf. Our e-mail is posted on the blog’s sidebar under ‘Show Us Your Local!’ (seoulsuburban@gmail.com) so you can send it there.

Liz is currently out of the country on vacation until the 28th, but after she gets back and we have a chance to look at the pdf and go over things we’ll get back in touch.

Best,
Charlie Usher

My name is Keeyeon Warren and I have come across your blog your blog and I enjoy it very much.

ROKing Korea and Relevant Matter have launched a new biweekly English magazine called Bridge Paperzine. (We would love to send you an pdf copy of our launch issue, if you send us your email address.)

20,000 copies of Bridge will be printed every two weeks. Moving into April, we can safely say that this number should reach 50,000 copies per month. This makes Bridge, by far the largest English publication in Korea. Currently, we are already bigger than the top two combined in terms of distribution. Also due to our large print size, our distribution is not just centered around Itaewon area, but spread out throughout Seoul and beyond.

We are looking for content collaborators, who we view as subject matter experts in a given area. We view Sub➔urban blog as an excellent source for better understanding Seoul/Korea and therefore would love to syndicate your content.

We are already collaborating with English online media Seoulistmag.com and Korean under ground culture magazine F.OUND.

What we are trying to do is curate existing online written/media content through bloggers, and other online offline providers of content.

Here is why:
With the arrival of the internet anyone on the web can be an editor or writer, but not everyone can be both an editor/writer and a curator.

Writers, well… write and editors refine and improve already-written content to be published.

Curators, by definition, carefully and decisively choose among the best of all that’s available and often create entirely new ideas and perspectives out of that information, all while using their own voice.

It’s as if the curators define, and the editors refine.

By acting as curators of life in Korea, Bridge aims to find the best bits and pieces of information and evolve it into a bigger picture or idea.

Here are some benefits we offer:
Exposure of your blog/website: 20,000 copies of Bridge will be printed every two weeks. Moving into April, we can safely say that this number should reach 50,000 copies per month.

Also, as a design focused company, we’ll make sure your content is true to your branding/logo as well as making it look great on paper!

We will pay 20,000 KRW for past (already written) content we use and 25,000 KRW for new content. We know this is not much, but we’d like to offer compensation wherever we can.

We are looking to build longterm relationships and we hope that we can collaborate together.

Sincerely,
Keeyeon Warren

I’ve been to the old Hwanghak-dong Flea Market but only found one old man with a mini shop selling stuff. Grabbed a few cartridges from him, but he can’t be the ONLY one there selling games.

Were the other places you saw actual shops? Or did you just see people selling things out on tarps or something?