Tired: minimalist white box coffee shops with blonde wood accents and uncomfortable seating. Wired: fainting couches.

Flu season is already not good in Korea, so yeah, take care everyone! m.koreaherald.com/article/1061...

Some autumn scenes from this past week in Gimje, Goyang, Gyeongsan, and Yeongcheon.

I am *ahem* skeptical of the larger ideas shared in the article but the survey discussed here may reflect a lot of the discourse circulating in Korea, at least among some. Come to think about it, I am really curious about larger national attitudes to AI nowadays www.koreatimes.co.kr/business/ban...

More controversy and discussion over issues related to the restaurant #LinguisticLandscape in Korea. Also talk about about a sign baning solo customers from watching YouTube which may be of interest to some media and food studies scholars. Lots here! www.koreatimes.co.kr/southkorea/s...

Another year, another story about how difficult Korea's College Scholastic Ability Test (수능, similar to SAT) is. This year, Kant showed up in several places, including the English portion of the exam: www.koreaherald.com/article/1061...

More Manitoba fun here!

"Immanuel Kant is the 18th-century German philosopher whose work on ethics, metaphysics and human reason fundamentally reshaped modern Western philosophy. And he appeared four times on this year’s exam -- tormenting students" More Suneung reporting in English. m.koreaherald.com/article/1061...

I do enjoy my cafes with a fainting couch, ethereal lighting, and anachronistic technology, as found in this absolutely lovely basement cafe located down a narrow and unassuming staircase . . .

"Founded in 1958, Sterling is one of a few U.S. work colleges, a model that allows students to keep tuition down via campus labor. Residential students at Sterling work five hours per week in different roles." Oh, I always loved the idea of work colleges www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-t...

CHEFFLÉ Light but never slight Some wordplay and more in the university branded convenience store #LinguisticLandscape!

Movie night on campus! And food trucks! Yum!

Some Manitoba news in this neat newsletter!

“When hiring servers, I don’t care about nationality as long as they can speak Korean to some extent. Students are punctual and handle customers well, which is satisfying.” www.chosun.com/english/nati...

It feels really, really good to finally hold the hard copy of this in my hands! Years of work in one shiny new book 😊 www.bloomsbury.com/uk/language-...

"While AI is undeniably transforming the communication landscape, they emphasize that the enduring value of mastering English remains as crucial as ever. The root of this continuing English advantage lies in the data that powers the systems themselves." www.koreatimes.co.kr/southkorea/s...

1. Tomorrow is the big college entrance exam in Korea or KSAT or suneung so naturally there are posters up in subway stations directing test takers to test locations, listing which exit to take and how far the school is from the exit. All part of the KSAT #LinguisticLandscape . . . .

"In contrast, Hong Kong’s rapid climb in the latest rankings is widely credited to strong government backing and deregulation. To attract world-class scholars, the government introduced the Top Talent Pass Scheme in 2023" www.koreatimes.co.kr/southkorea/s...

Seoul is putting on a fall show today

Lovely essay here on language learning, translation, AI, and so much more. Very much worth reading in my opinion.

If it wasn’t a Jets game right now I’d be somewhere in rural Manitoba checking out the northern lights. They are insane and this is in the city. But since it’s the 2nd intermission get outside and enjoy the light show for a few minutes.

Bluejays baseball fun and aurora pictures seem like good candidates for the best times on this website so far, in my experience, so that's nice

Very good review of There Is No Antimemetics Division by @qntm.org which also discusses the amazing SCP Wiki which is a wildly underdiscussed and underexamined writing activity, community, practice, repository, something, in my opinion. Neat stuff! www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/1...

So there is a big Twitter kerfuffle because of a blogger having trouble at an airport, with a lot going on there, here, and wherever, but it is a good reminder of one of the most interesting #LinguisticLandscape in the world, that of airports! So many signs! onemileatatime.com/news/economi...

"For 35 years, On Spec has been Canada’s premier literary publication for science fiction and fantasy. It’s our own maple-flavoured alternative to the American giants — like Analog Science Fiction and Fact, and Amazing Stories" Quite a loss for Canada here. www.cbc.ca/arts/on-spec...

