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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...

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