[Korea topic 2024]

【by Jay Hee-jeong Sohn, Dec. 2024】 The “Belle Époque” and Young Feminists Sometime near the end of November 2024, a male news commentator on a South Korean radio program stated that for Koreans, the 1 …

【by Eun-Joo Kim, Dec. 2024】 When I try to write about feminism in South Korea, I feel a strange sense of responsibility and an unknown, overwhelming emotion. Like waves in the ocean that rise and fall …

【by Hyeryung Hwang, Dec. 2024】 In previous work, I have examined the aspiration of peripheral nations to gain recognition in the global literary arena, using Han Kang’s The Vegetarian (2007), which wo …

【by Eun Ah Cho, Dec. 2024】 I’m here to talk about smell—the smell of a person, not in some figurative sense, but the actual scent that comes from a human body. More precisely, it’s about the smell of …

【by Daae Jung, Dec. 2024】 A commercial illustration by GS25, a popular convenience store chain in South Korea, a few years ago sparked unexpected backlash from young men in their 20s and 30s. They arg …

【by Yeonhee Sophie Kim, Dec. 2024】 Introduction Since the collapse of bilateral talks between U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un at the Hanoi Summit in 2019, Kim’s growing …