Featured Recommendations 18 July 2024 From the Periphery to the Center: Moon Jae-in Looks Back on His Foreign Policy An essential book for South Korean liberals' outlook on foreign policy.
Featured Recommendations 12 April 2024 Book Review: Seeing South Korea Without Orientalism Colin Marshall's new book suggests covering South Korea without exoticism.
Featured Recommendations 24 March 2023 In the Name of God: New Netflix Documentary Explores South Korea’s Cults A timely documentary considers the legacy of cults from the period of South Korea's economic growth.
Featured Recommendations 19 August 2022 Candid Look at South Korea’s Start-Up Scene: Book Review Krafton Way is an unusually in-depth look at South Korea's start-up scene.
Featured Recommendations 15 July 2022 Presidential Election Through the Lens of Participation and Cynicism Erik Mobrand, the best contemporary theorist of South Korean politics, offers his view on the 2022 election.
Featured Society 31 January 2022 Femicide in South Korea: Data Femicide is notable for the brutality of its violence, and the emotional state of the killing men.
Featured Society 6 November 2021 Vivid Look into the Eating Lives of the Poor "The Table of the Poor" by Kukmin Ilbo interactive shows a rare look at the South Korean poor's nutritional deficiency.
Featured Recommendations 26 June 2021 Book Review: a Nuanced Look at North Korean Defectors Jo Cheon-hyeon's book The Defectors takes down the myths about the North Koreans who leave their country.
Featured National Security 6 March 2021 Recognizing South Korea as a Military Power South Korea's superior conventional weaponry may act as a hindrance to denuclearizing North Korea.
Featured Society 22 January 2021 Shocking Number of Deaths for Migrant Workers Migrant farm hands perish at an alarming rate, especially during South Korea's bitter winter.
Featured Society 15 January 2021 Social Distancing Strands Runaways Yet another way in which the COVID-19 prevention measures have fallen on the socially vulnerable.
Featured Society 14 December 2020 Alternative Military Service Begins for Conscientious Objectors Until 2018, South Korea imprisoned those who refused to serve the military duty.
Recommendations 9 December 2020 Three Cheers for the Foreign Press The foreign correspondents in South Korea are dropping the orientalist routine.
Featured United States 30 November 2020 "No More 'America No. 1'" That KBS, South Korea's public broadcaster, put out this report makes the harshness of the assessment more salient.
Featured Recommendations 25 November 2020 Will South Korea Make a Strategic Shift Away from the United States? The foreign policy topics that were once beyond the pale are now subjects of live debates.
Featured Recommendations 2 November 2020 Graphic Novel on Imperial Japan’s Sexual Slavery Wins a Top Industry Award Grass by Keum Suk Gendry-Kim, based on true story, won the Harvey Award for Best International Book
Recommendations 25 August 2020 Elder Poverty and Subsistence-Labor South Korea's elder poverty is the country's least discussed problem. A new book makes it a little less so.
Recommendations 25 August 2020 How South Korean Shipping Got Its Groove Back How the government resuscitated the shipping business from the disastrous Hanjin bankruptcy
