J. Scott Burgeson

J. Scott Burgeson (; born 1967) is an American author, teacher and a specialist in East Asian art based in Seoul, South Korea. He has written four books in South Korea.

Biography

J. Scott Burgeson was born on 1967 at Lincoln, Nebraska. He grew up at the San Francisco Bay Area and he graduated with honors from the University of California, Berkeley in 1991 in English and Rhetoric. At the U.C. Berkeley he was editor-in-chief of the campus literary journal Byzantium. San Francisco Review of Books, the East Bay Express and The Daily Californian from 1990 to 1994 before relocating to Osaka, Japan, in 1994, and he wrote for Giant Robot, Kyoto Journal, Tokyo Journal, Kansai Time Out and PLAYBOY JAPAN. Before that he moved to Seoul, South Korea in 1996, his writing has appeared in The Brooklyn Rail, Newsweek Korea, The Korea Times, Korean Quarterly, The Korea Herald, Les Cahiers de Corée, The New York Times and Cine21. He was also a regular columnist for Maxim Korea and Chosun Ilbo. He published the zine Korea Bug between 1997 and 2001 about Korean culture and society.

He has dedicated himself to working at universities it Korean studies like in the Hongik University.

He is considered critical of the multiculturalism that has occurred in the United States and South Korea, and has tried to foster good ties of friendship between Westerners and nationals in South Korea.

Works Maximum Korea (, 1999) Nasty Korean Studies (, 2002) Korea Bug: The Best of the Zine that Infected a Nation (2005) Korea Consumer Report (, 2005) Outlanders (2008) More Nasty Korean Studies (, 2009) Waygooks: Stories From Korea (2010)