PhD in Korean Studies Weekly Column in the Korea Times 2005년부터 한국 거주: 한국 사랑함 Check out the podcast: Korea Deconstructed https://teapawt.net/t.co/N3Xu91UMYt
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Nika Pasko is researching how Russia and North Korea use history to serve the politics of the present. We also talked about toska, авось, and Pushkin.
Big brain. Good conversation. Humans before ideologies.
Korea Deconstructed #139 is out now.
youtu.be/Dipo8w2kE3s
Korean people have managed to turn a letter of the alphabet into a civilisation. K-pop, K-drama, K-beauty, K-food. One suspects the other twenty-five letters are beginning to feel rather inadequate. – at Seoul, Republic of Korea
Is Korea actually safe? Do all the women get plastic surgery? Do they study too much? Are they depressed?
The internet will tell you many things, but if you want to know what's really happening, watch 4 brave young Korean women talk about life here. 🇰🇷
youtube.com/watch?v=xHX2u9nt…
I can't explain it perfectly, but nunchi is one of the things that makes Korea what it is today. And it's the most important skill to have if you want to live and work here
koreatimes.co.kr/opinion/blo…
A lot of people online have something to say about Korea, so I gave nine young Korean women the chance to say something themselves. They chose the topics, worked together, and got in front of the camera 🇰🇷
Incredibly proud of what they made.
Watch here: youtu.be/xHX2u9nttbQ?si=Vfrs…
The Korean Dystopia Narrative is such a lucrative export for this country. People overseas lap it up, it provides western copium, & it feeds into all sorts of unconscious biases; meanwhile Koreans just drink ice americano and get on with life like normal people in a safe country.
The full piece in the paper...
koreatimes.co.kr/opinion/blo…
Put Korean people in Seoul, in Pyongyang, in Los Angeles, in Tashkent, in Stockholm, or anywhere else, and they generally succeed. They have that K-sauce which helps them get on irrespective of the political or religious culture they find themselves in.
In Sweden, 48% of Korean adoptees achieved a post-secondary degree. This is compared to 35% of the general population, 26% of native born Swedes who were adopted, and 24% of non-Korean adoptees.
All adoptees do poorly except Koreans.
Why would that be? richardhanania.com/p/were-19…
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Six years ago today, Diogo Jota became a Red.
Today, as every day, all of us at Liverpool FC are thinking of him, his brother Andre and his family and friends.
Forever our number 20 ❤️
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England is a lion. Russia is a bear. China a dragon. America an Eagle. And so on. But what about Korea? What animal best represents the people and the culture?
koreatimes.co.kr/opinion/202…
1. The Koreas - Theodore Jun Yoo
2. The Impossible Country - Daniel Tudor
3. Snowy Day - Lee Chang Dong
4. Dawn of Labor - Park No-hae
5. At Dusk - Hwang Sok-yong
There's a Korean diaspora in Central Asia that most people have never heard of.
In 1937, Stalin deported 170,000 Koreans from the Russian Far East to Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan overnight. Their descendants are the Koryo-saram.
youtube.com/watch?v=Uarduave…