Too Much Politics: The South Korean presidential crisis
The South Korean National Assembly impeached President Park Geun-hye in December with a 234-56 vote, shattering the mandated 200-vote threshold. It was at last a […]
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Deep Sea Mining: Diamond in the rough, or Pandora’s box?
Robert Peary, Roald Amundsen, Tenzing Norgay, Edmund Hillary. All are names of explorers famous for reaching places considered unreachable. Peary reached the North Pole in […]
K-Hip Hop: Searching for authentic Koreanness
Type ‘Korean hip hop’ into Google Search and out comes 3,110,000 results—a subreddit dedicated to the genre, Youtube, 8tracks, and Spotify playlists, blog posts, and […]
Glory Days Ahead for Korea’s Filibuster?
The filibuster, a procedure used by legislative bodies around the globe to block or delay bills, is unfailingly a divisive issue. To some, it is […]
Why THAAD is Good for Nothing
Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) is once again in the news in South Korea, the US, China and around the world. The missile system […]
North Korea’s ICBM Development
North Korea recently announced through its state-run Central News Agency that it had successfully created and tested an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) engine. While there […]
The role of Ideology in North Korea.
What is ideology in North Korea? It is, as the author Hyung Gu Lynn wrote, a monumental illusion characterized by a great ideological and political […]
Multiculturalism in Modern Korea
In preparation for this year’s Chuseok, married migrant women in Ulsan were busy participating in a social event run by the Ulsan Buck-gu office to […]