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Friday, September 29, 2017

2006 flashback: Foreign instructors "absorbed in decadence," women and drugs

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Inside Story 's 2006 articles on the evils of foreign English teachers Part 1:  Foreign instructors earn money, are 'absorbed in d...
Tuesday, September 19, 2017

Does anyone remember Watch Your Head?

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Over at the Korea Times, Jon Dunbar wrote about the changes to the Hongdae Playground and his memories of it over the years (it's offic...
Wednesday, September 13, 2017

Blocking educational access to stigmatized children in 1969... and today

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This week the  Joongang Daily  and  Korea Expose  reported on a September 5 meeting where residents in Gangseo-gu clashed over the conversio...
Saturday, August 12, 2017

'A Taxi Driver' depicts the Gwangju Uprising

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Over the years I've written quite a bit about the Gwangju Uprising, the way it has been remembered, and the movies and literature which ...
Tuesday, July 18, 2017

Anti English Spectrum distributes pamphlets in Seoul part 2 [AKA the final post of the English Spectrum Incident series]

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The 2005 English Spectrum Incident Part 1:  English Spectrum and 'Ask The Playboy' Part 2:  The Kimchiland where it’s easy to sle...
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Wednesday, July 12, 2017

Fringe Christian anti-gay group opposes ending HIV tests for E-2s

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In the wake of the Ministry of Justice announcing that it would no longer require HIV tests for foreign instructors, (reported in the Korean...
Monday, July 10, 2017

Yonhap: Controversy over discrimination prompts Korea to stop E-2 HIV tests

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[Update, July 12] Here's an article about the end of HIV testing which borrows from the article Benjamin Wagner and I wrote, though i...