 Anna Desmarais’ great cover photo for the Oct. / Nov. issue of ROKon Magazine. |
Sporting a great cover photo of local DJ NoLeila by talented Seoul resident Anna Desmarais, ROKon Magazine hit the streets of Seoul recently. Each issue we learn and generally lurch towards being a “real” magazine.
As of the next issue, we will begin coming out around the first of the month instead of the 15th, so this issue will effectively cover October and November. We are always looking for new writers and photographers. We are interested in a new logo using the words “ROKon Magazine,” so if you’re a creative type, you might have a chance to shine.
We continue to need a new layout person, a Korean partner who “gets it” and a bilingual ad sales person.
We are expanding our circulation as well, now being available in the eastern portion of the city as well. For more information, contact me at editor (at) rokonmagazine.com. Keep an eye out for our next issue around Dec. 1!
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I read your first issue and thought it was extremely palatable.
The articles were interesting, albeit not pulitzer material, but I doubt that was the original intent. good job Shelton!
As there were several magazines that had folded (Wayguk, K-scene, and maybe DDD) in the past year or so, it’s good that someone was able gather a bunch of those wandering writers and do something new. Kudos.
I wasn’t very impressed, though, with your comparison of ‘Kushibora’ to alleged child killers, on the cover no less (with an acid-tripped depiction of someone sticking their tongue out - Shelton’s revenge, I guess?). It’d make a little more sense if you yourself weren’t using your Ahssa! pseudonyms in the magazine, seeing as that was a part of what the whole ‘kushibora’ scandal was all about, right?
I’m just nitpicking, though. Glad to see you got the magazine off the ground.
You know what I like best about your magazine Shelton? It’s free, unlike others that should be, but aren’t.
I am a kyopo (not quite Korean) that is fluent in Korean and “get it” fairly regularly. I am currently underemployed in the conventional working capacity and extremely interested in helping out in any way that I can with this magazine. Please contact me at dlatn@hotmail.com for more information
please, no spoof mail or spamware
Serving the toilet reading material needs of the Korea expat community since 2006.
And if ROKon is issued in podcast form this will be on my Christmas wish list.
It’s craptacular.
What kind of visa does one get to become a DJ at a nightclub in Seoul?
certainly looking better than the issue you sent me earlier shelton. good luck with it~
Picked it up today, it looks pretty good, has a lot of potential.
Altogether a good magazine, as long as you rip out page #7.