The ascension to power of the pudgy 29-year-old Kim Jong Un in North Korea has grabbed headlines around the world, but the most important story involving Korean young people and politics is taking place in the South of the country. There, young voters ar

In the late 1980s, popular uprisings changed the face of Europe. In Nepal, King Gyanendra had no choice but to surrender to massive street protests, unprecedented in the history of that country. Popular anger has decided the fate of successive government

SEOUL: The ascension to power of the pudgy 29-year-old Kim Jong-un in North Korea has grabbed headlines around the world, but the most important story involving Korean young people and politics is taking place in the South. There, young voters are beco

In retrospect, that summer was the heyday of the first South Korean civilian democratic government in terms of inter-Korean relations. Kim Young-sam, who took office as South Korea’s president in February 1993 and successfully spent the first year reform

Editor’s note: We like to pull from the past from time to time on BlogPost, and this story seemed especially fitting. Just days after the death of Kim Jong Il, the mercurial dictator of North Korea, the country has appointed his son Kim Jong Eun as the “

South Korean President Lee Myung Bak presides over an emergency Cabinet meeting to discuss national security issues arising from the reported death of North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il on December 19, 2011 in Seoul, South Korea. More than any other nation,