And Then What? (Again) — B.R. Myers
“Does one every really want to hear any lecture?” asks a character in a Barbara Pym novel. “One just submits, as it were.” But my students
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A Change of Power? — B.R. Myers
South Korean news outlets have finally had to admit that their reports of weird cultic rites in Park Geun-hye’s Blue House had no basis in fact.
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On Domination Scenarios — B.R. Myers
In Asia Times this week Andrew Salmon writes: Ever since 2006, when North Korea first tested a nuclear device, the broad understanding among
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On the South Korean Presidential Race — B.R. Myers
A common headline here over the past few weeks: “There’s never been a presidential election like this one.” Because the two parties are already
On Academic Ward Bosses — B.R. Myers
I’ll say this for the press, having recently said a few things against it: a journalist at a respectable newspaper who was found to have linked
Where Are the Seoul Watchers? — B.R. Myers
A British journalist called me a few years ago with questions about South Korean politics. I told her I’d grown tired of talking for twenty minutes
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On a “Democratic Integrated Government” — by B.R. Myers
Here’s a thought experiment for my American readers. Imagine it’s 2024. The economy’s in bad shape, and at least half the electorate wants the
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On Yoon Seok-youl — B.R. Myers
In his latest NK News article Andrei Lankov expresses concern at the prospect of a Yoon Seok-youl presidency. The conservatives will insist on
On the South Korean Version of German History— B.R. Myers
After months of isolation at a riverside house in Gyeonggi Province I now have to return to Busan for off-line classes. Yesterday, to ease my way
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On the Inter-Korean Hotline — B.R. Myers
If my hypothetical daughter made a great show of buying an extra cellphone purely for calling that boyfriend I hated, and then kept announcing, with
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On Lee Jae-myung — B.R. Myers
Considering all that has come to light since 2019, and the Porsche-bribe allegations that just ruined the special prosecutor who worked up
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On Media-Induced Ennui (or Foreign Coverage of Moon, Part II) — B.R. Myers
If I may adapt something G.K. Chesterton said about the English and Ireland: Americans will speak to Korea, and speak for Korea, but they will not
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On Foreign Coverage of Moon Jae-in — B.R. Myers
In November 2019, shortly after making the scandal-ridden Cho Kuk his Justice Minister, Moon Jae-in was described in the sub-heading of an Asia Times
On Last Week’s Elections — B.R. Myers
The press is always behind the times, as T.S. Eliot noted, and it’s only natural that the foreign press should be further behind, but the lag seems
On Kim Yo-jong — B.R. Myers
“The only rule of which everybody in a totalitarian state may be sure,” said Hannah Arendt, “is that the more visible government agencies are,