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Category: Contemporary

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Internet Culture and Rough Music

Posted on October 26, 2017 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

Not really a post, but more of an idea. I ran across this, about victims of the alleged Las Vegas  shooting who are being harassed on-line. I say alleged, becau...

1960s/1970s/1980s/Christianity/Contemporary/General/Historiography/Korea/Postwar/Religion/US-Korea

Things I don’t know about Korea, part 3

Posted on September 2, 2012 by Jonathan Dresner / 2 Comments

One of the things that I noticed about the materials I used last time I taught Korean history1 is that the texts I chose for my course did not mention, much les...

Atrocities/Contemporary/Diaspora/General/Korea/Korea-Japan/Memory/Nationalism/US-Korea

Diaspora And Diplomatic Communities Memorialize Conflict

Posted on May 18, 2012 by Jonathan Dresner / 2 Comments

A memorial plaque was dedicated in a park in Palisades Park, New Jersey in 2010 which reads In Memory of the more than 200,000 women and girls who were abducted...

1945-1950/1960s/1970s/Contemporary/Korea-Japan/Korean War/Science / Technology/US-Korea

Politics of Health / Medicine, post 1945

Posted on August 7, 2011 by John P. DiMoia / 0 Comment

I’ve been thinking again about the broader issue of beginning to approach the South Korean post-colonial state and post-1945 medicine, recognizing the imm...

1945-1950/1960s/Contemporary/Economic/General/Korea-Japan/Science / Technology/US-Korea

Generating Power–Electric, hydroelectric, thermal (coal), atomic

Posted on February 15, 2010 by John P. DiMoia / 7 Comments

I’m back once again to this question of electricity and power in its various forms, as I think the long-term story of generating power in NE Asia (1880...

1970s/Contemporary/Economic/General/Labor/Politics

KTX female attendants – “contingent labour” fights back

Posted on July 16, 2007 by noja / 4 Comments

There was a time in Korean labour movement history in the 1970s when it were the female workers who actually led the most militant part of the struggle. The rea...

Books and Articles/Contemporary/Cultural/Historiography/Korea/Literature

History ‘faction’

Posted on June 22, 2007 by Owen / 2 Comments

According to the Hankyoreh, historical novels are all the rage at the moment in Korea. This doesn’t really surprise me all that much as historical novels ...

1980s/Contemporary/Korea/Memory/Politics

The June struggle in the British newspapers

Posted on June 11, 2007 by Owen / 3 Comments

Over at my own blog I’ve decided to mark the anniversary of the events of June 1987 in South Korea by following contemporary reports from the British news...

Contemporary/English/General/Historical analogies/Korea/Korean War/US-Korea

Analogy Alert: Iraq/Korea

Posted on May 31, 2007 by Jonathan Dresner / 7 Comments

this via: White House spokesman Tony Snow said Bush would like to see a U.S. role in Iraq ultimately similar to that in South Korea. “The Korean model is ...

Contemporary/Events/Korea/Korea-China/Late Chosŏn

Two talks this week

Posted on May 21, 2007 by Owen / 0 Comment

A couple of very interesting talks coming up at short notice for anyone who happens to be around in LA or Seoul in the next couple of days (or perhaps both if y...

Contemporary/Cultural/Korea/Late Chosŏn

If you thought the Chosŏn dynasty was over, think again

Posted on October 2, 2006 by Owen / 1 Comment

Actually, strictly speaking, 88-year-old Yi Hae-won was crowned queen (or should that be empress?) of the Great Han Empire (大韓帝國) last week, rather than the Cho...

Contemporary/Economic/General/Nationalism/US-Korea

Manifesto from the Suyu Research Institute on the S.Korea-USA FTA plans – The Twilight of Empire?

Posted on May 12, 2006 by noja / 10 Comments

Dear colleagues, Below I put the English text of the manifesto penned by two of the most promising post-nationalist scholars I know in South Korea, namely Dr. K...

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