Culture and Society LGBT rights in East Asia: Connecting Taiwan to Korea June 24, 2019 0 Written by Timothy S. Rich. Image Credit: Travelling in Asia by Julio Martinez/CC; Licence: CC BY-NC-ND 2.0. Exactly two years after Taiwan’s Constitutional Court declared the civil code…
North Korea What influences South Korean perceptions of (re)unification? April 29, 2019 0 Written by Timothy S. Rich and his students Andi Dahmer and Kaitlyn Bison. Public opinion research on Korean unification consistently finds clear majorities in favour of (re)unification.…
Gender Understanding perceptions of harassment in South Korea April 4, 2019 0 Written by Timothy S. Rich and his students Andi Dahmer, Isabel Eliassen, Jessica Kiehnau and Erin Woggon. South Korea saw its own #MeToo movement develop…
North Korea ‘Much ado about nothing’: the media view of North Korea November 28, 2018 0 Written by Maria Rosaria Coduti. The relationship between the media and politics and its influence on public opinion is a complex one. Scholars debate whether…
International Relations A Realistic Analysis of the Third ROK-DPRK Summit September 24, 2018 0 Written by Liang Tuang Nah. Following the recently concluded summit in Pyeongyang between President Moon Jae-in of South Korea and Chairman Kim Jong-un of North…
Japan Sexual harassment and the problem of gender inequality in Japan September 6, 2018 0 By Emma Dalton When the news broke in early August that Tokyo Medical University had been altering the entrance examination scores of female candidates, even…
China Vulnerable North Korean ‘Criminals’ in China April 6, 2018 0 Written by Kyunghee Kook. In 2017 tensions between North and South Korea escalated as the North launched 16 missiles and the South responded by deploying…
China The Challenges of North Korean Refugees in China April 3, 2018 0 Written by Andrea Rakushin Lee. North Korean refugees often face myriad challenges once they escape and cross the Sino-North Korean border. Many are guided by…
North Korea The future pattern of North Korea’s provocations March 14, 2018 0 Written by Patrick McEachern. North Korea's nuclear and missile provocations to date have resulted from its developmental mission to produce a nuclear deterrent. While lethal conventional…
Sport East Asian Olympic Dreams March 13, 2018 0 Written by Jung Woo Lee. The wave of the Olympic movement is prevailing in East Asia. The Winter Olympic cauldron has just been extinguished in…
