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 author that people were hoping the Nobel reforms of a few years ago would lead...
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Tens of thousands of the National School Irregular Workers Association shout slogans for a one-day general strike at Yeouido, main finance and investment banking district on November 25, 2022 in.
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 if this marks a genuine turning point or will go down as yet another false...
There is so much winning going on in our foreign policy that I for one am getting sick of it. Compounding their anger over the Carl Vinson episode, many South.
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.
Over the last several years, battles over history textbooks have occasionally come up in the American media, with conservatives freaking out the new AP U.S. History standards that don't explicitly.
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 want them, even if those policymakers operate with poor or incomplete information about the prospects...
A few interesting pieces on Asian food and history. 1. This is an interesting discussion of the origins of pad thai, a dish that is fairly minor within Thai cooking.
Take a look at Robert Kelly's series of posts on the USC-CSIS "Challenges for Korean Unification" project (part 1, part 2, part 3). Kelly's argument, if I may boil down,.