The Korea Now Podcast

Interviewing academics, professionals and other experts, Korea Now is a podcast where Jed Lea-Henry digs into historical and current issues relating to the two Koreas. Jed Lea-Henry's podcast, and other work, can be found at http://www.jedleahenry.org/

The Korea Now Podcast #123 – Kathryn Weathersby – ‘Moscow’s Fear of Japan and the Division of Korea’ 06/28/2022

The Korea Now Podcast #122 – Robert Winstanley-Chesters – ‘The Armstrong Affair and Questions of Authorship in Korean Studies’ 04/17/2022

The Korea Now Podcast #122 – Robert Winstanley-Chesters – ‘The Armstrong Affair and Questions of Authorship in Korean Studies’ This episode of the Korea Now podcast features an interview that Jed Lea-Henry conducted with Robert Winstanley-Chesters. They speak about the plagiarism scandal that surrounded Charles Armstrong and his book ‘Tyranny of the Weak’, the nature of the plagiarism and academic corruption involved, the extraordinarily immoral response from much of the Korean Studies community who chose to defend Armstrong and publicly attack the people making the allegations, the history of such behaviour within the Korean Studies community, as well as deeper questions concerning authorship, co-production, authenticity, intellectual ownership, provenance, truth and objectivity. Robert Winstanley-Chesters is a human geographer, Lecturer at University of Leeds and Bath Spa University, a Teaching Fellow at the University of Edinburgh, and Member of Wolfson College, Oxford, formerly of Birkbeck, University of London, Australian National University and Cambridge University. He is author of “” (Lexington, 2014), “” (Springer, 2019) and "” (Black Halo/Amazon KDP 2020). You can follow Robert’s academic work at: and * Robert’s article on which this is interview based is: ‘Authorship, Co-Production, Plagiarism: Issues of Origin and Provenance in the Korean Studies Community’ * The paper by Robert Winstanley-Chesters 'Authorship, Co-Production, Plagiarism: Issues of Origin and Provenance in the Korean Studies Community' is part of a writing and research project led by Professor Vladimir Tikhonov of the University of Oslo and Associate Professor Adam Bohnet of the University of Western Ontario titled 'Unpicking the Hegemonic Threads in the Production of Korean Studies in English: Eurocentrism, Cold War Logics and Questions of Authorship.' This project based at the University of Oslo, in Norway has engaged in a series of workshops and writing sessions between 2019 and 2022 funded by the Academy of Korean Studies 2020 Korean Studies Grant program (AKS-2020-C-16) and the project is grateful for their generous support. Other materials referenced in the interview: *** Revoking a Recommendation by B.R. Myers *** On Academic Ward Bosses by B.R. Myers *** Table of 98 Examples of Source Fabrication, Plagiarism, and Text-Citation Disconnects in Charles K. Armstrong’s Tyranny of the Weak (2013) Support via Patreon – Support via PayPal – Support via Bitcoin - 31wQMYixAJ7Tisp773cSvpUuzr2rmRhjaW Website – Libsyn – Youtube – Twitter – /episode/index/show/korea-now-podcast/id/22815077

The Korea Now Podcast #121 – Brad Glosserman – ‘War in Ukraine - Implications for East Asia’ 03/27/2022

The Korea Now Podcast #120 – Meredith Shaw – ‘Antagonisms in South Korean Politics - Anti-Japanism vs. Anti-Communism’ 03/15/2022

The Korea Now Podcast #119 – Balázs Szalontai – ‘The Chinese-North Korean Relationship’ 02/15/2022

