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When the 1980-87 military dictatorship of Chun Doo-hwan controlled access to information by creating lists of banned books, blocking access to foreign news and persecuting suspected dissidents, Korea s universities were a nexus of subversive activities, from political demonstrations that often clashed violently with police, to secretive groups that shared and read forbidden literature. That situation is dramatized in Banned Book Club, a 198-page graphic novel by Kim Hyun-sook, Ko Hyung-ju and Ryan Estrada. ....
When South Korea President Yoon Suk Yeol broke out into an impromptu performance of the song “American Pie” at a gala White House dinner in 2023, it was more than just a musical interlude. It was symbolic of how on the big Indo-Pacific issues of the day, Washington and Seoul… ....
US intelligence records obtained by an American journalist and now out in Korean translation show how meticulously the US watched as a junta massacred those protesting for democracy ....
The Gwangju Uprising and American Hypocrisy: One Reporter's Quest for Truth and Justice in Korea – The Greanville Post greanvillepost.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from greanvillepost.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
As the world's failure to stop massacre after massacre in Gaza shows the deep failure of the U.N.-centered international system, Vijay Prashad turns attention to the conflict looming over Northeast Asia.
By Vijay Prashad Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research It is impossible to lo ....