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A Writer Evokes Loss on South Korea’s Path to Success
LIKE so many South Korean parents at the time, Shin Kyung-sook’s mother saw education as her daughter’s best chance of escaping poverty and backbreaking work in the rice fields. So in 1978 she took her 15-year-old daughter to Seoul, where … Continue reading
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When opposites attract (a preview of Ahn Eun-me’s Princess Bari at the 2011 Edinburgh Festival)
Tradition and the avant-garde clash in Korean choreographer Ahn Eun-me’s gender-busting new show, hears Mark Brown The Herald ARRIVING at a beautiful traditional Korean restaurant in the centre of Seoul to meet the renowned choreographer Eun-Me Ahn is a deeply … Continue reading
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Hitting Below the Belt: Pyongyang Spills the Beans on Secret Summit Talks
By Aidan Foster-Carter http://38north.org/2011/07/aidanfc070811/ Just when you thought inter-Korean relations couldn’t get any worse, they do. The North has found a fresh weapon, and on June 1, 2011 launched a sneak attack on the South—with a follow-up ambush a week … Continue reading
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Protestants protest: South Korea’s church militant
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Korea/MC09Dg01.html Long ago, maybe around 1994, I took a slow train from Pusan – or Busan, if you insist – to Seoul. (No KTX bullet train in those days; though that’s been having its problems lately.) It was October, and … Continue reading
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Korea’s pulpit bullies take aim at Islam
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Korea/MC09Dg01.html Long ago, maybe around 1994, I took a slow train from Pusan – or Busan, if you insist – to Seoul. (No KTX bullet train in those days; though that’s been having its problems lately.) It was October, and … Continue reading
The secrets of my brilliant Korea
Please respect FT.com’s ts&cs and copyright policy which allow you to: share links; copy content for personal use; & redistribute limited extracts. Email ftsales.support@ft.com to buy additional rights or use this link to reference the article – http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/ca8b7760-19e0-11e0-b921-00144feab49a.html Seoul greeted … Continue reading
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China Help with North Korea? Fuggedaboutit!
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2010/11/26/china_help_with_north_korea_fuggedaboutit?page=full Some years ago, much to my surprise, I persuaded FP’s then editor Moises Naim to drop the expression “Fuggedaboutit!” from these august columns. Chirpy is one thing, vulgar another. It was kind of Venezuela’s former trade minister to heed … Continue reading
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For the Kims, the weakest link is family
By Aidan Foster-Carter http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Korea/LJ22Dg01.html I’m a sociologist, by discipline. Or indiscipline, do I hear you sneer? True, my subject has its share of what one eminent sociologist, Garry Runciman, has called ”attitude and platitude”. Plenty of obfuscating jargon, too. Nor … Continue reading
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The cultural life of North Korea
North Korea’s 65th anniversary of the Workers’ Party offered a rare insight of every day life in the capital Pyongyang. http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/oct/15/north-korea-pyongyang-secret-culture Tania Branigan Old men playing cards in a park; a woman shopping for vegetables; tired workers jostling for space … Continue reading
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London: not as liveable as I’d like
By Tyler Brûlé http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/b423b1b4-532e-11df-813e-00144feab49a.html Published: May 1 2010 01:29 | Last updated: May 1 2010 01:29 By London standards, I’m a high-rise resident. I live in a duplex on the top floor of a period building in the heart of … Continue reading
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