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author archivesFortune Telling? Use Some Logic for the Year of the Snake
By Tom McGregor We all live in a life-and-death cycle. More people will be born into this world in 2013...
Funky Seoul Corner 18: Lightnin’ Hopkins’ ‘I Like To Boogie’
By Scott Freeman Lightnin’ (sometimes spelled Lightening) Hopkins (nee Sam John Hopkins) is a blues legend, but he belongs on...
Google and KJU–Another North Korean Propaganda Coup
By Donald Kirk Once again the North Koreans are scoring a propaganda coup by exploiting the presence of a high-level...
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Our New President: the Views of Korea’s Young Women
By 3WM With the election of Korea's first female president, Park Geun-hye, on Dec. 19, 3WM asked three young Korean...
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Little Ado in South Korea over North’s Rocket Launch–Stock Market Rises, Life Goes on
Toon by Lee Scott/Words by Iwazaru As North Koreans reportedly danced in the streets of Pyongyang following the government's announcement...
Ignorant Experts–Andrei Lankov on Watching North Korea
By Andrei Lankov The author has been studying North Korea for some 25 years, and for most of this time...
Church? Volunteer Organization? Cult? The Nebulous World of Korean Religious Movements
By Donald Kirk Unknown outside Korea and little known to most Koreans, the Shinchonji Church and the Mannam organization are...
Clubbing with Khmai Teenagers in Phnom Penh
By Scott Liam Soper If you didn’t know and you are interested, Phnom Penh’s most popular teen disco is on...
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Adventures in Parenting Abroad Pt. 4: Please Please Please Reproduce! We’ll Give You Anything You Want!
By Ms. V South Korea’s crude birthrate is currently 8.42 a year per 1,000 persons. This puts South Korea among...
Silent But Deadly: the Scent of Korean Food
By Jen Lee As a Korean that was born and raised in America, it wasn’t uncommon for me to run...
The Invisible Elephant — Asia and the U.S. Presidential Election
By Donald Kirk It’s hard to imagine Obama or Romney will have a credible answer on how to deal with...
From ‘Gangnam Style’ to ‘Dartmouth Style’
By Elena J. My first few months here have proved that Dartmouth offers so much more than just beautiful scenery....
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Into Thin Korean Air: The Disappearance of Mr. Jeong
By Michael Fraiman Charles Jeong woke up quietly on the morning of Sunday, July 15. Nobody noticed anything strange about...
Funky Seoul Corner 17: Bobby Womack’s ‘Across 110th Street’
By Scott Freeman “Across 110th Street” is a tune that I have played once while DJing, although I wound up...
Queering Korean Literature: Author and Activist Yi Gwang-su
By Gabriel Sylvian Why doesn’t Korea, a country proud of many "firsts" and "bests," memorialize the first short story ever...