The Unending Korean War
The Korea Policy Institute is pleased to share an issue of positions: asia critique (volume 23, issue 4) titled, “The Unending Korean...
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Continuing Struggle In South Korea
By Martin Hart-Landsberg | December 20, 2015
Union-Led Popular Protests Push to Oust South Korean President
By Hyun Lee and Gregory Elich | December 8, 2015
In South Korea, a Dictator’s Daughter Cracks Down on Labor
By Tim Shorrock | December 3, 2015
Christine Hong: Guest editor’s introduction: The Unending Korean War
Abstract: As an introduction to the special issue of positions: asia critique on the unending Korean War, this opening essay calls...
Bruce Cumings: Violet Ashes: A Tribute to Chris Marker
This essay examines the destructive air war over North Korea from 1950 to 1953 and asks why this enormous atrocity is either unknown or...
Monica Kim: The Intelligence of Fools: Reading the U.S. Military Archive of the Korean War
This article examines the struggle over sovereignty on the Korean peninsula from the US occupation through the Korean War not over the...
Christine Hong: Manufacturing Dissidence: Arts and Letters of North Korea’s “Second Culture”
Reading North Korean defector memoirs and Korean American “roots” narratives as forms of “second culture” relative to North Korea,...
Jinsoo An: War as Business in South Korea’s Manchurian Action Films
This essay examines Cold War political discourse in South Korea’s Manchurian action films. It opens by questioning the interpretive...
Henry Em, Christine Hong, Kim Dong-Choon: A Coda: A Conversation With Kim Dong-Choon
For over two decades, Kim Dong-Choon has written about the history of violence leveled at the population since Korea was liberated from...
Jodi Kim: “The Ending is Not and Ending At All” : On the Militarized and Gendered Diasporas of Kore
Through an analysis of two recent films, Deann Borshay Liem’s In the Matter of Cha Jung Hee (2010) and Jane Jin Kaisen’s The Woman, the...
Daniel Kim: The Borderlands of the Korean War and the Fiction of Rolando Hinojosa
This essay reads the work of Rolando Hinojosa for the ways in which it invites a consideration of the two wars that the United States...
Youngju Ryu: Truth or Reconciliation? The Guest and the Massacre That Never Ends
The Guest (Sonnim), Hwang Sok-yong’s 2001 novel, offers a sustained meditation on conditions of possibility for inter-Korean...
Leonard Rifas: Korean War Comic Books and the Militarization of American Masculinity
US comic books published about the Korean War during that conflict represented the war as an opportunity for US boys to become men...
Political And Economic Struggle In South Korea
By Martin Hart-Landsberg | November 30, 2015
South Korean Labor Strikes Back:Interview with KCTU president Han Sang-gyun
By Hyun Lee | November 12, 2015
Fightback in Korea
By Gregory Elich | November 12, 2015
Islanders Unite to Resist a New Pacific War
By Koohan Paik | November 7, 2015
The Unforgotten War
By Elaine Kim | October 17, 2015
Korean Americans Are Reclaiming Their History Through Culture
By Ramsay Liem and Christine Hong | October 30, 2015
