Category: Opinion & Analysis

Having grown up in North Korea where the media is so uniformly one-sided that we hesitate to call the stories in them “news,” I was...

Friendly Parent. This is the title of that new song in North Korea that is going viral. How warm and familiar they are, those words,...

"Are you happy? Is life in South Korea more satisfying than in North Korea?" Ninety percent of the people I meet for the first time...

Wednesday is eobeoi (parents) day in South Korea, where it is a national holiday. Established on May 8, 1973, it is a time for people...

The colossal ideological fortress of Juche has stood firm for a long time as the cornerstone of North Korea's pursuit of revolution and defense against...

The last of our four-part series on the forced repatriation of North Korean defectors in China. For parts one, two, and three, see here, here...

When I started English lessons again when I was 20, the first topic in the textbook was St. Patrick's Day in America. This celebration of...

Like a wizard, Kim Jong-un waved his magic wand on March 23 and an entire organization vanished. The Democratic Front for the Reunification of Korea,...

One day in Pyongyang, in the summer of 1993, I was walking along Tongil Street in the city’s Rangrang district, heading for a bus stop,...

As Kim Jong-un intensifies the confrontation with South Korea, he appears to be raising the profile of his 11-year-old daughter, Ju-ae. Is he positioning her...

With Kim Jong-un now walking a path of military escalation, defense experts in South Korea and the United States are assessing the impact on their...

The Korea Institute for National Unification, a government think tank in Seoul, has released a report saying that, considering the increased role of women within...

Everyone has at least one pair of jeans. They have the distinction of being ordinary and fashionable at the same time. The designer Yves Saint...