Author: CBT
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How much Korean cultural influence is there in Thailand?
In the midst of Bangkok’s teeming ecosystem of adverts, all over the walls of the metro and infesting the huge shopping centres, something occurred to me. Thai people can have a wide range of skin tones, but the people grinning and holding up products in the adverts were exceptionally pale. This could be attributed to…
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Thailand & Singapore
Day 1 Through windows of the train from the airport, I could see the spires of temples emerging out of a green tropical landscape. It was such a textbook definition of exotic, but the hours upon hours of air travel had numbed me to it. The numbness may not have been an entirely bad thing,…
