Do We Live in Peace?
Written by the Douglas Baumwoll The 2017 World Human Rights Cities Forum (WHRCF) will be held in Gwangju, September 14–17 at the Kimdaejung Convention Center. The theme of the forum … Read More
Category: Features
Human Rights and Democracy from Around Asia and Africa: Four Students Debut CNU’s First Global NGO Master’s Program
Written by Anastasia Traynin Photograph courtesy of Shahed Kayes, Class Leader During the first semester of 2017, this writer had the opportunity to take an elective class with American writer, … Read More
First Class First Lady
Written by Douglas Baumwoll Photographs courtesy of Kim Dae-jung Peace Center Translations by Jung Jinho and Kwak Ji-young Special thanks to Dr. Shin Gyonggu and Harsh Kumar Mishra Ninety-five years … Read More
Do We Live in Peace? Human Rights Cities, Democracy, and Practice
Written and photographed by WHRCF Secretariat The World Human Rights Cities Forum 2017 will be held at the Kim Daejung Convention Center in Gwangju from September 14 to 17, hosted … Read More
Homophobia and Change in Modern Korea
Written by Colt Compton Very recently, a captain in the Korean army was convicted under an obscure law that makes homosexual conduct illegal in the armed services. In short order, … Read More
Cyber Security and Citizens’ Rights
Written by Matt Furlane This past May, the ransomware virus WannaCry made headlines by infecting over 200,000 computers in over 150 countries. Although not as large as the 2008 Conficker … Read More
To Market, To Market …
Written by Douglas Baumwoll Photographed by Douglas Baumwoll and Park Tae-sang Interpretation by Park Tae-sang and Heo Suk-young About 100 years ago, A. A. Milne, of Winnie-the-Pooh fame, penned the … Read More
South Korea in the Doldrums: Going from Worse to Bad?
” I just thought politics and political decisions were like something beyond my pay grade, and all I did was shift blame on politicians and the president for any misery, tragedy, or unhappiness. I was merely skeptical and pessimistic about Korea’s political future. Then, something happened that made me realize now is as good a time as any to turn over a new leaf and do something.”
Are you curious about what happened with the author as much as we are? Read on!