The Korea Now Podcast #119 – Balázs Szalontai – ‘The Chinese-North Korean Relationship’ This episode of the Korea Now podcast features an interview that Jed Lea-Henry conducted with Balázs Szalontai. They speak about China’s controversial role in North Korea’s economic transformation, Chinese involvement in planning for a potential second Korean war (1965-1967), Chinese attitudes toward confrontational acts by North Korea, and how North Korea has managed to exploit conflicts between China, Japan, and South Korea, while trying to sabotage trilateral cooperation. Balázs Szalontai is a Professor at Korea University, a former-Fulbright Scholar and Visiting Professor at Mongolian International University of Science and Technology, and a former-Research Associate at the Institute for International Education in Seoul. Balázs is the author of ‘Kim Il Sung in the Khrushchev Era: Soviet-DPRK Relations and the Roots of North Korean Despotism, 1953-1964’ and ‘North Korea Caught in Time: Images of War and Reconstruction’. He is also the author of ‘Captives of the Past: The Questions of Responsibility and Reconciliation in North Korea’s Narratives of the Korean War’, and his academic works can be found at: *** The Korea Now Podcast #43 – Balázs Szalontai – ‘Memory, Responsibility and Reconciliation - From the Korean War to Denuclearization’ *** The Korea Now Podcast #100 – Balázs Szalontai – ‘History of the North Korean Socio-Political System’ *** North Korea between China, Japan, and the ROK, 2012-2016 *** "If the Neighborhood Catches Fire, One Will Also Come to Grief": Chinese Attitudes toward North Korea's Confrontational Acts, 2009-2014 *** Whose War Plan Was It? Sino-DPRK Relations and Kim Il Sung’s Militant Strategy, 1965-1967 *** The Dilemmas of Dependency: China's Controversial Role in North Korea's Economic Transformation Support via Patreon – Support via PayPal – Shop – Support via Bitcoin - 31wQMYixAJ7Tisp773cSvpUuzr2rmRhjaW Website – Libsyn – Youtube – Twitter – Academia.edu – Research Gate – /episode/index/show/korea-now-podcast/id/22133132

The Korea Now Podcast #118 – Vladimir Tikhonov – ‘Korea’s Socialist Century’ 12/15/2021

The Korea Now Podcast #117 – Terence Roehrig – ‘South Korea’s Maritime Challenges’ 12/06/2021

The Korea Now Podcast #116 – David Tizzard – ‘Squid Game’ 10/20/2021

The Korea Now Podcast #115 – Stephen Nagy – ‘The China Challenge’ 09/20/2021

The Korea Now Podcast #114 (Literature Series) – Youngju Ryu – ‘Torture, Kim Chiha and South Korea’s Difficult Authoritarian Legacy’ 09/13/2021

The Korea Now Podcast #114 (Literature Series) – Youngju Ryu – ‘Torture, Kim Chiha and South Korea’s Difficult Authoritarian Legacy’ This episode of the Korea Now podcast features an interview that Jed Lea-Henry conducted with Youngju Ryu. They speak about how modern Korean literature has dealt with the nation’s difficult legacy of authoritarian violence and suppression, how torture and the morality/immorality attached to it is written and described, the challenges of post-authoritarian accountability, the life and significance of the poet Kim Chiha, his lionization within the Korean democratization movement, his imprisonment and the type of Korean nationalism he wrote into his poetry, and the way he shifted from “martyrdom to apostasy” in the minds of many people when he criticized the continued activism of Korean youths after his release from prison. Youngju Ryu is an Associate Professor of modern Korean literature at the University of Michigan. She is a specialist of modern Korean literature with research interests in politics and aesthetics of protest, cultures of authoritarianism, and mediatized publics in modern Korea. Her first book published by the University of Hawai’i Press in 2016 as Writers of the Winter Republic: Literature and Resistance in Park Chung Hee’s Korea, was selected as one of the “Best Books of 2016” by Foreign Affairs and received the 2018 Association for Asian Studies James Palais Book Prize. Youngju is also the editor of Cultures of Yusin: South Korea in the 1970s, published by the University of Michigan Press in 2018. *** Writers of the Winter Republic: Literature and Resistance in Park Chung Hee's Korea *** Cultures of Yusin: South Korea in the 1970s *** The Catcher in the Loft, by Un-yong Ch'on, translated by Bruce Fulton and Ju-Chan Fulton Support via Patreon – Support via PayPal – Shop – Support via Bitcoin - 31wQMYixAJ7Tisp773cSvpUuzr2rmRhjaW Website – Libsyn – Youtube – Twitter – Academia.edu – Research Gate – /episode/index/show/korea-now-podcast/id/20453183

The Korea Now Podcast #113 (Literature Series) – Chizuko Allen – ‘Choe Nam-son - Youth Magazines and Global Korea’ 09/07/2021

The Korea Now Podcast #112 (Literature Series) – Ksenia Chizhova – ‘Women Calligraphers in Late Choson Korea’ 08/22/2021

