society
by JEON Byung-geun from Book Club Origin · 43 MIN READ
In a rare interview with a Korean journalist, Taiwan’s Tang Nuo opens up decades of reading. ‘Reader agitation’, marriage to Chu T’ien-hsin, and musings on where societies are headed.
ⓒ Im Jeong-deuk
by LEE Arom · 14 MIN READ
Putting protest to song.
by JEON Byung-geun from Book Club Origin · 23 MIN READ
“I think nowhere are the promises and dangers of twenty-first-century technology clearer than in the Korean peninsula.”
Koo Hee Eon
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5 MIN READ
Back in January, an American professor in Korea published a piece on Medium framing K-pop as “neo-Confucianist pornography”. The article was recently translated into Korean, to considerable pushback. Here’s a summary.
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by HBC Squirtle · 3 MIN READ
One day I got a free gift from “Substitute Housewife”, a housekeeping service . The gift was a cleaning towel with this blunt message: “A substitute housewife is much cheaper than divorce”.
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by Subin KIM · 2 MIN READ
Three hundred meters. From Seoul Square to Gwanghwamun Square. The psychological distance between the two, however, is far wider than the physical.
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by R.H. Lee · 6 MIN READ
Since October 2016, an estimated 16 million participants have marched for the president’s impeachment. Here’s a reflection from one of our contributors.
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by SONG Hyejin from Chosun Ilbo · 8 MIN READ
“How then can the younger generation and the Taegeukgi generation communicate?”