Dr Youngmi Kim’s new article about the recent political event and democracy in South Korea has been published on The Guardian. The article is available to read here:South Korean democracy was nearly toppled by its president. It was saved by its people

We are delighted to welcome H.E. Mr. Yeocheol Yoon, the Korean Ambassador to the UK, to the University of Edinburgh on 22nd August 2024. In this particular event, Mr Ambassador provided insightful perspectives on UK-South Korea cooperation and exchanged views with the staff of the Korean Studies program at the University of Edinburgh.     […]

  Korean Youth: Spaces, Ecologies, and Technologies (Conference) Date/Place: 19 – 20 June 2023, 50 George Square                       Korean Ambassador’s Talk (Lecture) Date/Place: 11 August 2023, 50 George Square                     Korean Culture Day Date/Place: 5 October […]

Event: “A Distance Place” (Film Screening) Date/Place: 2 October 2022, Film House Participants: Students, staff, public audience Purpose: Collaborated event with Queer East Film Festival     Event: “Take Me Home” (Film Screening) Date/Place: 5 October 2022, Film House Participants: Students, staff, public audience Purpose: Collaborated event with Queer East Film Festival Remarks: Dr Kim […]

Glyn Ford   It is time to come to terms with the fact that the world is in denial about the realities behind Pyongyang’s drive for nuclear deterrence. Its Intercontinental Ballistic Missile Programme (ICBM) and its compendium of nuclear tests are a demonstration of weakness, not strength; an answer to paucity rather than plenty. The image of […]

Dr Aliya Tskhay Research Fellow, University of St Andrews What happened? The beginning of 2022 in Kazakhstan will forever remain in its history and people’s memory, as a week of protests, violence and destruction erupted in the country. On January 2 a peaceful protest against the increase of prices for the liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) […]

Professor Hyung-A Kim Outgoing President Moon Jae-in, in his recent “Talk with Citizens”, claimed that South Korea’s rise to the “top 10 nations” in the world while in office was his biggest achievement. Moon’s acclaim of South Korea’s achievements, especially in 2021, is warranted by the worldwide phenomena of Korean culture and art-based soft power, […]

Mikyoung Kim (Former Associate Professor, Hiroshima City University of Japan) Japan’s unusual ‘no-show’ in Washington DC The U.S., which has not directly intervened in so-called “history issues” between Korea and Japan, had to witness and deal with Korea-Japan diplomatic tensions in Washington last November. It happened during the Korea-U.S.-Japan Vice Foreign Ministers’ Meeting held on […]

Dr. Rita Udor One Saturday evening six months after I went to Willow village for my field studies, I was introduced to Ziggy by my informant. Sunday after church, in the hot summer afternoon, I met with him. He was wearing a winter jacket, and I wondered how anyone could wear such thick clothing on […]

Martin Weiser On February 16, South Korean lawmakers were briefed by the National Intelligence Service (NIS) that recently Kim Jong Un’s state title was changed from “Chairman of the State Affairs Commission” (SAC) in English translations to “President of the State Affairs of the DPRK.” Journalists then rushed to turn this into news. But instead […]