Podcasts about Incheon

Fluent Fiction - Korean: Unveiling Cherry Blossom Secrets: A Tale of Friendship's Depth Find the full episode transcript, vocabulary words, and more:fluentfiction.com/ko/episode/2025-04-01-22-34-00-ko Story Transcript:Ko: 봄빛이 가득한 어느 날, 인천 인근의 현대적인 교외에 사는 지호는 친구의 속을 알 수 없어 고민에 빠졌다.En: One day full of the light of spring, living in the modern suburbs near Incheon, Jiho was troubled, unable to understand a friend's feelings.Ko: 벚꽃은 잔잔히 흩날리고, 깔끔한 거리에는 작은 정원이 있는 집들이 늘어서 있었다.En: Cherry blossoms fluttered gently, and neat streets were lined with houses with small gardens.Ko: 지호는 호기심이 많은 사람이다.En: Jiho is a curious person.Ko: 어느 날, 지호는 미세오와 함께 시간을 보내다가 우연히 미세오의 오래된 일기를 발견했다.En: One day, while spending time with Miseo, Jiho accidentally discovered Miseo's old diary.Ko: 그것을 찾아본 것은 아니지만, 그 속에는 미세오의 과거에 대한 비밀이 적혀 있었다.En: He did not intend to look for it, but inside were secrets about Miseo's past.Ko: 미세오는 자신감 넘치고 외향적인 사람이지만, 과거에 대해서는 항상 말을 아꼈다.En: Miseo is a confident and extroverted person, but always held back when it came to the past.Ko: 그 비밀스러운 과거가 지호를 궁금하게 만들었다.En: This secretive past made Jiho curious.Ko: 그러나 일기장 속의 내용은 지호를 놀라게 했다.En: However, the contents of the diary surprised Jiho.Ko: 미세오가 누구에게도 말하지 않은 무언가가 있었다.En: There was something Miseo had told no one.Ko: 지호는 이 사실을 알리고 싶었다.En: Jiho wanted to share this fact.Ko: "어떻게 해야 하지?En: "What should I do?"Ko: " 지호는 속이 시끄러웠다.En: Jiho's mind was noisy.Ko: 그는 평소처럼 성완에게 조언을 구했다.En: He sought advice as usual from Seongwan.Ko: 성완은 지호와 미세오에게 모두 가까운 친구로 늘 두 사람 사이의 평화를 지키려 했다.En: Seongwan, a close friend to both Jiho and Miseo, always tried to maintain peace between them.Ko: 성완은 "그냥 솔직하게 묻는 게 좋을 거야.En: Seongwan said, "It would be good to just ask honestly.Ko: 하지만 미세오에게 시간을 줘,"라고 말했다.En: But give Miseo some time."Ko: 지호는 고민 끝에 미세오에게 직접 물어보기로 결심했다.En: After much contemplation, Jiho decided to ask Miseo directly.Ko: 어느 따뜻한 주말, 지호는 미세오와 나란히 벤치에 앉았다.En: On a warm weekend, Jiho sat side by side with Miseo on a bench.Ko: 꽃잎이 바람에 흔들리며 그 곁을 스쳤다.En: Petals swayed in the breeze, brushing past them.Ko: "미세오, 너한테 묻고 싶은 게 있어," 지호는 부드럽게 말했다.En: "Miseo, there's something I want to ask you," Jiho said gently.Ko: 미세오는 그를 보고 잠시 아무 말도 하지 않았다.En: Miseo looked at him and remained silent for a moment.Ko: "너 그 일기 봤구나?En: "You read that diary, didn't you?"Ko: " 미세오의 얼굴에는 놀라움과 약간의 긴장감이 있었다.En: Miseo's face showed surprise and a slight tension.Ko: 지호는 고개를 끄덕였다.En: Jiho nodded.Ko: "네 과거의 이야기를 듣고 싶어.En: "I want to hear your past story.Ko: 난 널 더 잘 알고 싶어.En: I want to know you better."Ko: "그제야 미세오는 천천히 입을 열었다.En: Only then did Miseo slowly open her mouth.Ko: 그 과거는 그녀의 가슴 속에 남아 있는 아픔이었다.En: The past was a pain remaining in her heart.Ko: 하지만 지호의 진심 어린 눈빛을 보며, 그녀는 마침내 그 이야기를 들려주기로 했다.En: But seeing Jiho's sincere gaze, she finally decided to share her story.Ko: 둘은 어두워지는 저녁이 될 때까지 편히 이야기를 나눴다.En: The two of them talked comfortably until evening fell.Ko: 미세오의 이야기는 예상보다 더 깊고 복잡했지만, 지호는 그녀의 진심을 이해하게 되었다.En: Miseo's story was deeper and more complex than expected, but Jiho came to understand her sincerity.Ko: 두 사람은 서로의 복잡한 삶을 존중하며 더 단단한 우정을 쌓기로 했다.En: The two decided to build a stronger friendship by respecting each other's complex lives.Ko: 이 사건 이후, 지호는 친구의 경계를 존중하는 법을 배우게 되었다.En: After this incident, Jiho learned how to respect a friend's boundaries.Ko: 미세오도, 성완도 그를 더 믿게 되었다.En: Both Miseo and Seongwan came to trust him more.Ko: 벚꽃의 계절이 지나도 그들의 우정은 여전히 피어있었다.En: Even after the season of cherry blossoms passed, their friendship continued to bloom.Ko: 세 사람은 이제 서로의 삶에 더 큰 의미와 존중을 가지고 함께 걸어갔다.En: The three of them now walked through life together with greater meaning and respect for each other. Vocabulary Words:suburbs: 교외troubled: 고민에 빠졌다fluttered: 흩날리고curious: 호기심이 많은diary: 일기secrets: 비밀extroverted: 외향적인maintain: 지키려 했다contemplation: 고민bench: 벤치petals: 꽃잎breeze: 바람remained: 남아 있는sincere: 진심gaze: 눈빛boundaries: 경계incident: 사건respect: 존중trust: 믿게 되었다bloom: 피어있었다modern: 현대적인gently: 잔잔히complex: 복잡한contents: 내용surprised: 놀라게 했다advice: 조언directly: 직접complexity: 복잡함sincerity: 진심을 이해했다meaning: 의미

This week's K League United Podcast turns its attention to K League 2 and takes a look at the five biggest talking points of the first two rounds. Matthew Binns, Paul Neat and Andrew Farrell feature on the podcast this week, reviewing the opening rounds of Korea's second division.   We take a look at the red cards in the clash between Incheon United and Suwon Samsung Bluewings, why there's hope for Seongnam FC, and also a look at league leaders Bucheon FC 1995. There's even time to dwell on the predicament Busan IPark seem to be in.   The conclusions then continue over on Patreaon where we give our extended thoughts on Busan's manager Jo Sung-hwan as well as take a look at the Korea Cup first round in the latest episode of Time Added On.   [PATREON: Jo Sung-hwan's Managerial Career & Korea Cup First Round]   Finally, there's also still time to enter our latest kit giveaway. In celebration of 10 years of K League United, we look to give away a match-worn home shirt from our website's first interviewee, FC Anyang's Austin Berry. To stand a chance of winning this 2015 Anyang kit, simply follow us and reshare the related social media post of this podcast, or share this page with @KLeagueUnited tagged, for your chance to enter the draw with the prize set to be drawn in March.   [WIN: A 2015 FC Anyang Home Shirt worn by Austin Berry]    All this and more on The K League United Podcast!  

It's a little tense this week, as Adam describes life on the North Korean border. Popular as a tourist attraction, visiting the DMZ isn't as dangerous as it may sound, unless you have someone in your tour group who insists on taking photographs! The Korean Demilitarized Zone is a heavily militarized area that runs between North and South Korea, dividing the peninsula in half. Established in 1953 as a result of the Korean Armistice agreement, the DMZ stretches 250 kilometres and is around 4 kilometres wide. The situation has flared up many times, with civilian and military casualties on both sides. Adam also shares highlights of his first week in South Korea, including spending the night in Incheon airport, and eating live octopus! Over in the Patreon section, we hear how buying a bagel turned into the "least enjoyable shopping experience" of his life! Inspired to sleep in an airport? Check this website beforehand: https://www.sleepinginairports.net/ Looking for travel insurance? We recommend SafetyWing! Click here to get started: ⁠⁠https://tinyurl.com/tripsafetywing⁠⁠Need an onward flight? Please use this fantastic flight rental service: ⁠⁠https://onwardticket.com/tripologypodcast⁠⁠ Visit our website: tripologypodcast.com Join our Patreon: patreon.com/tripologypodcast Follow us on Instagram: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠instagram.com/tripologypodcast/⁠ Subscribe to our YouTube channel: ⁠⁠youtube.com/@tripologypodcast⁠⁠ Please rate the show and help us grow! Recommend the podcast to family & friends (all of them). It makes a HUGE difference. Thank you for your continued support. It means the world.

#gtalksradio present: Park Daham aka DJ YESYES was born in Incheon, Korea in 1986. Founder of Helicopter Records. “I check if I get curious.” Tracklist: 지랄탄99 – 바보처럼 살련다 Hyodo and BASS – 근황 Tarah Kikuchi – melquiades no labo Yamamoto Seiichi – Days ACIDWORK – DOGGY SOUND 八木節（南俠血戰一代妖后2 3） Samai Onwong – Sakura La Kon (Goodbye, Sakura) DJ YESYES – CHAIR FLYING DJ YESYES – 자연 속 오버 더 레인보우 DJ YESYES – Mix for Gathering Flowers DJ YESYES – Mix for Swinging 2021: Relaxed Hurricane 유기농맥주 – ?????? AKI TSUYUKO – PRAYER'S STONE REMIX @gtalks! radio 韩国, hosted by Gulnihal, is a Korean music scene focused spinoff of gtalks! radio, a monthly interview show that centers young emerging creatives around the globe to share their stories to inspire and connect with like minded people. While Gulnihal spends several months living in Seoul, South Korea, she does a deep dive into the creative world burgeoning there. Artist IG: https://www.instagram.com/parkdaham/ Radio IG: www.instagram.com/gtalksradio/ Dublab: www.dublab.com/shows/gtalks-radio

Từng bước phục hồi sau đại dịch COVID-19 và thực hiện nhanh quá trình chuyển đổi số, Incheon, sân bay lớn nhất Hàn Quốc tiếp tục hướng tới mục tiêu trở thành trung tâm hậu cần số một toàn cầu. Mới đây, sân bay này đã hoàn thành mở rộng giai đoạn 4, chính thức vào top 3 sân bay lớn nhất thế giới.

Fluent Fiction - Korean: Sailing Through Holiday Sacrifices: A Naval Officer's Tale Find the full episode transcript, vocabulary words, and more:fluentfiction.com/ko/episode/2024-12-11-08-38-20-ko Story Transcript:Ko: 인천 해군 기지는 평소보다 더 바빴다.En: The Incheon naval base was busier than usual.Ko: 하얀 눈이 천천히 내리는 가운데 크리스마스 장식에서 나는 소나무 향기가 공기를 가득 채웠다.En: As white snow slowly fell, the scent of pine from the Christmas decorations filled the air.Ko: 해군들은 배치를 준비하며 바쁘게 움직였다.En: The sailors moved busily as they prepared for deployment.Ko: 지호는 이 모든 혼잡 속에서도 마음속에 고민이 있었다.En: Even amidst all this hustle and bustle, Jiho had concerns in his heart.Ko: 그는 가족과 함께 크리스마스를 보내고 싶었다.En: He wanted to spend Christmas with his family.Ko: 하지만 배치 날짜가 크리스마스 이브와 겹쳤다.En: However, the deployment date overlapped with Christmas Eve.Ko: 지호는 충성스러운 해군 장교였지만 가족에 대한 사랑도 컸다.En: Jiho was a loyal naval officer, but his love for his family was also immense.Ko: 그래서 그는 특별한 계획이 필요했다.En: So he needed a special plan.Ko: 서진은 지호의 가까운 친구이자 동료 장교였다.En: Seojin was Jiho's close friend and fellow officer.Ko: 서진은 배치를 기대하고 있었지만 지호의 딜레마를 이해했다.En: Seojin was looking forward to the deployment but understood Jiho's dilemma.Ko: "지호야, 우리는 이 배치를 위해 철저히 준비해야 해.En: "Jiho, we must thoroughly prepare for this deployment.Ko: 하지만 가족과의 연결도 중요해," 서진은 말했다.En: But maintaining connections with family is important too," Seojin said.Ko: 지호는 고민 끝에 민규에게 다가가기로 결심했다.En: After much deliberation, Jiho decided to approach Mingyu.Ko: 민규는 엄격한 훈련으로 유명했지만 결코 불공평하지 않았다.En: Mingyu was known for his strict training but was never unfair.Ko: 지호는 민규를 찾아가 가족과의 화상 통화 가능성을 논의했다.En: Jiho sought out Mingyu to discuss the possibility of a video call with his family.Ko: "명령관님, 우리는 항해 도중 잠시 정박할 때 가족과 통화할 수 있을까요?En: "Commander, can we have a short stop during the voyage to call our families?Ko: 그것이 크리스마스를 더 특별하게 만들어 줄 것입니다.En: That would make Christmas more special."Ko: "미래를 위한 계획이 아직 확정되지 않은 채로 시간은 흘러갔다.En: Time passed with future plans still uncertain.Ko: 마침내, 배치 전 브리핑 날이 다가왔다.En: Finally, the day of the pre-deployment briefing arrived.Ko: 모든 장교와 해병이 마당에 모였다.En: All officers and sailors gathered in the yard.Ko: 민규는 명확하고 단호한 목소리로 말했다.En: Mingyu spoke in a clear and firm voice.Ko: "이번 배치를 위해 모든 것이 준비되었습니다.En: "Everything is prepared for this deployment.Ko: 그리고 하나 더, 우리는 크리스마스를 맞아 가족과의 소통 방법을 마련했습니다.En: And one more thing, we have arranged a means of communication with families for Christmas."Ko: "지호는 안심하며 미소를 지었다.En: Jiho smiled in relief.Ko: 민규의 계획 덕분에 지호와 그의 팀원들은 크리스마스 이브에 가족과 화상 통화를 했다.En: Thanks to Mingyu's plan, Jiho and his team were able to have video calls with their families on Christmas Eve.Ko: 그날 밤, 차가운 바람이 부는 바다 위에서도 지호의 마음은 따뜻했다.En: That night, even on the cold windy sea, Jiho's heart was warm.Ko: 배치는 무사히 진행되었고, 지호는 임무와 가정을 조화롭게 지킬 수 있는 방법을 배우게 되었다.En: The deployment progressed safely, and Jiho learned how to balance his duty and family.Ko: 그는 민규의 이해와 배려에 감사하는 마음을 품게 되었다.En: He felt grateful for Mingyu's understanding and consideration.Ko: 한편으로, 서진은 친구 지호가 웃는 모습을 보고 뿌듯했다.En: Meanwhile, Seojin felt proud seeing his friend Jiho smile.Ko: 이 겨울, 인천 해군 기지는 크리스마스의 따뜻함을 마음속에 품은 채 임무를 성공적으로 수행했다.En: That winter, the Incheon naval base successfully carried out its mission with the warmth of Christmas cherished in their hearts. Vocabulary Words:naval: 해군의deployment: 배치scent: 향기pine: 소나무hustle: 혼잡bustle: 소란concerns: 고민loyal: 충성스러운immense: 큰deliberation: 고민approach: 다가가다strict: 엄격한unfair: 불공평한possibility: 가능성voyage: 항해briefing: 브리핑gathered: 모였다firm: 단호한relief: 안심communication: 소통consideration: 배려uncertain: 확정되지 않은pre-deployment: 배치 전cherish: 마음에 품다complimented: 뿌듯했다understanding: 이해connection: 연결destination: 목적지mission: 임무cherished: 마음에 품다

In September, I had the honor of attending the 4th Lausanne Congress on World Evangelism in Seoul or Incheon, South Korea. The Lausanne movement celebrated its 50th anniversary with 5,000 people from over 200 nations. ...

 Sở hữu cơ sở hạ tầng hiện đại dành cho du lịch MICE, du lịch y tế, Thành phố Incheon (Hàn Quốc) mong muốn hợp tác với các đối tác tại TP.HCM nhằm thúc đẩy trao đổi du lịch hai chiều và thu hút khách du lịch MICE đến từ Việt Nam. Chủ đề : Incheon (Hàn Quốc), thu hút khách lịch MICE, y tế từ Việt Nam --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/vov1tintuc/support

Help Ware Swimming Club - https://chng.it/dSZBPwNpLyLeg 2 of the 2024 World Aquatics Swimming World Cup produced even more short course World Records as Kate Douglass and Regan Smith shine. This week on the Propulsion Swimming Podcast we review the top swims from Incheon, South Korea with the help of Hong Kong Breaststroker Adam Chillingworth. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

After breaking the world record in the 50m butterfly (SCM), Noe Ponti sat down with SwimSwam to discuss his experience at the world cup so far. After placing 4th and 5th in the 100 and 200 butterfly at the Paris Olympics, Ponti took a long break from the pool before returning to training. At present, he is mentally relaxed and it seems to have an effect on him physically as well. Not only did Ponti break the world record in the 50 fly in Shanghai, he also won the 100 fly in Shanghai and in Incheon, losing his goggles in the latter but still prevailing.

Today on the SwimSwam Breakdown, we are discussing all things college swimming... plus Kate Douglass's world record in Incheon.

