Giacomo Writes!

Giacomo Lee is a British tech journalist and culture writer featured on the BBC, VICE UK/USA, New Statesman Media Group, Future and IDG.

Giacomo has also hosted for Adobe and D&AD, exclusively quoted The Guardian and presented on radio and YouTube. His arts writing meanwhile has been featured by Creative Boom, It's Nice That, RBMA and Little White Lies.

Articles in Print/Misc.

Articles in print and past ones about print (manga, literary characters), plus pilgrimages!

The SAPinsider Guide to Boomi • 18th March 2024

Steve Lucas, Boomi CEO cover story

Why integration is innovation

Write the Future • 13th February 2021

5 Smartest (and liveable) Far East cities in 2020

Futuristic cities and urban development beyond Songdo, covering Korea, Taiwan, Japan and China.

Insight Quarterly • 13th February 2021

Airbus Space: The Big Interview

The head of ADS talks to me about space and science in an exclusive interview for Insight.

Brut #2 • 21st May 2018

The Pop-Up Punk of 'Once Upon a Time Amid Trees'

In Kenji Araki’s Once Upon a Time Amid Trees (Japan, 2014) potential apocalypse comes in the form of a teddy bear from outer space.

Entropy • 18th December 2015

Eastern Electronic: The Ethereal

Twomyung were my favourite discovery while living in Seoul a few years back, coming across a monthly residency they’d co-headline in the chic Hapjeong district of the city.

Neon Dystopia • 22nd March 2017

The Alternative Soundtrack to Ghost in the Shell

The average cyberpunk fan has probably seen both the original Ghost in the Shell anime and its sequel Innocence; if feeling generous, they may have also checked out the 2002...

Chincha/Trickster Trickster • 29th April 2013

May 4th: 51+ Festival (51플러스 뉴스)

Leafing through an old blog to realise this was my longest entry on it; the rest were barely a 100 words per post!

YAM Magazine • 15th June 2016

Wrecked Hearts Book Review

Appearances can be deceiving. Wrecked Hearts may look like a Japanese manga, and may read like a Japanese manga, but is actually an English work from two French artists as...

Hubble: Explore Everyday • 22nd March 2017

The 3 Korean Temples You Shouldn’t Miss

A few years ago I decided to embark on two crazy errands... The second was to leave my home in the UK to live in and travel around South Korea...

SOKO: South Korea • 18th April 2015

No Seoul: Why Busan is Korea’s Must-See City

Found in the south east of Korea, Busan is deservedly most famous for its seaside views, as dominated by the pair of famous beaches known as Haeundae, which you should...

Medium East Asia • 4th July 2014

Gangnam’s Sherlock Themed Cafe

South Korea’s Sherlock themed cafe 221B opened in Seoul this year as tribute to the BBC Sherlock, and boasts its own Sherlock Coffee on the menu, which is like a...

Observation Deck • 15th March 2014

Odd School Korean Comics #2: The Present

In my first post I wrote about a paperback anthology as found in a Seoul love motel, and thinking about it, love motels and cafes of the book or comic book variety are probably the only places where you’ll see Koreans holding actual paper comics in their hands. Even then, these comics are not what’s currently in vogue, and more often than not are simply Korean translations of long-running Japanese series.