Eating dog with his Sunday morning football team ... Taking a naked sauna with 50 Korean men ... Staring across the DMZ to North Korea ... Looking at Chairman Mao's embalmed corpse ... Drinking rice wine and setting off firecrackers during Chinese New Year ... Teaching classes of 50 Chinese ... Experiencing the epic scale of growth in China ... Becoming the marketing face of a Chinese beer company.

Just some of the adventures detailed in Paul Bacon's second, which details the five year's he spent in Korea and China. Waegook Laowai offers original and humorous insight into one of the most exciting parts of the world. It looks beyond the stereotypes of Samsung, K-Pop and kimchi and sees more than one billion consumers and an authoritarian government juggling the conflicting demands of Communist history and capitalist present. This is a book for those keen to learn about Asia on an authen tic level.