Featured stories about South Korea
Adoption: Securing the Rights of Mothers and Children
Women speak out from all sides of the issue: adoptees, natural mothers and adoptive mothers try to make sense of the legal, reproductive and human rights issues behind adoptions.
Korea: Clinton’s Visit to North Korea
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August 2nd, 2009
Korea: Anti-Mother Internet Cafe
July 25th, 2009
Korea: Why Did Korean Politicians Fight?
July 22nd, 2009
Bangladesh, South Korea: Bandhobi, Addressing Migrant Workers' Issues
Bangladeshi blogger Fahmidul Haque introduces us [bn] to a Korean Movie which features the love between a Bangladeshi migrant worker and a South Korean teenager girl and addresses migrant workers' issues.
July 8th, 2009
China and North Korea: Kim is like Chairman Mao?
On 4 July, the United States’ National Day, North Korea has launched seven missiles tests again and some of them were medium-range rockets that pose threat to Japan and South Korea. While Kim Jong Il has been portrayed as a crazy and authoritarian figure, Chinese netizens are eager to compare ...
Links about South Korea
November 5th, 2009
matt from Gusts of popular feeling reads from the visa statistics and points out that multiculturalism in Korea is gendered to serve the need of patriarchal society.
October 30th, 2009
Robert Koehler from the Marmot's Hole picked up a news story about police's cracking down of foreign gangs and gave an introduction to the character of different foreign gangs.
October 28th, 2009
Jean Min from Ohmynews! told the story of the restoration of “Olle”, a walking path, in Jeju island.
October 13th, 2009
The Grand Narratives has an interesting post on the stereotype of Korean women being sexually conservative.
October 7th, 2009
Robert Koehler from shared his vacation visit to Seoul's Daehangno district at Marmot's Hole. Apart from posting pictures, he also wrote the historical value of the sites.
October 2nd, 2009
Ask a Korean! discusses about the male expression of same sex friendship in Korea, which is quite different from western culture.
September 30th, 2009
Korea beat translated a local news report on a survey about Korean kids' sleeping time, which is the shortest among the 6 surveyed countries.
September 24th, 2009
Matt from Gusts of popular feelings writes a post on the anti foreigners sentiment and how such sentiment has turned English teachers into an AIDS threat.
The Grand Narratives has an very interesting post about evolving images of women in Korean soju advertising.
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