Thursday, December 14, 2023

collective mourning from Seoul crowd crush in 2022 Itaewon

Shinjung Nam's new piece on collective mourning, protest, and public memory in South Korea in the wake of the Itaewon crowd crush in 2022.

Saturday, November 25, 2023

book, After the Korean War

quoting @Reyhan_Silingar [25 Nov. 2023] Just finished reading Heonik Kwon's brilliant 'After the Korean War.' It is a poignant and intimate history of the Korean War that shows how the polarisation of society between pro- and anti-communist forces ruptured the intimacy of human relations.