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April 03, 2008

SeoulGlow #10 - Dinner With Soyeon (Part 3)

It's done. Now you can see the much-promised, much-delayed, final interview with Soyeon. I think that when you watch it, you might be able to see why I held onto it for so long -- one reason was that I thought it would be most relevant around the time she went up, and the other reason was because I didn't want to help publicly pigeonhole her into being the backup astronaut well before the decision was made.

For a long time, the video seemed particularly fitting because she indeed became the backup; now that she's sitting in the first chair, it's even more interesting. Enjoy, Marmot's Holers... I posted it there first. I haven't even upped it to YouTube yet, and KBS is coming to my house to interview me and get the original DV files of the vids for broadcast in 40 minutes. But I wanted you guys to get it first. I'll wax wordy and wise about all this on my own blog later.

Enjoy!

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Chapter I: On the Surface
Chapter II: Pleasures of the Everyday
Chapter IV: To Hell and Back
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