Dr Robert Winstanley-Chesters 2020 was a difficult year for global mobilities, however seemingly uncontrolled mobile energies were at play at sea. A particularly widely spread academic article from July 2020 focused on Chinese “Dark Fleets” of fishing boats, which had come to dominate many of the fishing grounds once important to North Korea, whose own […]
Another Korean Miracle? The Paradox of Civic Trust in the Dataveillance State in the COVID 19 Crisis
Hoon Jaung (Professor, Dept. Political Science and International Relations, Chung Ang University) This essay was drawn from the author’s publication in Korean, “COVID 19 Crisis and Korean Dataveillance State,” in Korean Journal of Legislative Studies vol. 26(3), 2020. When the world fell into the COVID 19 crisis in early 2020, South Korea seemed to be […]
Professor Moon-Sook Park, soprano and Associate Professor at the University of Arkansas, was invited to perform at St Cecilia’s Hall on the occasion of the 2020 SoKEN conference. The event was later postponed due to the pandemic. We are delighted to share her performance here. This performance of 엄마야 누나야 (Dear Mother, Dear Sister) […]
Dr. Guy Puzey (University of Edinburgh) Twenty-two countries contributed military and humanitarian forces to the United Nations Command (UNC) during the Korean War. In practically all of those countries except South Korea itself, however, this is largely a forgotten conflict, to the extent that ‘the term “forgotten war” is synonymous with Korea in Anglophone culture’ […]
Dr. Michael Schluter and Dr. Jeremy Ive The underlying issues and way forward This article is a brief introduction to Relational Peacebuilding Initiatives’ proposal for a new way forward for peace on the Korean Peninsula. Our starting point is that the problems of the Peninsula can only be resolved if trust is rebuilt between North […]
Call of Freedom Aung Soe Min Wake up India Wake up World Wake up Myanmar Wake up for us, for Myanmar. Oh India, When we were enslaved in one colony We carried the same burden We strode the same road to independence. Your land was famous for passion for freedom Open air for free thinking […]
Longing for Fingerprints – 지문을 부른다 Park Nohae (translated by Professor An, Seon Jae (Brother Anthony MBE)) As we hunch together, plowing our way through the falling sleet, we laugh, saying that we’d better tell the truth if we’re going to keep dealing with things during working hours. We enter the local government office. Peeling […]
To the Pigs Young-Mi Choi On an afternoon when I was really exhausted, I gave a pearl to a pig. Jumping up and down with joy, he ran to the other pigs And bragged that he got to own my pearl. But it was a cracked pearl. He doesn’t know In my drawer, clearer flawless […]
Dr. Jim Hoare* The election of Joe Biden as US president has once again brought the question of engaging with the DPRK (Democratic People’s Republic of Korea – North Korea) to the fore. It is doubtful, of course, that the DPRK will be very high on Biden’s list of urgent tasks but sooner or later […]
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