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Last week, the Daily NK (from Seoul) published an article by Kang Mi Jin about "Loanwords frequently appearing in the Rodong Sinmun" (11/25/16), South Korean original here.  Rodong Sinmun is the official newspaper of the North Korean Central Committee...

Author: Keeseok Kim, KNU Since the normalisation of diplomatic relations in 1965, interaction between South Korea and Japan has been coloured by both the darkness of the past and the brightness of the future. On the bright side, the two neighbours have...

Game of Thrones isn’t on, you’ve finished Orange Is The New Black, and fall TV hasn’t kicked in yet. You need something to get obsessed with. Allow me to suggest a Korean drama, or K-drama, as they’re called. You may have heard about them, or seen that...

After a relatively light summer — both in terms of box office and critical favorites — the fall movie season is here to save us. We hope. As the awards derby heats up (right now, only “Boyhood” and “Grand Budapest Hotel” are likely contenders among...

The late Lee Kuan Yew (1923-2015) and Singapore do not fit easily in the imagination of Anglo-American media. In this idiosyncratic universe, a normative standard persists in the form of an Orientalist dichotomy: a “developed West”, and the “underdeveloped...