In Contemporary South Korea, Sins of Grandfathers Are Still Sins of Children
More than 70 years since Korea’s independence from Japan, having a collaborator as one’s ancestor still brings great shame. …
Korea’s Independence Movement Had Women, Too
South Korea commemorates each year the independence uprising of March 1, 1919. But women fighters are often ignored in collective …
Haebangchon’s Forgotten Past: A Stairway, A Shrine and The War Dead
There’s a nondescript stairway on the outskirts of ‘the hip Haebangchon.’ The steps once led to a Shinto shrine for …