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Korean Studies
Interviews with scholars of Korea about their new books.
March 6, 2026
Standardizing Empire
Standardizing Empire: The US Military, Korea, and the Origins of Military-Industrial Capitalism (U Pennsylvania Press, 2026) by Dr. Patrick Chung trac…
February 21, 2026
Victimhood Nationalism
Nationalism today depends on the perception of victimhood. The historical memory of past suffering endows nationalist movements with political legitim…
February 10, 2026
K-Pop Fandom
K-Pop Fandom: Performing Deokhu from the 1990s to Today (U Michigan Press, 2026) insists that K-pop fan practices and activities constitute a central …
January 18, 2026
Finding Mr. Perfect
Finding Mr. Perfect: K-Drama, Pop Culture, Romance, and Race (Rutgers UP, 2025) by Dr. Min Joo Lee explores the romantic relationships between Korean …
January 9, 2026
Re-examining the Women’s Movement in Cold War South Korea and Beyond
In the past decade, feminism has become one of the heated topics in public debate in South Korea. Feminism is embraced by activists, attacked in elect…
January 7, 2026
Against the Chains of Utility
Against the Chains of Utility: Sacrifice and Literature in 1970s and 1980s South Korea (University of Hawaii Press, 2025) explores literary texts that…
December 27, 2025
Spaces of Creative Resistance
An exciting collection of stories of change that most people don’t usually hear from the bottom up, from the grassroots, about what’s happening in Eas…
December 26, 2025
Fallout
After nearly four decades of negotiations, sanctions, summits, threats, and backdoor channels, the United States has failed to stop North Korea's nucl…
October 22, 2025
Sustainable Peace in Northeast Asia
In the long run, countries in Northeast Asia will have to see the need for collective defense. Otherwise, you won’t be able to stop rivalry between po…
September 27, 2025
Queer Korea
Edited by Todd A. Henry, Queer Korea (Duke UP, 2020) offers a vital and long-overdue examination of this subject. More than an academic text, it is a…
September 8, 2025
Constructing Student Mobility
Constructing Student Mobility: How Universities Recruit Students and Shape Pathways between Berkeley and Seoul (MIT Press, 2023) challenges the popul…
July 29, 2025
Hidden Heros
Hidden Heroes (Anthem Press, 2025) offers a rare and intimate glimpse into the lives of ordinary North Koreans through a collection of short stories b…
July 3, 2025
Chinese Characters Across Asia
For centuries, scribes across East Asia used Chinese characters to write things down–even in languages based on very different foundations than Chines…
June 17, 2025
Salvaging Buddhism to Save Confucianism in Choson Korea (1392-1910)
Salvaging Buddhism to Save Confucianism in Chosŏn Korea (1392-1910) (Cambria Press, 2023) is a fascinating book that sits at the intersection of Buddh…
June 12, 2025
Accidental Tyrant
The Kims, of North Korea, are perhaps the 21st century’s most successful family dictatorship–if only due to sheer longevity, having run North Korea fo…
May 23, 2025
Evil
The purpose of Evil: A North Korean Christian Refugee Perspective (American Society of Missiology, 2024) is to describe how the North Korean refugee u…
May 21, 2025
Impossible Speech
How does art engage with its social context? What does 'the politics of art' even mean? In his new book Impossible Speech: The Politics of Representa…
May 3, 2025
Chinese Characters Across Asia
While other ancient nonalphabetic scripts—Sumerian cuneiform, Egyptian hieroglyphs, and Mayan hieroglyphs—are long extinct, Chinese characters, invent…
April 19, 2025
Polarizing Dreams
Gangnam is an exclusive zone of privilege and wealth that has lured South Korean pop culture industries since the 1980s and fueled the aspirations of …
April 3, 2025
A Fractured Liberation
Four decades of Japanese colonialism in Korea ended abruptly in August 1945. It took three weeks for U.S. troops to arrive, which started almost three…