스콧 버거슨; born 1967) is an American author, teacher and specialist in oriental art based in Seoul, South Korea.
He grew up at the San Francisco Bay Area and he graduated with honors from the University of California, Berkeley in 1991 in English and Rhetoric.
After the university he became critic for the San Francisco Bay Guardian,[7] the East Bay Express and The Daily Californian[8] from 1990 to 1994 before relocating to Osaka, Japan, in 1994, and he wrote for Giant Robot, Kyoto Journal, Tokyo Journal, Kansai Time Out and PLAYBOY JAPAN.
He published the zine Korea Bug between 1997 and 2001 about Korean culture and society.
He is considered critical of the multiculturalism that has occurred in the United States and South Korea, and has tried to foster good ties of friendship between Westerners and nationals in South Korea.