Kim Il Sung: The Accidental Tyrant Who Changed Korea Forever
My guest is Fyodor Tertitskiy, a prolific scholar, polyglot, and one of the few who reads the footnotes of history in multiple languages. His new book, Accidental Tyrant, a biography of Kim Il Sung, c...
20 Jun 20251h 57min
Koreans React to the 2025 Presidential Election: What Do Koreans Really Want?
In this episode of Korea Deconstructed, I'm joined by four university students: young people who voted, watched, and waited as South Korea held its most recent presidential election and elected Lee Ja...
8 Jun 20251h 28min
Is Korea Falling Apart? 4 Young Koreans React to "Korea is Over"
A recent viral YouTube video claimed that Korea would soon be extinct. The country transformed negatively by one of the world's lowest birthrates. Change, it suggested, was too late. Four young adults...
18 Mai 20251h 28min
Dividing Korea: Dr. Kornel Chang
Kornel Chang on U.S. Power, Korean Resistance, and the Birth of Division What if Korea's true revolution was never allowed to happen? In this episode, I talk with historian Kornel Chang, author of A F...
10 Mai 20251h 42min
Building a Life Abroad: Kim Ninja's Guide to Korea
From visas to values: a positive, practical conversation about living in Korea Kim Ninja joins Korea Deconstructed to talk about building an authentic life in Korea. Born in Germany to Vietnamese pare...
27 Apr 20251h 15min
Korean Cinema & The Bodies Within
I sat down with scholar, Nilesh Kumar to explore how Korean cinema has reflected shifting notions of gender, identity, and social structure across decades. From the angry men of the Korean New Wave to...
24 Apr 20252h 37min
Voices of Change: Korean Students, Art, and Democracy
보도지침 (Media Guidelines) is a satirical work that critiques the media landscape and the influence of government or corporate power on Korean journalism in the 1980s. It explores themes such as censorsh...
22 Mar 202553min
The Korean Diaspora and Korean History Told Through Photos
A few years ago, Blair's grandmother gave him a present. Approximately 300 photographs his grandfather had taken in Korea nearly 70 years ago. These beautifully preserved color photos not only reveale...
8 Mar 20251h 8min