Schwimmsport für die Ohren Revolution im Schwimmsport? Eine halbe Sekunde schneller ohne einen Meter mehr zu schwimmen? Das scheint möglich zu sein, wenn man den Studien glaubt, die wir heute besprechen. (Vorstudie Nachfolgestudie). Vielleicht sehen wir schon beim Weltcup die ersten Versuche davon! Auf jeden Fall wird es spannend und rekordverdächtig in Shanghai, Incheon und Singapur - auch mit deutscher Beteiligung! Außerdem ein Roundup aus Fulda, Hamburg, Heddesheim, Frankfurt und eine kurze Vorstellung des neuen DSV Vorstandes! Swimstart Revolution 9:28 Weltcup 29:34 Wettkampf Highlights 40:19 DSV Vorstand 51:46 -> Werde Supporter Du möchtest deinen Podcast auch kostenlos hosten und damit Geld verdienen? Dann schaue auf www.kostenlos-hosten.de und informiere dich. Dort erhältst du alle Informationen zu unseren kostenlosen Podcast-Hosting-Angeboten. kostenlos-hosten.de ist ein Produkt der Podcastbude.Gern unterstützen wir dich bei deiner Podcast-Produktion.

Revolution im Schwimmsport? Eine halbe Sekunde schneller ohne einen Meter mehr zu schwimmen? Das scheint möglich zu sein, wenn man den Studien glaubt, die wir heute besprechen. Vielleicht sehen wir schon beim Weltcup die ersten Versuche davon! Auf jeden Fall wird es spannend und rekordverdächtig in Shanghai, Incheon und Singapur - auch mit deutscher Beteiligung! Außerdem ein Roundup aus Fulda, Hamburg, Heddesheim, Frankfurt und eine kurze Vorstellung des neuen DSV Vorstandes! Swimstart Revolution 9:28 Weltcup 29:34 Wettkampf Highlights 40:19 DSV Vorstand 51:46 ----- Episodenbild: European Aquatics Musik: www.zapsplat.com

From the global state of the church to an analysis of the Great Commission, the Fourth Lausanne Congress on World Evangelization was a conference filled with fascinating speeches and discussions.Timothy Goropevsek, executive editor of Christian Daily International, was recently on the ground covering the Fourth Lausanne Congress this year in Incheon, South Korea, and he joins "The Inside Story" today to tell Billy Hallowell about what he witnessed.Plus: he addresses some of the controversies, including a debate over a speaker's comments about Israel and Gaza. Listen to this episode to hear more and follow all of CDI's Lausanne coverage here: https://www.christiandaily.com/search?q=Lausanne

After being in Incheon, South Korea for the 4th Lausanne Congress, I have felt so convicted to share this specific message... especially to the Western churches in North America. We can learn a thing or two about boldness, purity, integrity, and fearlessness from the global church when it comes to being disciples and making disciples. Let's talk about it!ORDER MY BOOK HERE: www.kirby-kelly.com/you-can-be-free

On September 22-28, 2024 the global church will converge in Incheon, South Korea, for the Fourth Lausanne Congress on World Evangelization. On Thursday's Mornings with Eric and Brigitte, Women in the Window International's Executive Director, Kim Kerr joins us to talk about this historic event and tell about the privilege it will be to attend this year and contribute to international conversations on human sexuality. The Lausanne Covenant, born from the 1974 conference, stands as one of the most significant evangelical documents today, used as a statement of faith by Christians worldwide. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this episode, we explore the pivotal Battle of Incheon during the Korean War, where General Douglas MacArthur's audacious amphibious assault countered North Korean advances and marked a turning point in the conflict. Through strategic ingenuity and careful planning, U.N. forces successfully executed Operation Chromite, leading to the recapture of Seoul and reshaping the war's trajectory. The episode delves into the broader implications of this victory and its lasting legacy in military strategy.

진행자: 간형우, Paul Kerry Korea sees panic selling in used EVs 기사 요약: 전기차 화재 이후 중고차 판매 시장에서 매물 쏟아지는 전기차 [1] A mass sell-off of EVs has begun in South Korea, following a fire involving a Mercedes-Benz EV in Incheon that destroyed more than 140 cars and sparked proposals to restrict EVs' access to underground parking lots. sell-off: 매각 spark: 촉발시키다 access: 입장   [2] Since the fire on Aug. 1, the market has been flooded with used EVs. K Car, Korea's second-largest used car trading platform, reported an 184 percent increase in used EV listings in the first week of August compared to the final week of July. flood: 물밀듯이 밀려들다   [3] The Mercedes-Benz EQE series, which includes the standard EQE 300, the EQE 350+ -- the exact model involved in the fire -- along with its high-performance AMG counterpart and the EQE SUV, has been especially hard hit by the market's reaction. counterpart: 상대 especially: 특히   [4] Following the incident, over 100 EQE models have appeared on SK Encar, Korea's top used car trading platform, pushing the total number of EQE vehicles for sale to 115 as of Friday. incident: 사건 appear: 생기다   기사 원문: https://www.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20240816050444   [코리아헤럴드 팟캐스트 구독] 아이튠즈(아이폰):https://itunes.apple.com/kr/podcast/koliaheleoldeu-paskaeseuteu/id686406253?mt=2 네이버 오디오 클립(아이폰, 안드로이드 겸용): https://audioclip.naver.com/channels/5404 팟빵 (안드로이드): http://www.podbbang.com/ch/6638

Episode 271: The Lombre Episode of the PokeProblemsPodcast! Today, we have a special guest! The "Business Cheerleader" of Malden, Kevin Duffy! He's the right hand of Mayor Gary Christenson, Mayor of Malden, aka "the Gamers' Mayor", a recent special guest! Kevin has been the "Business Badboy" for the Malden Gaming District, as well as supporting ALL of Malden's businesses! (Plus, his favorite Pokemon is the yellow one!) Do you want to bring your business to Malden? Email Kevin! at kduffy@cityofmalden.org! Did you know that Malden has interactive mysteries and pubcrawls? This summer, Mladen is hosting a Mystery Pub Crawl: The Curious Case of the Fiery Temper; Mystery Pub Crawl: Murder at the Malden Bank is already sold out for the summer, but we expect them both to be back! There are a lot of ways to keep up with Malden's Gaming District, including seeing every month's events on Reddit from user MGDTess. See August's lineup here! In Pokemon GO, August 3 is a Mega Rayquaza Special Raid Event makeup day! Team Rocket is Taking Over Adventure Week... Get ready for a September of Pokémon GO Safari fun, with in-person events coming to Jakarta, Indonesia and Incheon, South Korea! In Pokémon Scarlet/Violet, get Roy's Fuecoco from Pokémon Horizons as a Mystery Gift using code 909TEAMUP06. More Pokémon Soda Pop plushes! Plus it's Back to School with cute bags and school supplies! Miz Sylver tells us about the Play Nintendo Tour, check out a video summary by friend of the show KirbyGCN17! She also got to stop by the R-Cade pop-up while she was in the NYC area! A new pokemon TV show... Pokémon Trainer Tour! Are you at GenCon 2024? Awesome past guest Ginny Loveday is hosting many awesome events! View this post on Instagram A post shared by Ginny Loveday (@ginnyloveday) Thanks for listening! If you have any questions or comments, we want to hear from you. Tweet, email, or comment on the blog or Facebook to let us know! Follow @pokemoncast Tweet !function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],p=/^http:/.test(d.location)?'http':'https';if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=p+'://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js';fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document, 'script', 'twitter-wjs'); !function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],p=/^http:/.test(d.location)?'http':'https';if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=p+'://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js';fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document, 'script', 'twitter-wjs');

Send us a Text Message.This week,We kick off with a thought-provoking question: "If you had to be present during a natural disaster, what would you choose?" The hosts share their intriguing choices and the reasons behind them, setting a reflective and engaging tone.The show then transitions to listener interactions, featuring WhatsApp voice messages that bring in community perspectives and questions. Following this is the "Ask The Intern" segment, where the hosts discuss some recent mishaps in Pokémon GO, offering insights and humorous takes on the game's latest glitches and issues.Next, the trio delves into a chat about last week's Tynamo Community Day, sharing their experiences & catches from  the event. This is followed by showcasing YOUR #shiniesoftheweek, celebrating the community's latest shiny Pokémon finds.In the news segment, the hosts discuss the August Community Day announcement of Popplio, the upcoming Adventure Week, and two new live events in the APAC region. They provide insights and speculations on what these events might bring.Counter Bros returns with an in-depth look at the best raid counters for Tornadus, helping players prepare for upcoming raids. The episode then moves into a fun game of "What The Ducklett," where the hosts guess the Pokémon based on cryptic clues, adding a playful and competitive element to the show.To round out the episode, they introduce "Birthday Corner," celebrating listeners' birthdays, followed by the results of the latest Incensed! poll.A massive thank you to all of our Patrons for your support, with credited Patrons from featured tiers below:#GOLDJBCliffordMertDerbyRussKerry & ZacharyConnor LeeApex_171MUFTiBarside2HyeboneMandy CroftSean McQuay#SILVERKLXVIDell HazardThe Gaming BlenderCould you design a video game?Listen on: Apple Podcasts Spotify The DMG Gaming Podcast Welcome to "Disgruntled Middle-Aged Gamers," where lifelong best friends Grant...Listen on: Apple Podcasts SpotifySupport the Show.Find us on Niantic Campfire: CLICK MESend us a voice message on WhatsApp: +44 7592695696Email us: contact@incensedpodcast.comIf you'd like to buy merch, you can find us by clicking HERE for U.K. store, HERE for U.S. Oceana store or copy this link: https://incensed-podcast.myspreadshop.co.uk/ for U.K. store or this link: https://incensed-podcast.myspreadshop.com/ for U.S. Oceana store!Hosted By: PoGoMiloUK, Ian Waterfall & Masterful 27. Produced & Edited By: Ian Waterfall & PoGoMiloUK. Administrators: HermesNinja & IAMP1RU5.Pokémon is Copyright Gamefreak, Nintendo and The Pokémon Company 2001-2016All names owned and trademarked by Nintendo, Niantic, The Pokémon Company, and Gamefreak are property of their respective owners.

This week's K League United Podcast takes a look at the visit from Tottenham Hotspur once more as they head to Seoul to take on this year's Team K League (and Bayern Munich). There's also time to hear from Incheon United's Matej Jonjić. Son Heung-min's Spurs return to Korea for their pre-season training, taking on this year's iteration of Team K League, as well as perhaps look at signing one particular youngster they are interested in.   [READ: Who is Yang Min-hyuk?]   Paul Neat and Matthew Binns give their thought on the friendly, the format and the players they are interested in seeing this coming Wednesday.   Then, Matthew speaks with one of the players featuring for Team K League, Incheon United defender Matej Jonjić, who goes through his career so far and a look at Incheon's current troubles.   All this and more, on The K League United Podcast.

Fluent Fiction - Korean: The Perfect Gift: Sentiment and Practicality at Incheon Find the full episode transcript, vocabulary words, and more:fluentfiction.org/the-perfect-gift-sentiment-and-practicality-at-incheon Story Transcript:Ko: 여름의 뜨거운 태양이 인천 국제공항을 비추고 있었다.En: The scorching summer sun was shining down on Incheon International Airport.Ko: 공항 안은 여행객들로 북적였고, 면세점은 색색의 상품들과 바쁜 손님들의 소리로 가득했다.En: Inside the airport, it was bustling with travelers, and the duty-free shops were filled with colorful products and the sounds of busy customers.Ko: 하얀 셔츠에 캐주얼한 바지를 입은 지호는 면세점 입구에서 서성거렸다.En: Jiho, in a white shirt and casual pants, lingered near the entrance of a duty-free shop.Ko: 그의 옆에는 밝고 화사한 옷을 입은 민서가 있었다.En: Next to him was Minseo, dressed in bright and cheerful clothes.Ko: "우리 시간이 얼마 없어," 지호가 시계를 보며 말했다. "서두르자."En: "We don't have much time," Jiho said, checking his watch. "Let's hurry."Ko: 민서가 고개를 끄덕였다. 그녀의 마음은 친구의 결혼식 선물을 찾는 것에 두근거렸다.En: Minseo nodded. Her heart was pounding at the thought of finding a wedding gift for her friend.Ko: 두 사람은 면세점으로 들어갔다.En: The two entered the duty-free shop.Ko: 지호는 실용적인 물건을 찾고 싶었고, 민서는 마음이 담긴 선물을 원했다.En: Jiho wanted to find something practical, while Minseo wanted a gift filled with sentiment.Ko: 한 가게에서 지호가 은색 시계를 들어 보였다.En: At one store, Jiho picked up a silver watch and showed it to Minseo.Ko: "이건 어때? 실용적이야."En: "How about this? It's practical."Ko: 민서는 시계를 한참 바라보았다.En: Minseo stared at the watch for a while.Ko: "좋긴 한데, 뭔가 특별한 느낌이 없어."En: "It's nice, but it doesn't feel special."Ko: 그들은 다른 가게로 이동했다.En: They moved on to another store.Ko: 민서는 아기자기한 장신구를 보며 눈을 반짝였다.En: Minseo's eyes sparkled as she looked at the charming accessories.Ko: "이 목걸이 어떨까?"En: "How about this necklace?"Ko: 지호가 고개를 가로저었다.En: Jiho shook his head.Ko: "너무 감성적이야. 실용성이 없어."En: "It's too sentimental. It's not practical."Ko: 시간은 흘러가고, 두 사람의 얼굴에 초조함이 가득했다.En: Time was running out, and anxiety was visible on both of their faces.Ko: 서로의 생각이 달랐지만, 포기할 수는 없었다.En: Though their thoughts differed, they couldn't give up.Ko: 그러던 중, 한 작은 가게에서 지호의 눈에 끌렸다.En: Then, Jiho's eyes were drawn to a small shop.Ko: 그는 민서에게 이끌려 갔다.En: He led Minseo inside.Ko: 가게의 진열대에는 다양한 가죽 제품들이 있었다.En: On display were various leather products.Ko: 지호는 가죽 다이어리를 들어 보였다.En: Jiho picked up a leather diary and showed it to Minseo.Ko: "이건 어때? 결혼 후에도 두고두고 사용할 수 있잖아."En: "How about this? They could use it long after the wedding."Ko: 민서는 눈을 크게 뜨고 다이어리를 손으로 만졌다.En: Minseo's eyes widened as she touched the diary.Ko: 다이어리 안쪽에는 작은 메모지가 붙어 있었다. '사랑하는 사람과 함께하는 새로운 시작을 축하합니다.'En: Inside, there was a small note saying, 'Congratulations on the new beginning with your beloved.'Ko: 민서의 마음이 따뜻해졌다.En: Minseo's heart warmed.Ko: "이거야! 실용적이기도 하고, 마음도 담을 수 있어," 민서가 환하게 웃으며 말했다.En: "This is it! It's practical and can hold a lot of heartfelt messages too," Minseo said with a bright smile.Ko: 지호도 만족스러운 미소를 지었다.En: Jiho also smiled, satisfied.Ko: "이걸로 하자. 시간을 절약해서 다행이야."En: "Let's go with this. Glad we managed our time well."Ko: 두 사람은 서둘러 계산을 마치고 비행기 탑승 게이트로 향했다.En: The two quickly completed the purchase and headed to the boarding gate.Ko: 기내로 들어가기 직전에, 지호가 민서에게 말했다.En: Just before getting on the plane, Jiho spoke to Minseo.Ko: "이번에는 네 의견을 존중해줘서 정말 고마워. 감성적인 것도 중요하다는 걸 이제 알겠어."En: "Thanks for respecting my opinion this time. I realize now that sentimentality is important too."Ko: 민서도 고개를 끄덕였다.En: Minseo nodded.Ko: "그리고 나도 실용적인 부분을 고려할 필요가 있다는 걸 배웠어."En: "And I learned that I need to consider practicality more."Ko: 그들은 함께 미소를 지으며 비행기에 올랐다.En: They smiled together as they boarded the plane.Ko: 완벽한 선물을 찾은 기쁨과 서로의 이해 속에서, 두 사람은 만족스럽게 자리에 앉았다.En: With the joy of finding the perfect gift and mutual understanding, they sat down contentedly.Ko: 인천에서의 짧은 시간 동안 그들은 더 가까워졌다.En: In the brief time at Incheon, they had grown closer.Ko: 비행기가 이륙할 때, 두 사람은 창밖을 바라보며 다양한 생각에 잠겼다.En: As the plane took off, the two gazed out the window, lost in various thoughts.Ko: 앞으로도 서로의 차이를 존중하며, 서로의 장점을 배워갈 것임을 다짐하며.En: They silently vowed to continue respecting each other's differences and learning from each other's strengths. Vocabulary Words:scorching: 뜨거운bustling: 북적였다linger: 서성거리다entrance: 입구casual: 캐주얼한pounding: 두근거리다practical: 실용적인sentiment: 감성적인accessories: 장신구sparkled: 반짝였다anxiety: 초조함visible: 가득했다heartfelt: 마음이 담긴mutual: 서로의beaming: 환하게gate: 탑승 게이트satisfaction: 만족스러운congratulations: 축하합니다cherished: 사랑하는beloved: 사랑하는 사람respected: 존중consider: 고려understanding: 이해glanced: 바라보다varied: 다양한vowed: 다짐하며display: 진열대leather: 가죽diary: 다이어리note: 메모지

Today, we'll be discussing Episode 8 of Crash Landing On You, the hit K Drama on Netflix starring Hyun Bin as Ri Jyeong hyeok, Son Ye-jin as Yoon Se-ri, Seo Ji-hye as Seo Dan and Kim Jung-hyun as Gu Seung joon. We discuss:The song we featured during the recap: Season of Us by Nam Hye Seung and Park Sang Hee and Time of Jeong Hyeok for Se-ri by Nam Hye Seung and Park Sang Hee.This is the pivotal episode 8 and it ended on such a cliffhanger!How Captain Ri feels compelled to save Se-ri and help her get home. He made a promise to get her home AND this is his penance for failing to protect his brother, Ri Mu Hyeok.He wants to save Se-ri, not so they can be happy together, but so SHE can be safe and happy back in Seoul.Gu Seung jun and Seo Dan are making the same argument: Se-ri should stay away from Captain Ri to keep him safe.Gu Seung jun asks Se-ri to marry him so he can keep her safe and bring her back to South Korea. Even if Se-ri would consider this a fake marriage, he would like to make it more than that.But nothing can keep Captain Ri from Se-ri. He goes alone, unarmed and injured to save her.How their eyes spoke volumes when they said goodby on Gu Seung jun's balcony.Se-ri makes another fateful choice when she takes the car and goes after Captain Ri.Our new element 48 is talk of first loves.Captain Ri is out to get Captain Ri, especially now that Gu Seung jun has let Se-ri escape. He wants to get Se-ri convicted as a South Korean spy and take down Captain Ri and his father.Se-ri pawned Gu Seung jun's engagement ring and gave everything in the pawn shop to the village ladies. She took the designer men's watch she had spotted earlier; she intended to give it to Captain Ri as a Christmas present.We have a double cliffhanger at the end of the episode.The first was when Se-ri taken at gunpoint. She was asked to make a phone call to Captain Ri to say she was leaving North Korea. She says I love you, a gun goes off, and then the line goes dead.The second was when Hong Chang sik, Se-ri's assistant, and Park Su chan, the insurance agent, try to convince Se-ri's father that she is still alive.The K Drama elements we see in this episode, including the confession, talk of a first love, lots of crying, lots of wrist grabs, and protecting someone you love at personal cost to yourself.The filming locations for Crash Landing On You, which includes Jeju Island, multiple locations in Switzerland, a department store in Incheon, and Ulaanbaatar in Mongolia.The shows we're watching now: Lovely Runner for Sung Hee and Itaewon Class for Joanna.References18 Crash Landing On You Film LocationsCrash Landing On You Film Locations in Seoul and IncheonFilming Locations for Crash Landing On YouChristmas in South Korea 

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Series 7 Episode 10 of the K League United Podcast is jam-packed. Paul, Matthew, Luke, and Andrew talk about: Incheon fans and 'water bottle gate', pressure on Daejeon Hana Citizen manager Lee Min-sung, Daegu FC's first win under their new boss, the title race in K League 1, Suwon Bluewings' shock home loss to Cheonan City, Seoul E-Land's return to form, among a whole host of other topics. Not only that, we hear from Fejsal Mulic and Edgar Silva in the mixed zone, plus Michael's interview with Eduvie Ikoba.