The Korea Now Podcast #112 (Literature Series) – Ksenia Chizhova – ‘Women Calligraphers in Late Choson Korea’ This episode of the Korea Now podcast features an interview that Jed Lea-Henry conducted with Ksenia Chizhova. They speak about the practice of calligraphy in late Choson Korea, the highly aestheticized craft and the social importance attached to it, the differences between traditionally male and female calligraphy, the meticulous training processes involved, the different moral and character insights that the practice was said to offer unto their authors, the male domination of the practice in terms of public presence and prestige, and the niche that women calligraphers claimed for themselves often within the private domain. Ksenia Chizhova is Assistant Professor of East Asian Studies Director of Undergraduate Studies at Princeton University. Her areas of interest are history of emotions, family, and scriptural practices in Korea, from the late eighteenth to the twentieth century. Her first manuscript, , published by Columbia University Press, looks into the rise and fall of the lineage novel (kamun sosŏl), which narrated the interstices of Korea’s kinship system and foregrounded the genealogical subject—a structure of identity defined by kinship obligation and understood as socialization of the emotional self. Lineage novels, which constituted the core of elite vernacular Korean literature and circulated between the late 17th and early 20thcenturies, configure Korean kinship as a series of clashes between genders and generations, which produce unruly, violent emotions. *** Kinship Novels of Early Modern Korea : Between Genealogical Time and the Domestic Everyday *** Bodies of Texts: Women Calligraphers and the Elite Vernacular Culture in Late Choso˘n Korea (1392–1910) Support via Patreon – Support via PayPal – Shop – Support via Bitcoin - 31wQMYixAJ7Tisp773cSvpUuzr2rmRhjaW Website – Libsyn – Youtube – Twitter – Academia.edu – Research Gate – /episode/index/show/korea-now-podcast/id/20217305

The Korea Now Podcast #111 (Literature Series) – Michael Kim – ‘The Trouble with Christian Publishing in Colonial Korea’ 08/16/2021

The Korea Now Podcast #110 (Literature Series) – Sixiang Wang – ‘The Politics of Language in Early Choson Korea’ 08/02/2021

The Korea Now Podcast #110 (Literature Series) – Sixiang Wang – ‘The Politics of Language in Early Choson Korea’ This episode of the Korea Now podcast features an interview that Jed Lea-Henry conducted with Sixiang Wang. They speak about the exchanges between Choson Korea (1392-1910) and Ming China (1368-1644), the Korean envoys and interpreters who mediated between the two dynasties, the need of these interpreters to master spoken Chinese, the extensive body of language materials that were created for this purpose, and the invention of the Hangul script to systematically represent the phonology of Sino-Korean. Sixiang Wang is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures at UCLA. He teaches courses in Korea’s premodern history as well as the history of cultural and intellectual interactions in early modern East Asia. As a historian of Choson Korea and early modern East Asia, his research interests also include comparative perspectives on early modern empire, the history of science and knowledge, and issues of language and writing in Korea’s cultural and political history. His current book project, “The Cultural Politics of Universal Empire: Knowledge and Diplomacy in Early Choson Korea 1392–1592” reconstructs the cultural strategies the Korean court deployed in its interactions with the Ming. Its examination of poetry-writing, gift-giving, diplomatic ceremony, and historiography underscores the centrality of ritual and literary practices in producing diplomatic norms, political concepts, and ideals of sovereignty in the construction of a shared, regional interstate order. Sixiang Wang received his PhD from the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures of Columbia University. He was also a Mellon Scholar of the Humanities at Stanford University and the Moon Family Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania. *** The Sounds of Our Country: Interpreters, Linguistic Knowledge and the Politics of Language in Early Chosŏn Korea (1392–1592) *** Sixiang Wang’s academic publications can be found at: Support via Patreon – Support via PayPal – Shop – Support via Bitcoin - 31wQMYixAJ7Tisp773cSvpUuzr2rmRhjaW Website – Libsyn – Youtube – Twitter – Academia.edu – Research Gate – /episode/index/show/korea-now-podcast/id/20004383

The Korea Now Podcast #109 (Literature Series) – Daniel Pieper– ‘Redemption and Regret in the Writings of James Scarth Gale’ 07/26/2021

