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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May 9th, 2009 at 7:00 am » Comments (0)

This is actually just another example that Korea is a rule by law, instead of a rule of law nation because these guys have been violating the National Security Laws for years: Detectives from the National Intelligence Service (NIS) and the Security Investigative Team of the National Policy Agency (NPA) raided nineteen places, including the South Korea branch office of the Pan-Korean Alliance for Reunification (PKAR), on charges of violating the National Security Law on Thursday. It was reported that the NIS arrested six persons including Lee Kyu-jae, 73 years
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March 26th, 2009 at 4:34 pm » Comments (4)

It doesn’t surprise me that the National Assembly ranks so low in this poll, but when civic groups and labor unions are considered the most law abiding organizations in Korea then you know there are problems: Koreans consider the National Assembly the least law-abiding organization. In a telephone survey of 800 adults across the country by the East Asia Institute and Hankook Research last Saturday, a mere 5.3 percent of respondents said parliament abides by the law. Civic groups topped the list of upstanding organizations with 35 percent, followed by
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March 3rd, 2009 at 9:31 am » Comments (0)

When will the media stop calling these people civic groups and instead call them anti-democracy advocates?: Seoul police yesterday expanded its investigation on the assault on ruling Grand National Party lawmaker Chun Yu-ok, saying her attacker might have planned the attack beforehand with four other civic group members at the scene. Chun the same day proposed a partial revision to the Act on the Compensation and Honor Restoration of Democratization Movement Activists. While working on a bill to reexamine state compensation awarded to leftist activists who took part in a
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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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