How athletic participation—from the 1988 Seoul Olympics to the 2018 PyeongChang Games—has shaped Pyongyang's strategic engagement with the international community, and what this reveals about the relationship between sport, sovereignty, and statecraft in Northeast Asia.
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The relationship between aesthetic autonomy and political engagement remains one of the central unresolved questions in the philosophy of art. This paper revisits the debate through the lens of contemporary East Asian artistic practice.
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The growing sophistication of performance-enhancing technologies—from pharmacological interventions to genetic modification, from advanced prosthetics to neural interfaces—poses urgent questions for the ethics of sport that cannot be resolved by simple appeals to fairness or tradition.
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How states remember and preserve their cultural heritage is never politically innocent. In divided Korea, the politics of heritage takes on particular intensity: both states claim a shared civilisational legacy while constructing radically different accounts of its meaning and its proper custodians.
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