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2025-05-01 The narrowness of speculative fiction on Korea
The Korean War is the “Forgotten War,” and the peninsula remains stuck in a static conceptual role: a Cold War holdover, frozen in time
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2025-04-27 Storytelling in international relations
In international relations, the most influential book of the Cold War wasn’t a theoretical breakthrough - it was a pulp novel with a moral message
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2025-01-01 The Ugly American and Korea
Though the novel was set in the context of Southeast Asia during the Cold War, its insights into the importance of humility, cultural understanding, and…
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2024-12-20 Manspreading
Maybe on a Tuesday or a Wednesday, CNN replaces “Terror in Israel” with “Crisis Korea”...
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2024-11-22 Novelists in the situation room
Sometimes, the people who see things most clearly are those who aren’t bogged down by all that expertise—outsiders like novelists, playwrights, and…
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2024-11-07 North Korean balloons filled with money and porn
It was the end of summer and the roads were still hot and soft, and returned heat from the day back into the evening...
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2024-10-25 Korea’s folktale foreign policy
For a creativity exercise, why not try to draw a link between Korea’s most popular folktales and its most pressing foreign policy issues?
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2024-10-04 The old man and the Incheon stream
He was an old man who fished beside 30 others dangling a single line over a heavily trafficked bridge and had gone around 45 minutes without a drink of…
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2024-09-12 The Incheon Port Road
An LED screen with green text marked every moment. Row after row from the moment he turned the ignition key in Seoul...
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2024-06-15 Koreas policy Sorting fact with fiction
There is today a large number of Korean-American authors and Korean authors in translation whose fictional works should be required reading in any…
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2020-05-03 North Korea between fact and fiction
The modern media environment and the changing role of facts in policy has led to wildly speculative and sensationalist reports about North Korea
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2017-09-12 Do Analogies Steer South Korea's Foreign Policy
Which analogies are most influential on South Korean foreign policy decision-making?
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