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Thank you. I enjoyed listening to this podcast. Thank you so much. I am blind. At the age of 3, my mother abandoned me in a market in Ilsan South Korea. The police found me and I was placed in an orphanage. A few months later, a wonderful couple in the USA adopted me. Both of my parents who adopted me are blind. They gave me love and a wonderful future. I can't thank them enough. This year, I was able to sing them a song of thanks - "You Are My Home" - kzbin.info/www/bejne/fZ68kJyMhtaJZ6M I can’t speak for others, but I was extremely lucky to be adopted by a couple in the USA. I have tried to contact my birth mother, but have never found her. My new parents adopted four children with disabilities from South Korea. I know that the laws in South Korea where a problem for many children at the time. For example, at the time, you could only gain South Korean citizenship through your father and not through your mother. Children who were born without a registered South Korean father, where not seen as citizens. Many mothers gave up their children as they felt that they had a better future as orphans. Orphans were given citizenship.

Great interview! I wonder what survivors are doing now and what they are telling. Did the professor meet with any?

She is a very intelligent lady and pretty also

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Check out "Cry, Korea" by Reginald Thompson, British journalist of compassion and honor.

i love podcast

Can you talk about whiteness and academic imperialism in East Asia?

The ghost story was a mind blower. Thank you for your work Sir!

It's seems that his favorite argument is to scream "it's nonsense!" lol

i love that hes so honest about why he started his work

Such a great guest but not enough questions. By the end of the interview I still don't know exactly what is Korean gangs greatest profit. What about drugs? Do they control most of the prostitution in Korea? What is the role of emigrants in this gangs? Why word 건달 is romanticized when it's mean "good for nothing". Why Busan has an opinion of gangsta city? I whish the interview be longer

Excellent podcast, as an ITF practitioner it's really interesting to listen to the history in more detail.

Andrei Lankov can describe the Present pretty good. But his views of the Future are completely wrong. He shouldn't try to be a fortune teller.

Are they going to be demanding affirmative action soon? Korea is so naive. It’s the new Sweden and it’s doomed.

So glad to listen to this as I prepare to teach on Goryeo

I support Your channel !!!!!!!!

The best synopsis of the real history of TKD that I have heard so far

It's interesting that North Korea has more optimistic science fiction. What is the relation of optimism to the state of the present? Also the relation between ideology and optimistic science fiction.

Her book was so inspiring She was very intelligent. I pray President Trump will somehow affect Kim to let these people see their family and let them be free. God have mercy on the North Korean people. From Florida in the USA We pray for them. Your story is a great one for real asylum Real refugees. God bless her.

Great interview! helped me a lot with my research regarding Shamanism in the colonial period

pretty interesting pod cast i would say. His views and analysis of east asia's history and the connection of that to the modern day political relationships is quite fascinating. Thanks for the pod cast.

Excellent!

Good info

blogs.yahoo.co.jp/egghead_kiyori　 Present and living descendants of WANG GUHN, founder of Koryo

“We are a shower of bastards”

미국에 있으면 애국심좀 생기나 했더니...남의 나라 일에 이래라 저래라 지랄이네..

예맨 난민분들 돈벌러 서울 가고 싶으시다던데.. 초강대국인 미국으로 가는게 더 좋지 않을까요? 한국보다 더 높은 임금도 받고 전쟁 걱정도 없고 제노포비아도 없는 나라잖아요?

어이! 니가 미국국적 버리고 한국오면 니 의견에 동의하고 난민찬성 시위간다!

예멘 난민 미국 니들집에 데려다 용돈주고 재워주고 세끼 식사 제공하고 직장도 구해줘라. 꼭

This guy is full of it. Well educated, but lots of BS talk.

Probably one of the foremost authorities on DPRK.

Great inside and Well said. But, don't forget that Taiwan is indeed a part of China. China is a country that Taiwan is one of provinces of China. Thanks, professor Ross.

This was a very informal interview and deserves great attention. As a student I feel it is important to know the history as much as it is to know the techniques of Taekwondo. Thank you for this.

I didnt realise McArthur asked for British Special Forces. The Americans could of asked for advice on Jungle warfare in the 60s as the British had carried our successful Claret Raids in Borneo.

I am reading Chun's book now.

I believe professor Moon is a true monster trying his ego as nationalistic leftist, playing diplomatic game with the North, with South Korean lives on stake. So is president Moon unfortunately. He never learned from fails of Sunshine Policy, which brought Nobel Prize to ex-president Dae-Jung Kim by funding North Korean nuclear missile. History aside, he now runs inter-Korea summit with president Moon, seemingly for the de-nuclearization, which practically is impossible without removing dictator Kim in the North as we all know (so does he). In fact, what he is trying to do is, to establish federation of Korea under the leadership of nationalistic leftists, including even dictator Jong-un Kim. Most will find it hard to believe that he actually pursue such goal, but seeing that Korean leftists' neglecting human rights in the North, namely by presidents of Dae-jung Kim, Moo-hyun Roh and now Jae-in Moon, clearly shows that they are following the good old communists' idea from last century.

How is North Korea more capitalist than China?Can someone clarify why he thinks so?

North Korea: Kim Jong Un Is not a god, Kim Jong Un was educated by the Swiss. The USA will never allow to be blackmailed by Nuke weapons. North Korea should feed the people not missiles and nukes. The people that are starving of North Korea will ether shoot Kim Jong Un or will be forced to leave the country in January!!! Desperate people that are starving will do desperate things even if being shot at. It will be like the French revolution storming the Bastille nothing will stop it. The USA will have little to do with it the North Korea people will.

Very impressive

They weren't interested in his until his kids busted his interview

When is the next one coming out?

So the usual picture of semi socialist states or transitional nations is private firms that are heavily regulated by state, privatizations with tons of state clauses, basicaly the state alows private firms but puts a very short leash. And North Korea is a unique example of a Hyper-Stalinist state that suffered a total collapse like nowhere. And in NK the sate alows very free and independent private firms to operate as long as we all pretend they are still state owned... Interesting... And the bribe system this firms need to pay is a initial form of normal taxation that we find even in capitalist countries... NK.. Once the state will copalse and it will be open will be a text book study case of political ideology and social and marcket forces

The communists always screamed about the right of oppressed people to have self determination from imperialism. The idea that when this stupid cult of personality /communist/fascist state collapses that the Chinese should be allowed to enforce a permanent separation of the country is totally wrong.

Fascinating. This is the first nuanced overview of North Korea that I've come across.

Probably the best interview I heard about DPRK.

Professor Chung In Moon does not note any accomplishmemts of 'the Sunshine Policy' other than under 'the Sunshine Policy' there was engagement with North Korea. He does not mention that most of the donations from 'the Sunshine Policy' did not go to its intended recipients. The Kim Jeong-iL government expelled all Korean speaking aid workers that were trying to get the food to the starving North Korean people in the countryside, the Kim Jeong-iL also purchased 21 MiG jet fighters and 8 Mi-24 helicopters from Kazakhstan during the Sunshine Policy. 'The Sunshine Policy' was a failure.

Superb as always. Admits when he was wrong without trying to dodge. Tells the truth as he sees it. Easily the most important living scholar on North Korea.

Excellent interview. Great insight from Lankov as always. So nice to hear someone who tells the facts rather than following the propaganda.