Brother Anthony, or ???, is President of the Royal Asiatic Society of Korea (http://www.raskb.com/), an academic organization which has participated in Korean intellectual and cultural life since 1900 . He`s also a scholar of Korean studies, a translator of Korean poetry and an expert on The Korean Way of Tea.

In the first of a two-part conversation he speaks about the Society's history and it's relationship with the country, discusses his 37 years as a member of Seoul`s academic community and reflects on his life as a member of the Taizé monastic order.

For more on Brother Anthony, visit his website at http://hompi.sogang.ac.kr/anthony/

This interview was recorded in Brother Anthony`s Sogang University neighbourhood office in December, 2014.

Music on this episode: "Gayageum Sanjo Variation", Hwang Byeonggi (1966)