Editor’s Note
Introducing #Shigak | #시각: Perspectives on South Korea
Sino-NK rolls out Shigak, a new data collection and information management effort on South Korea that seeks to connect particular domestic issues with broader geopolitical, economic, and political concerns. Edited by Steven Denney and Christopher Green.
Introducing Tongsin | 통신
Introducing Tongsin | 통신: data and analysis of the North Korean state media reports on the subject of China. This debut issue examines the North Korean emphasis on an independent and growing DPRK economy in the months preceding the Jang Song-taek purge.
Editor’s Note: Sino-NK Junior Fellowship—Byul Ryan-im
Sino-NK extends its institutional and pedagogic journey by developing a Junior Fellowship programme. Introducing our first Junior Fellow Byul Ryan-im of Durham University
Crossing into New Territories: Sino-NK’s New Home
Sino-NK takes a big leap in the field of digital humanities as it rolls out its new website. With the transition comes a redesigned interface and a new layout bettered suited for both our writers and our readers!
Editor’s Note: Oxford-Seoul Nexus–Sino-NK at Engage Korea and Asan Plenum
Scholarship and debate are at the core of the Sino-NK enterprise. Sabine van Ameijden, the group’s Research Coordinator, brings out several abstracts given by our writers at recent conferences.
Editor’s Note (UPDATED): Sino-NK “On Its Way to Meet You” at SOAS
Sino-NK continues to pursue a multitude of diverse research objectives, just a few of which are published here on the website. Next weekend, for example, Co-editor Christopher Green will be at SOAS in London, speaking about the South Korean media.
Editor’s Note
As the fall semester gets off the ground in earnest, we anticipate enacting a few more changes to our overall profile which we anticipate announcing relatively soon. In the meantime, a spin-through some recent activity of our editors and selected analysts may be of interest. Here is a tour of Sino-NK around the web, and its editors and analysts in action around the world.
Editor’s Note
Summer arrives in earnest at Sino-NK with several new additions to our team of analysts, including recent contributors Darcie Draudt in Seoul, Erin Hoshibata in Hawai’i and Nick Miller in Washington, D.C. With a revitalized and global Staff, we have a strong lineup of essays planned for the summer, along with our customary level (other adjectives […]