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Conference: The Korean Wave (Hallyu) and Globalizing South Korean Creativity

event date Fri 14 Oct 2022 venue IET London posted 6 Oct 2022

Recent international media headlines on the success of South Korean popular culture clearly demonstrate its global circulation and impact. For example, BTS has been topping the global music charts, and very recently BLACKPINK has made to the UK Chart no 1. Bong Joon-ho’s multi award winning film Parasite put South Korean films on the top … [Read More]

North of the DMZ: Essays on Daily Life in North Korea by Andrei Lankov pub McFarland 2007 (updated 30 Sep)

Southeast Asia-North Korea Relations: Drivers, Linkages, and Strategic Ambivalence ed Chiew-Ping Hoo, Shine Choi and Brian Bridges pub Routledge 2024 (updated 29 Sep)

The Black Box: Demystifying the Study of Korean Unification and North Korea by Victor Cha pub Columbia University Press 2024 (updated 28 Sep)

Every Moment Was You: Notes on Loving and Parting [forthcoming] by Ha Tae-wan tr Shanna Tan pub Piatkus expected May 2025 (updated 28 Sep)

The above list includes recent updates to books which might have been uploaded some time ago (eg an update to reflect a release of cover art). A chronological listing of all books uploaded, most recent first, can be found here.