About Waygook Laowai: Five Years in the Far East:
Eating dog with his Sunday morning football team … Taking a naked sauna with 50 Korean men … Staring across the DMZ to North Korea … Looking at Chairman Mao’s embalmed corpse … Drinking rice wine and setting off firecrackers during Chinese New Year … Teaching classes of 50 Chinese … Experiencing the epic scale of growth in China … Becoming the marketing face of a Chinese beer company.
Just some of the adventures detailed in Paul Bacon’s second, which details the five year’s he spent in Korea and China. Waegook Laowai offers original and humorous insight into one of the most exciting parts of the world. It looks beyond the stereotypes of Samsung, K-Pop and kimchi and sees more than one billion consumers and an authoritarian government juggling the conflicting demands of Communist history and capitalist present. This is a book for those keen to learn about Asia on an authen tic level.
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Author Bio:
Paul Bacon was born in England in 1980. He has lived and travelled extensively throughout Asia and Europe. This began in 2004 when he worked as a volunteer journalist in Mongolia. Since then, he has lived in Korea, China, Turkey, Oman, France, Dubai and Germany
He has worked for several publications across in Asia. From 2007 to 2009 he was Managing editor of the award-winning bi-lingual magazine Network HR in China and he was also a regular contributor to Echinacities.com. In 2010 he was nominated for the IgoUgo Best Travel Writer Prize.
He currently lives in Sheffield in the UK with his wife, Tracy and dreams of further adventures.