The Korea Now Podcast #109 (Literature Series) – Daniel Pieper– ‘Redemption and Regret in the Writings of James Scarth Gale’ This episode of the Korea Now podcast features an interview that Jed Lea-Henry conducted with Daniel Pieper. They speak about James Scarth Gale and the significance of his translation work, the extraordinary upheaval and change that he witnessed as a missionary in late-Choson Korea, how he saw the changing face of Korea and the importance of Korean literature, the accusations that Gale was a pro-Japanese sympathiser during the colonial period, Gale’s view of the existing religious landscape inside Korea, how he balanced a deep affection for Old Korea whilst also seeking to modernise and convert it to Christianity, and how we should understand Gale’s legacy today both inside and outside of Korea. Daniel Pieper is a Lecturer in Korean Studies at Monash University. He received his PhD in Asian Studies from the University of British Columbia. His current research focuses on the emergence of vernacular Korean as a discrete subject in the modern school, the textual differentiation process of cosmopolitan Hanmun and vernacular Korean, and the role of language ideology in directing language standardization in pre-colonial and colonial-era Korea. His most recent book is titled Redemption and Regret: Modernizing Korea in the Writings of James Scarth Gale and examines themes of vernacularization, linguistic modernity, and literary translation in the missionary’s unpublished writings. *** Redemption and Regret: The Ambivalence of Korean Modernization in the Writings of James Scarth Gale, Missionary to Korea (1888-1927) *** The Korea Now Podcast #90 (Literature Series) – Daniel Pieper– ‘Hangul - The History, Evolution and Nationalism of the Korean Language’ *** Daniel Pieper’s academic publications can be found at: Support via Patreon – Support via PayPal – Shop – Support via Bitcoin - 31wQMYixAJ7Tisp773cSvpUuzr2rmRhjaW Website – Libsyn – Youtube – Twitter – Academia.edu – Research Gate – /episode/index/show/korea-now-podcast/id/19927004

The Korea Now Podcast #108 (Literature Series) – Ross King – ‘Sinographic Cosmopolis’ 06/29/2021

The Korea Now Podcast #108 (Literature Series) – Ross King – ‘Sinographic Cosmopolis’ This episode of the Korea Now podcast features an interview that Jed Lea-Henry conducted with Ross King. They speak about the landscape of pre-modern Korean literature, the complex ecology of spoken and written language that existed, the broader East Asian cultural formation of which Korea was a part, the problems with descriptors such as ‘diglossia’ and ‘Chinese’ that are often used in Korean literary research today, why the phrase ‘Sinographic Cosmopolis’ is much more appropriate in terms of accuracy and reach, the language based nationalism of modern Korea and how this changes how Korean literary tradition is viewed, and importantly the future of Korean literature as well as that of Korean Studies departments in universities today. Ross King is a Professor of Korean language and literature at the University of British Columbia. He completed his B.A. in Linguistics at Yale and his doctorate in Linguistics (Korean) at Harvard. Ross taught Korean language and linguistics at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, from 1990 to 1994, before accepting his current position. Ross's research interests range from Korean historical grammar, dialectology and pedagogy to the language, culture and history of the ethnic Korean minority in the former Soviet Union. He was also the founding Dean of the Korean Language Village at Concordia Language Villages, from 1999-2013, a Korean language and culture summer immersion program for young people ages 7 to 18 that is based in northern Minnesota. *** The Korea Now Podcast #80 (Literature Series) – Ross King – ‘Korean-to-English Literary Translation - A Critical Examination’ *** The Korea Now Podcast #107 (Literature Series) – Ross King – ‘James Scarth Gale - Life, Translations, and Lost Works’ *** Ross King’s academic publications can be found at: Support via Patreon – Support via PayPal – Shop – Support via Bitcoin - 31wQMYixAJ7Tisp773cSvpUuzr2rmRhjaW Website – Libsyn – Youtube – Twitter – Academia.edu – Research Gate – /episode/index/show/korea-now-podcast/id/19642028

The Korea Now Podcast #107 (Literature Series) – Ross King – ‘James Scarth Gale - Life, Translations, and Lost Works’ 06/20/2021

