By Joowon Park, author of Belonging in a House Divided: The Violence of the North Korean Resettlement Process
In October 2022, the decomposed skeletal remains of a 49-year-old North Korean woman were discovered in an apartment in the Yangcheon district of Seoul. Rent had not been paid ...
By Laurel Kendall, author of Mediums and Magical Things: Statues, Paintings, and Masks in Asian Places
The paintings of bold-faced gods in the Korean shaman’s shrine had fallen to the floor and stuck together. “They had been fighting,” the shaman said. They had caused her a season of ...
Among the things the past year has cast in relief is the fact that breathing is not something that simply happens — it is a skillful practice, not to say a political one. Denying a community the right to breathe is a tactic of oppression, as is dismissing its way of breathing as maladapti...