By halfway down, with the discussion of Marmot’s Hole, the most widely read English-language blog on Korea, but one whose notorious comments section is often filled with vitriol, some of it racist I've definitely lost contact with who's fooling who.
That was exactly the moment when I began to wonder exactly what standpoint this article was coming from, myself. Although it turns out that Wikipedia is willing to vouch for the widely-read-ness of the Marmot's Hole as far back as November 2006. I wonder if it's been the most widely read &c. continuously for 5 years?
The article's authors both seem to be genuine, and Sakamoto includes it in her publications. It just reads like it might be fake?
Sakamoto's other papers, BTW, include "Koreans, Go Home! Internet Nationalism in Contemporary Japan as a Digitally Mediated Subculture" and a whole raft on Sushi as an international phenomenon, rising to the wonderfully-perhaps-parodically-titled "White People Can’t Sell Sushi: Unpacking Korean Influence over Sushi Production in NZ."
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That was exactly the moment when I began to wonder exactly what standpoint this article was coming from, myself. Although it turns out that Wikipedia is willing to vouch for the widely-read-ness of the Marmot's Hole as far back as November 2006. I wonder if it's been the most widely read &c. continuously for 5 years?
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Sakamoto's other papers, BTW, include "Koreans, Go Home! Internet Nationalism in Contemporary Japan as a Digitally Mediated Subculture" and a whole raft on Sushi as an international phenomenon, rising to the wonderfully-perhaps-parodically-titled "White People Can’t Sell Sushi: Unpacking Korean Influence over Sushi Production in NZ."
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