Guest: Lisa Collins
Interviewer: Chris
Recording Date: March 19, 2009
Duration: 59 minutes
Lisa Collins is a 29-year old, half-Korean, half-Irish American form Albuquerque, New Mexico. Lisa has lived in Korea on and off for over four years and her time here has included intensive language study through both a language school and a US government specialists’ training program, as well as graduate work at the Yonsei University Graduate School of International Studies and Korea University. Lisa currently works at a Korean think tank that specializes in US-Korea relations and North-east Asian policy. In this interview she discusses moving back and forth between the US and Korea for training in international studies and law school, studying Korean long-term at a professional level, the Korean group mentality and perpetual branding as a cultural outsider.
Canaries in the Motherland 