A link preview card featuring a grainy black and white photograph of a lone soldier standing on a ridge, looking out over a landscape. Below the image, the headline reads: "31(21). The Security Prison: The Mirror Called “North Korea,” and the Politics of Controlled Memory." Underneath the headline is the subtitle: "Understanding Korea, One Story at a Time," followed by the source domain: "YOONJIWON.SUBSTACK.COM."

#NorthKorea and #SouthKorea needed each other’s shadow.
How leaders on both sides used the other to justify crackdowns, and how writers fought back with #memory. Includes a #booklist: #TheOldGarden, #TheSquare, #TheDwarf, #OurTwistedHero, #SpringDay and more.

#KoreanHistory #KoreanLiterature

theartsdesk at Wexford Festival Opera 2025 - two strong productions, mostly fine casting, and a star is born A drawback of choosing relatively or very obscure operas, as they've been mostly doing in Wexford Festival since 1951, is that the audiences probably won’t come out humming the tunes. That changed thi...

#WexfordFestivalOpera 2025 - Two strong productions, mostly fine casting, and a star is born - @davidnice.bsky.social takes in four operas and an outstanding lunchtime recital in two days #Letrouvère #LydiaGrindatto #TheDwarf #Deidamia #IlviaggioaReims theartsdesk.com/opera/theart...

Rewatched the #educational #frenchcartoon #onceuponatimeman I remember they showed this cartoon on TV at weekends at the time when we were talking history in either 4th or 5th grade. And when we started to talk about the human body they ironically started to show Once Upon a Time...Life. Coincidence or they knew exactly what subjects kids would talk & read about when & where at the schools? Even though this is a French production, they where also in co-production with other countries as well such as Sweden (Sveriges Radio, SR). Some of the facts are now outdated (and there's one part in the Quattrocento episode that wasn't even true), but it's still fun to watch & I have nostalgia for it. #history #dinosaurs #blood #joanofarc #witchburning #theclock #jumbo #thedwarf #neanderthals #pierre #pierrette #censorednipples #censored #fuckcensorship #juliuscaesar #stabbed #thepest #decapitatedhead #maestro #hellomaestro #leonardodavinci #monalisa #spanishgoldenage #albertbarillé #ilétaitunefoislhomme #detvarengångtidernasäventyr #flashbackfriday

Rewatched the educational #frenchcartoon #onceuponatimeman

#history #dinosaurs #joanofarc #witchburning #theclock #jumbo #thedwarf #neanderthals #pierre #pierrette #juliuscaesar #stabbed #thepest #decapitatedhead #maestro #hellomaestro #leonardodavinci #monalisa #albertbarillé

Dvärgen (Pär Lagerkvist, 1944)

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you, one book per day for 20 days, in no particular order, no explanations, no reviews, just covers. 🧡📚 day 1

#Dvärgen #TheDwarf #PärLagerkvist