Posts Tagged ‘Cheonan Incident’
These Bloody Ties: A Review of “The Unloved Republic” by Brian Myers
In a new essay, James Constant reviews the latest book by one of the boldest writers in Korean Studies, B.R. Myers. The fundamentals of South Korean state identity are tabled for discussion.
Factional Politics and Contentious Memorials: #Shigak no. 21
The sex trade is a battleground wherever you go, and South Korea is no different. In this edition of #Shigak, the Constitutional Court in Seoul gears up to pass judgment on an unpopular 2004 law. Elsewhere, the state remembers the Cheonan for the final time.
Game of Battleships: A Commentary on the History and Future of the Northern Limit Line Disputes
Mycal Ford surveys the turbulent waters around the disputed Northern Limit Line, probing for contemporary and historical clues about the possibility for renewed inter-Korean hostility.
O Kuk Ryol: The Old Guard Never Dies
A generation of North Korean leaders came of age in the 1930s and 1940s, and the bonds and relationships which had developed among them during this time — that is, during the Manchurian guerrilla experience and the subsequent North Korean revolution — shaped political developments in Kim Il Sung’s DPRK. Apart from the highly relevant […]
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