Clik here to view.
Watching North Koreans Watch South Koreans
Inter-Korean relations may be on the mend, but it’s an uphill battle to challenge the narrative of brainless, heartless North Koreans. Continue reading at KOREA EXPOSÉ.
View ArticleClik here to view.
Meet North Korea’s Former Elite Journalist
One week remains before the #interkoreansummit. Kim Gil-sun, an ex-journalist from Pyongyang, isn't particularly hopeful. The North Korea she remembers was a dangerous place...even to write about...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Tunnel Vision: A View from South Korea’s Right Wing
Now more marginalized than ever, how do South Korea's conservative hardliners view the current situation on the Korean Peninsula? Meet outspoken retired air force general Hahn Sung-chu. Continue...
View ArticleClik here to view.
No More Rocket Man?
Kim Jong-un is stepping onto South Korean soil tomorrow morning, the first ever for a North Korean leader. Moon Jae-in and Kim will most likely talk about some form of peace...but what will come...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Why I Decline ‘North Korean Defector’ Interview Requests
Media outlets constantly make use of the 'miserable North Korean defector' narrative. The current media frenzy surrounding the inter-Korean summit is no different. But journalists should exercise more...
View ArticleClik here to view.
One April Morning
On Apr. 27, Kim Jong-un stepped on South Korean soil for the first time. It was also the first time a North Korean leader came to the South in nearly 70 years. Here is our photo essay on the ground,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Singapore Summit Gives Hope that Peace Is Still Possible
The Singapore summit did not quite live up to the hype, but it is certainly preferable to last year’s tensions, and there are enough reasons to be still hopeful that negotiations can work this time....
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Blue House Chronicles: Politics News from the Korean Peninsula, June 15
Wednesday’s local elections were something of a political earthquake. The conservatives have been crushed. The government is riding high on the wave of popular support for inter-Korean engagement....
View ArticleClik here to view.
North Korea Reporting: Riddled With Errors, Even in Neighboring South Korea
North Korea is a hard country to report on for journalists from any country. But even in South Korea, right next to the North, the problem of misreporting is dire, for reasons that go beyond lack of...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Watching North Koreans Watch South Koreans
Inter-Korean relations may be on the mend, but it’s an uphill battle to challenge the narrative of brainless, heartless North Koreans. Continue reading at KOREA EXPOSÉ.
View ArticleA North Korean Views South Korea
It has been more than a decade since I left North Korea, but every time I read George Orwell’s Animal Farm I am reminded of my life back ‘home’. The novel points to the North Korean regime’s hypocrisy...
View ArticleDPRK Cheerleaders Row Jeopardises Trustpolitik
The 2014 Asian Games, scheduled to take place between 19 September and 4 October, will see thousands of athletes from at least 44 Olympic Council of Asia (OCA) member states descend on the city of...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Republic of Konsumerism
Upon entering a supermarket in Seoul for the first time, I was completely lost. What I thought would be a simple challenge became nerve-wrecking: choosing a tube of toothpaste. Everywhere I looked,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Inter-Korean Marriage and Pursuit of Assimilation
A North Korean woman, alone in her cheap government housing, asks, “I want to get married. Where is my love?” She daydreams of being only in her underwear, straddling her ideal South Korean man, and...
View ArticleClik here to view.
I Flew Balloons to North Korea
A sea of clear plastic tubes flies across the DMZ, each one carrying a bag of rice to hungry North Koreans, and with it a measure of hope for a better world. It was nothing like what I expected in...
View ArticleSouth Korean Group Cheers North Korea and Challenges Blue House
[See image gallery at www.koreaexpose.com] A group of South Koreans riled the government last Friday, cheering the North Korean football team in a match against Indonesia and shouting out to the...
View ArticleBeyond Blood and Bloody Relations
My grandmother was born in Inje County, Gangwon Province, in what is now South Korea. She was displaced by the division of the peninsula, ending up in the North. I vividly remember her repeatedly...
View ArticleThe Leaflet War
[See image gallery at www.koreaexpose.com] On Saturday 25 October 2014, farmers and residents in the Paju area clashed with anti-North Korea activists who attempted to launch balloons full of...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Marching for Inter-Korean Peace: Why Women Cross DMZ
http://gty.im/182520278 May 24, 2015 is International Women’s Day for Peace and Disarmament. On this day, Korean women will walk for peace across the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ), the 4 km wide buffer...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Duck and Cover
IKR for Korea ExposéThe confrontation between the two Koreas put residents of the peninsula on edge, but expats in South Korea are taking cover from a blast of a somewhat different kind. The post Duck...
View Article