Hibakusha: Contextualizing Japan’s Relationship with Nuclear Radiation
Introduction To Japan’s Relationship with Nuclear Radiation Across history, Japan remains a tragically unique case as the only country to fully experience the actual cost […]
Environment
Race Against Time: South Korea’s Role in Mitigating Climate Change
source: Sepp Photography/ Shutterstock Like the previous years, this year has been no stranger to a string of natural calamities induced by climate change. From […]
Mountains of Unified Culture: Baekdu-Daegan As The Spine of Korea
The Baekdu-Daegan As The Spine That Binds The Korean Peninsula The idea of the Korean Peninsula as a nation bound together by the spine of […]
What Italy tells us about life after Covid
Italy, a country usually associated with wine, pizza and pasta, now mostly appears on the news for being the first severely hit country by […]
Does Anyone Remember What Happened to Australia?: The Illusion of Social Media Activism
Most of us around the world are well into our state-sanctioned, mandatory month of social isolation. While living our best shut-in, internet-immersed lives, we don’t […]
The Decade of Acceleration
Senior Editor Joel Petersson Ivre looks back at a decade that promised to deliver humanity to greatness but only delivered fast-food. Although we are leaving […]
What 10 Countries in Asia are doing (or not doing) about the Climate Crisis
The effects of the climate crisis on our ecosystems becoming terrifyingly apparent by the day. A fundamental change in our economy and energy sector is […]
Milking the Mighty Mekong
How damming SEA’s largest river is hurting the region, and how a grassroots electricity movement could help It begins on the Tibetan Plateau, where heavy […]
Tragedy in Indonesia
Many in South Korea associate Indonesia with the success of South Korean national teams at the 18th Asian Games in Palembang held just over a […]
Giving Birth to Southeast Asia’s New Megacities
The year is 2040. The highways are lined with trees, stretching their green canopy over your morning commute. Traffic is light, a gift of good […]