So, I'd try English and then I'd try Chinese, and their Chinese would often be better than the English, and so we, we. And also, I speak Mandarin Chinese and so many Koreans also speak Chinese that when they didn't speak English, we would use what I called the Chinese loophole. In, in many places, they do overlap, and so there were some, um, sort of northeast Asian ideas and cultural norms that I was quite familiar with, that made it easier for me when I went abroad. My family is from China and Taiwan and so I'm familiar with tho- you know, the areas in which Korean and Japanese and Chinese culture overlap.
What was your relationship to Korea before you went there to set-up this bureau?ĮH: I knew very little. LA: Back in 2015, Elise went to start South Korea to start a news bureau for NPR in Seoul. I can stuff so much stuff into a packing cube and then get it into my suitcase. You know, I don't separate like, "Oh, this is for Dallas and then this is for Boston." I use packing cubes just for space, just so it really, um, stuffs. But I'm very disorganized, so I rarely get around to actually utilizing it.ĮH: I used packing cubes, but I don't organize what's in them. When it comes to, like, multi-city stops and different climates, I'm always told that that's the thing that's gonna help the most.
LA: Are you a packing cube person? I feel like that is. I know this is something you, you all probably talk about all the time, but just trying to be very light and sparing in my packing but also have what I need in the various towns I'm gonna be in. This will just be an interesting experiment in packing for various climates and trying to keep everything really light. And, um, you are in Los Angeles, right?ĮH: I'm in Los Angeles, but I love to travel, so this will be an interesting time. LA: Are you gonna be doing any book tours or sort of traveling with the book?ĮH: Yes, it's a 10-city tour, and so hopefully I'll be in a city near you, wherever you are.
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