Oct 8

Voting rights are at risk. Here's why.

Next Wednesday, the Supreme Court hears a case that could further weaken the Voting Rights Act, which was passed to ensure fair districting and voting practices across different racial groups. Meanwhile, lawmakers across states are taking other paths to limit who can vote, from r ... Show More

33m 57s

Oct 1

Why Malala Yousafzai is a hero in the West but not back home

Why is Malala Yousafzai so revered in the West while being much less popular in her home country of Pakistan? On this week's Code Switch, we unpack how Pakistani skepticism of Malala extends from a suspicion of U.S. and other foreign interests.Learn more about sponsor message cho ... Show More

41m 34s

Sep 24

Is the American dream a scam?

This week on the pod: author Edgar Gomez talks about what it was like growing up poor, queer, and Nicaraguan Puerto Rican in Florida. His new memoir, Alligator Tears, chronicles his dreams of making it big, the various mini-scams he got into along the way, and his realization tha ... Show More

33m 10s

Sep 2022

How Korean Culture Went Global

From BTS to Squid Game to high-end beauty standards, South Korea reigns as a global exporter of pop culture and entertainment. How does a country go from a war-decimated state just 70 years ago, to a major driver of global soft power? Through war, occupation, economic crisis, and ... Show More

47m 55s

Jun 2021

K-pop, K-dramas, and K-fever: Why Korean Culture is Booming

In this episode, Dr. Anderson, a South Korean media studies and popular culture expert at George Mason University, tells us how Hallyu - or the Korean Wave - led to the globalization of Korean culture. We discuss how K-pop music and Korean dramas gained worldwide popularity, anal ... Show More

26m 43s

Jan 2023

Hallyu: How the Korean Wave Is Sweeping Global Culture

Background: The Korean cultural wave, also known as Hallyu, has become worldwide sensation a in recent years, with Korean art, music, drama, food and more sweeping the globe. Thanks to the fervour over the likes of K-pop and K-beauty, many of the Korean diaspora have seen the cul ... Show More

22m 3s

Jan 2019

BTS: Who made Korea cool?

Korean culture is increasingly playing a bigger role in our lives: We eat Korean BBQ, watch Korean dramas, and buy Korean cosmetics. But the big drive behind the Korean wave is Korean Pop, better known as K-pop. The country’s music industry is taking the world by storm, penetrati ... Show More

21m 3s

Oct 2021

CLM S5#9 – B.Courmont – "Squid Game, K-pop, Parasite : Corée du Sud, superpuissance du soft power ?"

« Squid Game », « Parasite », BTS ou encore « Gangnam Style », la culture coréenne rencontre un franc succès sur la scène internationale. Apparue dans les années 1980 avec la démocratisation et l’essor économique du pays, l’« Hallyu », la vague d’engouement générée par l’industri ... Show More

26m 24s

Jun 2020

South Korea's economic miracle

An eyewitness account of how a poor, war-ravaged nation became a global economic powerhouse. We hear the memories of Dr Kongdan Oh, who grew up in South Korea in the 1950s, in the aftermath of the Korean War. The country had been left devastated by the conflict. Then, in the earl ... Show More

14m 50s

Dec 2017

What life is like in North Korea

The most important story in the world right now is how real the chance of war with North Korea is — and how cataclysmic such a war would be. Part of the reason the risk of war is so real is that our understanding of North Korea is so sparse. "The Hermit Kingdom" is a world unto i ... Show More

52m 20s

Jan 2021

The K-Pop Wave

Since 2012, Korean pop culture has captured the imagination of people across the Middle East: from K-pop and K-dramas to Korean language classes and even to Korean fried chicken. It's everywhere!But how did we become so obsessed with a culture so different from our own? And how m ... Show More

36m 24s

Throughline: How Korean culture went glo...