Revealing the Korean Body Politic, Part 13: Free The Nipple in Korea? Why Not? Uncovering the history of a taboo
Revealing the Korean Body Politic, Part 12: If You Don’t Have Kim Yuna’s Vital Statistics, Your Body Sucks and You Will Totally Die Alone
Revealing the Korean Body Politic, Part 11: 노출이 강간 유혹?…허튼소리 말라 Wearing Revealing Clothes Leads to Rape? Don’t Be Absurd
Revealing the Korean Body Politic, Part 10: “An epic battle between feminism and deep-seated misogyny is under way in South Korea”
Revealing the Korean Body Politic, Part 9: To Understand Modern Korean Misogyny, Look to the Modern Girls of the 1930s
Revealing the Korean Body Politic, Part 8: The Bare-leg Bars of 1942
Revealing the Korean Body Politic, Part 7: Keeping abreast of Korean bodylines
Revealing the Korean Body Politic, Part 6: What is the REAL reason for the backlash?
Revealing the Korean Body Politic, Part 5: Links
Revealing the Korean Body Politic, Part 4: Girls are different from boys
Revealing the Korean Body Politic, Part 3: Historical precedents for Korea’s modern beauty myth
Revealing the Korean Body Politic, Part 2: Kwak Hyun-hwa (곽현화), Pin-up Grrrls, and The Banality of Sex and Nudity in the Media
Bikinis, Breasts, and Backlash: Revealing the Korean Body Politic in 2012
A reading list for Korean Feminism 101!
Is there a reason for Dokdo being there (other than it being 우리 땅, obviously)?
None that I can see, and kind of ruins the vibe as well. Ironically though, adding it for no reason whatsoever is just as quintessentially Korean as Gee Gee Gee is!
This is one of the greatest things ever…
James,
You need to do a post comparing Aegyo (Korean) vs. Kawai (Japanese) culture. That would be an interesting post.
Good idea.
Don’t know enough about…er…kawaiiness sorry Edward.
Thanks for the video abcfsk. There’s a few more like it in this post and this one too, some also with SNSD!^^
It reminds me of ‘Nintendo World Cup’ from the NES.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nintendo_World_Cup
Amazing game. ><
SNSD are great. :) They’re so much less coy and stiff in interviews and on variety shows than other girl groups are, too.