Todd Radom returns to the show for the third time to share some stories of his adventures in baseball over the past year.  From Seattle to Philadelphia to Incheon, South Korea, Todd has traveled around the world thanks to baseball. Where to find Todd's Work Todd's website:  ⁠h⁠⁠ttps://www.toddradom.com/⁠ Todd's Instagram:  https://www.instagram.com/toddradom/ Todd's Twitter/X:  https://twitter.com/ToddRadom Check out the Spotify Playlist we made for our choices for Walk-Up Songs: ⁠https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1lBAcuqi2VSEWQlveZaQtV?si=0f466e3602234b8a  ⁠ Follow us now on ⁠Twitter⁠!! We're also on ⁠Amazon Music⁠, ⁠Audible⁠, and ⁠iHeart Radio⁠!!! Please listen to us there as well. For more of Kazuki's work, please see here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kazukiakiba For more of Brandon's work, please see here: ⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/theairlineguy/⁠ --

This week's K League United Podcast takes a Seoul-focus as both capital clubs made headlines on Sunday afternoon, with one beating Suwon Samsung Bluewings while the other welcomed over 50,000 to see their new signing Jesse Lingard. We then turn our attention to the AFC Champions League quarterfinals after Ulsan Hyundai defeated Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors. K League fans descended on the capital last Sunday as Jesse Lingard look to make his FC Seoul home debut in a GyeongIn Derby against Incheon United while, on the other side of the river, Seoul E-Land played host to Suwon Samsung Bluewings.   Matthew Binns, Paul Neat and Andrew Farrell return in the first live recording of the year, initially turning their attentions to Mokdong to discuss the headline act in the K League 2 being the Bluewings trip to the Leopards, with Seoul E-Land winning in dramatic circumstances to propel themselves to the top of the division. We also hear from Osmar and Peter Makrillos in the mixed zone   [READ: Seoul E-Land 2-1 Suwon Samsung Bluewings]   We then cross the Han River to Sangam where a record paid K League attendance saw over 50,000 come out for Incheon United's visit, and to hopefully catch a glimpse of England international Jesse Lingard in the process. We have the press conference in full plus we hear from Incheon United's Matej Jonjic about returning to Incheon, how things have changed and the differences between K League and J.League   [READ: GyeongIn Derby Recap]   After the break, we move on to continental football to review an all K League encounter in the quarterfinals with both sides hoping to find ways to qualify for both the final 4 and also the 2025 Club World Cup. In the end, Ulsan HD (Hyundai) won out against Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors, progressing through 2-1 on aggregate.   [READ: How K League teams could qualify for the Club World Cup 2025]   Finally, we have time to give our thoughts on Hwang Sun-hong''s first Korea squad before giving our picks for this week's K League Survivor.   All this and more on the K League Untied Podcast

After a winter in hibernation, The K League United Podcast returns for its seventh season, kicking things off with an extensive preview and table predictions for Korea's top tier.   After an off-season in which Korean football drew all sorts of headlines for its showings at the AFC Asian Cup, the K League 1 returns to lift the mood and with it, The K League United Podcast begins its seventh season with Matthew Binns, Paul Neat, Andrew Farrell plus a number of our writers calling in to getting the action underway in a bumper episode.   The trio take a look at the state of all twelve teams ahead of the season, with Nathan Sartain, Charlie Beasley, Jung Muyeol, Luke Evans and Tom Bolger also offering their informed opinions.   The episode then moves on to boldly make K League 1 table predictions based on these previews, knowing full well the humiliation and backlash that could ensue.    There's also time for a quick discussion on the potential domestic successors to Jurgen Klinsmann for the Korea National Team job and for Paul to get worked up about squad numbers once more.   All this and more on this episode of The K League United Podcast!

Tanner Rogers is a 2023-24 Fulbright U.S. Student Program Winner. His research consists of the literary analysis of fictional texts produced during the Park Chung Hee era (1961-1979), particularly focusing on the development of “space” in its various physical and conceptual forms, and how texts engage with the rapid urbanization and industrialization of cities like Seoul and Incheon during this time. We spoke about books, life, and Korea.   This episode again featuring Jeon Yunseo  Instagram: @y_jeon_s   Discussion Outline 0:00 Tanner's Introduction to Korea 15:55 The Park Chung-hee Era 40:05 Korean Literature 53:44 The Dwarf (난장이가 쏘아 올린 작은 공) 1:11:08 The Concept of Han 1:18:05 Hwang Sok-yong 1:36:34 Changing Korean Traditions 1:55:50 The Concept of Space 2:12:05 The Urbanization of Korean Space 2:25:35 1970s Korea vs 2024 Korea 2:36:25 Book Recommendations   Korea Deconstructed by David Tizzard ▶ Get in touch: datizzard@swu.ac.kr ▶ Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=62047873 ▶ Watch us on Youtube: /davidtizzard ▶ Listen on iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/kr/podcast/korea-deconstructed/id1587269128 ▶Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5zdXkG0aAAHnDwOvd0jXEE ▶ Listen on podcasts: https://koreadeconstructed.libsyn.com/ ▶ Music: Mindstrap by David Tizzard ▶ Recorded at 허브 36.5: https://www.instagram.com/the_story_from_you/

This weekend sees the K League 1enter its final round with three teams in danger of direct relegation to the second tier whilst two will be left to jostle out for a preferred relegation spot. Meanwhile K League 2 draws to a dramatic close and K League clubs continue to perform in Asia after another four wins from four.     This week's bumper edition of The K League United Podcast sees Matthew Binns joined by Paul Neat, Luke Evans and Andrew Farrell to look back over the last round of action and preview the ongoing scrap for survival in K League 2. With Suwon Samsung Bluewings facing Gangwon FC in a match that could see the defeated drop down a tier, Suwon attacker Maxwell Acosty joins us for an interview to help preview the encounter.   Attention then turns to a dramatic final day of K League 2 action where Gimcheon Sangmu were crowned Champions as Busan lost out before a quick look at the playoffs.   On top of all this, AFC Champions League is ongoing, and we look back at Match Day 5 where all four Korean clubs came away with wins. Plus, we hear from Yokohama F Marinos boss Kevin Muscat, in addition to Incheon defender Oh Ban-suk and goalkeeper Kim Dong-heon.   All this and more on The K League United Podcast.

True Mother was the keynote speaker at rallies of the Women's Federation for World Peace (WFWP) in 21 cities in South Korea in 1992, beginning in Incheon on May 11 and ending in Jinju on June 2...

As broadcast October 26, 2023 with lots of action on the way this Friday!  As one of the busiest periods of new music wraps up in the calendar year, we get to our usual funk punk soul rock smorgasbord with Dan Lloyd polishing off the meal with our AMPED rock feature for this week.  Great new tunes out from Terrace Martin, Quantic, Kraak & Smaak, IDLES, and King Gizzard to get you warmed up for the weekend, and plenty of background to the foreground for the factual actuals out there.#feelthegravitySampled & AMPED with Dan Lloyd10.26.2023Sampled Funk & SoulPart 1 (00:00)Quantic feat Connie Constance – Get In The RideKraak & Smaak feat IVAR & Berenice Van Leer – Naked (Jitwam remix)Maiiah & The Angels of Libra – Please Come HomeSir Romy – BeautyFela Kuti – Stalemate (edit) Part 2 (30:54)Devon Gilfillian – Love You Anyway (stripped)Terrace Martin & Alex Isley – Glad I Found YouKendra Morris – Fine Right HereDayme Arocena feat Rafa Pabon – Suave y PegaoJNTHN STEIN feat Lyves – Higher PlacesAmanda Whiting – Discarded (Scrimshire remix) AMPED with Dan LloydPart 3 (59:35)Green Day – The American Dream Is Killing MeIdles – Dancer (ft. LCD Soundsystem)Taking Back Sunday – S'OldCrime in Stereo – GoliathetteDuran Duran – Psycho Killer (Talking Heads cover)Carpool Tunnel – Everything Will Change Part 4 (88:35)DragonForce – Power of the TriforceKing Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard – SetJoystick – BoxesLetters to Cleo – Bad ManFeeder – Playing With FireBuck Meek – Haunted Mountain

As broadcast October 25, 2023 with a boatload of fierce, hard-earned independence in tow.  Tonight we got on the plane once again for some wonderful traveling without moving and headed for Armenia's capital Yerevan.  Much like Korea, Armenia's history has been marked heavily by interference and aggression from their its larger neighbors, but that has only hardened the Armenian people's desire for self-determination, even when it can only be over one's self.  Spread all over the world now, the connection always remains to their now wholly independent country, and we took a trip all over the audio and geographic map to track down some of the best Armenian music from down the years up to the present day.#feelthegravityROUND TRIP –Armenia (Flight TD111)Tracklist (st:rt)Part 1 (00:00)Arkadi Dumikyan ft. Armstrong - Run Baby RunSuper Sako - Mi Gna*Armenchik and Super Sako – She's mineHAYQ – Qami Pchi, Pt 1Misho – Hin EnkerMisho – Tsar Part 2 (34:52)Garik & Sona – LusinGevorg Martirosyan - Harsaniqi OreCrimesterdam – Full PowerVIZA - CarnivaliaHayk Gyolchanyan – Abandoned Hero Part 3 (62:30)Lilit Hovhannisyan - Balkan SongTata Simonyan - Hayastan Barev (Armenian for Hello Armenia)The Bambir – Grapes of SinaiThe Bambir – HashishSerj Tankian – Sky is overSystem Of A Down – Toxicity Part 4 (94:59)Lav Eli – I Found You in HeavenTmbata – Shkhkrtan AghjikArto Tunçboyacıyan - OnnoAram Khachaturian - Sabre DanceLydia Ganada - Party Tonight (feat. aleebi)off the menu - Calendar

As broadcast October 24, 2023 with plenty of world for your premiere.  Tonight we were very proud to give an early spin to Tessa Devine's new single "Dancing In The Rain," which is out on Thursday.  We got to know Tessa while she was here as a contestant at the Busking World Cup, where she deservedly won the People's Choice Award in the finals.  An infectiously gregarious character, you can check our exclusive interview with Tessa here if you want to understand more about what makes this on-the-rise artist tick and have a laugh, as she is just a joy to talk to and a very talented artist to boot.  Great new tunes out this week to check out for the remainder, with Helado Negro, ivri, our friends Mecanico down in Chile, and a host of other immensely talented artists got to do a little sky dance on this night.#feelthegravityUTR10/24/2023Tracklist (st:rt)Part 1  (00:00)Vacations – Close QuartersMICHELLE – GlowHelado Negro – LFO (Lupe Finds Oliveros)Infinity Song – MetamorphosisMustafa – Name of GodMk.gee feat Two Star – Are You Looking UpHans Williams – Georgia Walks  Part 2 (33:27)Tessa Devine – Dancing In The RainSearows – FunnyHolly Macve & Lana Del Rey – Suburban Houseivri - limbo Mini Trees – Push & PullFIGHTMASTER – Violence  Part 3 (62:09)jake minch – whose you areSparky Deathcap – Winter City GhostsMecanico feat Rayos Laser – Pentallas y DesiertosPearly Drops – Take Me Down (Nourished by Time vers.)Video Age – Is It Really Over?M83 - Mirror Part 4 (95:19)Allegra Krieger – ImpasseBarrie – Hard CandyDirt Buyer – HeavenMalcolm Todd – Mr. IncorrectSir Was – Sometimes You Got ToJane Remover – Backseat Girl 

As broadcast October 19, 2023 with plenty of han but hope for the future.  Dedicating our first hour tonight to those going through transition and heartbreak of late.  Keep your chin up and keep on keepin' on.  Dan Lloyd joins us once again for a rip-roaring hour of rock stars and smashed guitars as we get AMPED once again and with big new albums on the way the next day and further down the calendar.  Dig it!  #feelthegravitySampled & AMPED Thurs10/19/2023Tracklist (st:rt)Sampled Funk & Soul (Part 1 & 2)Part 1 (00:00)Ebo Taylor & The Pelikans – If You CareLord Creator – Such Is LifeJackie Mittoo & The Soul Vendors – Something StupidThe Frightnrs – DisputePrateek Kuhad – cold/messCleo Sol – Why Don't YouSteve Kuhn – The Meaning of Love Part 2 (31:51)James Reece & The Progressions – I'll Find a True LoveThee Marloes – True LoveDarondo – Listen to My SongSharon Jones & The Dap-Kings – Making Up and Breaking Up (And Making Up and Breaking Up Over Again)Orions Belte feat Oyvind Torvund – I Will Always Miss YouCricco Castelli – Life Is ChangingAMPED with Dan Lloyd Part 3 (61:31)Judas Priest – Panic AttackAlkaline Trio – Blood, Hair and EyeballsBlink-182 – Fell in LoveMany Eyes – RevelationThe Libertines – Run Run RunThe Rolling Stones – Sweet Sounds of Heaven Part 4 (95:48)The Flatliners – Between Our TeethMannequin Pussy – I Don't Know YouDuff McKagan – LongfeatherGlass Beach – The C.I.A.Car Seat Headrest – We Looked Like GiantsEmma Anderson – The Presence

As broadcast October 20, 2023 with plenty of meteorites and lightshow magic to spare.  It's another feelgood Friday and we've melded our Space Madness series into the mix as well, as the very long tail of dust and magic hits earth's atmosphere this weekend from the visit of Haley's Comet almost 40 years ago in 1986.  Known as the Orionid Meteor showers, we started to think of it as Orion Smiling down upon us from way out in space, and our playlist reflected that to get your weekend going in the right way.#feelthegravityOrion Smiles Upon Us10/20/2023Tracklist (st:rt)Part 1 (00:00)James Brown – Sunny (Funk Master JB vs Funkmaster JS Hardboiled remix)James Brown – There Was A Time (Kenny Dope edit)War – BalleroSam & Dave – Hold On (I'm Coming) (King Most remix)Clarence Reid – Masterpiece (Kenny Dope edit)Syl Johnson – Different Strokes Part 2 (30:03)Yann Tomita – We Travel The SpacewaysSpace Dukes – Sunshine On VenusSweeps – Space BluesSun Ra – Love In Outer Space (In Session for BBC Jazz on 3) Part 3 (58:29)Quelle Rox – Space ParadeDragonfruit – Space TravelerThe Midnight Hour feat Cee-Lo Green – QuestionsSay She She – In My HeadKendra Morris – Catch The SunRoy Ayers – The Golden RodRoy Ayers – Life Just A Moment Pt 1 & 2 Part 4 (90:22)A Tribe Called Quest – The Space ProgramCortex – La RueThe Supremes – He's My Sunny BoyThe Impressions – We're A WinnerHank Ballard & The Midnight Lighters – From The Love SideFreddie Hubbard – Pensativa (Live at Club La Marchal, NYC 1965) 

