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Selected publications

Hawon Jung: Flowers of Fire: The Inside Story of South Korea’s Feminist Movement and What It Means for Women’ s Rights Worldwide 2023

Book review: Hawon Jung – Flowers of Fire

posted 17 Jul 2023 updated 17 Jan 2024 by Philip Gowman 3 minute read

Hawon Jung’s book is a thorough and very readable look at South Korea’s #MeToo movement and the problems of misogyny and gender discrimination that gave rise to it. Highly recommended. [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)

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