[KS] Koreanstudies Digest, Vol 62, Issue 14

[Charles Montgomery]

Nice site!

I¹m not one to try to ³problematize² the question that was initially asked.

I like good sites. ;-)


On 8/23/08 6:13 AM, "Hanna" <cho.hanna at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Aidan,
> 
> Great question - I'm also curious and hope that others will chime in with some
> URLs here. 
> 
> One blog I read regularly - written by a Korean in Korea, in English.
> Tech-focused, but with some interesting nuggets and social/cultural commentary
> weaved inthere.
> 
> Chang Won Kim
> http://www.web20asia.com
> 
> Cheers,
> Hanna
> 
> 
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>>    2. Event Announcement: Prospects for Inter-Korean and US-DPRK
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>> Message: 1
>> Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2008 08:23:48 EDT
>> From: Afostercarter at aol.com
>> Subject: [KS] Are there any Korean bloggers writing in English, for a
>>         global readership?
>> To: Koreanstudies at koreaweb.ws
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>> Dear friends and colleagues,
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>> Now that the blogosphere is so active, especially in South  Korea,
>> I wonder: Are there any Koreans who blog, in  English, to
>> comment on and explain matters Korean to a global  audience
>> which still remains overwhelmingly ignorant of  Korea?
>> 
>> Despite the volume and intensity of Koreans' own online  debates,
>> the English-language blogs known to me are exclusively expatriate.
>> With all respect to the Marmot et al (www.rjkoehler.com
>> <http://www.rjkoehler.com> ), it would
>> be good - nay, it's essential - to have specifically Korean perspectives
>> as well; perhaps especially at this time of much  misunderstanding.
>> 
>> I hope this is just my own ignorance, and would welcome all
>> enlightenment, leads, tips, URLs, etc.
>> 
>> Best wishes
>> Aidan
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>> Aidan  Foster-Carter
>> Honorary Senior  Research Fellow in Sociology & Modern Korea, Leeds
>> University
>> Flat 1, 40  Magdalen Road, Exeter, EX2 4TE, UK
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>> Subject: [KS] Event Announcement: Prospects for Inter-Korean and
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>> ?Prospects for Inter-Korean and US-DPRK Relations?
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>> Featuring Dr. Park Jae-Kyu, Former Minister of Unification
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>>  Dr. Park Jae-Kyu is President of the University of North Korean Studies and
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>> Advisor for Korean Unification Affairs. He served as Minister of Unification
>> from 1999 to 2001 and as chairman of the organizing committee for the first
>> inter-Korean summit in 2000. Dr. Park has been widely published on the topic
>> of
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>> His monographs include North Korea's Foreign Policy (1977), The
>> Politics of North Korea (1984), The Foreign Relations of North Korea, A
>> New Perspective (1987), The New Diplomacy of North Korea and its
>> Survival Strategy (1997), and New Readings on North Korea (ed.)
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