As broadcast October 23, 2023 with a boatload of shiny new goods and cellophane scents.  Tonight, as we are wont to do, it's time to unwrap what's been dropped from the audio multiverse and see what we liked, starting with our dear friend out of San Diego Scoobert Doobert, whose new album MOB just dropped on Friday.  We also had new jawnies from Haley Johnsen, Kurt Vile, and BADBADNOTGOOD to take us through hour one in style.  Part 3 the big new tunes out this week had some decent selections, with Sampha's new album Lahai being a notable new record (and the artist's first in years), just out days ago.  For the final stanza we had more from the local Korean realms to finish things off with heart signs, big highlights being Say Sue Me's latest single (what a banner year they've had), along with Balming Tiger's new record that slapped down to earth on Friday. #feelthegravityNew Muses Monday10/23/2023Tracklist (st:rt)New Faves - Part 1 & 2Part 1 (00:00)Scoobert Doobert – Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV)Pelicat – Still AroundQ – HelloKevin Abstract – What Should I Do?BADBADNOTGOOD feat Charlotte Day Wilson – SleeperBombay Bicycle Club feat Damon Albarn – Heaven  Part 2 (31:30)Haley Johnsen – That Ain't LoveDallas Tamaira – LevelsJapan, Man – Why Do People ChangeBeabadoobee feat Laufey – A Night to RememberKurt Vile – Another good year for the rosesLEENALCHI – Ultimate Prescription  Part 3 – Poppin' Off! (62:38)Charli XCX feat Sam Smith – In The CityThe Chainsmokers feat GRACEY – Think of UsSampha – SuspendedKali Uchis – Te MataFuerza Regida – EXCESOS The Rolling Stones – AngryThe Rolling Stones – Mess It Up Part 4 – Fresh K Cuts (93:56)Sung Si-kyung feat Naul – Even for a momentYuna – Bad IntentionsSUNMI – STRANGERBalming Tiger – Moving ForwardKACHISAN – Rock, Paper, Scissors!Say Sue Me – 4amcotoba – water blue indigo

Episode Notes Etienne's UNIST Exchange: From School to Seoul's Nightlife

As broadcast October 18, 2023 with plenty of eras, styles, and cultures in tow!  Tonight Danno and Dunia's weekly (mis)adventures continue in The Lion City of Singapore.  Located at a dominating point on the Straits of Malacca, Singapore has been a magnet for cultures all over the region and much farther afield for hundreds of years, and that has not changed in the modern era.  The music reflects this cultural milieu, with Chinese, Southeast Asian, Indian, Korean, Japanese, and Western influences all easy to spot to the trained ear.  A great trip awaits to one of the world's truly great cities!#feelthegravityROUND TRIP – Singapore with Dunia Al-jawad (Flight TD110)10/18/2023Tracklist (st:rt)Part 1 (00:00)Nightwalkers – Chock Chock KundongThe Peels – Modjang PriagangThe Thunderbirds - My Lonely HeartShirley Nair & The Silver Strings - You're the Boy Wormrot - Fallen Into DisuseXingfoo&Roy – Growing PainsThe Padres - November 91 Part 2 (36:26)Stefanie Sun – What I MissCharlie Lim - Zero-Sum Sam Rui - BetterKekko – Past LivesThe Steve McQueens – Like Coltrane Part 3 (65:31)Dick Lee - Fried Rice Paradisebrb. – on & on iNCH - Simple Kind of LifeWoes – Bikini BottomComing Up Roses – All Our Time Part 4 (96:24)Shye - One Fine DayYung Raja - MustafaTokyo Square - Within You'll Remainyeule – sulky babyREMAINs - 니가보고싶다Wooin – That Night

As broadcast October 17, 2023 with more than enough on the docket.  As we approach the latter half of this extremely busy two months in new music, we are covering a lot of new indie albums and general stuff we couldn't cover on Monday night that it's kinda crazy.  New EP's and albums from the likes of Geese, PawPaw Rod, Adam Melchor, MUNYA, Maple Glider, and Squirrel Flower are just the beginning.  We also had debut singles from a couple of exciting new projects in the process, and that's not even mentioning exciting albums coming out later this and early next year!  Whew!#feelthegravityUnder The Radar Tuesday10/17/2023Tracklist (st:rt)Part 1 (00:00)Geese – Killing My Borrowed TimePawPaw Rod – BonafideProvoker – Little GhostBombay Bicycle Club feat Chaka Khan – Tekken 2Wishy – DonutSquirrel Flower – StickCelia – Taxes  Part 2 (30:03)MUNYA – KokoMaple Glider – Do YouParis Paloma – drywall(Crosses) – Last RitesHolographic Haunter – Coco Say LessKate Gregson-MacLeod – SeptemberA Beacon School – Middle of Winter Part 3 (61:22)Beirut – The TernMyKey – BurnThe Beths feat Pickle Darling – Brand New ColonyKarin Ann – favorite starBad Books – The After PartyB77 – InvincibleShallow Alcove – We're All Doomed Part 4 (94:27)Adam Melchor – BIGTIMEGOODTIMEMarika Hackman – HangingHusbands – VangelisStray Fossa X Ketz – Playing StrangersLate Night Therapy – Fallin' 1tbsp – Moth LoveJames Supercave – Still Feel It 

As broadcast October 16, 2023 for the first Monday in a while while!  Tonight in our first New Muses Monday in quite some time, there were a lot of albums dropping from space and huge announcements as well.  The foremost in our first hour being the second career solo album from Alabama Shakes vocalist Brittany Howard, who dropped the title track to the What Now LP, slated for release next year.  First hour we had new albums to talk about from L'Rain, Helena Deland, Jamila Woods, and veteran Japanese band Lamp.  Once we hit part three, the big bomb to drop is the latest LP from Bad Bunny, and we also had Pink Pantheress dropping a solo album in just a few weeks' time.  Great stuff from the Korean indie and bubbling under K-pop scene as well in part 4, with ADOY heading to SXSW Sydney next month along with tunes from Summer Soul and Chamsom to check out, amongst others.  Whew!#feelthegravityNew Muses Monday10/16/2023The New Muses DanceTracklist (st:rt)Part 1 (00:00)Brittany Howard – What NowRachel Chinouriri – The HillsThe Last Dinner Party – My Lady of Mercyflyingfish – blurryboygenius – Black HoleL'Rain – 5 to 8 Hours a Day (WWwaG)Lewis OfMan – Frisco Blues Part 2 (34:13)Lamp – Alone In My RoomHelena Deland – The AnimalsJamila Woods feat Saba – PracticeThe South Hill Experiment feat Jeff Parker – Parker Solar ProbeBenny Sings – Sailing Car, The Garden – The 4th SummerCar, The Garden – DIAMOND Poppin' Off!Part 3 (61:15)Bad Bunny – MR. OCTOBERIce Spice feat Rema – Pretty GirlPink Pantheress – Capable of LoveFred again... feat Jozzy – ten Troye Sivan – One of Your GirlsHolly Humberstone – Paint My Bedroom BlackChelsea Cutler – Loved By You Fresh K CutsPart 4 (91:31)ADOY – AvenueSummer Soul feat Jueun – RideMatter Halo – Million (hanbee remix)Hamzzi – plantSoowoo feat amin – StayChamsom – ShimmerJoonand – Alone 

As broadcast October 13, 2023 with plenty of conflicting vibes in tow.  Today is obviously Friday the 13th, a bad luck day in most peoples' minds, but Danno grew up in a household where his mother, born on Friday January 13, 1956, always considered it a lucky day.  So, as dedication to Danno's fierce protector and the lover of vintage and scary movies in his life, we had a bit of a bifurcated playlist tonight, with parts 1 & 2 all witches, and stepping on cracks while we finished with a 2nd hour of good luck, positive vibes, and just general sunlight to also help all of you get over it if today freaks you out a bit.#feelthegravityFriday the 13th XLIVOct 13, 2023Tracklist (st:rt)Part 1 (00:00)Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes – Bad LuckKelly Finnigan – TroubleAaron Frazer – Bad NewsThe Supremes – Bad Weather (Reflex Revision)Steely Dan – Deacon Blues Part 2 (32:49)Adekunle Gold – SinnerSerebii ft Skud Gambosi – Don't You Feel LuckyArjuna Oakes & Serebii - SatellitesGenevieve York feat Teo Oliveras – Better at Bad ThingsMargot Guryan – I'd Like To See The Bad Guys WinHana Eid – WeirdDehd – LuckyNilufer Yanya – Same Damn LuckDehd - Desire Part 3 (60:36)Aretha Franklin – Dr. Feelgood (Live in The Netherlands, 1968)Etta James – At LastClassics IV – SpookyOsole – Good DayLEISURE – All The Good Times Never DieThe Mighty Bop – Feelin' Good!Beyond Luck – Nature's Meditation feat Keter Darker Part 4 (91:16)Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings – He Said I Can (Live at The Apollo)Emma Donovan & The Putbacks – My GoodnessRichard Swift – Lady LuckBlondage – Lucky Black SkirtJungle – Can't Stop The StarsUniversal Togetherness Band – Lucky Stars 

As broadcast October 12, 2023 with more new jewels than the scale could weigh.  Well, what a difference a couple weeks makes.  When last we were able to do our funk punk soul rock Thursday night, it was seemingly eons ago given the amount of new singles and albums that dropped in the meantime.  Both hours had honestly more than two hours could handle, with new albums out from Alanna Royale, Say She She, CARRTOONS, and Cleo Sol featured in the first hour, and with Dan Lloyd's bumper crop of tracks we discussed the new remix album from Paramore, along with new albums dropping tomorrow from Crosses, Blink 182, and a very exciting lead single from I Don't Know How But They Found Me, who are dropping a new album early next year!#feelthegravitySampled & AMPED ThursdazeOct 12, 2023Tracklist (st:rt)Part 1 - Sampled Funk & Soul (00:00)CARRTOONS feat Haile Supreme – SpaceshipsAlanna Royale – Run AroundSay She She – The WaterIzo Fitzroy – Black InsidesKamaal Williams - Dogtown Part 2 (31:27)Ohio Players – Our Love Has Died The Teskey Brothers – Rain (Live at Red Rocks, 2023)Cleo Sol – DesireNogymx – South of the RiverSirens of Lesbos – Sweet Harmony Hailu Mergia – Yegle Nesh (Live) Part 3 – AMPED with Dan Lloyd (63:09)Sleater-Kinney – HellBlink 182 – Dance With MeSum 41 – LandminesCrosses – Ghost RideParamore – This Is Why (Foals Remix)U2 – Atomic City Part 4 (97:11)English Teacher – Nearly DaffodilsThe Menzingers – Come on HeartacheMe Rex – Infinity Worm Crawlers – Would You Come to My FuneralA. Savage – David's DeadHealth – Sicko Ft. GodfleshI Don't Know How But They Found Me – What Love? 

Michael Soyza, a Malaysian pro poker player, boasts an impressive record of $14 million in live earnings, ranking 70th on the all-time money list. In 2023, he's had a stellar year, scoring back-to-back 2nd and 1st place finishes in Vietnam and Cyprus, raking in over $4 million in prize money. This conversation was recorded during the current Asian Poker Tour in Incheon, South Korea. Jeff will be playing and commentating at this tournament, and you can catch all of the live action here: https://www.theasianpokertour.com/results Don't forget that you can watch the video version of this podcast on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xw46FSurCtM Follow Michael: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/michaelsoyza X: https://twitter.com/michaelsoyza  

