My Journal and Korea Times Articles

Journal of Korean Law article (with Benjamin Wagner):

HIV/AIDS Tests as a Proxy for Racial Discrimination? A Preliminary Investigation of South Korea’s Policy of Mandatory In-Country HIV/AIDS Tests for its Foreign English Teachers


Transactions of the Royal Asiatic Society Korea Branch articles:

"To devise an escape from destiny": The role of fortune-telling in Korea's developmental past and neoliberal present (Download here; Volume 92)

Grit and Enterprise: Western Correspondents in Korea during the Russo-Japanese War (Download here; Volume 93)

'Tell the World what is Happening': The Americans who Witnessed the Kwangju Uprising (Volume 94)


Sino-NK

South Korea’s Resettlement of South Vietnamese War Refugees

Korea Herald

Three articles for the Korea Herald from 2009 are collected here.

Below is a list of articles I have written for the Korea Times since January 2018, organized loosely in chronological order by topic rather than publication date.

Book explores Korea's 1871 conflict with U.S.

How Syngman Rhee's success led to Korea's division

Frank Schofield, 'a most dangerous man' and an 'eternal Korean'

Trials of Korean atomic bomb survivors

Forced haircuts in 1960 opened rift in Korea-U.S. alliance

Trying to save a gov't from a coup in 1961

When Korea's exiled royal family returned home

'Fighting' over Konglish in the 1960s

Christmas in the early 1960s: A time of charity, Christmas cards, drunken merrymaking

Solemnity vs revelry on Christmas Eve in the 1960s

Containing the cholera epidemic in 1960s Korea

Arbor Day and the reforestation of Korea

Yeontan briquettes opened windows while warming homes

Critic without pity who wrote 'Scouting the City'

'Bottomless corruption' of Korea's 1965 methadone scandal

Peace Corps' 1966 arrival in Korea

Reacting to Vietnamese 'anti-Koreanism' in 1967

NK actions in 1968 caused anti-US protests in Seoul

Fighting segregation in Seoul's schools in 1969

'Traitorous' translators tread carefully in Korean literature

Korea's battle over the 'domineering use of Chinese characters' in 1970

Trying to translate 'jucheseong' in 1970

Korea enters 'highway age' 50 years ago

Looking down high noses at 'quack plastic surgeons' in 1971

Saving children from 'unhealthy' comics in the 1960s and 1970s

Student opinions on earning money, happiness, Western influence in 1968

Experiencing beer halls and makgeolli houses in late 1960s

Korean youths experiment with art, bodypainting in 1960s

Hahn Dae-soo's 18-day rollercoaster ride of fame in 1968

Hysterical Korean teens greet Cliff Richard in 1969

Korea Times goes go-go dancing in 1971

Opening of 'Tomorrow' go-go club in 1971

Discrimination, stifled protests, race riots in 1971

When Korea pioneered synth-pop

'Naked in the streets!' - Korea Times reports on streaking fad of 1974

How US-style drug laws helped crush 1970s Korean youth culture

Suppression of marijuana, 'degenerate' youth culture in 1975

Dark Christmases amid crises, dictatorship in early 1970s

Vietnam War refugees arrive in Korea in 1975

Former refugee recalls kindness in 1970s Korea

Hoaxster James 'Swim' takes readers to 'places the RAS dare not go'

Weekly scribbles reflect life in Seoul in 1970s

When 'guests criticize their hosts'

Enjoying 'open and liberalized way of life' as nighttime curfew lifts in 1982

What foreign journalists saw covering 1988 Olympics

NBC offended Koreans during 1988 Seoul Olympics too

Itaewon once again at center of virus fears

Tracing southwestern Seoul's underappreciated history