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In Seoul\'s Itaewon District, Colin talks with Stephen Revere, CEO of 10 Media (producer of\\xa0Chip\'s Maps),\\xa0co-founder and managing editor\\xa0of\\xa010\\xa0Magazine, author of two\\xa0Survival Korean\\xa0books, and for three years the teacher on Arirang television\'s\\xa0Let\'s Speak Korean. The Seoul in which he arrived, and which amazed him, in 1995; how quickly he decided to master the Korean language, and the dearth of\\xa0tools he had back in those days, such as the\\xa0Korean Through English\\xa0books; where the Defense Language Institute\'s hierarchy of difficulty discouragingly ranks Korean; the frustrations of studying Korean alongside Chinese and Japanese classmates; why\\xa0students on\\xa0Let\'s Speak Korean\\xa0had to pretend to speak Korean poorly; his days with the "\\ud55c\\uc678\\ubaa8" speaking group; what he enjoyed most about Korean life that convinced him to learn more and more about it; what got him from subscribing to\\xa03-2-1 Contact\\xa0as a kid to starting\\xa010 Magazine\\xa0as an adult; what a foreigner should know to make best use of a city like Seoul, or a country like Korea; what remains "hidden" about Korea in this era of the "Korean wave"; why so many Koreans dismiss their hometowns, if they don\'t come from Seoul; what he does when he heads out in to the provinces; the "massive" generational difference between older and younger Koreans; what his life in Korea has taught him about\\xa0America; what positive aspect of Korea it reflects\\xa0that you can easily get into shouting matches there; how the size of your vehicle determines your right-of-way on the roads of Seoul; the unique role Itaewon, home of\\xa010\\xa0Magazine headquarters as well as "Hooker Hill", "Homo Hill", and a mosque,\\xa0plays in Seoul, and why it inspires a song like "Itaewon Freedom"; whether more Korean teaching lies in his future; when he knew he would\'t be going back to America; when he realized he\'d attained fluency in Korea, and what it means to be fluent anyway; why you\'ve got to join the group for eating in Korea (and possibly turn ex-vegetarian because of that); why the markets provide the purest experience of the culture; and whether he still \\xa0considers mastering another language.