EP307 - PrimeDay, NRF Nexus, Commerce Next http://jasonandscot.com  Amazon Prime Day 2023 occurred over June 11 and 12th. Adobe says total sales were up 6% over 2022. Discount levels were much more conservative than holiday. We give a complete breakdown. Commerce Next 2023 was held in New York City June 20-21st. NRF Nexus 2023 was held at the Terranea Resort in Southern California July 10-12. Don't forget to like our facebook page, and if you enjoyed this episode please write us a review on itunes. Episode 307 of the Jason & Scot show was recorded on Sunday, July 23rd 2023. Join your hosts Jason "Retailgeek" Goldberg, Chief Commerce Strategy Officer at Publicis, and Scot Wingo, CEO of GetSpiffy and Co-Founder of ChannelAdvisor as they discuss the latest news and trends in the world of e-commerce and digital shopper marketing. Transcript Jason: [0:23] Welcome to the Jason and Scot show this is episode 307 being recorded on Sunday July 23rd, 20:23 I'm your host Jason retailgeek Goldberg and as usual I'm here with your co-host Scot Wingo. Scot: [0:39] Hey Jason and welcome back Jason and Scot show listeners, Jason it's been a minute since we recorded a pod as the kids would say we've had a series of feels like the universe doesn't want us to podcast either I'm out of town or you're out of town in a place where we don't have Wi-Fi or a mic and then I had a little kid drama and we had to reboot and but here we are we're finally getting the pot in them. Jason: [1:07] Thank goodness and we're I think we're going to talk about this in a minute but I've been to several events and people are starting to get on me they're mad, that we fallen off of our regular recording. Pace in so I feel like I hope we will get credit for recording a rare Sunday night show and I'm looking for even extra credit, I'm actually recording this on vacation at an upper Lake Michigan lake house sitting in my car stealing the neighbors Airbnb Wi-Fi. Scot: [1:42] Yeah I give you 100 extra points on that one yeah definitely definitely some kind of new Ninja level podcasting that you're doing there. Jason: [1:51] I feel like that alone deserves a five star review on iTunes. Scot: [1:55] Yeah I feel like at some point the police are going to tap on your window and it's going to be fun to listen to that when it happens here you hear you explaining what you're doing in that that foggy car there. Jason: [2:05] Exactly I promise to keep the bike running if that does happen. Scot: [2:09] Maybe some post-show editing we'll call you've been a busy on the road retailgeek so I know you went to Commerce next and NRF Nexus which sound kind of relatively somewhere they both got that NEX in there, I was not able to make those and we purposely haven't really talked about it so I'm excited to hear your take on the State of the Union that you've been at to trade shows. Jason: [2:36] Yeah yeah I think Commerce next might have been shortly after our last recorded show so it happened June 20th in New York City in Manhattan at the the Midtown Hilton and this is a show, I don't know what year it is it's been going for a while but this is put on Friends of the show Scot Silverman who's been on several episodes and his Partners Veronica and Alan, and you know they they sold the show so as to raise some money last year so the show is getting, more serious they're hiring more staff they hired another friend of the show Jill Dvorak from the in our EFT, to manage content and it was you know bigger and better than previous in our interests Commerce next shows which were already good so I thought it was a good show in New York. [3:33] Two days one track of content for the most part on the main stage so you know you got to see most of the main speakers, there were like lunches and breakout sessions I did a session on sort of the evolving art of platform selection and you know this kind of shift from monoliths to, to these sort of mock based headless platforms and the pros and cons of, in picking the Best in Class vendors for each little Point solution versus all-in-one sweets from one vendor and, we had we had some good dialogue about the relative merits of all those approaches and sort of the evolution of the technology platform. [4:19] Which I used to talk about and work with clients all the time and I feel like. Kind of I've lost some of my muscle on that like it it comes up less often and I think part of the reason is all this stuff is getting, somewhat commoditized and it's just easier and safer to pick a solution and and you know get into the e-commerce business than it used to be. Scot: [4:43] Yeah the Pod we've talked a lot about headless and then there's that whole acronym of what they do which escaped to be just as internet yeah mock then you work on them and not the best branding is that this till the very much, you know what folks are looking at or are you just kind of walk them through the 30,000-foot layer of you know and on-prem open source SAS and then headless or her like what's. Jason: [5:13] Yeah so it's yeah so it's mostly Cloud it's headless it's it's you know multi-tenant Cloud headless. You know what Gardner calls compostable Commerce so you know 8 micro services or you know efficient apis or however you want to look at it but often it's like. [5:39] Rolling your own UI or buying a you I versus getting a you know pre can you I from. What they the funny term for the old Legacy Solutions is monolith so I guess AP Oracle and IBM now HCL are these like mono. Monolith Solutions and like Commerce next and fabric I'm Commerce tools are kind of the more modern architecture is for the actual platform. You know once on an interesting you know Shopify there's headless version of Salesforce you know Bigcommerce they're all kind of playing in this space and the interesting thing is it used to be a huge game-changing decision what you picked and. In many ways it just is less important it's a less critical decision to your overall business because they're all like pretty good and somewhat interchangeable today with any of them the sort of modern ones it's you know the folks that are. Kind of still trying to feed the servers under their desk and keep the the you know sort of on-prem, proprietary Stacks going you know are the are the folks that are usually behind. [6:57] Also and I know even, Wes about the specific nuances event of individual vendors but the there was a robust Exhibit Hall at Commerce next and by far the most common vendor is a all-in-one, AI based marketing Suite so you know all these tools that have like a CD P email server SMS server personalization engine like all of these sort of. Out marketing Outreach Tools in a single vendor driven by Ai and I have great empathy for anyone that needs to buy one of these things because there's like, 30 of them and they all have the exact same words on their Booth the same same Basic Value prop so it's a crowded space right now. Scot: [7:46] Yeah yeah that was gonna be my next question the AI Buzz is sweeping through every company and I'm sure I'm sure our e-commerce vendors Are Not Alone. Jason: [7:54] Yeah yeah and there were a number of sessions at both shows, switching per second from Commerce next which was June in New York to Nexus which was July in California so interrupt Nexus is kind of the spiritual successor. Before in a ref acquired shop dot-org we used to have this great shop dot-org show but we have another great show the shop dot-org merchandising Summit that was a smaller show in California there was a little more sort of tactical Hands-On type stuff, and in some ways this interact Nexus is the spiritual successor to that it's like four or five hundred person conference. At beautiful Resort the Tara no resort in Southern California on the beach. [8:47] One track of content great networking and just you know a nice week to spend with, many of your co-workers and, I was vastly Overexposed at this show I feel like they spent their whole Budget on the venue so so they had me do way too much content so the first night the big keynote was an interview with Kara Swisher so I got to interview. Kara Swisher who you know famous Tech journalists started New York Times started the code conference so I interviewed Steve Jobs Mark Zuckerberg Jeff Bezos you on mosque like all those guys multiple times and so you know very famous interviewer, here's the brutal part of this the most common thing that happens to me at these shows is people recognize my voice from this podcast. And they're super excited and then the first thing they say is oh it's great to meet you but where is Scott. Because everyone is way more excited about you than me which kind of hurts so then like now I've made the big time I'm on the big stage interviewing Kara swisher and what do you think everyone says to me. Scot: [10:10] We're Scott. Jason: [10:12] Yeah because she does a podcast with Scott Galloway. Scot: [10:15] Galloway. Jason: [10:16] Exactly and so if they're not disappointed. Scot: [10:18] The big dog. Jason: [10:19] Yeah yeah that it's me instead of you they're disappointed that it's, it's a me instead of Scott Galloway and I did mention probably on stage that we both did podcast with egotistical co-host named Scott, but I also alleged that my Scott was way better than her Scott and she agreed even though I don't think she knows who you are. Scot: [10:43] No no lies detected. Jason: [10:45] No exactly. Exactly no but we had a pretty good conversation she's. David very opinionated and outspoken but she's also pretty well informed so we got pretty deep into Ai and some of the pros and cons and some of the, the near term and far term use cases around AI we talked a lot about social commerce and why it's, hasn't caught on here yet and it you know has has more legs in China she's very psyched and in favor of autonomous vehicles I thought you would. You like that and so I feel like we had a pretty wide-ranging conversation that got pretty good reviews I got good feedback that I didn't blow it. [11:32] And then we're that not enough I also had my own keynote onstage right kind of recap the state of Commerce and you know did one of my data pukes and I spent a fair amount of my keynote talking about the emergence of these Chinese juggernauts particularly Sheehan and Tim ooh, and I showed a chart that was pretty eye-opening to the audience of web traffic like a lot there's a lot of charts footing around about mobile app downloads particularly of ten Moon how quickly they've gotten, you know to be the top downloaded shopping app on the US app stores but I showed. Amazon Walmart Target Tim ooh Incheon. Monthly web visits and you know, for people that aren't following it closely she has been around for 10 years they've been kind of in the u.s. in their current form for at least five years Tim has brand-new just launching last November and. Shion is. Almost it is about 80% as much traffic as Target, Tim ooh past Target for when monthly web visitors in January of 2023 and is now sort of halfway between Target and Walmart. Scot: [12:56] Yeah it's amazing. I spend a fair amount of time with 16 to 25 year old young ladies and it's all she and all the time they don't ever mention team and they call it Shy and I tell them retailgeek says it she in and they say they don't care. Jason: [13:13] Yeah she's an Insider. Scot: [13:14] Call It Shine they say everyone calls it Shine so sorry. Jason: [13:19] They started out selling wedding dresses. And yeah the they also are doing well you know we haven't talked a lot about them lately but they've expanded from a apparel retailer to a broad set of categories including consumer electronics and they've launched a third-party Marketplace on the US. Scot: [13:37] Wow. Jason: [13:39] So both Tim ooh and she and are now third-party marketplaces kind of competing with a very similar assortment and yeah both both are capturing. Pretty pretty significant attention of us consumers. Scot: [13:57] The did you get booed off the stage or they were like you. Jason: [14:03] No not theirs I think people are were I suspect people are slightly less informed than they should be on them and I feel like people are interested in we're taking note and then I did a third session for the CMO marketing Council on, generative AI there are a bunch of other sessions on AI as well but I kind of did a deep dive on some of the Commerce use cases and I'm, particularly interested there is a lot of new I mean there's new stuff every week and there's a general stuff that you can imagine, being applied to Commerce but like Google launched a new generative AI feature for apparel try on, that's remarkable like so you upload a picture of yourself and you pick any of these garments and it shows you that garment on you and it's not. [14:58] Some stupid rendering where it's like you know a gif on top of you. Or you know some distorted thing like the garments flow on your body type but in a very realistic way and this is a functionality that a few websites have offered for a while with really complicated 3D models and really expensive. Product detail Pages because they have to scan all the apparel and have to get you to take a picture of your body to scan your body and it's like a cool experience but it's a lot of work to get there in this Google thing just does it with a couple of flat images and it's. [15:35] It's really pretty remarkable so I you know I definitely think the the future of a Peril shopping and a bunch of visual categories. Is going to be you know seeing this stuff on a realistic representation of you. And they have another feature coming out soon that they call scene Explorer which is kind of the, the augmented reality hold your camera up to the Shelf at the store and overlay all the products it sees on the Shelf with all the digital product detail from, from the Google catalog which is interesting. Scot: [16:09] I was gonna ask you about the Google thing because when it was announced there was some confusion where it looks like you could say it had like somebody types some Matrix of 256 body types and you could say that's me and you could see the body type not you but you're saying you can actually upload your own picture. Jason: [16:27] Yeah so the the confusion is understandable because they launched a feature with a predetermined set of models. There was kind of a proof of concept and so you could like pick a model and they had models with different body types and so you know and ethnicity so you could see kind of your ethnicity with your body shape and then three weeks later they said and here's how you upload your own picture. And so they're technically two different products but they happen in such close proximity you're like I wonder why they launched the first one. And In fairness the first one is a like in available to use API that Commerce sites can use now the second one is kind of a science. Like proof of Technology concept that they've released to the academic Community but I don't think they've released it for commercial use yet. Scot: [17:21] Ian timing-wise I don't know if this was before after your show there but Shopify has their new kind of like co-pilot kind of like, a eyepiece it's really more at the store level though. And you got a lot of buzz but I looked at it it just seemed like a fancier wizard for setting up stuff but God it didn't seem as game-changing as some of the Google stuff. Jason: [17:46] Yeah yeah although it is interesting that just everybody's building that Rai into every product right like you know I think someone said recently like. Like every text box on the Internet is going to get a large language model. Scot: [18:02] Yep the expectation is you can just like talk to these things and having to do stuff for you so it's going to be. Jason: [18:06] Exactly yeah yeah so it's interesting and that was for sure a Commerce it interrupts Nexus that was probably like 80 or 90 percent of the conversation was AI base so it was kind of. It was fun for me to talk about a few things that weren't a i based because it was getting getting a little tiresome and fun fact. Nexus if you recognize those dates July 10th through the 12th it's because it was during Amazon Prime day. Scot: [18:33] Yeah yeah and anything else before I move on. Jason: [18:39] No I think those those were the big things you know two shows that are well worth attending for for folks that are looking for Commerce events and I'd say you know congratulations to both for. For putting on a good growing robust events in a in a semi challenging climate to get people's attention. Scot: [19:01] So you know there's always the what you talked about in the front of the hall and then the back room chatter what's what's the back room chatter what's top of Mind are people worried about and by people I mean people in our industry are they worried about the recessionary headwinds and inflation or do they you know they feeling pretty good about. Holiday this year what's kind of the scoop. Jason: [19:26] So I don't know I might even say there's two tears there's like what's the normal conversation in the hallway and I do think there's a lot of conversation about. What's going on in the industry right now from a momentum standpoint and and I think that the. The sort of Top Line there is it's complicated like it's really weird like there's, there's economic indexes that are becoming more favorable I mean we're seeing like the inflation numbers come down, you know there's still some data to suggest that the US consumer is in like pretty good Financial shape All Things Considered, but there's a lot of indications that consumer spending is slowing down and, you know we're just coming into kind of Q2 earnings season I think Amazon is going to report next week and so obviously we'll do a show about that but, you know a lot of retailers have kind of reported soft q2's and even more alarming they're lowering their guidance for the back half of the year so you kind of simultaneously have some like. [20:31] Decent economic news and Pew no more economists are starting to say hey a soft Landing is possible and maybe we're going to avoid a recession which you know I feel like. The majority of economists earlier in the year we're pretty convinced that we were going to end up in a recession and so that would feel favorable but then at the same time, customers feel like they're cutting back and you know a lot of growth indexes are kind of slowing so I feel like there are variations of what the heck is going on with all of that when I like privately talk to people and get into a lot more specifics, I have to say I am not optimistic for a robust holiday I feel like a lot of people. Are gearing up for a pretty challenging holiday with pretty deep discounts, like there already is a Slowdown in sales and so people are worried that they're going to be in a bad inventory position for holiday and they're just seeing. Consumers in continue to trade down there seeing, sort of elective category product categories really start to take a dip and you know more consumer budget going to Necessities versus wants and so. It is increasingly sounding like it's going to be a challenging holiday especially from a margin. But I hope we're all wrong. Scot: [21:57] Is that shared by folks or that's kind of like what the big gun on the elephant in the room is base. Jason: [22:03] No that's I when I talk to retailers about like what they're bracing