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The Invisible Violence in North Korean Migrants’ Lives
Mar 14 2023
By Joowon Park, author of Belonging in a House Divided: The Violence of the North Korean Resettlement ProcessIn October 2022, the decomposed skeletal remains of a 49-year-old North Korean woman were discovered in an apartment in the Yangcheon district of Seoul. Rent had not been paid for over th
Author Spotlight: Theodore Jun Yoo on writing about Korea
Nov 06 2020
As a professor who has taught on Korea, Theodore Jun Yoo knew there was a need for a concise, engaging book that distilled contemporary Korea and the very different trajectories of North and South. So, he went on to write The Koreas: The Birth of Two Nations Divided, a fascinating and unique histor