[KS] Korea articles - Asia Pacific Journal, week of Oct. 6, 2014

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For those readers of KoreanStudies unfamiliar with the weekly journal of extended essays, this week holds several of interest to Koreanists. Here are the editor's comments to introduce the stories at Japan Focus
  
             
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This issue 
features a series of articles highlighting abuses of state power in 
Thailand under martial law, in South Korea in the wake of the tragedy of the sinking of the Sewol ferry, and in the transborder world of 
smuggling and espionage during the US occupation of Japan.  -- forwarded by Guven Witteveen, Guven Peter Witteveen
  
             
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Repercussions of the April 
sinking of the Sewol ferry that killed 324 passengers, most of them high school students, reverberates throughout South Korean politics and 
society. Jae-Jung Suh documents the monumental failures of the rescue mission, including at 
the highest levels of state, placing the public outcry over the tragedy 
and the government response and coverup in the context of neoliberal 
reforms of the Korean state that paved the way for the disaster.


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What of substance can be learned from visits to North Korea? Emma Campbell reports on her field work over more than a decade. Despite travelling 
as a tourist, she shows how her ability to function in Chinese and 
Korean  makes possible observations of daily life that provide important insight into the closed nation, overcoming state attempts to present a 
particular image through controlled tours. In particular, she finds 
visible effects of the development of China, along with first-hand 
confirmation of reports by international institutions such as the United Nations.


Jae-Jung Suh 
The Failure of the South Korean National Security State: The Sewol Tragedy in the Age of Neoliberalism

Tessa Morris-Suzuki 
Democracy's Porous Borders: Espionage, Smuggling and the Making of Japan's Transwar Regime (Part I)

Emma Campbell   
  "Fieldwork" North Korea: Observations of daily life on the ground inside the country
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