The Korea Now Podcast #106 – Hyunhee Park – ‘The History of Soju’ 05/20/2021

The Korea Now Podcast #106 – Hyunhee Park – ‘The History of Soju’ This episode of the Korea Now podcast features an interview that Jed Lea-Henry conducted with Hyunhee Park. They speak about Hyunhee’s book Soju: A Global History, the Eurasian roots of distilled liquors with arak and shaojiu, the Mongol origins of soju and the technology transfers to Koryo-Korea, how soju was distilled and the early role it played in Koryo, the increased popularity of soju during the Choson dynasty and the rise of its cultural significance, the impact of the Japanese colonial era and how modernisation produced in industrial soju to compete with traditional soju, the international connections that soju has with countries such as Japan and Mexico, and the important place that soju holds today in terms of both its popularity and as a national Korean icon; championed at home and exported abroad as soft power. Hyunhee Park is an Associate Professor of History at the City University of New York, John Jay College of Criminal Justice and CUNY Graduate Center. A native of South Korea, she received her BA in Asian and Western history at Seoul National University in 1997, her MA in East Asian Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 2003, and her Ph.D. in history at Yale University in 2008. She specializes in the history of cross-cultural contacts in East Asia, the Islamic world, the Mongol Empire, and global intellectual history focusing on information/knowledge transfers including geographical knowledge, foodways, and distillation. Her book Mapping the Chinese and Islamic Worlds: Cross-Cultural Exchange in Pre-Modern Asia explores medieval contact and exchange between the Islamic World and China by utilizing geographic and cartographic information. And pertinent to this podcast Hyunhee is the author of ‘Soju: A Global History’ (). Support via Patreon – Support via PayPal – Shop – Support via Bitcoin - 31wQMYixAJ7Tisp773cSvpUuzr2rmRhjaW Website – Libsyn – Youtube – Twitter – Academia.edu – Research Gate – /episode/index/show/korea-now-podcast/id/19175699

The Korea Now Podcast #105 – Ben Young – ‘Guns, Guerillas, and the Great Leader’ 04/28/2021

The Korea Now Podcast #105 – Ben Young – ‘Guns, Guerillas, and the Great Leader’ This episode of the Korea Now podcast features an interview that Jed Lea-Henry conducted with Ben Young. They speak about Ben’s new book Guns, Guerillas, and the Great Leader: North Korea and the Third World, how and why North Korea sought allies around the Third World during the Cold War period, what these alliances looked like and consisted of, how the changing internal politics of North Korea affected these partnerships, how North Korea saw these international relationships as a means to sell its cult of personality, to acquire hard currency, to cause unrest for America and its allies, and to compete against South Korea for United Nations votes and international recognition, all with a deep dive into the case studies of Cuba and Palestine. Ben Young is currently an Assistant Professor at Dakota State University, and soon to be Assistant Professor of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness at Virginia Commonwealth University. Ben has been a postdoctoral fellow at the U.S Naval War College, as well as a CSIS NextGen Korea Scholar. Ben achieved his PhD in Asian history at George Washington University, with a dissertation focussed on North Korea’s global outreach and international diplomacy during the Cold War. He has been a Fulbright junior researcher in Seoul, South Korea, and his work has been published in The Washington Post, The Guardian, Reuters, and NKnews. Pertinent to this podcast, Ben is the author of: Guns, Guerillas, and the Great Leader: North Korea and the Third World ( and ). *** The Korea Now Podcast #10 – Ben Young – ‘Friends in Strange Places - Cold War Allies’ . ***The Korea Now Podcast #77 – Ben Young – ‘The 1976 DMZ Axe Murder Incident - Emotion, Anger and Fear in American-North Korean Relations’ Support via Patreon – Support via PayPal – Shop – Support via Bitcoin - 31wQMYixAJ7Tisp773cSvpUuzr2rmRhjaW Website – Libsyn – Youtube – Twitter – Academia.edu – Research Gate – /episode/index/show/korea-now-podcast/id/18888467

