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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...

[ Series Index ] A.  The Choi Soon-sil Scandal Given how well the Choi Soon-sil scandal came to be known around the world (with a littl...

Young Korean girl with her brother on her back during the Korean War, c. 1951 ( source ) North Korea and South Korea were never not ...