Dec 26, 2019
This episode of the Korea Now podcast features an interview that Jed Lea-Henry conducted with Sharon Yoon. They speak about the historical migration of Korean communities into China, how these migrations have formed long-lasting enclaves, reciprocal migrations of Korean-Chinese back into Korea, how Korean identity...
Dec 21, 2019
This episode of the Korea Now podcast features an interview that Jed Lea-Henry conducted with Merose Hwang. They speak about the efforts to assimilate Korean Shamanism during the colonial period, the concerns this raised within the Korean public, the challenges this seemed to present to ideas of modernity and Korean...
Dec 16, 2019
*** Correction: In the audio of this podcast I mistakenly referred to Merose Whang as an “Assistant Professor”, it should instead be ‘Associate Professor’; I also mistakenly referred to “Hiram University” when it should be ‘Hiram College’
This episode of the Korea Now podcast features an interview...
Nov 20, 2019
This episode of the Korea Now podcast features an interview that Jed Lea-Henry conducted with Vladimir Tikhonov. They speak about Ethno-nationalism in Korea (Minjok), its origins in the pre-colonial period, how this concept is self-dated all the way back to ancient Joseon, the effect that Japanese colonialization had on...
Nov 6, 2019
This episode of the Korea Now podcast features an interview that Jed Lea-Henry conducted with Steven Lee. They speak about the Korean armistice agreement, how the Korean War and its end affected this document, the signatories and absentees, the intention of the armistice, the Neutral Nations Supervisory Commission...