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( source ) It's been announced that the Canadian sitcom Kim's Convenience is ending after its fifth and latest season, but to me, th...

Even though we were together, each member of my immigrant family—father, mother, me, and my younger brother—went through his or her own indi...

Diagram by "National Alliance for Tunnel Security", claiming to show  the configuration of North Korean tanks under the Gyeongbokg...

Darius I is concerned that Persians are listening to K-pop. ( source ) There are a number of different ways to win the Sid Meier’s Ci...

[Spoiler Warning: This post discusses highly granular details of the movie Parasite , and it really wouldn’t make sense unless you watched...

(Disclosure: I received a review copy of this book.) The women’s national team for South Korean ice hockey had a problem: it sucked....

Alright - here is something that is only tangentially related to Korea, but a chance to do some good for a very good boy in his holiday sea...

Seo Taiji and Boys, c. 1993 ( source ) I. The 2010s is nearly over. What will the 2020s have in store for K-pop? Modern K-po...

I still need to finish the last part of the Nine Years of Darkness series. But hearing the news that Nancy Pelosi finally greenlighted an ...

[ Series Index ] The ’65 System is dead—but Americans are slow to wake up to this fact. Much of the foreign policy circles in and around ...

[ Series Index ] The ’65 System was a flawed one, based on an imperfect set of treaties that papered over the fundamental disagreement betw...

[ Series Index ] The most hopeful case in favor of the '65 System can be stated as the following: it was the politics of the possib...

[ Series Index ] For approximately 25 years, the ’65 System functioned exactly as intended. Japan and South Korea would build a close ec...

[ Series Index ] After An Jung-geun shot Ito Hirobumi in 1909, An demanded he be treated as a prisoner of war, a soldier who carried out ...

[ Series Index ] Newspaper illustration showing An Jung-geun's arrest after shooting Ito Hirobumi ( source ) The first prime m...