The Korea Times, earlier this week, posted an article titled ' Seoul Mayor Lee Pushes for Massive Cross-Country Canal '. I'm sur...

Speaking of Korean punk rock (yeah, I know it's been a few weeks; I've been doing research on some future posts), I came upon some p...

Another court related story... After detailing the scandal that occurred when two musicians dropped their pants on a live MBC music show (a...

Update 2: The National Human Rights Commission of Korea said yesterday (Nov. 15) that legislation is needed to remove any statute of limita...

In the book Contentious Kwangju: The May 18 Uprising in Korea's Past and Present , there's an interesting essay by Don Baker titled ...

Update: Antti found the site linked to below quite some time ago . Also, a recent article on Patti Kim makes reference to her debut in 19...

Update: Oranckay commented on protest suicide and it's political use by the left and the right, and Antti introduced me to the Chun Tae...

Update: I found an issue of the Korea Journal (from 2002) which has several essays about "Settling the Past". Anyone interested...

A couple of my students went to Comic World on Independence Day weekend (yeah, I'm two weeks behind. I know.) One of them was nice enoug...

But this time it's on a New York subway. And no, this time it's not dog poop, it's a guy masturbating in front of a woman on the...

This past weekend I had a chance to watch ‘ A State of Mind ’, a documentary which follows two young girls, aged 11 and 13, and looks at the...

[Update - The outcome of the trial is here .] On July 30, two Korean punk rockers dropped their pants and jumped around naked for 4 or 5 sec...