Nancy Ko Nancy Ko is an emerging historian of capitalism pursuing her PhD at Columbia University. A member of GWC-UAW 2110, she is based in New York and the Eastern Mediterranean.

The View from Jeju | Behind Nancy Fraser’s Hidden Abodes

Nancy Ko

It is said that in Korea there is a strange-looking, fantastical creature called a bulgasari, which can dissolve iron and swallow it whole. — Kim Sokpom, 1972 Fifty miles off the coast of the Korean Peninsula, in the sea passage that connects Korea to Japan, sits a small island of nearly 700,000 people that began to form when an underwater volcano erupted more than a million years ago. Home to...