{"id":28976,"date":"2017-06-27T02:00:24","date_gmt":"2017-06-27T09:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/?p=28976"},"modified":"2017-06-06T17:46:13","modified_gmt":"2017-06-07T00:46:13","slug":"a-geek-in-japan-and-a-geek-in-korea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/a-geek-in-japan-and-a-geek-in-korea\/","title":{"rendered":"A Geek in Japan and A Geek in Korea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the futuristic cities of Asia a geeky subculture is bubbling up. They are breeding manga, K-Pop music, small robots, anime, martial arts, soap operas, high-speed bullet trains, weird food rituals, tattoos, cosplay, video games olympics, incubators, and more &#8212; all propelled by the intensely urban life of billions of young people. If diving into these subcultures is your idea of travel, then this set of guides will help interpret what\u2019s going on. These are not so much travel guides per se, but more likes cultural guides &#8212; what are those plastic statues outside of stores, and who are those kids with deep artificial tans? Far more than any other cultural guides I\u2019ve seen these focus on the modern, urban, subcultural aspects of these ancient places.<\/p>\n<p>The series began with <em>A Geek in Japan<\/em>, which is still the best one; I highly recommend it for newbies to Japan; this material won\u2019t be covered in the usual guidebooks. And <em>A Geek in Korea<\/em> is helpful, too, because there\u2019s a lot happening in global geek culture there, somewhat off the radar. Two others in the series, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B01LX3CRDL\/cooltools-20\">A Geek in China<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B0163A8UM0\/cooltools-20\">A Geek in Thailand<\/a>, are less successful because there is less geekery happening in those countries; but they might be helpful for introducing the general culture to first-time visitors.<\/p>\n<div class='ctx-module-container ctx_default_placement ctx-clearfix'><\/div><span class=\"ctx-article-root\"><!-- --><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Best subculture guides<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28976"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28976"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28976\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28979,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28976\/revisions\/28979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}