I came here for David Kim. I'll come back for David Tizzard. Great discussion--thank you!

@DavidTizzard

Ай бұрын

Love this haha 🙏

Nice to see David interviewed for a change. It's been truly interesting discovering his thought and reasonings. Quite impressive, David!

@DavidTizzard

Ай бұрын

Yes, I must confess I was wonderfully surprised to. Somewhat embarrassingly I thought our conversation would just be celebrity and culture, but David is clearly a very intelligent and thoughtful person so it was marvelous to hear his thoughts on politics and the broader social implications. Sometimes it's nice to be wrong ~

This was a great discussion😊 and having David Kim as a guest was a smart move. I’ve watched his content since way back and he is still the same intelligent and easy going guy he’s always been. Yes, he’s an experienced content creator but above all he is incredibly humble.

@DavidTizzard

Ай бұрын

Both the humility and the genuine desire to help and promote others is a beautiful thing.

As a long time fan of both David Kim and Professor Tizzard I really enjoyed this meeting of the two minds. If you have not tuned into KPC please do so. David Kim invites guest from a variety of backgrounds and discusses current topics. Every week I check in with Prof. Tizzard's column in the Korean Times. The pieces vary from light and entertaining to serious and weighty but always thought provoking.

@DavidTizzard

Ай бұрын

What a lovely message: thank you. And yes, KPC is definitely worth watching. Loads of great conversations on there. I have used some of the videos in my lectures over the past year or so and students dig it too. Looking forward to season 2!

I recognize you, “ordinary dud” and I’m in the USA! Keep up your extraordinary channel! You’re so engaging and informative.

Loved this 🥰. Great to see David Kim talking about politics and Korea in a more serious way than in his podcast. Happy to being introduced to David Tizzard and Soyoon Kim. Very interesting discussion and people. Thank you for this.

@DavidTizzard

Ай бұрын

Thank you for the kind words. I was also very happy to explore different topics with David. The politics section wasn't planned but that is the beauty of genuine conversation. You often end up in unplanned areas. All credit to him for having the courage and insight to go there with us.

Seeing David Kim have a more serious/adult conversation is so amazing! Agree his point on kpop, it's diluted.

@DavidTizzard

16 күн бұрын

Yes, he's a smart guy with lots of interesting takes. I thought we were just going to be discussing K-pop but I was pleasantly surprised about where the conversation went.

Changing clothes when you get home it’s not just Korean thing 🫤

@DavidTizzard

Ай бұрын

Yes, I agree with you. My observations are that while some people in England do it, in Korea (basically) everybody does it haha. It's as engrained in the culture as rice and kimchi. But, again, you're right to point out this is not unique to Korea but nevertheless a big cultural difference for me and my friends and family from the UK.

@grandmamochi7857

Ай бұрын

Yes that's true. We call that changing from street clothes to home clothes.

@thecreativemindfulheart3588

Ай бұрын

😂😂😂 I do that and I live in Europe

@Aur_ro_xa

23 күн бұрын

Eastern European and I have house clothes and the more fancy outside clothes!

I have a friend who taught English in Korea for a couple years. She did have one experience that she reported and the police did nothing. I think foreigners would feel safer in Korea if the police were more effective. We suspect the crime rate is so low because police aren't taking reported crimes seriously, especially if it is a woman who is reporting it.

I live in the American south and I change clothes immediately when I get home. It is done to keep your work clothes from getting stained and wearing out. My mother was born in the 1940s and grew up doing the same thing.

@DavidTizzard

18 күн бұрын

I can totally believe it. My idea was not that people don't do it in other countries. Like you and your mum, they do. While, at the same time, others do not. It's a mixed bag. However, in Korea, it feels like basically everyone does it. Things are not binary between cultures, but rather different in intensity along the spectrum ^^

Really liked that. Appreciate more mature tone of discussion and topics from all three of you. Will explore your other content (David's content I already knew even from before DKDKTV news was a thing). Good work and well spent time on my side. Thank you.

@DavidTizzard

Ай бұрын

Thank you for finding us and taking the time to say so. As David says, we're all part of the same big pie so it's cool to support each other :D

Loved it so I subscribed, thank you guys.

@DavidTizzard

Ай бұрын

Thank you so much ^^

Morning vs evening showers is an ongoing debate in the US 😂. Personally, I’m a morning shower person. And I don’t know anyone who changes their clothes when they get home!

@DavidTizzard

Ай бұрын

Get the feeling you and me are on one side and David Kim and Soyoon are on the other haha. Go mornings!!

I change when I get home. I also shower at night, but that's due to personal preference. It wasn't normal behavior growing up.

@DavidTizzard

18 күн бұрын

You sound very clean (and very Korean) haha

Loved this fab discussion

@DavidTizzard

Ай бұрын

Me too! Really nice to meet David in person. Really chill and very thoughtful.

