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Editor's note: Achieving it, sustaining it, and appreciating its gifts
75 years after the 4.3 Jeju Massacre, Koreans want a U.S. apology
Over half of the 25 years of KQ print edition issues now digitized and viewable
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How war preserved a ribbon of land
“Making Peace with Nature: Ecological Encounters along the Korean DMZ” ~ By Eleana J. Kim
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Putin and Kim: A new world order?
Russia and North Korea don’t want a mere alliance, they want an anti-West axis
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A door opens for birth searching
AdopteeHub in Minnesota and GOA’L in Korea launch collaboration for search and post-reunion services
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How can we actually improve human rights in North Korea?
Instead of increasing pressure and sanctions, the Biden administration is more likely to improve the daily lives of North Koreans by creating a state of peace
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Novel reveals truths of adult adoptee reality
“Famous Adopted People” ~ By Alice Stephens
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Evidence of empire
“The First Amerasians: Mixed Race Koreans from Camptowns to America” ~ By Yuri W. Doolan
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Looking at how we can do better
“Adoption Fantasies: The Fetishization of Asian Adoptees from Girlhood to Womanhood” ~ By Kimberly D. McKee
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The Korea hike of your choice
“Hiking in South Korea: 88 Day Hikes from Sandy Beaches to Rocky Peaks” ~ By Erik Palin
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Korean artists’ view of their fast-changing society
“The Shape of Time: Korean Art after 1989” gives a glimpse at Minneapolis Institute of Arts
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Families across cultures
“In Reunion: Transnational Korean Adoptees and the Communication of Family” ~ By Sara Docan-Morgan
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Korean power leads City Council
Historic all-women board includes two Korean Americans in St. Paul
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Listening to the universe
Korean American violinist Richard O’Neill finds the “flow” in new music
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Defining themselves
“Out of Place: The Lives of Korean Adoptee Immigrants” ~ By SunAh M. Laybourn
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Beyond Utopia: Another false narrative about Korea
A look at the producers of a recent PBS documentary, and its bias in relating Korean modern history
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Seniors with no citizenship
A pardon campaign targets two transnational adoptees aging without retirement benefits
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Star-crossed lovers
“The Interest of Love” tells a story of two who never quite make it
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Are North Korea’s latest threats rhetorical or real?
It’s not too late for the U.S. and South Korea to offer Jong Un Kim an offramp from the conflict he has yet to initiate
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Creation myths
“Budoji: A Tale of the Divine City of Ancient Korea (with an overview of Korean Shamanism” ~ By Jesang Park and Sungje Cho
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Love conquers all
“Doom at Your Service” delivers an amusing philosophical rom-com
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Seeing Jeju in Gaza
Chilling parallels from Korea’s past unfold as a current war drags on
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Distortions, exaggeration and speculation
“The Sister: North Korea’s Kim You Jong, The Most Dangerous Woman in the World” ~ By Sung-Yoon Lee
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The complex history of Korea’s occupation
“Mater 2-10” by Sok-Yong Hwang
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The end of guns
Marie Lee’s essay on guns, published ten years ago in KQ, is just as relevant today, as it was then
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At a 70th milestone, no progress in an unending war
Historian Bruce Cumings on slim prospects for a Korean peace treaty
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Generational joy and loss
“Pachinko” TV series unpacks the history of Zainichi in Japan through one family’s perspective
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Korean armistice, Ukrainian ceasefire
Pity the country that has no armistice, but pity the country that needs an armistice
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On a 70th anniversary, “han”, joy and a history lesson
Young and old activists join in DC action agitating for peace-first diplomacy to end U.S.’s longest war
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Beyond the orphanage, life gets complicated
Program helps young adults leaving institutions with support and life skills
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Shrouded chapter of history revealed
Civilian commission’s research uncovers facts on responsibility for Gwangju massacre