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The Korea Now Podcast

Oct 22, 2019

This episode of the Korea Now podcast features an interview that Jed Lea-Henry conducted with Erik Mobrand. They speak about the authoritarian origins of South Korea’s democracy, the shadow of the Cold War era, the developmental state-building period, the way these origins still shape South Korea’s democratic...


Oct 13, 2019

This episode of the Korea Now podcast features an interview that Jed Lea-Henry conducted with Liora Sarfati. They speak about the protests that arose from the Sewol tragedy, the broader social issues that the tragedy highlighted, the people involved in the protests, the challenges of mass commemoration events, the...


Oct 6, 2019

This episode of the Korea Now podcast features an interview that Jed Lea-Henry conducted with Joe Phillips. They speak about the landscape of LGBTQ rights in South Korea, the absence of legal protections for this community, the cultural atmosphere of intolerance and indifference that traditionally has existed in...