Really good conversation. The part about politics and the reason why people are in it…its not for the betterment of people. Happiness, we look for it in others but they all have their own issues.

@DavidTizzard

Ай бұрын

Yes, it would be nice if the ruling classes were more focused on creating a better world for those that inhabit it than simply gaining power, using their influence to amass wealth, and fighting their political opponents.

@star2like261

Ай бұрын

@@DavidTizzard so true. As a Brit I’m sure you’re aware our elections are coming up very soon.😬 Not sure if we have as many back door dealings here but I’m just hoping whoever comes to power thinks about the individual trying there best to improve by working honestly but can’t get a head due to the housing crisis, extortionate gas and electricity cost etc

@DavidTizzard

Ай бұрын

@@star2like261 Yes, got a keen eye on the elections. Hopefully we can get back to a life of positivity and one in which people work and live for each other~

Love David Kim❤

Exactly we should take good parts of all systems and conbindd them for a better societies 😊

@DavidTizzard

Ай бұрын

Yes! This is how globalization should really work. On a personal level, it's been very helpful for me as I've taken the best of western social values and combined them with Korean values that I was previously missing. I believe it's made me a more rounded person.

This was a very good Interview. Great questions and a very engaged back and forth. My take on the negative view on korea. I think it is kind of inevitable. For example I liked watching american content as an european student/young adult and got very desillusioned because it wasn't that curated 90's sitcom content but harsh truths and real expieriences from people. And my view on the country changed. And I see the same pattern repeating with korean content. The more you dive into a culture the more uncomfortable things or let's say nuanced viewpoints you will uncover. Were it gets tricky is the fact that bad or scandalous content gets more views because it is so polarizing. So you might get a tinted view because of the algorithmn. But this is just my theory 😅.

@DavidTizzard

Ай бұрын

Lovely theory and thank you for joining the conversation. I have actually published an academic piece on similar lines called K-Invisible. The main argument being that while two extreme views of Korea are always present online, Hell Joseon (very negative) and Gukbbong (very positive), the reality of Korea is, in fact, mundane. It's a country where most things work, the transport, the schools, the hospitals, and, to the average citizen, life is rather boring. Nothing happens. But the true beauty of Korea, the most amazing thing, is that....nothing happens. That's the beauty. It's leaving your phone in a coffee shop and it not being stolen. It's taking the subway every morning and not experiencing anything weird. Hard to see that Korea on social media though because, essentially, it's rather boring.

Funny he mentioned the NewJeans sound/visual aesthetic, as a former Detroit raver and P.L.U.R. associate that's the first thing I thought of when I saw their outfits or the DnB influence on Get Up.

@DavidTizzard

Ай бұрын

Nice!!! They released a new song yesterday and doubled-down on the DnB vibes hard haha! Cracking drums on that track. Feels like it wouldn't be out of place on an LTJ Bukem mix.

In the USA, we can’t even greet a stranger without initiating suffering controversy. We are polarized into two warring factions!

I was listening to podcast in the background, dear god, who was the person dying coughing? I hope they are ok.

Yo where's my explaination of E.H. Carr "What is History?"

@DavidTizzard

Ай бұрын

Great question and one to which I do not yet have an answer, I'm afraid. There are plans to do it but, as of now, not the time.

Since the US is a pluralistic society, presenting sterotypes as definative is weird to me.

BTS is great but their fanbase and fandom?? questionable...

@CraiglHD

Ай бұрын

K-pop fanbase's in general are snowflakes & too sensitive to people's opinion.

@lex6819

Ай бұрын

Sadly, that is unfortunately often true. I lurk in an ARMY Facebook group that is supposedly for adults, and people there are so sarcastic and mean to each other. Someone will post a very innocent opinion about something and another will respond with "that's stupid how can you be so moronic". It's a weird vibe. They need to take a Valium.

@SY-fp6ng

Ай бұрын

​@@lex6819I don't believe either of you

oof northern european countries... huge taxes on the people, low corporate taxes... also very homogenous...

Armys are so immature. Whatever it was that was said, it was not worth all that nonsense.

@SY-fp6ng

Ай бұрын

I won't say it's immaturity but it takes a certain lack of realistic thinking not to know that a few bad apples will exist in any large group and since bts fans are a tens of millions sample size, it can come across greater than the actual subset.

@CrashOverride332

Ай бұрын

@@SY-fp6ng the whole point behind the "bad apples" saying is that they will spread their corruption throughout the bunch. That's been happening for ten years and armys are just rotten now.

@SY-fp6ng

Ай бұрын

@@CrashOverride332 I've seen zero evidence of that lol, you stated something outlandish and are determined to affirm it.

Who paid you guys