📣 New lecture series on Korea at Københavns Folkeuniversitetet (Spring 2026) From April 8 to May 6, 2026, I'll be part of a new public lecture series exploring Korea’s history, politics, society, and culture — from historical roots to K-pop, democracy, and global influence.

Vand 2, luft -4. Coldest plunge of this season until now, but had many swimming buddies 🐟🦆🦢🦢🦤☃️🐒🔥🔥🔥

"Det er også derfor, et fænomen som aktivistisk kunst ikke giver mening for mig. Jeg forstår ikke, hvad det betyder. For mig er kunst per definition en udforskning af noget, man ikke forstår." (Habitat)

"Or is the message really that we should look at everything in a different way?" (Eco's Foucault's Pendulum)

"Der Januar gilt zwar als Monat der Läuterung, ist jedoch im wahren Leben meteorologisch wie emotional eine Zumutung. Man joggt im Nieselregen, isst Sellerie mit dem Ernst eines mittelalterlichen Mönchs und wundert sich, warum das Glück trotzdem nicht anruft. Vielleicht, weil Glück ungern....

Happy New Year of the Horse! 🦄 2025 ended with a series of excursions with my mother, the kind I always want to do, but somehow only get around to when we have guests.

If you don’t train enough people to understand narratives and how they shape the world, they will be at the mercy of the powerful who do. It’s the perfect weapon, because they don’t even know they’re being had Signed, a literary scholar who is often told that studying literature isn’t “useful”

Korea summer 2025: Discussing Korean Literature in the "Post-Nobel Era"

"Among sinologists the study of Japanese is now _de rigueur_, and surely none would dispute the usefulness of Japanese as a sinological tool." (Durrant 1979: 273f. @ doi.org/10.2307/823513)

Many thanks to Nikolai Johnsen (British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow, SOAS University of London) for giving a guest talk on "Korean memories of wartime forced labour and the 'history war'" in Copenhagen last week. If you are looking for a really good presenter on this topic, reach out to him. 🤩

#AAS2025 draws to a close today, but our conference discount lasts through April 10! Save 30% when you use code AAS25 at checkout on our website or that of our UK partner, CAP. #AsianStudies buff.ly/tII03wC

And that brings our time in Columbus to a close! Big thanks to @aasasianstudies.bsky.social and all #AAS2025 attendees for a great conference. Our AAS website where you can save 40% on our displayed books will remain up for a limited time so act quickly to save! buff.ly/Va6unpm See you next year!

Last moments from #AAS2025 Thanks to @thekpopprof.bsky.social for making sure that we always have a nice group photo! ❤️ Big shout out to the wonderful organizers of #AAS2025 !

Treasure book hunt 🤩 on Day 2 of #AAS2025! Dennis' opus: 𝘗𝘰𝘦𝘮𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘚𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘴 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘖𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘐𝘥𝘭𝘦𝘯𝘦𝘴𝘴: 𝘗’𝘢𝘩𝘢𝘯 𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘱 𝘣𝘺 𝘠𝘪 𝘐𝘭𝘭𝘰 uhpress.hawaii.edu/title/and-so... Martin and Vladimir's 𝘉𝘦𝘺𝘰𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘚𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘌𝘹𝘢𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝘌𝘷𝘢𝘭𝘶𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘒𝘯𝘰𝘸𝘭𝘦𝘥𝘨𝘦 𝘪𝘯 𝘗𝘳𝘦𝘮𝘰𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘯 𝘒𝘰𝘳𝘦𝘢 www.harrassowitz-verlag.de/isbn_9783447...

Some moments from my day 1 at #AAS2025 😊Thanks to Shiho Takai and Youlim Kim for organizing the panel "Mothers imagined" with a focus on Japanese and Korean literature. And a book panel on "Civic activism in South Korea". Also check out our video on the book: youtu.be/0RZwa4MJnc8

Will democracy survive? When I had the chance to talk about Seungsook Moon's new book with the author and Yoonkyung Lee, I didn't expect the last question of the interview to be so timely. But here we are...Enjoy! youtu.be/0RZwa4MJnc8?...

"Literature dominated the top eight spots of the most borrowed books at the SNU library." & "'Young readers in their 20s have been exposed to digital content since childhood, so they find printed text refreshing and stylish,' said a publishing industry representative." www.chosun.com/english/trav...

New video on MIGRATION & DIASPORA in ASIA with Markus Bell, Jamie Coates and MA students from Asian Studies in Copenhagen! youtu.be/VNXNrVPlfuQ?... Please also check out the subtitles in Chinese, Japanese and Korean, produced by our wonderful students themselves!!!

What a nice surprise! 😊 I was just wondering when my book will appear and realized that it's OPEN ACCESS perhaps only today! So, BE QUICK and download if you like monkey or transmedia storytelling. 🐒❤️ brill.com/display/titl...

For your consideration, a poster promoting vasectomies in a Seoul hospital. Very interesting font and style here, I think. I would dig an oral history of how this poster came to be . . . Oh, and better say linguistic landscape to make this searchable!