#17 Interview with John Cho

Guest: John Cho
Interviewer: Chris
Recording Date: February 23, 2009
Duration: 49 minutes

John Cho is a Korean-born Canadian citizen who immigrated to Canada at the age of eight with his family. After attending university in Ottawa, John moved to Vancouver to do editing work and then decided to move to Korea over 10 years ago. John’s case is interesting in that he actually lived in Korea for seven years-or-so, during which time he worked as an English teacher and attended graduate school in culture and gender studies, then moved to the United States to matriculate in a PhD program in Anthropology, and then back to Korea for a year of research. In this interview, listen to John discuss his thoughts on the Korean psyche, both heterosexual and homosexual, doing qualitative research in Korea, and the changing face of Korean society vis-a-vis globalization and competition.

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