Gusts Of Popular Feeling

The story below is infuriating but predictable in many ways, unfortunately. I first learned of it by reading this article:
The Seoul Administrative Court erupted in applause Thursday after a judge ruled in favor of teacher Ji Hye-bok, nullifying a transfer order issued by the Seoul Metropolitan Office of Education’s Jungbu District Office and reinstating her as an instructor...

Almost ten years ago, in the summer of 2016, I wrote this post (titled "Comfort Women, nationalism, and the inculcation of anti-Japanese feeling") that focused mainly on an exhibition of comics about the comfort women that I had seen two years earlier...

I learned from Hahn Dae Soo that his friend Lee Ik-tae (Rhee Iktae), an artist, director, and actor he first met in Seoul in 1974 whom he remembered as a “fun-loving deep thinker,” had passed away. Having been working on an article for RAS Korea’s Transactions...

My article "'This bill is rather urgent': ROK-US relations and the 1970 and 1975 marijuana crackdowns" from Transactions 98 summarizes a substantial portion of the research I did for my MA, about the criminalization of marijuana in South Korea in 19...