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Readying for Rapid Unification Process and Post-Unification Politics The process of German unification was indeed a huge tsunami. The Berlin Wall fell on November 9, 1989, and in less than a year Germany was officially unified. The German governments on both sides of the wall initially took extremely cautious stances ...

Neo-Confucian Scholars Addicted to Architecture Architect Ham Seong-ho, who perfectly fits the bill for “jack of all trades,” is a published poet, comics critic and cultural event planner. Well-known for being no less active in writing than building houses, he recently put out “Ancient Houses S...

January 2012

Shin Kyung-sook’s Seven Perspectives Returned Homeward For Shin Kyung-sook to be the first author mentioned as we survey the books on Korean literature in 2011 seems quite natural. “Please Look After Mom” met with warm responses from readers i...

‘Cells of the City’: Inviting Alleys and Small Buildings Twentieth century Koreans have lived their lives with a fine and efficient eraser, cleanly eliminating any trace of the alleys that connected people like capillaries. They swept away the lit...

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