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Radio New Bloom #8: The Impact of COVID-19 on the LGBTQ Community in South Korea

newbloomeditor06/08/2020

For this week's installment of Radio New Bloom, editor Garrett Dee spoke with Na Young about the effects of COVID-19 on the LGBTQ community in South Korea. Na Young is one of the co-founders of the SHARE (center for Sexual rigHts And Reproductive justicE) and the Queer Action Against COVID-19 Coalition...

EnglishGender/SexualityInterviewsJune 2020Radio New BloomSocial Movements0 min read

North Korea Threatens To Call Off Talks With US Over John Bolton

Brian Hioe05/20/2018

News that North Korea has cancelled planned talks with South Korea should be nothing surprising for those skeptical that peace had been achieved on the Korean Peninsula following a meeting between South Korean president Moon Jae-in and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un. North Korea now also threatens to call off talks with the US, specifically raising issue with comments by American National Security Advisor John Bolton...

EnglishInternationalMay 2018Regional Tensions6 min read

Enthusiasm Regarding North Korea Rapprochement Likely Premature

Brian Hioe04/28/2018

With North Korea and South Korea moving towards diplomatic rapprochement after some seventy years of being officially at war, this has been hailed as a historic turnaround. North Korea and South Korea have vowed an end to the Korean War and North Korea has agreed to nuclear disarmament. However, many assessments to date have likely been too optimistic...

April 2018EnglishInternationalRegional Tensions11 min read

Demonstrations in South Korea Calling on Park to Step Down

Brian Hioe11/08/2016

With demonstrations of over 100,000 in South Korea this week calling on President Park Geun-hye to step down, political reckoning would be at hand for the Park administration...

EnglishLaborNovember 2016Social Movements6 min read

South Korea’s Bizarre Political Crisis

Brian Hioe11/05/2016

South Korea is in the throes of a bizarre political crisis due to controversy over President Park Geun-Hye’s strange devotion to her advisor Choi Soon-sil...

EnglishNovember 2016Politics5 min read

Closer Ties Between South Korea and Japan Because Of North Korea or China?

Brian Hioe06/09/2016

With the recent agreement by the United States, South Korea, and Japan to step up trilateral cooperation in the event of threats by North Korea, is it that China is the real reason for closer ties?...

EnglishInternationalJune 2016Regional Tensions6 min read

The Issue of Comfort Women and the Formation of an East Asian Bloc

Garrett Dee01/26/2016

The recent deal between Japan and Korea reached on the historical issue of comfort women is probably an attempt to cement relations in the face of the threat of China...

EnglishInternationalJanuary 2016Regional Tensions10 min read

Current Demonstrations in South Korea and Asia’s Past Year of Protests

Brian Hioe11/17/2015

Asia’s past year seems to have been a year of protest. And we see this now in South Korea. Are there deeper causes?...

EnglishLaborNovember 2015Social Movements13 min read

Arts/Culture

Calling For a Return to Sinocentrism in the Name of Opposing It: Responding to ‘Reconsidering Sinophone Studies’

Re/writing COVID-19 in China: Solidarity as Metonym for Historical Truth?

How Taipei Became the Home of Live Comedy During the Pandemic

International

TSMC’s Development of Arizona Semiconductor Plant Could Have Implications for Taiwan’s Security

After Nine Years, Second Ma-Xi Meeting Occurs in Beijing

DPP Aims to Strengthen Laws Regarding Treason, Leaks

Interviews

“Trying to Gain More Autonomy in Our Narrative”: An Interview with René Hà on Stamped

Reflecting on an Ongoing Genocide: A Conversation with the Interviewees of All Static & Noise

Interview: David Novack and Janice Engelhart on All Static & Noise

Politics

TSMC’s Development of Arizona Semiconductor Plant Could Have Implications for Taiwan’s Security

KMT Leans Into Calls for Capital Punishment Against Child Abusers

Social Movements

South Korea

North Korea Threatens To Call Off Talks With US Over John Bolton

Enthusiasm Regarding North Korea Rapprochement Likely Premature

South Korea’s Bizarre Political Crisis

Closer Ties Between South Korea and Japan Because Of North Korea or China?

The Issue of Comfort Women and the Formation of an East Asian Bloc

TSMC’s Development of Arizona Semiconductor Plant Could Have Implications for Taiwan’s Security

Four Decades of Strife and Resistance: A Deep Dive Into What’s Happening in West Papua

Interview: Kawtorpai Church

KMT Leans Into Calls for Capital Punishment Against Child Abusers

TSMC’s Development of Arizona Semiconductor Plant Could Have Implications for Taiwan’s Security

KMT Leans Into Calls for Capital Punishment Against Child Abusers

Han Kuo-yu Becomes Chair of the Taiwan Foundation for Democracy