Oh this looks fascinating and I am very much looking forward to reading this! I've thought for a while there is so much going on in videogame and film linguistic landscapes so great to know these issues are being examined seriously!
Interesting story of conflict in the #LinguisticLandscape, including financial rewards for collecting and turning in 'illegal signs' and fines for sign makers!
www.chosun.com/english/nati...
Exciting news - from mid June, I'll be serving as Co-Editor in Chief for the Australian Journal of Human Rights!
Very excited to take on this new role in such a supportive and brilliant team of colleagues.
@austhumanrights.bsky.social
Nice skeet with some interesting readings in the replies. Reminder to me of when I used to teach a lot of writing, and read about how to teach writing. I should get back to more of this.
"Neither professor has taught at Korea University or engaged in joint research with its faculty, raising suspicions that the university had effectively paid to be linked to research output."
Looks like this story is not going away.
m.koreaherald.com/article/1072...
A poster which looks like a plane ticket for t-way airlines flights from Korea to Vancouver which allow boarding to begin with a train trip
Vancouver and Canada in the airline #LinguisticLandscape of Gwangmyeong, a stop on the KTX which allows access to Incheon International Airport and check in for flights to Canada. Interesting the writing system here is Korea in the largest text alongside 'ticket' details in English....
Tall apartment towers with English text on them
130. DESIAN and U Planet marking skeet number 130 in this slow burn thread about the apartment #LinguisticLandscape of Korea! U Planet is interesting, not sure what is going on there....
Latest bit of gut stuff writing from me: I wrote this last summer & it's out now in the Springer Encyclopedia of Phenomenology -- "Digestion, as a Theme in Phenomenology." Includes Kant, Hegel, Nietzsche. I've got the preprint up and a link to the Springer site itself. philpapers.org/rec/DRYDAA
Yes and yes!
Something maybe interesting in how this sign maybe read by different passersby, I think, and how 'bleu' in particular indexes Frenchness in Korea, maybe, as I have seen that word more than once in signs here....
A advertisement for a restaurant, Bleu Table
A little bit of French in the restaurant #LinguisticLandscape of Seoul!
Upfeat’s response to this story is wild. They deleted the library renovation “coverage” mentioned here. The librarian I spoke to was deeply disturbed to have a quote attributed to her that she never said.
But sure, making stuff up about real people and places is a net good…
A digital poster from Baskin Robbins reading Drink K-Heritage
Drink
K-Heritage
More K language in the ice cream #LinguisticLandscape here at Baskin Robbins with these interesting beverages!
A poster with a burger and a man smiling behind it
17. More men, masculinities, and meat in the burger #LinguisticLandscape of Korea here in this poster, from Lotteria, for this 'twisted' or uncoventional burnt burger. Lots of famous chefs from cooking competitions on these posters, which is interesting in a bunch of ways . . .
Very nice write up on Talk To Me In Korean, which publishes some great Korean language learning material.
Would love to read more about this company.
Oh, an ethnography of this language education company would be amazing!
www.koreatimes.co.kr/southkorea/g...
Explaining April in Winnipeg to my international students is always fun. Ok Wednesday you’ll wear shorts but Friday will be winter again.
A temple building with large apartment towers in the background
129. IPARK amd XI apartment branding in the many apartment towers in the background, with all those towers being part of a singular massive jointly-branded apartment complex, part of the apartment #LinguisticLandscape! Lovely building in the foreground too.
Interesting article on Canada's attempt to buy submarines, which hints at frustration by the Korean and German-Norwegian bidders. As always I am interested in what kind of cross-cultural communication issues might be shaping different parts of this process.
www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/art...
It was interesting going through mask rationing during the early days of covid in Korea, having certain days when (depending on some registration number or health insurance number, can't remember) you could go to the pharmacy and buy a mask. Would like to read more about that system actually.
Very good story on a Canadian AI news company, their global ambitions, and their error-prone and troubling product.
Great details at the end of the article discussing what what was required to produce genuine journalism of the quality found here.
More here on smaller cities providing support for bathhouses in Korea, seems like suddenly there is a lot of press concerning this issue, which is interesting
m.koreaherald.com/article/1071...
Bluesky getting wonky here with its availability. I do wonder what will become of whatever this service is in the end....
Nice review of a New Zealand pie shop in Seoul! And quite a nice story of how the restaurant came to be.
www.rnz.co.nz/life/food/pi...
An importantly issue here, but what made me stop and look again at this article was the image from Marvel of a character who becomes a congressman answering questions from reporters to represent this story. Something very, I donno, curious or odd in using this image.
screenrant.com/marvel-studi...
"'It was dedicated to a transformational education, in an era when higher education has been hijacked by the transactional,' he said. 'A college education is, to some, like a Louis Vuitton handbag. And that’s not Hampshire.'"
Gift link to a good article on a sad story
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/14/u...
Hockey is weird.
And man, too bad about Winnipeg.
Found this article published in 2017 on CNN, but it might be an update or republished version of a 2013 article. Nice article on Busan's Spa Land!
edition.cnn.com/travel/artic...
Oh that is fantastic, and a very interesting story of encountering K-spa!
I have read a bit about some Korean sauna in the US and am really interesting in the signage there explaining how the saunas work and all. Yeah, so much that is interesting here, including media about Korean sauna.
"Public bathhouses — long a communal hub for Koreans and a de facto welfare space for the socially vulnerable — are disappearing at a rapid pace amid spiraling energy costs linked to the Iran war."
More on public bathhouse here. Interesting.
koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/news/2026-04...
Could be a research paper here for whoever wants to take a look at this language . . . .
A poster for chicken and chicken burgers with a man in black touching his face
16. Some references to magic in the chicken and burger poster here, which is another contribution to the men, meat, and masculinities #LinguisticLandscape!
Also, a lot of fast food restaurant 'collections' on posters these days