We went to the wine tasting event at the Hilton Hotel in Seoul where this Chilean winery was displaying some of their finest vintages. Chile and Korea just signed a WTO trade agreement and so there are a lot of Chilean products being floated in the Korean market, which is good if you love wine. I can only imagine that conversely there are a lot of people in Santiago running around with Samsung cellphones. We only took a few pictures because after a few glasses of wine, cataloging the event was not foremost in our minds. Afterwards, we went to the casino in the hotel reserved only for foreigners. I am not much of a gambler but my lady played a few hands of blackjack. A remarkably swanky evening for a man wearing a cheap suit.
My name is Michael Sean Gallagher. I am a Lecturer in Digital Education at the Centre for Research in Digital Education at the University of Edinburgh. I am Co-Founder and Director of Panoply Digital, a consultancy dedicated to ICT and mobile for development (M4D); we have worked with USAID, GSMA, UN Habitat, Cambridge University and more on education and development projects. I was a researcher on the Near Futures Teaching project, a project that explores how teaching at The University of Edinburgh unfold over the coming decades, as technology, social trends, patterns of mobility, new methods and new media continue to shift what it means to be at university. Previously, I was the Research Associate on the NERC, ESRC, and AHRC Global Challenges Research Fund sponsored GCRF Research for Emergency Aftershock Forecasting (REAR) project. I was an Assistant Professor at Hankuk University of Foreign Studies (한국외국어대학교) in Seoul, Korea. I have also completed a doctorate at University College London (formerly the independent Institute of Education, University of London) on mobile learning in the humanities in Korea.