The Korea Now Podcast #104 – Donald Baker – ‘Korean Confucianism’ 04/19/2021

The Korea Now Podcast #104 – Donald Baker – ‘Korean Confucianism’ This episode of the Korea Now podcast features an interview that Jed Lea-Henry conducted with Donald Baker. They speak about the history of Korean Confucianism, the rise of Confucianism and the ‘privatization’ of Buddhism in the Chosŏn dynasty, what differentiates Korean from Chinese Confucianism, the metaphysical debates between the Toegye and Yulgok factions and how this division defined the course of Korean Confucianism, the emergence of Tasan Chŏng Yagyong and the new reading of Confucianism that he introduced, the Social, political, ethical, and hierarchical structures involved, the transformation of Confucianism in modern-day Korea, and how it has lost most of its metaphysical underpinnings. Donald Baker is a Professor in Korean History and Civilization at the University of British Columbia. He received his Ph.D. in Korean history from the University of Washington and has taught at UBC since 1987. He teaches undergraduate and graduate courses on Korean history and thought (religion, philosophy, and pre-modern science). In addition, he teaches a graduate seminar on the reproduction of historical trauma, in which he leads graduate students in an examination of traumatic events in Asia in the 20th century. He was a co-editor of the Sourcebook of Korean Civilization and editor of Critical Readings on Korean Christianity. He is also the author of Chosŏn hugi yugyo wa ch’ǒnjugyo ŭi taerip (The Confucian confrontation with Catholicism in the latter half of the Joseon dynasty) and Korean Spirituality (University of Hawaii Press, 2008). In 2008, he was awarded the Tasan prize for his research on Tasan Chŏng Yagyong, a writer and philosopher in Korea in the 18th and 19th centuries. In 2013 he was asked by the National Institute of Korean History to serve as the chairperson of the International Advisory Committee for the English Translation of the Annals of the Chosŏn Dynasty. *Pertinent to this podcast Don is also the author of the forthcoming book: How to be Moral: Tasan Chŏng Yagyong’s reading of the Zhongyong. **You can find the articles referenced in this podcast (as well as follow Don’s ongoing academic work) at: and *** The Korea Now Podcast #72 – Donald Baker – ‘The Religious Landscape in South Korea’ (). Support via Patreon – Support via PayPal – Shop – Support via Bitcoin - 31wQMYixAJ7Tisp773cSvpUuzr2rmRhjaW Website – Libsyn – Youtube – Twitter – Academia.edu – Research Gate – /episode/index/show/korea-now-podcast/id/18772514

The Korea Now Podcast #103 – Brad Glosserman – ‘The New National Security Economy’ 03/28/2021

The Korea Now Podcast #102 – Thomas Duvernay – ‘Sinmiyangyo - The 1871 Conflict Between the United States and Korea’ 01/31/2021

The Korea Now Podcast #102 – Thomas Duvernay – ‘Sinmiyangyo - The 1871 Conflict Between the United States and Korea’ This episode of the Korea Now podcast features an interview that Jed Lea-Henry conducted with Thomas Duvernay. They speak about Thomas’ new book Sinmiyangyo: The 1871 Conflict Between the United States and Korea, the historical background and context of the battle, the original misunderstandings that sparked the conflict, how the conflict progressed, the nature of the fighting and the military technology involved, how the important historical sites look today, and the long-term impact of the conflict on both Korea and America as well as the broader East Asian region. Thomas Duvernay has a doctorate in Korean studies and is a professor at Yeungnam University in Gyeongsan, Korea, where he teaches Korean history and English. His main historical focus is on the late Joseon dynasty of Korea, with an emphasis on the 1871 military action between the United States and Korea, which he has been researching since the mid-1990s. He campaigned for years for the return of the Korean general’s flag that was captured by U.S. naval forces in the action, and was housed at the U.S. Naval Academy Museum until it was returned in 2007. Besides writing about the 1871 action in many journal articles, he is also the author of a book on Korean traditional archery, which he has practiced since 1993. He has lived in Korea with his family since 1989, after first living in the country in 1984. His wife, Moon-ok Lee, is a Korean high school English teacher, and his son, Nick, is a PhD professor at the Hankuk University of Foreign Studies. *** Sinmiyangyo: The 1871 Conflict Between the United States and Korea (). Support via Patreon – Support via PayPal – Shop – Support via Bitcoin - 31wQMYixAJ7Tisp773cSvpUuzr2rmRhjaW Website – Libsyn – Youtube – Twitter – Academia.edu – Research Gate – /episode/index/show/korea-now-podcast/id/17754695

The Korea Now Podcast #101 (Literature Series) – Bruce Fulton and Ju-Chan Fulton – ‘One Left - The Comfort Women Novel’ 01/12/2021

The Korea Now Podcast #100 – Balázs Szalontai – ‘History of the North Korean Socio-Political System’ 01/03/2021

