Stephan Haggard's Research Cited in Asia Times Online
Defector mammonism? Pot calls kettle black
06/22/2011
Aidan Foster-Carter,
Asia Times Online
There's a guy in Portland, Oregon called Michael Munk who sends me stuff. He'll send it to you too; just sign up.
Michael's interests are political and wide-ranging; they include Korea. As his e-mail moniker attests (lastmarx), he's an unrepentant radical. That's an endangered species in today's United States, whose entire political spectrum has lurched far to the right in recent years. His politics are not mine, but I'm glad he's out there.
Anyway, it's him I must thank for passing on a truly bizarre article which I had missed in the Chosun Ilbo, one of South Korea's leading conservative daily papers. Published on June 15, this was headlined: "Defectors' Material Obsessions Raising Concern in Seoul."
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