July 16th, 2012 at 8:51 am » Comments (20)

I don’t think having a someone like Kang Ki-kab to lead your party is a good way to try to reform the image of political torn to shreds by voter fraud and pro-North Korean activities: The minor opposition Unified Progressive Party elected reformist Kang Ki-kab as its new leader yesterday, signaling that the left-wing political group is revamping its image after months of infighting and controversy. “The UPP won’t stop making bold reforms,” Kang said in a statement released yesterday. “We will end the factional activities that distort the sacrifice
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May 3rd, 2012 at 6:22 pm » Comments (19)

This one looks very interesting since it’s a topic I’ve been watching and writing about since about 1998.  Here is the abstract: This paper analyzes the symbiotic and mutually reinforcing relationship between the anti-American movement and other social movements in democratic South Korea since 1987. Proposing a new typology of anti-Americanism, the paper formulates and develops an argument that the anti-American movement has substantially contributed to the success and survival of South Korea’s social movements. The anti-American movement should not be classified as one of the many social movements active
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November 24th, 2008 at 2:01 am » Comments (0)

I am busy working on the Cows Gone Wild!! Hysteria review and other items on my main www.usinkorea.org website. I decided to start a blog associated with the site where I’ll put up news and works-in-progress as they arise – while leaving the main site for the big updates —– because I expect things to be back to normal in Korean anti-US/USFK protest culture:  meaning, I expect a spike in activity about once a year. You can access the blog at this link. I’m not thrilled with the older version
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August 8th, 2008 at 10:38 am » Comments (43)

I’ve been trying to prepare to write a review of Cows Gone Wild!! Hysteria — and I stumbled across something that could turn into a good post — if I don’t lose my way. I was thinking about the future of President Lee’s time in office – specifically – whether he’d get the chance to exercise his voter-mandate now that the beef issue has died down — — and that made me think of Pres. Roh’s tenure in office – and it became highly interesting. What mandate was Roh given
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August 7th, 2008 at 1:30 am » Comments (19)

I started to leave this as a comment on one of Kalani’s posts when I decided it might be better done as a post of its own. It meanders – so sorry about that… The posts theme is: The K-blogsphere is one of the newest and freshest elements in South Korean protest culture. Some of us will remember back to the 2002 days — to the time before December when the US media finally got a freakin clue and began covering the story. This was a time before blogs had
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June 26th, 2008 at 12:05 pm » Comments (30)

GI Korea asked me if I’d like to do some posts here at his blog and I was honored. He runs a top flight K-blog, and it is a little daunting to prepare to write at a level to do the blog justice. I admire GI Korea and One Free Korea for doing the difficult day jobs they have – yet also – finding time to write out long, detailed, sourced posts for their blogs. I avoid that kind of writing for the most part on my blog. I spent
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