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Don Baker, "Korean New Religions" (Cambridge UP, 2025)

Korean New Religions (Cambridge University Press, 2025) is an excellent primer for anyone interested in modern Korea’s religious landscape. The Korean peninsula has dramatically transformed over the past century, and various new religions have emerge... more

20 Jun 2026 • 47 min

Paige Towers, "What They Stole: A Familicide Rooted in Intercountry Adoption" (U Iowa Press, 2026)

In 1955, following the devastation of the Korean War, Bertha and Harry Holt made headlines for adopting eight Korean children. Driven by evangelical convictions and emboldened by a special act of Congress, the couple founded the Holt Adoption Program... more

28 May 2026 • 58 min

Hannah Shepherd, "The Narrowing Sea: Fukuoka, Pusan, and the Rise and Fall of an Imperial Region" (U California Press, 2025)

In The Narrowing Sea: Fukuoka, Pusan, and the Rise and Fall of an Imperial Region (U California Press, 2025), Hannah Shepherd examines the shared histories of Pusan and Fukuoka over the eight decades from Japan's forced opening of Korea's ports in 18... more

27 May 2026 • 1 hr 18 min

Gregg A. Brazinsky, "Cold War Comrades: An Emotional History of the Sino-North Korean Alliance" (Cambridge UP, 2026)

In this major new interpretation of Sino-North Korean relations, Dr. Gregg A. Brazinsky argues that neither the PRC nor the DPRK would have survived as socialist states without the ideal of Sino-North Korean friendship. Chinese and North Korean leade... more

16 May 2026 • 46 min

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Paige Towers

Author of What They Stole, A Familicide Rooted in Intercountry Adoption

University of Iowa Press

Episode: Paige Towers, "What They Stole: A Familicide Rooted in Intercountry Adoption" (U Iowa Press, 2026)

Gregg Brazinsky

Professor of history and international affairs, Elliott School

The George Washington University, Elliott School of International Affairs

Episode: Gregg A. Brazinsky, "Cold War Comrades: An Emotional History of the Sino-North Korean Alliance" (Cambridge UP, 2026)

Fyodor Tertitsky

Author of Pyongyang on the Brink, Sixteen Crises That Shaped North Korea

Author, Pyongyang on the Brink

Episode: Fyodor Tertititsky, "Pyongyang on the Brink: Sixteen Crises That Shaped North Korea" (Hurst, 2026)

Nicolas Levi

Researcher at the Institute of Mediterranean and Oriental Cultures, Polish Academy of Sciences

Institute of Mediterranean and Oriental Cultures, Polish Academy of Sciences

Episode: Myung-jin Han with Nicolas Levi, "I Was a North Korean Diplomat: Inside the Secret World of Pyongyang's Foreign Service" (Independently Published, 2026)

Patrick Chung

Author, Assistant Professor of History at the University of Maryland, College Park

University of Maryland, College Park

Episode: Patrick Chung, "Standardizing Empire: The US Military, Korea, and the Origins of Military-Industrial Capitalism" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2026)

Jie-Hyun Lim

Scholar of Korean studies and author of Victimhood Nationalism

Sogang University (as discussed in episode) / Author

Episode: Jie-Hyun Lim, "Victimhood Nationalism: History and Memory in a Global Age" (Columbia UP, 2025)

Su Hwa Keum

Author and researcher on North Korean defectors and worldview transformation

Senior Mission Korea; Torch Trinity Graduate University; Pickwick Publications (publisher)

Episode: Su Hwa Keum, "From Juche to Jesus: A Study of Worldview Transformation Among North Korean Defector Christians in South Korea" (Pickwick Publications, 2025)

Areum Jeong

Author of K-pop fandom, performing Daku from the 1990s to today

University of Michigan Press / University of Michigan

Episode: Areum Jeong, "K-Pop Fandom: Performing Deokhu from the 1990s to Today" (U Michigan Press, 2026)

Min Joo Lee

Assistant Professor of Asian Studies at Occidental College

Occidental College

Episode: Min Joo Lee, "Finding Mr. Perfect: K-Drama, Pop Culture, Romance, and Race" (Rutgers UP, 2025)

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Re-examining the Women’s Movement in Cold War South Korea and Beyond

Q: What kind of new approach did you take on this issue?

The approach blends Korean studies with Cold War history, memory studies, and gender studies to view the movement as a negotiation rather than pure oppression, highlighting ambivalence, complicity, and transnational dynamics across borders.

Re-examining the Women’s Movement in Cold War South Korea and Beyond

Q: Can you explain why there was a need to re-examine the women's movement?

The re-examination emphasizes history-writing as visibility—bringing to light previously overlooked memories and transnational connections, especially how the Korean National Council of Women interacted with international bodies and navigated state power during the authoritarian era.

Su Hwa Keum, "From Juche to Jesus: A Study of Worldview Transformation Among North Korean Defector Christians in South Korea" (Pickwick Publications, 2025)

Q: Can you tell us about these interviews? How did you go about trying to answer this question of how the worldview was transformed?

The interviewee explains the use of grounded theory with theoretical sampling, conducting pilot interviews, and continuing until theoretical saturation to capture authentic internal shifts, with questions designed to trace lives before Christ, initial faith encounters, and hardest changes.

Serk-Bae Suh, "Against the Chains of Utility: Sacrifice and Literature in 1970s and 1980s South Korea" (U Hawaii Press, 2025)

Q: In Chapter 1, you discuss Park Chung-hee's Our Nation's Path and the development rhetoric; how does this reflect utility ideology in society?

Park's book ties economic development to a moral duty to sacrifice personal desires, showing how the developmental state instrumentalizes literature and society, and how critics like Kim Hyŏn view this as reducing human life to material success.

Serk-Bae Suh, "Against the Chains of Utility: Sacrifice and Literature in 1970s and 1980s South Korea" (U Hawaii Press, 2025)

Q: Can you talk a bit more about Kim Hyŏn and some of the other thinkers who inform your argument?

Kim Hyŏn is framed as a central figure who critiques the pure/engaged literature schism and argues literature should influence society aesthetically, not just thematically; Bataille's ideas about anti-utilitarian sacrifice and a French intellectual lineage also shape the argument.

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Scholarly conversations cover a wide sweep of Korean studies, East Asian history, and related interdisciplinary fields. Episodes frequently center on new books and cutting-edge research by historians, political scientists, and area specialists, exploring topics from intercountry adoption history and postwar geopolitics to counterfactual history of North Korea, memory politics, gender studies, and contemporary pop culture phenomena like K-pop fandom. The format tends to pair book authors or senior researchers with host scholars to unpack methodology, archival sources, and the real-world implications of their work. A standout trait is the breadth: audiences get rigorous, source-driven analysis alongside accessible storytelling that connects a... more

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