The Softest of Soft Powers: Panda Diplomacy
For more than 50 years, China has offered pandas to zoos around the world, acting as the softest of...
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Unlocking Latin America’s Development Potential: Lessons from Natura &Co’s Corporate Sustainability Journey
While the rest of the world is growing, Latin America and the Caribbean currently contribute only 5.44% to the...
Surviving Climate Change: the Pacific Island Countries’ Fight to Exist
Last year, a group of law students from the University of the South Pacific in Fiji put together a...
Beyond Representation: Towards a Liberatory Asian American Politics
Asian Americans, Everywhere All At Once Asian Americans have long been plagued by the “perpetual foreigner” stereotype. Regardless of...
Bridging the Gap: Australia-Korea relations in the 21st Century
People often ask me why I moved from my home country of Australia to Seoul. My answer is always...
Why the West Needs Korea: The Orientalist roots of Brainwashing
Introduction: “Forgive them, for they know not what they do” To the West, North Korea is a country antithetical...
“Partial Globalization”: A Spanish Volunteer’s Experience in Korea
Summer of 2022. My first summer in Korea. What started as a random Instagram ad, became a precious experience...
Food Scarcity in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea and the Work of a Local NGO to Provide Aid
Food Scarcity in the DPRK Access to food is an everyday concern for individuals living in the Democratic People’s...
K-pop is being trashed: the waste behind it
If you grew up with the rise of pop music, you probably shifted from cassettes to CDs that came...
The Price of Convenience and The Recycling Myth
My rude awakening about the recycling myth happened when I got COVID a few months back. It is safe...