Korean Kontext

Interest in the Korean peninsula is generally very narrow in the United States – it tends to be focused on North Korea and security issues,…

Last Friday, on November 30, 2018, President George H.W. Bush passed away. In the days that followed, there were many discussions in the foreign policy…

What does a unified Korea look like? Beyond the question of whether the government of this new country will be a unitary or federal one,…

On this week’s episode, we welcome back Victoria Kim, a researcher and multimedia journalist. When she last joined us in 2016, Victoria discussed her project…

This is a re-broadcast of an episode from January – KEI's Jenna Gibson interviews Min Jin Lee, award winning author of Pachinko. Spanning nearly a…

When we think about the threat posed by North Korea, we tend to narrowly talk about the missiles and nuclear weapons that are inside North…

From the United States, events on the Korean Peninsula have moved quickly and dramatically – we were first surprised to find that North Korea had…

What happens if there is a war on the Korean Peninsula? In addition to the incalculable cost of lives lost, a potential conflict on the…