About the Author
J. Scott Burgeson was born in Lincoln, Nebraska in 1967, and first came to Asia at the age of 12, when he spent the summer living in an ashram outside of Mumbai, India. He grew up mainly in the San Francisco Bay Area, and studied English Literature and Rhetoric at U.C. Berkeley, where he was editor-in-chied of the the campus literary journal 'Byzantium.' After college and a stint travel sriting in Romania for the 'Berkeley Guide', he worked for several years as a culture critic for 'The San Francisco Bay Guardian', 'East Bay Express', 'The Daily Californian' and other publications, before growing restless and moving to Osaka, Japan in 1994. Since then, his work has appeared in 'Kansai Time Out', 'Tokyo Journal', 'Giant Robot', 'The Brooklyn Rail', 'Cinemad', 'Korean Quarterly', 'Cine21', 'Chosun Ilbo', 'Kes Cahiers de Coree', 'The Korea Herald', 'The Korea Times', 'The Beat' and 'Maxim Korea', for which he wrote a monthly column reviewing Korean junk food. In 1997, he founded and published the first volume of 'Bug' magazine in Seoul, and has since produced special issues on Japan and Australia (nominated for an 'Utne Reader Alternative Press Award) as well as Korea. In 1999, he published his first book, 'Maximum Korea', the Korean edition of which was a bestseller, as was 'Balch`ikhan Han`guk-hak(Nasty Korean Study, 2002)', the Korean-language version of 'Bug Vol.5'. He has not returned to the U.S. since 1996 and has no reliably fixed address, but can generally be located in cyberspace at www.kingbaeksu.com.