The Korea Now Podcast #100 – Balázs Szalontai – ‘History of the North Korean Socio-Political System’ This episode of the Korea Now podcast features an interview that Jed Lea-Henry conducted with Balázs Szalontai. They speak about the origins and the evolution that occurred with in the North Korean socio-political system from 1945 to 1994 with the death of Kim Il-sung, the impact of Japanese colonial rule, the creation of this system under Soviet occupation, the impact of significant events such as the Korean War, the factionalism and in-fighting that happened, the purges and the eventual dynastic succession, and importantly why the North Korean socio-political system looks the way it does today and why it has been able to hold onto power for so long. Balázs Szalontai is a Professor at Korea University, a former-Fulbright Scholar and Visiting Professor at Mongolian International University of Science and Technology, and a former-Research Associate at the Institute for International Education in Seoul. Balázs is the author of ‘Kim Il Sung in the Khrushchev Era: Soviet-DPRK Relations and the Roots of North Korean Despotism, 1953-1964’ and ‘North Korea Caught in Time: Images of War and Reconstruction’. He is also the author of ‘Captives of the Past: The Questions of Responsibility and Reconciliation in North Korea’s Narratives of the Korean War’, and his academic works can be found at: *** The Evolution of the North Korean Socio-Political System, 1945-1994 (). *** Weathering the Storm, Toppled by the Storm: North Korea's Non-transition Compared with the Transitions of Romania and Albania, 1989-1991 (). *** Immunity to Resistance? State-Society Relations and Political Stability in North Korea in a Comparative Perspective (). *** The Wilson Center's North Korea International Documentation Project (). Support via Patreon – Support via PayPal – Shop – Support via Bitcoin - 31wQMYixAJ7Tisp773cSvpUuzr2rmRhjaW Website – Libsyn – Youtube – Twitter – Academia.edu – Research Gate – /episode/index/show/korea-now-podcast/id/17401745

The Korea Now Podcast #99 – Michael Kim – ‘Industrial Warriors and Recognizing Religions - Everyday Life in Colonial Korea’ 12/27/2020

The Korea Now Podcast #99 – Michael Kim – ‘Industrial Warriors and Recognizing Religions - Everyday Life in Colonial Korea’ This episode of the Korea Now podcast features an interview that Jed Lea-Henry conducted with Michael Kim. They speak about the arrival and place of Western missionaries in Korea before Japanese colonisation, the confrontations and accommodations that occurred between the missionaries and the colonial state, the system of ‘officially’ recognising religions within colonial Korea, and how the missionaries became institutionalised through social work; they also speak about the struggles that the Japanese war-machine had in keeping-up industrial production, the ways in which colonial Korea was seen as a potential new source of this production, the creation of military awards (industrial warriors) for workers as a reward and incentive for this, the ways in which Koreans were coerced and recruited to industrial labour, the type of ideological persuasion and material incentives used, and the elaborate ways that the colonial state sought to control and restructure everyday life. Michael Kim is Associate Professor of Korean History at Yonsei University’s Graduate School of International Studies in Seoul, Korea. His research primarily focuses on colonial Korea, and he has published on various aspects of urban culture, print culture, colonial economy, Korean collaboration, migration, and wartime mobilization. He is co-editor, along with Michael Schoenhals and Yong Woo Kim, of Mass Dictatorship and Modernity (Palgrave, 2013). *Michael Kim’s academic research can be found at: *** Industrial Warriors: Labour Heroes and Everyday Life in Wartime Colonial Korea, 1937-1945 (). *** The Politics of Officially Recognizing Religions and the Expansion of Urban ‘Social Work’ in Colonial Korea (). *** Smoking for Empire: The Production and Consumption of Tobacco in Colonial Korea 1910-1945 (). Support via Patreon – Support via PayPal – Shop – Support via Bitcoin - 31wQMYixAJ7Tisp773cSvpUuzr2rmRhjaW Website – Libsyn – Youtube – Twitter – Academia.edu – Research Gate – /episode/index/show/korea-now-podcast/id/17334620

The Korea Now Podcast #98 – Albert Park – ‘The History and Politics of Agrarian Life in Korea’ 12/21/2020

The Korea Now Podcast #97 – Tycho van der Hoog – ‘North Korea’s Presence in Africa’ 11/22/2020

The Korea Now Podcast #96 – John Bocskay – ‘A Walking Tour of the United Nations Memorial Cemetery in Busan, Korea’ 11/15/2020

The Korea Now Podcast #95 – Leighanne Yuh – ‘The Opening of the Late-Choson Dynasty – Confucian Traditions, Kabo Reforms, and the Introduction of Western-Style Learning’ 11/08/2020

The Korea Now Podcast #94 – Sean King – ‘German Lessons for Korean Reunification - 30 Year Anniversary’ 10/03/2020

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