DKSC presents our second roundtable for Palestine. We’ll feature three Korean activists engaged in solidarity activism for Palestine to share their experiences and reflections. Please join us later today! Mar 18 (Wed) 8PM (Eastern) / Mar 19 (Thur) 9AM (Korea) on Zoom (registration required)

DKSC 📖 Publication Workshop | November 12 (Wed), 3:30-5PM EST Panelists will share insights on turning dissertations into books and navigating editorial and disciplinary expectations in the context of Korean studies. Sign up here: bit.ly/dkscbookwork...

DKSC presents a roundtable discussion on the 10th anniversary of “Feminism Reboot,” on 9/26 (Fri) at 8PM EST. We will reflect on a decade of feminist and queer politics, activism, and scholarship in Korean Studies in both North America and South Korea. Register here: bit.ly/46jg871

We’ve updated our mission statement on our webpage in both English and Korean: dkscollective.com/dks-collecti...

Reminder: The application deadline for the Publication Mentoring Workshop is in one week, by May 9 at midnight EST. This workshop for graduate students and postdocs will be held on June 6, 2025. See the CFP for details and submission guidelines. Link to apply: forms.gle/fb6B2KMgnZGh...

We will be holding a Publication Mentoring Workshop (invite only) for grads/postdocs in June 2025. Please see the CFP for details, eligibility and submission guidelines. Application due May 9 Midnight EST. Link to apply via google form: forms.gle/fb6B2KMgnZGh...

With hopes of chaos caused by the martial law being resolved, today marks the 77th anniversary of the Jeju 4.3 massacre in South Korea. Just a quick reminder of our online film screening event put together in recognition of the stories far to often erased and forgotten.

Join us for a special screening of Until the Stones Speak (2023) on April 11, 6 pm EST. Directed by Kim Kyung-man, this film follows the lives of five women who lived through the devastating turmoil of Jeju 4.3. luc.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

DKSC shares Kang Kwang-seok’s firsthand account of the Namtaeryeong protest where farmers and citizens united against corruption in December 2024. This alliance between rural activists and urban youth reshaped Korean social movements. dkscollective.com/2025/02/21/2...

“28 Hours at Namtaeryeong: I felt ashamed of my country. But I also saw its future in these women.”

Image Credit: IKP News Translators’ Note: From December 16 to 21, 2024, the “Jeon Bong-jun Struggle Group,” a coalition of eight agricultural and food-related organizations, drove tractors and othe…

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DKSC translates a powerful speech by a Korean pro-democratic protester calling for a new vision of democracy as a form of living-with-others. This speech was delivered during a mass demonstration on January 3, 2025, in response to the failed attempt to arrest the recently impeached president Yoon.

“We are all part of this shared struggle”

Image Credit: Emergency Coalition for Yoon Suk-yeol’s Immediate Resignation and Social Reform (윤석열즉각퇴진·사회대개혁 비상행동) Translators’ Note: On December 31, 2024, a district court in Seoul ordered t…

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Join us for our DKSC workshop, “Bridging Korean and Korean American Studies,” on Fri, Feb 21. Where does Korean American Studies fit within different disciplines? Is it part of Korean Studies' efforts to globalize the field? We invite three interdisciplinary scholars to explore these questions.

We have added a new section to our Resources page, “Translating Palestine.” It includes articles and statements translated into Korean in collaboration with Korean Feminists for Palestine. They are authored by feminist and queer activists and scholars from, in, and in solidarity with Palestine.

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Resources Decolonizing Korean Studies Collective aims to provide a timely compilation of articles, books, films, documentaries, and other materials on specific topics. Korean Queer Documentaries Re…

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Please join us for our first "DKSC Reads" to discuss together Minwoo Jung's "Queer Korea Impossible." Links to the article in both Korean/Eng. will be sent upon registration participants are encouraged to read the article beforehand. The event will also be in both Korean/Eng.

With President Yoon impeached by the National Assembly, the Constitutional Court must now certify the decision. In this moment, we’re sharing a preliminary list of English-language monographs and Korean documentaries to critically understand South Korean democracies: dkscollective.com/resources/3/

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Decolonizing Korean Studies Collective aims to provide a timely compilation of articles, books, films, documentaries, and other materials on specific topics. Korean Queer Documentaries Read Rethink…

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At yesterday’s DKSC emergency roundtable, we explored feminist/queer perspectives on protests, the politics of remembering/forgetting, and the positionality of US-based Korean scholars, rethinking democracy beyond US-centric Cold War frameworks while interrogating heteropatriarchal nationalism.

Join us for an emergency roundtable on “K-democracy.” We’ll critically examine the heteronationalist and exceptionalist narratives of Korean democracy, the varied experiences of national “crisis” across communities, and the linkages between Korean exceptionalism and US empire. bit.ly/DKSCEmergency