for and you know what their their Play books are for holiday and you know people are talking about expecting to see deeper discounts. More competition on discounts which than roads margins and you know some some traditionally stalwart categories being soft and stuff like that. Scot: [22:26] Cool well you mentioned primeday and it wouldn't be a Jason and Scot show without some. [22:46] That's right so unfortunately Amazon doesn't announce their second quarter results until Q3 and then we'll get the real well July they won't really talk about primeday but we do have some Amazon news coming and we'll do you doing a show if the universe aligns for us around those results but until then we can talk about primeday first of all did you end up buying anything this year. Jason: [23:10] I did I feel like I talked in the show every year about, over buying on like cables and chargers and I did do all of that again, the other I bought some I think I mentioned on the show before that I moved from a condo to a house in the last year and so we have this new thing that we didn't use to have called patio furniture so I bought some. Like Furniture to hold the covers when it rains in Chicago some weird weird outdoor stuff. Scot: [23:45] Up getting some accessories one of my anchor multi-headed. Octopus things died and this is frustrating I thought I was buying another one and I specifically was searching on anchor I was on my phone and I was having to go fast and the thing showed up and it was like a no-name it wasn't an anchor device and it's already acting wonky so kind of. You know how they can advertise and like really get this is kind of the negative side of some of the Amazon experience these days I was pretty sure I was in an anchor only mode but but a non anchor product snuck into my cart I end up getting up. But it was cheap so there you and it doesn't work so yeah that was a bummer. Jason: [24:29] Yeah if you want to buy like cheap no-name stuff you should buy it from Tim oh it'll be like 99 cents. Scot: [24:36] Yeah no like wish does it take six months to show up her. Jason: [24:39] No it's you know so Tim who is seven to ten days and they offer you a shipping guarantee so you get like store credit if it doesn't arrive in 10 days. Scot: [24:54] That's good cool well what did you see on Amazon Prime day I'll do a little Wall Street piece but I thought you may hit some of the high notes. Jason: [25:04] Yeah so a you know primeday is important just because it's primeday but also a lot of people use it as sort of kind of a first indicator of what the second half of the year is going to look like so this year was on the 11th and 12th it's been 2 days for, for a number of years now and you know Amazon doesn't really report anything very useful about primeday it's everything's a record. [25:29] They did more than they did last year which they're always going to do more than they were last year, but they don't give you any real numbers so Adobe is the most commonly cited, some estimate of primeday an adobe estimates twelve point seven billion dollars were sold on primeday which is up 6.1 percent year over year, now A Wrinkle In These third-party estimates is none of them are just estimates of Amazon. They all you know talk about this phenomenon of other retailers doing sales on primeday and so they're actually measuring, e-commerce sales on the primeday is not just Amazon sales so they're saying industry-wide, 12 point 7 billion in sales up 6.1 percent year over year, which is robust there were people that were forecasting would be bigger than that the other forecast I've seen was emarketer emarketer with same ballpark they estimated thirteen point five billion, they said about eight of the billion would happen on Amazon and 5.5 billion of that was going to happen off Amazon, both of those are us estimates so that would you know be decent growth it would be a deceleration from, from the last few years of primeday growth. Scot: [26:50] Yeah the so one of my favorite reports was from Colin Sebastian who's a friend of the Pod and he's from Baird and he basically said that they thought it was an acceleration so meaningful, so Amazon reports items sold and then they take that and some proprietary data and they're saying it was a 20 to 25% you're over your rent increase and they ended up increasing Q 3 is estimates based on them so it'll be interesting to see you know, where it's going to fall on that so that seems like the bookends we're hearing are six percent and 25% that's a pretty big big range to see where it's going to fall into the will never disclose, Axel primeday results but, we'll know when they announce Q3 if they beat her exceed that that it was kind of towards the high end and if they come in on the lower end of the range well no it's more like that six percent. Jason: [27:51] Yeah yeah and that'll be interesting 25% in the current climate would be pretty darn impressive not saying it's not true but you know you look at like the last couple quarters of Amazon's growth they weren't that high you know you look at the end retail Industries growth, not near that I so like if they're driving 20-25 percent that would be big, yeah and I guess we'll never win we'll never know for sure did anything else jump out at you in The Baird report. Scot: [28:20] That was the meat of it they were just really focused on that a little little things in there like last year there was a lot of supply chain issues and lot of reports product not getting to people it does seem like this year they things work a little bit more flawlessly so there was some, some just Optical stuff like that. Jason: [28:39] Yeah I really didn't hear the many glitches in this year's primeday which you know it's one of the sort of like highest demand is the year so you know it is a day when you would uncover glitches I saw a bunch of other a smattering of other interesting data points about Prime from various folks Adobe and it is in addition estimating sales they showed category growth and so they call that out like appliances was the big category growth with 45%. Up year-over-year household products were up 28 percent year-over-year Electronics were up 18% year-over-year apparel up 17% and then the big winner is Office Products which is up 76 percent, and at first that might surprise people but one thing to know about Office Products is they always do phenomenally well on primeday because primeday tends to fall right at the beginning of back-to-school shopping. [29:35] So it's kind of a perfect perfect storm there, yeah and then they also Adobe reports discount rates and here's where it starts getting interesting they said that on average Electronics were 14 percent off, apparel and toys were twelve percent off and that those were the deepest discounts and to put that in perspective on holiday of 2022, toys were 22% off consumer electronics were twenty-three percent off and a pair of was 14 percent off so that data would imply that the discounts have Prime were. Not as significant as the discounts, that we you know Tennessee over holiday period another does that surprise you at all. Scot: [30:24] No I dunno you know so since we're in the this kind of economic situation I think the consumer is really. Not getting off the dime unless they have deeper discounts and I think they probably had a pretty good data science reason for the. Jason: [30:43] Yeah so then one interesting thing which also says something about the consumers Health the. Buy now pay later use was up 20% on primeday and represented 6.5 percent of all sales. So that you know quite that's been a growing payment type for a while but I would argue it's kind of plateaued and so it's interesting to see that big big step up on prey. Scot: [31:08] That's a firm right there married to a firm set. Jason: [31:12] Well so on Amazon but again all these debts are this kind of like, everybody is primeday and so I think that does include like Target and Walmart sales which are not a firm so so it's all those guys karna and affirm and, and there's too many to name these days but then to me some of the interesting things were like who participated in primeday and so you know a. A digital marketing agency Acadia that tracks this stuff pretty close and that Q Masters works for who who I think is one of the really smart voices on Amazon sellers they reported, this year eighty percent of all Amazon sellers participated in primeday in some way and from their methodology last year 69 percent participated so it's. [32:12] The participation levels continuing to increase in its nearing 100 percent of all Amazon sellers participating in primeday which, isn't super surprising it seems like primeday is a pretty successful important thing to participate in, they also said in general that primeday that's ours had to spend fourteen percent of their total revenue on primeday on Amazon digital marketing so that came from momentum Commerce that estimated that so that's a, pretty high, on top of the take right you know that's that's just all the Amazon marketing services and then a particularly interesting take was from our friends Joe it Marketplace pulse he reported that, 150 Brands were promoting by with Prime on their own websites, on primeday which would be up 10x from last year where there were like 15 Brands using by with primeday. [33:17] So you know just interesting how it's all playing out with kind of Amazon expanding off-site like all these other retailers getting in the market I feel like the vibe, there have been other years when a lot of other retailers more directly counter programmed against primeday in this year. There were a lot of sales on primeday for sure but it almost felt like more retailers did like Fourth of July sales and almost tried to. Preamp primed a little bit as opposed to completely focus on. Scot: [33:48] Yeah I guess we won't know until the data comes out windows so we won't have that. Jason: [33:55] Yeah so the. Scot: [33:56] While. Jason: [33:56] The Debbie Downer. Scot: [33:58] Anyone. Jason: [33:59] This is you know primeday is actually in Q3 right so we're we're just going to start getting cute to data here like the US Department of Commerce Q2 data for e-commerce will come out in mid August, Amazon report Q2 next week and then a bunch of other retailers in the next couple of weeks but that'll all be Q2 data in this primeday stuff is all cute 3 so it's it's going to be you know four months down the road before we have. Have more clarity on that and will be you know well into holiday when we get that clarity. Scot: [34:32] Yeah well speaking of data I saw you had a tweet where you went through some of the new Commerce data what are you seeing there. Jason: [34:41] Yeah so obviously we talked about the US Commerce data every month so last week just after interrupt Nexus on July 18th there's Department of Commerce released its June data and, this is one of those it's complicated these results don't seem that that favorable kind of stories June retail sales overall were up six percent from June of last year which is a pretty meager, growth rate and a significant deceleration so if you go year to date January through June sales this year are only up 1.9 percent, versus last year and again like normal retail years sales tend to go up about 4% a year the last three years you know largely impacted by the pandemic we've had the three highest growth rates in the history of retail so they're all much higher than four percent so only being up 1.9 percent year-to-date is a, pretty disappointing place to be it's still. Healthy amount from before the pandemic so year-to-date we're up bike 35% from before the pandemic, you know what everyone immediately asks when you talk about these numbers is well what does inflation due to them and if you adjust those numbers from PlayStation year-to-date we're down 2.8% and we're only up 14% from before the pandemic so. [36:10] You know that reflects you know a consumer that's being pretty conservative with their spending. And that you know is a worried sign going in a holiday if we only grew you know less than 2% or you know on a real adjusted basis We Shrunk three percent from last year. We don't get great monthly data for e-commerce we get better quarterly data so the monthly data we get is this thing called non-store sales which is kind of like. Cattle catalogs and e-commerce and it's a little bit of a broader catalog but it was up. [36:46] Nine point nine percent in June which means year-to-date we are up 7.9% for, non store sales and so that's reflecting kind of a return to typical e-commerce growth rates like before the pandemic e-commerce would grow 10 to 15 percent. Year-over-year in brick-and-mortar with grow 4 percent. At one point during the pandemic we had an inversion where retail is actually growing faster than brick-and-mortar than e-commerce and e-commerce has over the last couple quarters been kind of, flipping the script and kind of going back to normal and so at the moment we have this thing where e-commerce growth is back to its normal, eight to ten percent level and brick-and-mortar is well under it's normal for percent level. Um so that's kind of the Commerce story and again will get better e-commerce data because will get the Q 2. E-commerce data next month. I did have one funny story I didn't mention when we're talking about the Tim ooh and she in stuff Tim ooh and she and are now suing each other. Scot: [37:59] They're in their Chinese companies room. Jason: [38:01] Yeah so Bo for Chinese companies Sheehan has a US headquarters in Boston I don't think Tim who has a US headquarters that I'm aware of, so she in which again has been around for a while is suing newcomer Tim ooh, by saying that Tim has been impersonating Sheehan on social commerce platforms including Twitter, where you know of course the verified system has been kind of, put in flocks and so Tim who is accusing Sheehan of creating a bunch of fake social media accounts to undermine. [38:42] She in and, Tim ooh is counter sewer not countersuing their separate suits Tim who sued Sheehan in US court for violating us antitrust laws because what Tim who is saying is that she and is trying to walk up all the factories in China and get all these factories to sign exclusive trade agreements to only sell products through Sheehan and explicitly to not sell through Tim ooh, and so Tim was trying to use us us antitrust wada sort of, who have all the playing field so you know and it just addition to being too fast growing sites that are winning winning consumers and and you know taking as a meaningful share of retail sales there now both be coming, jobs programs for lawyers just like every other retailer in America. Scot: [39:34] Yeah the I just don't think that's going to work I don't think the US courts are really going to find you like. Jason: [39:41] Yeah so definitely not it. Scot: [39:43] Hi going to say your evil Chinese company. Jason: [39:46] Yeah so I don't know I doubt it I doubt know so I think they all have standing to Sue and they're all obligated to follow us law so I think the suits will go through I do think there is a. All right Leah wrong there is a sort of anti-chinese sentiment in the US but I doubt that carries through to the courts I think that's a lot bigger deal for. Potential regulation against some of the things these companies are doing and there is a. [40:14] There's a complicated thing that both TNT Moon she and her getting partly accused of violating like, there's a a a cap, on Customs that shipments have to be worth over 800 dollars in order order for you to have to pay tariffs and you know meet all these import obligations so if you ship a container of clothes from China to the US you're going to pay tariffs on the import of those clothes and you're gonna have to comply with a bunch of laws like that the, clothes were made at a factory you know in a region of China that's known to violate human rights and all these things and there's this loophole that if your sale if your shipment is under 8:00 in value. [41:04] You don't have to do any of that and so when she and started they were shipping a lot of stuff straight from China and and it was all under this 800 our threshold and timbu is still shipping everything straight from China XI and has built a few warehouses in the u.s. so there, probably Blended but like there's a lot of talk on Washington about changing our trade treaties and lowering that minimum, to because there's a significant amount of shipments coming from China to the us that are. They're now under that threshold and taking advantage of that to not not be you know incur all these costs that the bigger companies are having to do. Scot: [41:46] Michael we will see it'll be funny to watch that one rattle through the courts and see who wins. Jason: [41:51] Yeah yeah yeah it's a you know it's all if you don't have a huge financial interest in it it's fun to grab some popcorn and just just follow the drama of all of it. Scot: [42:02] Cool any other exciting news you want to go into. Jason: [42:05] No I think that is everything on my list for for the this month I'm going to be, interested to see how Amazon earnings play out next year again there's a weird thing like, you know in general growth is decelerating the industry average is decelerating and our friends at Amazon and Walmart which are the two largest retailers in the US by a significant margin, Arbor of grow have historically been growing faster than the industry average which kind of means. There's not a lot of growth for the rest of the industry and so it'll be interesting to see whether that Trend continues, in with this Q2 data or whether you know the law of large numbers starts to kick in with these guys. Scot: [42:53] Yeah and if you have these fast Growers out here like these upstarts the Sheehan and the team is who are they taken care from that's that's always the ultimate question that we ask. Jason: [43:04] Yeah absolutely so we're going to have to continue watch and more data becomes available. Scot: [43:10] Cool so do you have any trips coming up that people need to be worth any appearance. Jason: [43:14] I'm all vacations all the time now so. Scot: [43:17] Having done three Keynotes you're burned out. Jason: [43:20] I am not of course I'll be at every show so I think next up for me is eat a least in Boston so if any talks are planning on attending that or in the Boston area, drop me a line and we can meet for a Starbucks coffee and you can give me a hard time about why you wish Scott was there and not me. Scot: [43:40] Cool and then on our docket we have August 3rd as Amazon earnings will try to get a show out pretty close to that one and then we've been promising folks a deep dive I get notes all the time and now that you've done a talk on one that will that should be helpful because now you've hopefully got some slides that we can use as an anchor it so we'll have to get that in the can once we get back to a more normal schedule here. Jason: [44:04] Yeah and that's a deep dive on generative a I assume you're talking about. Scot: [44:07] Yeah yeah yeah I do too cool. Jason: [44:10] I love it well we'll give back some time to users so if you appreciate this nominally shorter episode feel free to give us a five star review and encourage us to be briefed more often. Scot: [44:24] And until next time. Jason: [44:26] Happy commercing.

