On December 26, 1996, the government of South Korea issued new repressive labor laws. The South Korean working class rose up in revolt, leading to an enormous strike that challenged.
A word about our new Nobel Prize for Literature. The only of her books I have read is The Vegetarian, though the others look great too. This is kind of.
On November 13, 1970, Jeon Tae-Il, a Korean sweatshop worker, burned himself to death in protest over the sweatshop conditions of he and his fellow workers. This is the foundational.
There's no doubt that North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's summit with South Korean President Moon Jae-in qualifies as historic. At the same time, it's really too soon to say.
I spent 1996-97 in South Korea teaching English in the public schools. It was a mind-blowing experience in any number of ways. But one thing was clear when I was.
Meet a Korean horse that plays dead in order to avoid being ridden. I am the Santa of this blog, I know. You are welcome.
In our continuing chronicle of jellyfish taking over the planet and replacing humans as the dominant species, we have jellyfish attacking Sweden and shutting down a nuclear reactor. The Soviets.
My latest feature at the Diplomat expresses some skepticism about the potential for accidental war on the Korean Peninsula: Again, few wars happen by accident; most take place because policymakers.
