These protests are just as much about actual anti-Chinese sentiment as they are getting the Lee Jae Myung administration to crack down on them to fuel their claims that Lee is authoritarian and China’s man in South Korea. Sounds like Lee is going to oblige them
www.koreatimes.co.kr/foreignaffai...
Authoritarian Liberalism: From Schmitt via Ordoliberalism to the Euro
Werner Bonefeld
Critical Sociology, 2016, 43(4-5), 747–761.
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Really incredible. This presidential election is being held in the wake of Yoon’s illiberal attempt to seize power through martial law. And the PPP seeks to encourage voters that this crisis is behind them by nominating a candidate in the middle of the night? 1/
m.koreaherald.com/article/1048...
the fact that the 10 judges who ordered a retrial were Yoon appointees certainly doesn't help the claim that the ruling was "apolitical."
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James D. Kim, 2024-2025 CSIS-USC US-Korea NextGen Scholar and Assistant Professor at University of Washington, analyzes South Korea's generational divide on nuclearization.
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This is just so good m.youtube.com/watch?v=P53d...
Thorough analysis of far-right youtubers in Korea and their connectiom to encouraging Yoon to declare martial law, and their defense of him during his impeachment trial.
'극우' 유튜버는 이미 계엄을 알고 있었다 www.khan.co.kr/kh_storytell...
Amid Trump’s assaults on labor and free speech, the organized working class representing 14 million union members had largely stayed quiet or focused on each union’s own fights.
But this joint declaration could lead to more coordinated direct action: labornotes.org/blogs/2025/0...
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Interesting article on leader of far-right rallies, Rev. Chun Gwang-hoon's method for securing priority in rally registrations.
They camp outside police offices prepared to register, and even file for "placeholder rallies" to prevent other orgs from registering.
slownews.kr/133266
My translation of a viral Japanese meme summarizing decades of U.S. complaints about Japan not buying enough American cars (while not making the kind of cars Japanese consumers actually want):
Did Sesame Street try to do "social realism? Serious question.
Scenes from 1984 OP.
nobody has been paying attention to Turkey.
According to a poll quoted in Labor Today, although the vast majority of office workers think the impeachment of fmr President Yoon will have an overall positive effect on society, most believe it will have little impact on workplace democratization.
www.labortoday.co.kr/news/article...
I think its a grift at this point.
absolutely, I'd classify both South Korea and Japan as sub-imperial powers.
like when you get into the historical weeds with this you find people defending the Empire of Japan's Greater Economic Co-Prosperity sphere as a true anti-colonial movement because it opposed US and European imperialism. Ignoring the experience of those who experienced Japanese colonialism firsthand
does it really have to be the sole focus--couldn't we settle for primary focus?
Also, I think leftists who challenge US imperialism in addition to other imperialisms are acting in good faith far more often than All Lives Matter people.
"Ms. Chung does not appear to have been a prominent figure in the demonstrations that shook the school last year. But she was one of several students arrested this year in connection with a protest at Barnard College." /1 To read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/24/n...
Of the 5 justices who rejected the impeachment, 4 determined that Han had violated the Constitution by refusing to appoint three Constitutional Court nominees approved by the National Assembly.
Letter signed by members of the Columbia History Department urging resistance to the Trump Administration's efforts to dictate university policy.
"Should this control be realized, here or elsewhere, it would make any real historical scholarship, teaching, and intellectual community impossible."
A South Korean court has granted an injunction halting the Methodist Church’s expulsion of Pastor Nam Jae-young for supporting LGBTQ at pride festivals. It ruled the church violated due process and imposed excessive punishment. He will resume duties as legal proceedings continue.
What seems new often isn't
Cool new Webtoon about a colonial era strike in Daejeon, Korea led by women workers: Strike 1932
m.comic.naver.com/challenge/li...
Emma Goldman was deported along with another 600 anarchists, communists & socialists, while 10k+ more nationwide were rounded up in the Palmer Raids, 105 years ago during the First Red Scare and tbh idek which number Red Scare we're on now
www.newyorker.com/magazine/201...
A lot of global academic conferencing is centered around the US, and US academic orgs have to be thinking very seriously now. You cannot continue to carry on with in person conferencing as if foreign scholars have no impediments to travel.
I know we like to pretend everything is "normal" again but..
Many are pointing out that authoritarians and US rivals will celebrate this attempt to kill VOA. That may be true. But all I've ever wanted to do is shoot straight and tell the truth, no matter what government I was covering. If that's a threat to anyone, so be it.