In K-pop's wake, foreigners add to world culture's 'Korean wave'
K-pop has helped inspire curiosity about the country for a wave of new arrivals. But working and creating there isn’t always easy.
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K-pop has helped inspire curiosity about the country for a wave of new arrivals. But working and creating there isn’t always easy.
It never really dawned on me how vulnerable journalists were to trauma until I took a job as an investigative reporter.
I got a taste of my dream job at 21. And the habitat for this dream job was mind-numbingly generic - unremarkable chairs and tables, inaccessible outlets to charge my laptop, computer programs with unfriendly user interfaces. It was like every other office. And like every other office I’d worked at as a journalist in Australia, there was one incontrovertible truth staring me right in the face – I was the only person of colour in the department. My experience is by no means a novel occurrence. The Who Gets to Tell Australian Stories? report revealed more than 75 per cent of presenters...