Republic of Korea

By K.J. Noh, Published on Monthly Review, Jan 24, 2023: Progressive South Korean citizens have been watching with impending dread the deepening threats of political repression since the former [...]

By Alice S. Kim, Published on Globetrotter (Independent Media Institute), Jan 9, 2023: South Korea’s export economy is centred on energy-intensive industries and therefore environmental [...]

By Radhika Desai Published on CGTN, June 7, 2022 In early June, the Royal Canadian Armed Forces complained that People’s Liberation Army Air Force (PLAAF) warplanes harassed its long-range patrol [...]

General Chun Doo Hwan was the corrupt military dictator that ruled Korea from 1979-1988, before handing off the presidency to his co-conspirator General Roh Tae Woo.  Chun took power in a coup [...]

The International Manifesto Group sponsored on November 21 a Webinar on the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, seeking to look beyond the Western stereotypes of the East Asian nation as [...]

We take a look beneath and behind western stereotypes of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea – as totalitarian, autarkic, economically bankrupt, led by a dynasty and a cult, and a nuclear [...]

The Republic of Korea has been successful so far in containing COVID-19 without shutting down its economy, even though schools, museums and gyms — places where large numbers of people might [...]