Last time we spoke about the assassination of Kim Ok-kyun and the Donhak Rebellion. Conflicts between China and Japan had heated up to the boiling point at last. The pro Japanese politician Kim Ok-kyun was assassinated serving also as an insult towards Japan. The Beiyang Fleet's visit to Nagasaki resulted in embarrassment and an awkward threat for Japan. Japan was not happy with the SINO situation and actively began building her navy to have the capability of facing off against the Beiyang fleet. Then a violent rebellion of the Donghak faith emerged in Korea prompting a very panicked King Gojong to call upon his Qing allies for aid. The Qing took up the call for help and although it differs from source to source, did or did not notify the Japanese of their actions. Regardless, both China and Japan prepared forces that would embark for Korea. The chess pieces were on the board and now things were set into motion that could not be undone.   #49 The First Sino-Japanese War of 1898-1895 Part 1: The Battle of Pungdo   Welcome to the Fall and Rise of China Podcast, I am your dutiful host Craig Watson. But, before we start I want to also remind you this podcast is only made possible through the efforts of Kings and Generals over at Youtube. Perhaps you want to learn more about the history of Asia? Kings and Generals have an assortment of episodes on history of asia and much more  so go give them a look over on Youtube. So please subscribe to Kings and Generals over at Youtube and to continue helping us produce this content please check out www.patreon.com/kingsandgenerals. If you are still hungry for some more history related content, over on my channel, the Pacific War Channel where I cover the history of China and Japan from the 19th century until the end of the Pacific War. The Tonghak rebels can be seen more as a symptom than a disease of the ailing Joseon dynasty. She was a nation stuck between two tigers, two tigers who were both trying to eat her. The turmoil of the later half of the 19th century was tearing Korea apart. Her citizens were forced into this quasi black and white choice between China or Japan, particularly when it came to the topic of modernization. The Tonghak followers were rallying against a tyrannical government who were overtaxing them. Major revolts occurred in 1885, 1888, 1889, 1890, 1891, 1892 and 1893. By February of 1894 the unrest rose dramatically and in April the Tonghaks were in a full scale open rebellion. The target of their hatred were the corrupt officials oppressing them through over taxation and incompetency. But one thing that is funny about the Tonghak story, one that is almost never mentioned, is rumors spread to the Tonghaks that China and Japan were on the verge of sending troops and this prompted them on June 1st to agree to a cease-fire to remove the possibility of foreign intervention. Well that should have been the end of our story, China and Japan keep their boys home and the 3 nations lived happily ever after? On June 2nd, the Japanese cabinet decided to send troops to Korea, if China did so, they also made sure to muzzle any political opposition by asking the emperor to dissolve the lower chamber of the diet. We have the official documentation to back this, thus if China did not send troops, Japan would not have a justification to send there's, however a problem arose. The next day, King Gojong on the recommendation of the Min clan and Yuang Shikai, requested China send troops to help suppress the rebellion. King Gojong had thus unwittingly given the hawkish Japanese military leaders the pretext they desired for so long, another chance to intervene in Korea on a large scale. Why did the Min clan push King Gojong to do this despite the Tonghak basically calling a truce? Turns out the Tonghak's were particularly targeting the Min clan and their allies and there were rumors they had contact with the Daewongun. Within a few days Japan is on a military footing. On June 5th the first IJA HQ is established and on the 6th the ministries of the IJA and IJN issued instructions to the press not to print any information concerning warlike operations, they mean business. Despite this many Japanese news outlets ignore the order, leading to countless being suspended for a day. Now again the sources are sticky with how this part goes down, but on June 7th, China notified Japan in accordance with the Treaty of Tianjin. The notification states that China is sending 2000 troops to Nanyang, which is located on the coast between Seoul and Asan. Within hours of receiving the notification, Japan sends its own notice to China that it is also sending troops, which is in line with the treaty. Also at this same time the Asahi Shinbun reports that Russia is sending ground forces and warships to Korea. It seems the Asahi Shinbun made this report largely to compare the actions of Japan and China to a western power, alongside noting how much Japan had modernized. Remember, Japan's Meiji restoration began exclusively as a means to thwart colonization, but by this point Japan now seeks to become a world power. Japan is emulating the greatest nations of the world, and the actions she will take for the following years certainly emphasize that. Within days, 2000 Japanese IJA forces have landed and are marching towards Seoul despite the Korean government pleading for them to refrain from sending forces. It is far too late however, the troops are arriving and it seems Japan was prepared well in advance to do this. In accordance with the treaty of Tianjin, the end of the rebellion meant that China and Japan no longer had legitimate grounds to send forces and should have withdrawn. But Japan began making claims their troop deployment was necessary for the protection of their embassy, consulates and citizens within Korea. Now by the 8th, 4000 Japanese soldiers and 500 sailors have landed at Jemulpo, current day Incheon. A public ceasefire acknowledge for the Donghak rebellion is issued on the 11th, though it is already known days before. The harbor of Incheon looks like its participating in an international naval show. On the 13th 9 IJN warships and transports along with 4 Beiyang warships are anchored there. Alongside them are an assortment of international ships from nations like Russia, Britain, France and America. Also on the 13th the Japanese government sends a telegraph to the commander of Japanese forces in Korea, Otori Keisuke to keep the forces within Korea for as long as possible despite the public announcement that the Donghak rebellion is over. On the 15th another 8 more Japanese transports arrive with 6000 troops disembarked. On the 16th Japanese foreign minister Mutsu Munemistu meets with the Qing ambassador to Japan, Wang Fengzao to discuss the future status of Korea. Wang states the Qing government intends to pull out of Korea once the Donghak rebellion is fully suppressed and expects Japan to do the same. But he also acknowledges that China will retain a resident to look after Chinese primacy in Korea, ie: Mr Yuan Shikai. Soon there are 10 IJN warships actively patrolling Korean waters and on the 18th the ministry of the IJN issues new naval fleet regulations. On the other side, Li Hongzhang is trying desperately to avoid war and maintain stable relations with Japan. He has been spending years doing this, trying to get other Western powers to take a more active role in Korea to thwart Japan's ambitions over her. During this period and even in the upcoming war, Li Hongzhang continues to try and involve western powers to end the conflict. When King Gojong pleaded for help, Li Hongzhang made sure the troops would not go directly to Seoul, which he knew would upset Japan. The troops instead went to Nanyang and Asan where they could hit the Donghak before they marched northwards from Cholla upon Seoul. Li Hongzhang had hoped by doing this, the Japanese would choose not to become involved, but he was gravely wrong. Once Japan began sending troops, Li proposed to the Japanese that both nations should agree to withdraw. On the 16th Japan made a counterproposal, stating China and Japan should cooperate in assisting Korea to undertake the major steps to promote modernization. However it was obvious to all, Japan sought to promote economic development in Korea for its own interests, to obtain Korean grain at cheap prices. Thus Japan's proposal was refused. On the 22nd Prime Minister Ito Hirobumi told his fellow politician colleague Matsukata Masayoshi, he believed the Qing empire was making military preparations and that “there is probably no policy but to go to war”. Mutsu Munemitsu likewise sends word to Otori Keisuke to press the Korean government on Japanese demands. On the 26nd Otori presents a set of reform proposal to King Gojong, but instead of accepting them, he insists on troop withdrawals. At about this time, Yuan Shikai see's the paint on the wall and on the 27th requests permission from Li Hongzhang to return to China. However Li Hongzhang only sent a response 20 days later granting it. On July 19th, Yuan Shikai would disguise himself as a Chinese servant of a Russian military attache and flee Seoul for Peking. In the later half of June, Japanese newspapers are ramping things up. The Japan Weekly Mail read this “It is apparent that the restless energies of the people yearn for employment in a foreign war”, a week later “The Tokyo journals unite in urging upon the Government the importance of utilizing the present opportunity for wiping away the stain left on the national honor by th fatal error of 1884”. The bitter lesson learnt from 1884, next time bring more men. Such news articles were working wonders as during the last week of June, Japanese public petitions from multiple prefectures were requesting permission to raise troops. In early July an imperial ordinance established extraordinary powers to regulate the sale of goods with military applications raising public concern. By the third week of july, the “Korean question” was the only thing in the Japanese press and the Japan Weekly Mail predicted “It now looks as though war is inevitable”. Indeed on July 7th the British ambassador to China openly acknowledged the mediation between China and Japan had failed. Now initially China just sent 2-3 thousand forces, while Japan matched them with 8000, these are the numbers they are reporting officially, the real numbers for both are much higher. Regardless, once the fighting begins, both sides toss troops into Korea at such a high rate it was hard for people to keep actual figures. Now Li Hongzhang made no war preparation attempts to match the increasing Japanese numbers coming into Korea. His strategy remained to avoid hostilities. He hoped to secure European intervention to rein in the Japanese, this was his primary strategy. Li Hongzhang was the commander of the Qing's most modern military force and had a considerable amount of knowledge about Japan because of his role as a diplomat. He knew the Qing forces were no match for the IJA, for that there is no doubt. Li worked like a mad dog to push European powers to rescue the Korea situation, but he had overestimated their willingness to intervene and to be honest their disgust with the Qing political situation. Li Hongzhang seems to have misread the political situation in Japan as well. Many Chinese officials in Japan were feeding reports back to China about feuding between the Diet and Cabinet and their conclusions were that the political divisions would most likely prevent Japan from launching an effective military campaign. Its sort of interesting they came to such conclusions, as it may have been more of a understanding of their own Chinese political situation rather than Japan. The Manchu-Han division was indeed hampering Chinese foreign policy for example, but Japan shared a national identity, it was a case of apples and oranges. Li Hongzhang first turned to Russia for help in mid June, but it came to nothing. Britain made an effort, but failed. Italy tried mediation and like Britain failed. King Gojong went to the Americans for help, but they were employing an isolationist policy at the time. Yes good old isolationist America, back in the ol days.  Now when the Japanese made their counter proposal and the Qing declined it on June 21st, Japan responded by stating they did not intend to withdraw from Korea until their reforms were implemented. Li responded “On the approach of the Chinese forces the insurgents [Tonghaks] dispersed. China now desires to withdraw, but Japan refuses to evacuate simultaneously with China, and proposes a joint occupation, the administration of Korean finances, and the introduction of reforms. These are tasks which China cannot accept." The reality of the matte for the Japanese government was that the current Korean situation did not meet her national security interests nor her economic ones. As Japan poured her troops into Korea, her politicians also put relentless pressure on King Gojong to implement their desired reforms. The Korean government unsuccessfully tried to convince Japan that they would adopt the reforms if they withdrew their troops.  On July 22nd, the Japanese received word, Li Hongzhang had overcome domestic opposition with the Qing court and now large reinforcements were going to be sent to Korea. Though Li Hongzhang wanted to avoid hostilities, his hands were tied, if the Qing did retain a presence in Korea it would threaten the legitimacy of their Manchu dynasty. But in a typical Qing fashion, the troops were delayed and would not make it to Korea in time. Well the Japanese were done dancing with the Chinese and Korean, on the 23rd the IJA forces in Seoul suddenly stormed the Joseon royal palace and took King Gojong hostage. The New York Times had this to say "The Japanese have announced that they will hold the King of Corea as a hostage until the internal reforms demanded by Japan shall have been satisfactorily guaranteed." Well the Tonghak rebellion flared right back up and took rapid momentum, going from what was a regional event to a national uprising. The IJA were brutal in their suppression of the Tonghaks and this fueled the Korean public against them. Likewise the Qing were placed with their backs against the wall, if they did nothing about Japans seizure of King Gojong, they were basically giving up suzerainty over Korea. Japan's actions were obvious, they wanted war and they were going to get it. On the afternoon of the 23rd, with King Gojong in hand, the IJA began storming and disarming Korean garrisons in Seoul. By the end of the day the capital of Korea was in Japanese hands. The Japanese then recalled the Daewongun to oversee the Japanese style reform program. Yes the anti-foreign, isolationist icon ironically was chosen. The Daewongun always looking for an opportunity to regain power had little options laid bare to him so he took up the job, on the sole condition Japan refrain from annexing any Korean territory. That day the Daewongun met with King Gojong at the royal palace, they had not seen each other for nearly a decade. The father scolded his son for misrule and Gojong apologized requesting the Daewongun become regent again. I will add these sources are coming from Japan, I am sure it did not at all go down like this. Give the sort of feeling when you read about Hernan Cortez and Moctezuma II, if you know the sources for that one, well you know. The Daewongun went to work, immediately exiling the Min clan to some small islands and the new government renounced multiple treaties with the Qing dynasty, thus severing its tributary ties.  The Japanese backed reform program became known as the Kabo reform movement, which would go on from July 1894 to February 1896. It was not all bad to be honest, a lot of it was to create an efficient and honest government. Posts were given fixed responsibilities and salaries; a national budget was established; better tax structure; the military/judiciary and educational system were given overhauls and the nation's infrastructure was modernized rapidly. The most significant reform was taking away the Yangbang class monopoly on public offices, basically an end to the Chinese examination system. In a single stroke the Japanese had destroyed Korea's aristocracy, the elites were destroyed. As for the Daewongun, ever the plotter, he secretly envisioned a pincer movement on Seoul with the Tonghaks from the south and the Qing from the north. Unfortunately for him, the Japanese found out about this later on when they found documents containing such plans and this would lead later on to him being forced into retirement.  Li Hongzhang knew Qing forces were no match for the Japanese. Zhili, Shandong and the Fengtian provinces had around 40 battalions with 20,000 or so first-line action men and 20 battalions only fit for garrison duty. All of the rest were Green Standards who were pretty useless. And lets be honest, this series has shown the Green Standards to be …well nothing less than so. He faced around 50,000 Japanese to his estimates, and he concluded they would need to recruit 20-30 additional battalions which would set back the dynasty 2-3 million taels. William Ferdinand Tyler who served in the Beiyang northern squadron and witness the battles of Yali and Weihaiwei later on had this to say of Li's position "the Viceroy's game was merely bluff, not genuine defence; his army and navy were the equivalent of the terrifying masks which Eastern medieval soldiers wore to scare their enemy. He knew that if it came to actual blows he would stand but little chance; but he carried on his bluff so far that withdrawal was impossible, and the Empress Dowager urged him on - probably much against his will. And Japan 'saw him,' as they say in poker." Just about everyone believed China would stomp Japan however. British envoy to China, Sir Robert Hart embodied the worldview stating “999 out of every 1000 Chinese are sure big China can thrash little Japan”. But China was fractured realistically. Empress Dowager Cixi's authority over the dynasty was only held because it was fractured, she could not allow the nation to have a real unified government. Such a government would most certainly unify against her and the Manchu. To stay in power Cixi checked every possible rival, even Li Hongzhang. All of the internal turmoil undermined the Qing's ability to modernize its military and this also caused factional rivalries within the military. Cixi controlled the funds for the Qing navy and infamously siphoned naval funds for the renovation of the Summer Palace. Li Hongzhang could not do anything about this specific matter because he would lose favor with her, and her favor was all that kept his authority so he could deal with the conflict. Yet all these internal problems were non existent in the minds of the elites in China nor the western onlookers who simply believed China would give Japan a quick spanking, take this from the North China Herald  "the breaking out of war between China and Japan is only a question of days, perhaps of hours. The real reason for Japan's desire for war was "that the Japanese government prefers a foreign to a civil war. The discontent of the majority of the House of Representatives was getting serious...A foreign war, however, is expected to reunite the people; it is an outlet for the bad blood which has been accumulating of late years in the body politic."  While the Japanese were doing everything possible to stir up a war, Li Hongzhang was extremely careful to minimize the possibility of a clash. He ordered the Qing forces to encamp 80 miles to the south of Seoul around Asan. He was in contact with the Tonghak and indeed a pincer maneuver was agreed upon. The Qing forces took up a stance between Asan and Pyongyang and the Japanese realized it would be much easier to hit their reinforcements at sea rather than commence with a land offensive. On July 16th, when 8000 Qing forces arrived to Pyongyang, the Japanese sent Li Hongzhang an ultimatum, threatening to take action if any additional forces were sent to Korea. At the same time orders were given to General Oshima Yoshimasa leading the 9th brigade of the 5th division at Chemulpo and the commanders of IJN warships there to initiate military operations if any more Chinese troops were sent to Korea. Li Hongzhang suspected Japan was bluffing and therefore sent reinforcements to the commander at Asan, General Ye Zhichao, 2500 troops who left Dagu on 3 transports, the Irene, Fei Ching and Kowshing. The first two transports carrying 1300 of the troops left on the night of July 23rd with cruiser Jiyuan, torpedo boats Kwang-yi and Tsao-kiang as escort, they could also rely on the cruiser Weiyuan at port in Chemulpo for support. The two transports successfully landed their troops on the 24th. The IJN had deployed a component of their combined fleet to Korean waters by this point. The IJN sent 15 major warships and 7 torpedo boats under Vice Admiral Ito Sukeyuki from Sasebo to Gunsan on July 23rd. There was also the flying squadron of Rear Admiral Tsuboi Kozo who was dispatched to Chemulpo to aid the weak forced anchored there. At Chemulpo were the ships Yaeyama, Musashi and Oshima, while Tsuboi was bringing the cruisers Yoshino, Akitsushima and Naniwa. Tsuboi's task was to prevent any Qing landings. The, Captain Fang Boqian of the Jiyuan received word of the Japanese actions in Seoul and Chemulpo from the Weiyuan and on July 25 ordered the Irene and Fei Ching to head back to Dagu, while the Weiyuan would head for Weihaiwei to report to Admiral Ding Ruchang of the situation unfolding in Korea. However the third transport, the Kowshing was late, thus Fang Boqian decided to remain at Asan bay with cruiser Jiyuan and torpedo boat Kawng-yi to protect its landing.  On the morning of the 25th the Jiyuan and Kwang-yi departed Asan to meet up with the Kowshing and Tsao-kiang. Near the small island of Pundo the Qing vessels would run into the Tsuboi's squadron. Tsbuoi's had gone to Pungdo trying to rendezvous with the Yaeyama and Oshima. At around 6:40am, the Japanese spotted two warships heading south-west, these were the Jiyuan and Kawng-yi. Tsuboi guessed they were escorting Qing transports and went in to investigate. Captain Fang Boqian spotted the incoming Japanese warships, greatly alarmed by their appearance. He ordered the Qing ships to increase speed to escape and this prompted the Japanese to do the same. Yoshino headed the formation with Naniwa and Akitsushima behind, trying to outmaneuver the Qing and prevent their escape.  At 7:45am the Yoshino and Jiyuan were closing in around 3km from another, then at 7:52 Naniwa suddenly opened fire on the Jiyuan. After Naniwa, the Yoshina and Akitsushima began firing. Yoshina and Naniwa concentrated on Jiyuan while the Akitsushima fired upon the Kwang-yi which was around a km behind Jiyuan. The Qing ships returned fire, but the Japanese had distinctly taken the advantage by opening up first. The first shells hit Jiyuan's conning tower, demolishing it and severely damaged her steering mechanism. The second volley hit her forward barbette guns taking them out of action and soon shells were hitting her midship causing carnage and panic amongst her crew. Qing commanders had to quell the panic with their revolvers pointed at the gunners until they regained their composure and continued to fire upon the enemy. The Jiyuan made a dash for open sea as her crews tried to repair her steering mechanism. Meanwhile the Kwang-yi was hit at the offset of battle, the Akitsushima had fired a shell penetrating her hull below the waterline and damaging her boiler room. She rapidly took on water, prompting Captain Lin Kuohsiang to ordered her beached. Enveloped by fire, smoke and steam Kwang-yi turned southeast to beach along the shore while Naniwa began firing on her. Kwang-yi's crews quickly abandoned ship as the Naniwa shelled her ferociously causing numerous explosions and turning her into a fiery wreck. 37 of her crew died while 71 including captain Lin Kuohsiang swam to shore.  While the Kwang-yi was destroyed, the Japanese cruisers continued to pursue the Jiyuan which they caught up to at 8:10am. Yoshino and Naniwa were almost abeam of her prompting Captain Fang to prepare to surrender his warship, but then they all saw smoke from the horizon, two more warships were approaching Asan. It was the Kowshing and Tsao-Kiang. The Japanese immediately turned their attention to the new ships bolting towards them as the Jiyuan attempting sneakingaway. Upon spotting the Japanese coming at them, the Tsao-Kiang immediately turned around for Weihaiwei as the poor Kowshing continued slowly towards Asan. Upon seeing what Qing warships were before him, Tsuboi sent Naniwa over to investigate the Kowshing, Yoshino to hunt the Jiyuan and Akitsushima after the Tsao-Kiang. The Tsao-Kiang was caught by 11:37 and surrendered without a fight to the Akitsushima. At 12:05pm the Yoshino ran down the Jiyuan and began firing upon her from 2.5kms away. Captain Fang made daring move and steered his ship among some shoals, managing to escape the Yoshino who would not risk the dangerous waters. Meanwhile the Kowshing, which was a British vessel captained by Thomas Ryder Galsworthy chattered last minute by the Qing had no knowledge of the battle that had occurred. Galsworthy felt safe under the protection of the British civil ensign and just kept sailing. At 9am the Captain of the Naniwa, Captain Togo Heihachiro, yes the future legendary fleet admiral of the IJN combined fleet who would win the legendary battle of Tsushima ordered the Kowshing to follow him as he would escort it to the Japanese squadron. Galsworthy made a protest citing British neutrality, but complied nonetheless. The unfortunate issue, was the Qing soldiers on his ship who did not comply. The Qing soldiers began threatening to kill the crew if they continued to sail over with the Japanese. Galsworthy tried negotiating with the angry Qing soldiers, but when it became obvious they were in real danger he along with the British crew jumped overboard, swimming for the Naniwa. Allegedly, as the sources are Japanese mind you. The Qing soldiers began firing upon the British in the water killing all but Galsworthy and two other sailors who were rescued by the Naniwa. Upon seeing all of this, the Naniwa then opened fire on the Kowshing, completely obliterating her. Very few aboard managed to swim to safety. It was carnage. The Kowshing launched 2 lifeboats full of Qing soldiers which were fired upon by the Naniwa. 1100 Chinese died in what became known as the battle of Pungdo, 800 alone from the Kowshing. As a foreign commentator said of the event "It was truly a pitiable sight that such a number of officers [on the Kowshing], amongst whom were two generals, should not have sufficient military experience to understand the absurdity of attempting resistance in a merchant vessel against a powerful man-of-war.". The Japanese had damaged a cruiser, captured a gunboat and sank another. Something was noted by a reporter of the Japan weekly mail about the battle "the Chinese ships made a miserable fight. There seemed to be a problem with bad ammunition. The Qing had scored a hit, but  the shell had failed to explode and thus did no significant damage. It is suspected to be a result of bad equipment or careless inspection." For those of you who know about the first Sino-Japanese war, or perhaps just know the general history of Empress Dowager Cixi and the corruption of the late Qing dynasty, this is indeed one of the earliest pieces of evidence of what will be a large problem for the Qing Navy. The battle of Pungdo and sinking of the Kowshing would be soon followed by formal declarations of war. On August 1st, Japan declared war on China, stating Korea was an independent state and that China was trying to hold her as a dependency and had rejected Japan's offer to cooperate. Japan had to declare war because China had made “warlike preparations and sent large reinforcements and had opened fire on Japanese ships”. Sounds about right? There was no mention of Japanese much larger warlike preparations, the taking of King Gojong and the first shots being fired from IJN vessels. However the Japanese clearly were writing a declaration not aimed solely at China, but at the world powers, because the thing she coveted most was to join them of course. The declaration made in the name of Emperor Meiji used specific terms like “family of nations, law of nations, international treaties and such”. Japan was being very diplomatically minded. On the other side, Emperor Guangxi on the same day Japan declared ware made the formal declaration of war against Japan and did so by calling the Japanese “Woren” multiple times in the declaration. The declaration showed disdain for the Japanese, and to even make a point the Qing had it translated in English specifically referencing what Woren meant haha. The declaration wreaked of the traditional way the Qing spoke of those they considered inferior and showcased to the world powers, China had not changed much.  The world's press still remained certain, Japan would be crushed by big China. On July 24th, the Times of London predicted China would win because of her size, population and that time was on her side. British advisor to the Qing military, William Lang was interviewed by Reuters and predicted the Japanese would lose. Lang thought that the Chinese navy was well-drilled, the ships were fit, the artillery was at least adequate, and the coastal forts were strong. Weihaiwei “ was impregnable. Although Lang emphasized that everything depended on how China's forces were led, he had faith that 'in the end, there is no doubt that Japan must be utterly crushed'. Only time would tell. I would like to take this time to remind you all that this podcast is only made possible through the efforts of Kings and Generals over at Youtube. Please go subscribe to Kings and Generals over at Youtube and to continue helping us produce this content please check out www.patreon.com/kingsandgenerals. If you are still hungry after that, give my personal channel a look over at The Pacific War Channel at Youtube, it would mean a lot to me. It seems despite all the efforts, war has finally broken out amongst the siblings of China and Japan. The world seemed convinced big brother would defeat little brother, but little did they know how wrong they would be.

