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The Korea File

Interviews on music, history and society from across the Korean peninsula and around the world.

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EDUCATIONAL INITIATIVES in Gwangju City

EDUCATIONAL INITIATIVES in Gwangju City

Trevor Homeniuk on setting up an educational initiative with the Gwangju Metropolitan Board of Education.

20 Apr 2012

31mins

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10 Years of The Jeju Peace Forum: From Activism to Cynicism

10 Years of The Jeju Peace Forum: From Activism to Cynicism

The Jeju Peace Forum was founded in 2001 with the goal of contributing to world peace and international cooperation in t... Read more

5 Aug 2015

28mins

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Neoliberalism, Imperialism and Urban Development pt. 1

Neoliberalism, Imperialism and Urban Development pt. 1

In 2004, an agreement was reached between the United States and South Korean governments to move all U.S. forces in the ... Read more

1 Oct 2015

20mins

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Spycam Porn: Culture of Voyeurism leads to Summer of Protest for Korean Women

Spycam Porn: Culture of Voyeurism leads to Summer of Protest for Korean Women

This is 'ké cast' Season 2, Episode 1. Produced in collaboration with Korea Exposé, and independent media organization t... Read more

7 Jul 2018

24mins

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Peace Corps vs. Korean Public School

Peace Corps vs. Korean Public School

Called to service with the American Peace Corps in Mali, she's now a public school teacher in Jeju City. Comparing and c... Read more

11 May 2015

30mins

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Weed, Counterculture and Dictatorship

Weed, Counterculture and Dictatorship

Matt VanVolkenburg's prolific blog 'Gusts of Popular Feeling' celebrates it's 10th year of analysis on Korean society, h... Read more

11 Jun 2015

26mins

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Jeju's Osaka Diaspora: K-Pop and Code Switching in Tsuruhashi

Jeju's Osaka Diaspora: K-Pop and Code Switching in Tsuruhashi

On this episode, UCLA PhD candidate in Asian Languages and Cultures Tommy Tran talks about his research concerning Japan... Read more

28 Jan 2016

19mins

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Korea's Osaka Diaspora: Origins of the Zainichi

Korea's Osaka Diaspora: Origins of the Zainichi

On this episode of The Korea File podcast, a conversation with UCLA PhD candidate in Asian Languages and Cultures Tommy ... Read more

14 Jan 2016

24mins

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Too Different to be Chinese, 'Not Good Enough' to be Korean

Too Different to be Chinese, 'Not Good Enough' to be Korean

With a unique cultural and geographical history going back centuries, the ‘Joseonjok’ are considered too different to be... Read more

2 Nov 2018

39mins

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A History of Korean Social Movements

A History of Korean Social Movements

Matt VanVolkenburg's prolific blog 'Gusts of Popular Feeling' celebrates it's 10th year of analysis on Korean society, h... Read more

30 May 2015

27mins

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On Jeju Shamanism pt. 1

On Jeju Shamanism pt. 1

With roots emanating from the animistic tradition of central Siberia, Korea is one of very few developed nations to have... Read more

12 Jul 2015

28mins

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Adventures in Korean Archaeology: Royal Tomb Excavations in Gyeongju

Adventures in Korean Archaeology: Royal Tomb Excavations in Gyeongju

Born in Seoul and raised in the United States, Rachel Lee’s first Gyeongju excavation was also her first visit to her co... Read more

28 Apr 2016

19mins

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The Commodification of Dokdo Island: Nationalism in the Marketplace

The Commodification of Dokdo Island: Nationalism in the Marketplace

What does it mean to treat nationalism as a commodity? In this conversation, Nam Center Postdoctoral Fellow Jiun Bang di... Read more

5 May 2017

25mins

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Gravel 2020: Korean Identity and the Anti-Imperialist American Left

Gravel 2020: Korean Identity and the Anti-Imperialist American Left

.....how engagement with radical anti-imperialist politics create the intellectual space to better understand the person... Read more

24 May 2019

39mins

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20th Century Diaspora: Korea's Transborder Identity Politics

20th Century Diaspora: Korea's Transborder Identity Politics

Academics have long examined the relationship between nation-states and their "internal others," like immigrants and eth... Read more

1 Dec 2017

32mins

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Summit Spring: DPRK, ROK, US + PRC in Diplomatic Dialogue

Summit Spring: DPRK, ROK, US + PRC in Diplomatic Dialogue

Jenny Town (Assistant Director of the US-Korea Institute at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies/M... Read more

5 Apr 2018

35mins

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Inside the Potemkin Country: Tourism in North Korea

Inside the Potemkin Country: Tourism in North Korea

Park picnics in the Democratic People’s Republic. The Kim Dynasty: cult or religion? And: Rules for Communist Clam Cooki... Read more

10 Dec 2015

31mins

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The Promise of Peace vs. The Doomsday Machine

The Promise of Peace vs. The Doomsday Machine

John Carl Baker, a fellow with Washington, DC think tank The Ploughshares Fund joins host Andre Goulet to talk about pea... Read more

4 May 2018

36mins

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American Political Instability and the North Korea Nuclear Crisis

American Political Instability and the North Korea Nuclear Crisis

The Nation magazine’s resident Korea expert Tim Shorrock discusses American political instability, assesses the unthinka... Read more

31 Oct 2017

30mins

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Missionaries and Diplomats: A History of the Royal Asiatic Society in Korea

Missionaries and Diplomats: A History of the Royal Asiatic Society in Korea

The Royal Asiatic Society- Korea Branch has been enhancing an understanding of Korean arts, customs, history and social ... Read more

28 Apr 2019

34mins

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