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K-culture wars
K-culture wars
Korea is a country that frequently tops internationals lists, whether Billboard charts, innovation rankings, connectivity to the internet, suicide rates, working hours, or declining birthrates. For better and for worse, the country is now a cultural, economic, and technological powerhouse on the world stage that rightly holds its own against far bigger states. Its post-coloni...
2021-07-03 09:51
Kim Jong-un: Prisoner in his own castle?
Kim Jong-un: Prisoner in his own castle?
Few of us can claim the experience of living and working in Pyongyang for eight years, but that is exactly what German Ambassador Thomas Schafer has done. Following his retirement from the Foreign Office and a career that took him to China, Hong Kong and Venezuela, Schafer has written a book on his time in North Korea - a collection of memories, experiences and various intera...
2021-06-27 17:05
Youth and Korean politics
Youth and Korean politics
Speaking of the French Revolution, the English poet William Wordsworth remarked, “Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive. But to be young was very heaven.” The youth are a vital part of a functioning society and creating a vibrant and effective democracy. Young people are capable of overturning authoritarianism and enacting changes in power
2021-06-19 09:46
The new normal
The new normal
The “new normal” is reading about a sex crime in South Korea, seeing the lenient sentence, and then sighing as you realize that there'll be another one to get equally as exasperated about in a week's time.
2021-06-13 15:01
Ethnocentric Korean politics
Ethnocentric Korean politics
I've just finished teaching a six-week course on Korean history and culture to a group of young visiting scholars from Wellesley College, Massachusetts. One of the most important things I tried to stress was that to understand Korea, they must try to see it through Korean eyes. Not easy! Perhaps not actually possible either, especially in such a short period of time. Yet the ...
2021-06-05 11:49
Taiwan is a country
Taiwan is a country
In the summer of 2009, we boarded a flight for Taiwan. During our time there, we ate, drank and partied with the locals while taking in as much of what the country and people had to offer as we could. The vacation still remains one of my favorite trips and the memories are a source of constant conversation among those who went. I looked over the photos again while writing thi...
2021-05-29 12:23
Is Korean law fair?
Is Korean law fair?
Bureaucracy, jargon, people in funny wigs, ritual, pomp, courtroom dramas, briefcases, legal fees, Omar in a tie, and the monopoly of power exercised by the state. The law is difficult and esoteric, but at its heart it is something that is meant to affect us all equally. Lady Justice looks out over the citizens blindfolded, unware of our differences, our circumstances, and ou...
2021-05-22 07:37
K-ideology: The end of communication?
K-ideology: The end of communication?
We all eat from a trashcan called ideology, but few of us are aware of it. Thus it has been said that ideology is like bad breath: you can smell everyone else's but your own.
2021-05-15 09:06
Can you speak Korean?
Can you speak Korean?
Since Plato and Confucius advocated society be ruled by philosophers and sages, and J.S. Mill et al suggested that a human's worth is found in their ability for rational thought, it has often been the case that people will value and champion that which they already possess. Thus rich people also advocate wealth and artists promote creativity. If people have worked hard to acq...
2021-05-09 09:26
Punk Christianity in Korea
Punk Christianity in Korea
Christianity is punk. It can be a progressive force in Korea capable of being the catalyst for vast social change and challenging the existing social order. It is capable of flouting convention and providing new vistas.
2021-05-02 15:07
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