From the mistaken "Amamya" in Arabic to the gratuitous apostrophe in English, this "Amatzya" street sign needs an overhaul #LinguisticLandscape #Linguistics #Transliteration_fails

Wiggle wiggle ⚠️ (English-only #LinguisticLandscape in Berlin)

This mural, outside Ganado Feed on Lincoln Ave. in San Jose, urges the people who see it to find resilience in challenging times…in English. But some people in our community might really need to hear that message in another language, too. #translate #sanjose #staystrong #murals #linguisticlandscape

This is a nice article on Remembrance Day in Korea. koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/news/2025-11...

The election for university president is coming up and so we have some campaigning on campus these days, but what I find interesting here is the amount of English on these posters, adding a bit more of something to the campus #LinguisticLandscape . . . .

Next up in the @uniofjyvaskyla.bsky.social English seminar series! Yating Yu (University of Macau), 'Media representations of the ‘little fresh meat’ phenomenon in China: a feminist critical discourse analysis of the masculine nonconformity discourse' Abstract/register!👇 r.jyu.fi/engseminars2...

'Bonjour' in the ice cream shop #LinguisticLandscape of Seoul, courtesy of Baskin Robbins, with some interesting French background art, all related to this special Golden Praline Butter ice cream. I wonder how widely known 'Bonjour' is in Korea? Pretty widely known, I'd guess.

Call for Papers: Reading Fanfiction/ Fanfiction Reading If you have a 3000-4000 literary close reading of a fanfiction story burning to get out, please be in touch! :D rb.gy/8hqqzb

Do not miss our November 13 webinar Ukrainian Parents' Views on the Impact of War and Displacement on Their Parenting Styles in Scotland. Register here bit.ly/433k2jB

Pilates maketh man I don't think I've ever seen 'maketh' in the #LinguisticLandscape of Korea until now, so something new here! And . . . .

Upcoming workshop on spirituality at Kyudai this Friday For those in the area, let me know if you’d like to join us (sorry, in-person only)

Certainly not a world I'm familiar with, but an interesting take on yachting, safety, and bureaucracy in Korea, and an interesting view into those who sail the seven seas for fun . . . . www.yachtingworld.com/cruising/cru...

Some "oppose a de facto ban on early education, expressing concern that it would deepen the learning gap, as wealthier families could still hire private tutors, enroll their children in overseas programs or pursue other alternatives" www.koreatimes.co.kr/southkorea/s...

I have a deep fondness for paper-based language learning notebooks, and wonder a bit what has been written in the last few years about the feelings that come from studying with this type of material . . . . Always been quite satisfying to create and go over material like this, for me.

If you speak Spanish, please help Emma get more participants by taking part in this super interesting experiment 🎧📊😊

German and Korean, a relatively unusual combination in Korea, on a poster seen on a university campus in Seoul, part of the campus #LinguisticLandscape!

Something new in Seoul’s Goblin Market! I've been to Dokkaebi market, the Korean name of the market, many times and yeah, looking forward to checking out this building! www.designboom.com/architecture...

Too Mucheese Just a whole lot going on in the chicken #LinguisticLandscape here but love this cheese language here!

Korea on the account!

Interesting review about the impossibility of writing a review, and an interesting suggestion here about the re-reviews of some heavily updated games being some of the best videogame writing out these days . . . . aftermath.site/europa-unive...

i love how this is both true and sounds like technobabble to anyone not in ML

Fun write up on a punk bank from outside of Seoul! www.koreatimes.co.kr/entertainmen...

"The momentum is building amid extreme private education practices that subject preschool children to intensive tutoring and entrance exams to obtain admission to reputable 'English kindergartens'" www.koreatimes.co.kr/southkorea/s...

"most dawn delivery drivers work more than 60 hours per week. Their rates of sleep disorders and depression are three to four times higher than other Korean workers" m.koreaherald.com/article/1060...

Join us the next 2 weeks as we #TranslateSanJose one sign at a time! Day 1: How would you translate these signs—located on the banners along 1st St in downtown SJ—into Spanish, Mandarin, Vietnamese, or any of San Jose’s many languages? #dtsj #translation #linguisticlandscape #learn #signs 1/2