#Shigak no. 2: Comfort Women Issues and Ahn Cheol-soo’s New Political Party
The South Korean nation has entered a new era. The prominence of defector resettlements and the treatment of foreign workers in media reports indicate as much. These topics are the central focus of this issue of #Shigak.
Yongusil 26: Culture Changes in Post-Industrial South Korea
Steven Denney, utilizing WVS surveys and political socialization theory, addresses cultural change in a Post-Industrial South Korea at the 17th Harvard East Asian Studies Conference.
Back to the Primary Source: Hunting for Kim Il-sung’s “May 25th Instructions”
1967 was a key year in ensuring that the Kim family’s iron-fisted ideological control of the DPRK would continue indefinitely. At the forefront of this process was a speech delivered on May 25 that year. The problem is that no foreigner has ever seen it, and it has long been misidentified by South Korean scholars. Hwang Jang-yop turns in his grave, while Fyodor Tertitskiy investigates.
Back to the Tumen Triangle Documentation Project: Issue 2
Sino-NK presents issue two of the Tumen Triangle Documentation Project: Sourcing the Chinese-North Korean Border, with a preface by former British Chargé d’Affaires to the DPRK James Hoare. Edited by Christopher Green.
Raising a Fiercer Wind: Meetings and Messages
Robert Winstanley-Chesters examines the scaling and rescaling of important political and narrative messages in 2014 and 1964, including the vital role played by group meetings at different institutional levels.
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