Last time we spoke about the Dungan Revolt. Yes it was a grand little side story that only encompassed something that should have required at minimum three podcasts, but I do my best. Northwest China was a wild place and multiple groups on the frontiers of other nations saw an opportunity when the Taiping Rebellion kicked out to try and rebel themselves. Multiple muslim groups and some foreign leaders like Yaqub Bek fought the Qing, the Russians and other groups to try and consolidate control over key areas. However when the Taiping were finally quelled, the Qing sent Zuo Zongtang northwest to deal with the Dungan problem. Zuo Zongtang led a brutal campaign to reclaim Xinjiang and was successful, a large part to muslim chinese defectors. Now we need to venture back to the issue of Japan, China, Korea and a truly stressful situation for poor old Li Hongzhang.   #39 This episode is the imo uprising   Welcome to the Fall and Rise of China Podcast, I am your dutiful host Craig Watson. But, before we start I want to also remind you this podcast is only made possible through the efforts of Kings and Generals over at Youtube. Perhaps you want to learn more about the history of Asia? Kings and Generals have an assortment of episodes on history of asia and much more  so go give them a look over on Youtube. So please subscribe to Kings and Generals over at Youtube and to continue helping us produce this content please check out www.patreon.com/kingsandgenerals. If you are still hungry for some more history related content, over on my channel, the Pacific War Channel where I cover the history of China and Japan from the 19th century until the end of the Pacific War. The 1880s were an extremely turbulent time for China, Japan and Korea. Each nation faced the same anxiety, that of western encroachment, the danger of colonization. Each of these nations would face challenges from the west and this would affect all 3 of them and in turn their relations to another. There were leading figures in each nation that sought to cooperate together to resist western colonialism. At the time the greatest threat was Russia. The Russian empire was beginning the process of building the grand trans-siberian railway. The railway would only begin construction in 1891, but by the 1880's settlers were being pushed east into Siberia and discussions were being held to push the process forward. Now when Japan pulled the sneaky maneuver of getting Korea to sign treaties acknowledging her independence from China, both Korea and Chinese officials were deeply concerned and no wonder. Japan had kept pressing the buttons and this was a major red flag moment. But the Chinese and Koreans had a multitude of problems at the time taking up much of their attention. Thus the Chinese and Koreans tried to ignore the implications of the Japanese treaties in the hopes they could be stamped down later thus easing Japan back into a passive role.  You might be asking yourself why are the Chinese and Koreans backing down so much and allowing Japan basically to stomp over them, to put it simply, they had too much to deal with. You might remember when I barely talked about some of the rebels going on in China during and after the Taiping Rebellion. One of those known as the Dungan Revolt of 1862-1877, well that little guy was not such a little guy. If you go on wikipedia for example and look up the Dungan revolt you will notice a few things right off the bat, the first most likely the death toll which was in the millions, possibly up to 21 million. It hit Shaanxi, Gangsu and Xinjiang provinces very hard. But alongside the death toll, you would probably notice secondly the participants list which is extravagantly long and holds many surprising participants. The Ottomans, British, Russians, Uzbeks all hands their hands in the Chinese cookie jar. While the Dungan Revolt is certainly a big one, it gets even bigger, much bigger. The Dungan Revolt basically is part of “the Great Game”. Now you're probably asking yourselves what game? The Great Game was this mashup of conflicts between the British and Russian empires of multiple territories spanning the middle east and Asia. They fought for and over numerous things, for example the British believed Russia had plans to invade India. The Russians thought Britain wanted to expand into central asia. This led to countless wars such as the 1st anglo-afghan war of 1838, the first anglo-sikh war of 1845, the second anglo-sikh war of 1848, the second anglo-afghan war of 1878 and theres even more than that. Now for China this cultivated the Dungan Revolt somewhat and Russian began encroaching in Xinjiang. From 1871 to 1881 the Qing dynasty and the Russian empire were on the verge of a massive war over Xinjiang. Now I am literally pulling out my hair as I write this series because I planned to write a single podcast explaining how the situation in Korea led to what will be one of the most important wars, the first sino-japanese war of 1894-1895 and as I do so I keep skipping over major events, such as the multitude of rebellions in China, and this “great game situation”. Oh and its not just the great game, in the 1880s emerges another fantastic war known as the Sino-French War of 1884-1885 first involving Vietnam and France and then China gets mixed in. Needless to say I face two options, option number 1; I give a summary of these events and gloss right over them to carry on with my intended little narrow narrative about Korea, China and Japan. Option 2) I carry on as I am and write two separate episodes, “the great game” and “the Sino-French War of 1884-1885”. I am electing to do option 2, so please bear with me for the time being I imagine those 2 episodes will come right after I am done with the Hermit kingdom. Stating that I keep glossing over major events, but its simply impossible to hit them all, so if there are some you just are dying to hear about, or simply other things you want to hear about that I can't hit here please let me know on the Pacific War channel discord, comment my Youtube channel or become a patreon, if ya do I promise I will make content just for you, that's why it's there. So needless to say, these major events were hitting China at an extraordinarily bad time. These were major variables thwarting China from seeking a firmer hand against Japan when it came to Korea. China was waiting for things to simmer before they confront the Japanese. And do remember despite Japan's actions, they still represented the greatest possible ally against the looming Russian bear to the north who were gradually expanding into Asia. The prospect of large numbers of Russians moving into East Asia concerned Korea, Japan and China all the same. On top of this the Russians began plans in 1882 to start a steamship line from Ukraine to Priamur, on the coast of Siberia and this also meant a large development of Priamur. Korea had the great misfortune of being what one author has called ‘a shrimp among the whales”. The whales being China, Japan and Russia. Korea had a long history of being fought over, in 661 the Japanese sent troops, then the Yuan Dynasty forces of Kublai Khan used Korea to try and invade Japan in the 1190's and in the 1590s Hideyoshi invaded Korea. So Korea had this unfortunate history of simply being stuck in the middle. In 1882 China still held suzerainty over Korea…well from their point of view, the Japanese certainly did not see it that way. Korea was grasping at straws, trying to avoid conflict, but she was playing a game between two tigers. Now in 1881 Korea began expanding its relations with all 3 major players, Russia, China and Japan. Awhile back I mentioned that Korea sent Kim Hong-jip to Japan and after his journey he strongly suggested Korea send more envoys to learn more from Japan. In 1881 this led Korea to create the Gentlemen's sightseeing group. These were 12 young Koreans who went to Japan to learn more about the Meiji restoration efforts. The mission was akin to Japan's Iwakura Mission, the Koreans inspected administrative agencies, military facilities, education facilities, everything they could. The Koreans were very impressed by what they saw and when they came back home they sought ways to push Korea onto the same path as Japan's modernization efforts. Amongst the 12 gentleman was one Kim Ok-kyun. After the tour had ended Fukuzawa Yukichi one of Japans top liberal minded intellects arranged for Kim Ok-kyun to remain an extra 6 months at Keio university. Kim Ok-kyuns stay convinced him that the Meiji restoration was the essential path for Korea to self strengthen and thwart western encroachment.  Now Kim OK-kyun will be a key player in many things to come, but I bring him up now just to signify the efforts of Japan to win over Korea. People such as Kim Ok-kyun began championing Japan as Korea's savior and this prompted King Gojong to look to Japan for some assistance in modernizing, such as the employment of Lt Horimoto Reizo who trained the Pyolgigun. But while Japan was making inroads to circumventing China, China was not sitting idly by.  Li Hongzhang had emerged probably as the most influential person in all of China by the 1880s. The Qing government authorized the man who was the Grand Minister for the Northern Sea, the governor general of Zhili province, Commander of the Huai Army, associate controller over the board of admiralty and Grand secretary, yes China was continuing the practice of placing as many titles as possible onto a single man. Above all else Li Hongzhang was responsible for Korea. As much as I have talked about Zeng Guofan's pupil I have not really talked all that much about the man himself. Li Hongzhang dominated Chinese foreign policy for nearly quarter of a century. He was 6 feet tall and quite a lot of western diplomats noted him to have a fine physique, a vigor to his nature, piercing eyes, a commanding presence and a no-nonsense approach. As a Qing official he wore multicolored silk robes, a large triangular hat with the traditional three-eyed peacock feathers. As noted by his mentor Zeng Guofan “Li Hongzhang possessed a bearing and manner of speech sufficient to bring men to their knees”. Li Hongzhang was frankly a go-getter as we say in the west. George F Seward, a minister of the US to China called him “a giant among his fellow Chinese and the best foreigners who have met him in affairs will not hesitate to accord to him intellectual powers, which would command admiration in any cabinet or council”. Russia's count Sergei Lil'evich Witte, the architect of the empires industrialization program for over two decades and a man not known to overstate others said this of Li “I have met many notable statesmen in my career and would rate Li Hongzhang high among them. In fact, he was a great statesman; to be sure he was Chinese, without any kind of European education, but a man of sound Chinese education, and what is more, a man with a remarkably sound mind and good common sense." The socialist French newspaper, Le Siecle, called him "the yellow Bismarck." I particularly like that last one, yellow Bismarck thats a flavourful one isn't it.  Li Hongzhang was Han Chinese, from 6 of 7 generations that passed the imperial examinations, a scholar through and through. He passed the third highest out of 4000 other students for the highest imperial degree and built up the Huai army with help from Zeng Guofan quickly becoming one of if not the dominant military ruler in China. It was in fact his rule over the most powerful army in CHina that led to many of his appointments as the Qing needed to try and rein him in somehow. He and Empress Dowager Cixi would have a long-standing relationship. Li Hongzhang aided her in installing her nephew as Emperor in 1875, though in reality he would not actually rule anything it would be Cixi and Li was loyal to her. On the note of Cixi, Li Hongzhang was criticized heavily for corruption and indeed he became fabulously wealthy. Yet I do not think you can point fingers simply at Li, as it was not just him but the Qing bureaucracy that was corrupt. A foreign employee under Li had this to say about him and corruption “The Viceroy was a diplomat of world-wide fame; but to his countrymen - before the war - he was chiefly reputed as a great military and naval organizer. He was not nor could he be that; for the corruption, peculation and nepotism which infested his organizations had their fountain-head in himself, and to an extent which was exceptional even for a Chinese official. He was himself enmeshed in the national machine of organized inefficiency; to him also it was a normal condition, and any other, had it been indicated, would have been incomprehensible to him.” You have to understand at this time in the Qing dynasty corruption was simply the status quo. Bribery was the normal source of political influence. The Qing salaries were insufficient, so all officials bribed and embezzled to make ends meet. To get anything done politically in China at this time one had to bribe whether it was for good means or bad, Li was no different. Li's activities were some of the largest in scope China would ever see and thus required enormous sums of money. None the less Li was a Han, and the Manchu were never going to let the Han simply run the show, so even if Li had idea's about reform to stop the corruption they would not allow him to do so as it would put a Han in the drivers seat. And so Li was a master operator within the corrupt system of Qing politics, he had to grease the corrupt wheels of power. Unlike the Meiji restoration which took daring reforms backed by the Genro of Japan, Li had major shackles.  I think I already said this before, Li Hongzhang is one of my favorite characters of modern Chinese history, but he is also a terribly tragic character. One would call him a man before his time. He showed great foresight about how China could modernize but he was hampered by the system. Yet despite all of that he did an incredible amount to help modernize China nonetheless. He also never got a chance to really see the outside world until late in his life unlike most of his Japanese counterparts. He would also take the lionshare of the blame for the many humiliations CHina would receive, literally right until his death he just kept fighting bitterly. Many champion those who do great feats during good times, but we often forget those who lived in dire times who struggled to do great feats, and Li is one of those. Now as the man responsible for Korea Li Hongzhang advised his Korean counterpart in 1879 "There is no human agency capable of putting a stop to the expansionist movement of Japan: has not your Government been compelled to inaugurate a new era by making a Treaty of Commerce with it? As matters stand, therefore, is not our best course to neutralize one poison by another, to set one energy against another? You should seize every opportunity to establish treaty relations with Western nations, which you can use to check Japan." The advice was carried to King Gojong who in 1822 solicited Li Hongzhang to negotiate on Korea's behalf for a treaty with the United States. The Josen-United States Treaty of 1882 or Treaty of Peace, AMity, Commerce and Navigation would be signed in 1882 heavily influenced by Li Hongzhang. It was Korea's first treaty with a western nation, albeit an unequal treaty. It established mutual friendship with the US and mutual assistance in the case of attack. The treaty became the template for others as soon Germany signed one in 1883, then Russian and Italy in 1884 and France by 1886. The idea obviously being, Li Hongzhang trying to bolster up Korea so Japan would not try to invade her. Now despite the fact these treaties were intended to counterbalance Japan, they also indirectly undermined China. Combined with the Japanese treaties they all worked collectively to shatter Korea's isolation and severed China's suzerainty over her. To be blunt, while China could continue to scream about how Korea was still her tributary, now a collective group of other nations saw her as independent. This also began a process of creating pro-Japanese and pro-Chinese factions within the Korean political system. There were those who missed the times of the Daewongun reign. They believed the current actions of Korea were unfaithful to Confucianism. And then in 1882 a small problem would evolve into a larger one. Remember the Japanese military attache, Lt Horimoto Reizo? Well in January of 1882, his work ended up reorganizing the existing 5 army garrison structure into the Muwiyong “palace guards garrison” and the Changoyong “capital guards garrison”. But alongside that he also created the Pyolgigun “special skills force” which was basically the yolk of a new modern Korean army. This is all fantastic and good fun, however Korea held a very tight budget and was forced to reduce the number of her old-style troops. For those of you who know your Satsuma Rebellion that occurred in Japan, here in Korea a similar event unfolded. In July of 1882 many Korean soldiers were retired against their will. They protested that for over a year after the forced retirement they had not received back pay. 1000 men, mostly the old and disabled were let go, and they were not paid their stipends of rice for 13 months. They began to protest, and who wouldn't. Hearing about this, King Gojong ordered that a months allowance of rice be given to the soldiers and he directed one Min Gyeom-ho, the overseer of the Joseon's government finances to see to it. Min Gyeom-ho was the nephew of Queen Min, and that is an important fact as the Min family would be seen as culprits. Well Min Gyeom-ho handed the job over to his steward who sold the rice he had been given for the soldiers and used that money to buy millet which was further mixed with sand and bran, the good classic old case of embezzlement, like cutting cocaine with baking powder. Well the the substance by the time it got to the soldiers had gone rotten and as you might imagine it really pissed off the already pissed off protesting soldiers. So on July 23rd of 1882 a riot broke out in Uigeumbu. Pissed off soldiers marched upon the residence of Min Gyeom-ho who they suspected was the culprit swindling them all. Min Gyeom-ho heard of the incoming rioters and ordered the police to arrest their ringleaders and have them executed the next day. The rioters received word of these orders and broke into Min Gyeom-ho's home, but by that point he had fled so they simply trashed the place. Without the man to exact their vengeance upon the rioters marched to the armory and began stealing arms and ammo. Then they went to a local prison, overwhelmed its guards and released the arrested ringleaders alongside other political prisoners. At this point Min Gyeom-ho was hiding at the Royal palace. He panicked and ordered the army to quell the revolt, but by this time the revolt was snow balling. The armed rioters then turned their attention to two different groups of people, the first were the Japanese and second Korean progressives aka the reformers supporting the new changes to Korea propped by Japan. A group of rioters headed to Lt Horimoto's quarters where they grabbed him and took turns stabbing him to death. Another group of over 3000 rioters marched upon the Japanese legation. Over at the legation were the minister to Korea Hanabusa Yoshitada alongside 17 staff members and 10 legation police. The legation was quickly surrounded prompting Hanabusa to order all the documents within to be burnt. As the smoke and flames increased, many of the legation staff used it as a cover to escape through the rear gate. The Japanese fled to the nearest harbor where they took a boat down the Han river enroute to Incheon. From there they thought they would be safe, but Korean soldiers continued to hunt them down, soon they were fleeing to another harbor, but this time the Koreans caught up to them. 6 Japanese were killed with another 5 severely injured. The survivors got onto a boat and made a break for open sea, eventually running into the British survey ship HMS flying fish which took them in.  The rioters certainly did not stop at the Japanese legation, on July 24th they took to marching upon the royal palace still hunting Min Gyeom-ho. They got their hands on Min Gyeom-ho killing him alongside a dozen high ranking Joseon officials including Heungin-gun Yi Choe-Heung, the older brother of the Daewongun. It should be noted that while he was the brother to him, he was also publicly critical against his isolationist policies and could be seen as an ally to the Min clan. The rioters also hunted for Queen Min, intending to kill her as well. They saw the Queen and the rest of the Min allies as the main culprits behind the corruption going on in the government. Queen Min managed to escape the palace being carried literally away on a guards back dressed as a commoner. She fled for refuse in the home of Min Eung-sik in Chungju of Chungcheong province. Meanwhile the rioters managed to kill an official of the Min family and the entire ordeal became known as the Soldiers Riot of 1882 or the Imo uprising.  Now the Imo uprising was sort of a symptom of something else going on in Korea. I had mentioned previously that the Korean politics had created sort of a faction situation. It was not necessary one side was Pro Chinese and the other Japanese, a lot more was going on, but I will try to summarize it as best as I can. During the reign of the Daewongun, many of the Korean literati, you know the political, scholar, high society types, well they considered a lot of what the Daewongun was doing to be unfaithful to confucianism. However when the Daewogun was kicked out, they began to see all the grand reforms and treaties emerging under King Gojong as even worse. In fact they never really saw it as “King Gojong's” but rather Queen Min and her entourage of family members in high positions taking Korea to hell in a handbasket.  During the Imo uprising incident there was a rather important figure amongst the rioting troops, Prince Waneun, the illegitimate son of Daewongun and one of his concubines named Kyeseongwol. He was the older half brother to King Gojong. Now When the Daewongun was “forcefully retired” he actually did not go without a fight and attempted a coup, which just saw him getting deported to China, and this greatly upset Prince Waneun. But he bide his time, entering the Korean military as a low ranking officer. When the rioters struck in 1881, Daewongun had sent agents to instigate them, one of which was Prince Waneun. It seems the Daewongun was trying to replace King Gojong with his illegitimate son, but the riots failed. When they arrested the rioters many of their leaders were executed, one of which was Prince Wanuen. Who ordered his specific execution is unknown, myth has the Korean politician Yi Yun-yong being responsible, but there is also evidence he did so under orders from Queen Min and King Gojong. On October 28th of 1881 he was poisoned to death while in prison at Jeju. The reason I bring up this minor part of the story is to highlight that there were serious efforts being made by political factions to usurp King Gojong and steer Korea in certain directions. The Daewongun clearly supported the rioters and their cause. In fact it is known the Daewongun exhorted the rioters to specifically bring down the Min clan and expel the Japanese. Daewongun was very much in the China camp politically. King Gojong clearly did not support their cause, but he saw the writing on the wall. King Gojong asked his father to return to the palace, who promptly showed up with 200 of the rioters backing him up. King Gojong capitulated to their demands, one of which was to restore his father to power. King Gojong basically said this to his father when he showed up to the palace “put an immediate end to the wild melee and I will give power over the small and large matters of the government”. And thus the Daewongun was back in power. His first order of business as you might imagine was to remove from office all officials of the Min family, he even had his own brother executed because he had allied to them! At the time it was believed Queen Min had been killed, thus he had a funeral process begun for her. Now in response to the killing of the Japanese officials, well Japan was not too happy about that. The foreign office under Inoue Kaoru ordered Hanasuba to return to Seoul to hold a meeting with senior Korean officials to get them to bring the rioters responsible to justice. If any more of these rioters were to attack Japanese, Japan was going to bear military force against them, regardless of whatever the Korean government did. Inoue instructed Hanabusa, that if he saw the Koreans making any attempts to hide the perpetrators and not punish them, or if they refused simply to comply at all with their demands this would constitute a breach of peace and thus the IJA would be rolling in. Japan also sent an official letter to the Korean government with an envoy, indicting it for the crimes that had been done to the Japanese and that Japan would be sending forces to occupy the port of Chempulpo. Hanabusa meanwhile was instructed that if China or another nation attempted to mediate on behalf of Korea, he should refuse this, but to reiterate none the less that Japan still believed her relations with Korea were friendly and that they best restore that friendly relationship. Thus Hanabusa was to go to Seoul with IJA and IJN forces to protect him and other Japanese officials. Now while Japan was doing all of this, in the background they were also calling up reserves for their military in advance and Inoue Kaoru made sure to notify western ministers in Tokyo they were sending IJA/IJN forces to Korea to “protect their citizens”. He strongly emphasized this was all in good faith and that their intentions were peaceful, but when the Americans offered to mediate he declined this off the bat, not a great look. As for the Chinese reaction, Li Hongzhang who was in charge had left his post just before the crisis had broken out, taking a leave of absence because his mother had just died. How fate tosses the dice sometimes eh? Thus China's de facto foreign minister was left out of touch and Korea did not have a Chinese legation on hand. Li Shuchang, the Chinese minister in Tokyo received word of the situation and sent word home. On August 1st, Zhang Shusheng dispatched 3 warships of the Beiyang Fleet under the command of Admiral Ding Ruchang to Korea with the Qing official Ma Jianzhong to assess the situation. 4500 Qing forces led by General Wu Changqing arrived and they quickly aided the Korean government in quelling the rioters thus thwarting a full blown rebellion. The Qing forces took control over Seoul. This was the first time that China had military intervened in Korea since 1636 and constituted a major departure in her foreign policy over Korea. Would this situation ignite a war between the Qing and Japan? I would like to take this time to remind you all that this podcast is only made possible through the efforts of Kings and Generals over at Youtube. Please go subscribe to Kings and Generals over at Youtube and to continue helping us produce this content please check out www.patreon.com/kingsandgenerals. If you are still hungry after that, give my personal channel a look over at The Pacific War Channel at Youtube, it would mean a lot to me. The imo uprising was going to escalate things for China, Japan and Korea, simply boiling the pot of war gradually over time. How long could the diplomats and politicians keep those rattling the sabers of war?