One of my best students is looking for an unpaid research internship in Korea. She is Dutch, speaks conversational Korean, only. Her undergrad is in Sociology and she is strong on quantitative analysis. REALLY a sharp student. Anyone need an assistant for 4 to 6 months?
consequences for the county imposing it. Sure, K-pop fans would be upset they can’t stream their favorite artists anymore, but it is not the same as not being able to buy a Samsung phone or an LG fridge anymore. 6/6
Some people falsely hold the opinion that K-pop and other expressions of hallyu are made by the Korean government in a ploy to overthrow the status quo. Obviously, this is not the case, but there is a symbiotic relationship between the Korean government and the Korean 1/6
mishaps? With the Korean government and the Korean entertainment industry so tightly interwoven, the entertainment industry is an easy target. It hurts the Korean government in its ability to increase its soft power, and at the same time the sanction has quite low 5/6
Using your large audience base as a popular artist to garner interest for traditional art is not as easy as it seems. How do you do honor to the details that make up the essence of the art form while still making it accessible to an audience might be completely new to it? 1/8
an interest in traditional art as well, possibly creating a snowball effect and getting their peers interested as well. I know that this poser behavior sounds super cringey, but be honest, it’s real. As someone who was a massive 5SOS fan and streamed the hell out of bands I 7/8
the country's own borders. The government invests heavily in its Belt and Road initiative abroad and doesn't seem to make an effort to do so in a sustainable way. At the end of the line, then, is the Chinese government not just shifting the emmissions to another location? 5/5
China is going through a lot of changes. With the fast increasing development of the country also comes more awareness for contemporary issues such as climate change. The Chinese government has been setting goals to reduce its ecological footprint (it currently has the 1/1
already have reached this peak in 2025 to conform to the Paris Agreement, which the country signed. The most curious phenomenon regarding environmentalism in China, though, is that all its environmental policies seem to focus on reducing the ecological footprint only within 4/4