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John Gray, The Immortalization Commission
Pouring are all too many good things to read online, so I’ve been just dumping them into Pocket when I see one and giving empty promises that I’ll take a look. But I do try read it all every time the New Statesman publishes John Gray’s write-ups. His contemplation has the power to penetrate the surface…
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Laibach in Jeonju, South Korea, May 1st 2017
Having witnessed a Laibach performance in South Korea, I believe now that anything can happen in this peninsula. A Trump-KJU summit? I thought Laibach events in both korea had a far smaller chance. [x_alert heading=”previously on this blog:” type=”muted”]세계 최초로 북한에서 공연을 했던 록밴드가 이제 남한을 찾는다 (HuffPost) 라이바흐 Laibach: 북한에서 공연한 최초의 서방 밴드…
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Now the game is a draw. Ahn Cheol-soo has caught up with Moon Jae-in.
Of the numerous national slogans Korea gives itself, discarded by each new administration, I think Dynamic Korea was the best. So dynamic is Korea, that even I— a born, raised and bred Seoulite—sometimes find myself confused. The political arena is, of course, a bloodbath. Especially the presidential elections. Well we had all been thinking Moon…
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My introduction to The Private Life of a Nation
However hard we try to minimize the risks of unification, Lee is quite sure it will be a disaster. He still remembers the ruin of East Germany when he visited right after the Berlin Wall collapsed and the shock he felt became the source of his bleak vision of a unified Korea… …Does this mean…
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No, K-pop is not Neo-Confucian Pornography
[x_alert type=”info”]An edited version of this article is appeared on The Dissolve.[/x_alert] Confucianism is long dead as a dominant principle or ideology in Eastern Asia, yet it has been often summoned by scholars who attempt to analyze the culture and the society of Eastern Asia. While it’s true that a once-dominant ideology in a society…