Professor Moon-Sook Park – Atlanta Spa Shooting Victims Remembrance and Tribute
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...
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Another Korean Miracle? The Paradox of Civic Trust in the Dataveillance State...
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...
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Dark Fleets and Ghost Ships: Rethinking North Korean Rights to the Sea
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...
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Surveillance and Privacy in South Korea’s Covid Response
Professor Tom Sorell The first case of Covid in South Korea (see Footnote 1) was reported on 20 January 2020. The initial half-dozen cases all had a connection with Wuhan or Hubei province in China. In...
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What Journalists Missed About Kim Jong Un Becoming President
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...
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The Bottom of the Ladder – African Migrants in South Korea
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...
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Japan’s Role in the Peace-building Process of the Korean Peninsula
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”...
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Moon’s Remaking of South Korea: Rich but Not-so-Content People
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...
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Kazakhstan’s Turmoil: Socio-economic grievances and political power struggle
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...
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Pyongyang’s nuclear adventures are driven by Seoul and Washington
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...
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