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Avram Agov is a faculty at the Asian Studies Department of Langora College in Vancouver. He received his BA in philosophy and history at Sofia University and completed his PhD at the University of British Columbia. He was a visiting scholar at Columbia University on a Fulbright Fellowship. He received his MA in Regional Studies-East Asia at Harvard University. He is currently working on a manuscript entitled North Korea in the Socialist World: Integration and Divergence, 19451991.

E. Taylor Atkins is Presidential Teaching Professor at the Department of History, Northern Illinois University. He is the author of Blue Nippon: Authenticating Jazz in Japan (2001) and Primitive Selves: Koreana in the Japanese Colonial Gaze, 19101945 (2010).

Gregg Andrew Brazinsky is Associate Professor of History and International Affairs at George Washington University. He is the author of Nation Building in South Korea: Koreans, Americans and the Making of a Democracy . His works have appeared in numerous edited volumes and academic journals, as well as the Chicago Tribune and CNN.com.

Adrian Buzo is currently Lecturer in Korean at Macquarie University. He holds a doctorate in Asian Studies from Monash University, where he was also Senior Lecturer in Korean Studies. He has also served on a number of Australian government bodies, including the Australia Korea Foundation and has published widely in the field of Korean language and studies. His The Guerilla Dynasty was published in 1999, and the second edition of his The Making of Modern Korea was published by Routledge in 2007.

Mark E. Caprio , the author of Japanese Assimilation Policies in Colonial Korea, 19101945 , lectures on Japan and Korea relations at Rikkyo University in Tokyo, Japan. He is currently writing a manuscript tentatively titled The dregs of Japanese colonialism in liberated Korea.

Grace J. Chae is a Research Fellow with the project Beyond the Korean War, sponsored by the University of Cambridge and the Academy of Korean Studies. She received her PhD in modern Korean history from the University of Chicago (2010) and is working on a book manuscript entitled Captive Minds: Race, War and the Education of Korean War POWs in US Custody, 19501953 .

Jamie Doucette is Lecturer in Human Geography in the School of Environment, Education and Development at the University of Manchester. His research interests include the political economy of Korean democratization and development; the transformation of Korean labour relations; and the nexus between sovereignty, territory and economy in East Asia. His articles have appeared in such publications as Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers , Critical Asian Studies and the Journal of Contemporary Asia , among others.

Cho Haejoang is a cultural anthropologist and has been teaching at Yonsei University since 1979. Her early research focused on gender studies in modern Korean history; her current interests are in the areas of youth, informal life-politics and research methodology in the global/local and postcolonial context of modern-day Korea. She is the founding director of Haja Center, a creative commons/cultural studio for teenagers.

Shin Jongdae is Professor of History at Kyungnam University in Masan, South Korea. His field is modern Korean history. He has done research and published in Korean on the history of North Korea.

Jooyeon Jeong , Professor in the Department of Economics at Korea University, mainly examines enterprise unions and bargaining and industrial relations in Korea from a comparative perspective. He has published several articles in major international journals, including British Journal of Industrial Relations (1995), Economic and Industrial Democracy (1995), International Journal of Human Resource Management (1999), Industrial Relations Journal (2001), Journal of Industrial Relations (2003, 2005, 2011), and the book Industrial Relations in Korea: Diversity and Dynamism of Korean Enterprise Unions from a Comparative Perspective (Routledge 2007).

Hannah Jun is Assistant Professor of the School of Business Administration, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies. Her current research interests include business ethics, corporate social responsibility, and socially responsible investing. Her recent publications include Beneath the Surface: A Discussion of Prominent Ideologies and Philosophical Influences on Anglo-American Business Ethics (2014) and Varieties of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR): An Analysis of Prominent Definitions of CSR in Korea (2014).

Sonja M. Kim is Associate Professor of Asian and Asian American Studies at Binghamton University (SUNY) where she teaches courses on Korean history and East Asia. Her main research interests and publications focus on gender, medicine and public health in early twentieth-century Korea in edited volumes and journals such as the Korean Journal of Medical History ( isahak ) and Easts . Her book provisionally titled Caring for their Own: Women and the Making of Modern Care in Korea is under final contract with the University of Hawaii Press. She is also co-editing a volume on science, medicine, and technology in Korea.

Suzy Kim is Associate Professor of Korean History in the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures at Rutgers University. Her publications include a special guest-edited volume Cross-Currents: East Asian History and Culture Review on (De)Memorializing the Korean War (March 2015) and Everyday Life in the North Korean Revolution, 19451950 was published by Cornell University Press in 2013. Her teaching and research interests focus on modern Korean history with particular attention to social and cultural history, gender studies and critical theory.