ACTA KOREANA VOL. 12, NO. 2

ARTICLES

North Korean HipHop?
Reflections on North Korean Diplomacy and the DPRK
By Adam Cathcart 1–19

The Three Faces of People’s Cinema: A Critical Review
of the South Korean Independent Cinema Movement in the 1980s
By Park Nohchool 21–53

Civilian Life in Chosŏn during the Japanese Invasion of 1592:
The “Namhaeng illok” and “Imjin illok” in Swaemirok by O Hŭimun
By Michael Finch 55–77

A Study of the Periodization of the History of Korean
and Japanese Music
By Chun In Pyong 79–126

Soon Hyun (Hyŏn Sun) and His Place in the History of the
IndependenceMovement: With Emphasis on the Korean Commission
By Robert Hyung-chan Kim 127–183

LITERATURE IN TRANSLATION

“Glass Shield” by Kim Jung-hyuk
Translated by Kevin O’Rourke 185–203

INTERVIEW

An Interview with Professor Young Ick Lew
Conducted by Michael Finch 205–223

BOOK REVIEWS

The Proletarian Gamble: Korean Workers in Interwar Japan .
By Ken C. Kawashima.
Mark E. Caprio 225–228

Who Ate Up All the Shinga?
By Park Wan-suh. Translated by Yu Young-nan and Stephen Epstein.
Horace Jeffery Hodges 229–234

The Red Room: Stories of Trauma in Contemporary Korea .
By Pak Wan-sŏ, O Chŏng-hŭi and Im Ch’ŏr-u.
Translated by Bruce and Ju-Chan Fulton.
Charles Montgomery 234–238

War and Democracy: A Comparative Study of the Korean War
and the Peloponnesian War.
Ed. by David R. McCann and Barry S. Strauss.
Stephen J. Epstein 238–243

Stone Mirror: Reflections on Contemporary Korea .
By David I. Steinberg.
Bernhard Seliger 243–244

Eastern Sentiments.
By Yi T’aejun. Translated by Janet Poole.
Kevin O’Rourke 244–248

Elites and Political Power in South Korea .
By Byong-Man Ahn.
Carl J. Saxer 248–250