16th November 2008

Woot!  I am famous.

As the momentum builds for Rubber Seoul, so does the exposure for GrassRootsUganda.com. As a result, your truly got interviewed for Groove Magazine here in Korea. 

Groove is a magazine aimed at all the immigrant^* workers here in Korea. 

I can't give you the actual text here in this article, but you can download the first two pages here and the second two pages here.

I was pleased with how it turned out, as I swamped the interviewer with a wealth of information.  Everything from mental breakdowns, to a loss of a faith, to volunteering in Africa and the Philippines.

I did have a few issues thought.

First, I just don't like the title at all: Recovering Yuppie.  It doesn't sum up the story at all.  I would have much preferred "Godless Activist".

Also, I was not raised in a fundamentalist Christian household.  "Quasi-religious" would be a better description.  I most certainly did become a fundamentalist though.

And I did not make any of my co-workers redundant.  I did put people out of work in companies that I was contracted to work for.  The better my skills, the more efficient the system would be, the less employees that would be required.  It wasn't that the companies fired the people, it was more like the failed to rehire people.

So, there it is.  There is a magazine signing session in Suwon on the 22nd of November, so bring along your copies!

^* As someone pointed out to me the other day - since I moved to South Korea for a job - I am in fact an immigrant worker. 

I used to think of an immigrant worker, as someone from south or southeast Asia, or from Africa working a factory job.  That is just plain ol' wrong.