#84 - Paul Y. Chang
The Korean family, how it functions and what it looks like, has fundamentally changed over the course of the past decades. The traditional extended fa...
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Korea and the World interviews academics, professionals and intellectuals living and working in South Korea on current political, economic and societal issues.
#83 - Merose Hwang
Shamanism has a long tradition on the Korean peninsula and describes a set of ethnic religions and practices. It remains in practice to this day, yet ...
#82 - Juhn Ahn
Introduced to Korea during the first millenia, Buddhism has a long history on the Peninsula and remains until today a major influence on the Korean so...
#81 - Mitchell B. Lerner
The early days of 1968 brought North Korea into the world’s headlines. Not only did Pyongyang send clandestine forces in an attempt to assassinate the...
#80 - Dong-Won Kim
Star Wars and Star Trek are among the highest-grossing movie franchises worldwide - yet they usually do not feature among the most successful films re...
#79 - Kyung Moon Hwang
When did Korea modernize? For many the answer lies in the colonial era. While broadly accepted, this view is not without flaws or opponents. One of th...
#78 - Robert S. Ross
As many observers argue, China’s foreign policy has become more assertive since Xi Jinping became President in 2013. The country once advocating its "...
#77 - Janet Poole
From 1910 to 1945, Japan ruled over the Korean Peninsula and tried to assimilate the Korean people into its empire. Part of this ambition was the supp...
#76 - Jonathan D. Pollack
The relations between South Korea, Japan and the United States are often described as triangular. The two Asian countries have been long-time alliance...
#75 - Catherine Ceniza Choy
In the past fifteen years, families in the United States have adopted more than 200.000 children from other countries, and over 20.000 from South Kore...