The Korea File

Weed, Counterculture and Dictatorship


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Matt VanVolkenburg's prolific blog 'Gusts of Popular Feeling' celebrates it's 10th year of analysis on Korean society, history, urban space, film and current events this month.

In the final segment of a 3-part interview, Matt talks about marijuana, rock music and the counterculture and their relationship with dictator Park Chung-hee in the military police state of 1970s South Korea.

For an epic 10 year run of writing check out VanVolkenburg's archived work at http://populargusts.blogspot.kr/

Music in this episode- Young Sound '달무리'
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