Jisoo Kim: Adultery and Gender Politics in Modern Korea

The guest on this episode of Asia Unscripted is Jisoo Kim, the Director of the Institute for Korean Studies and the Korea Foundation Associate Professor of History, International Affairs, and East Asian Languages and Literatures at George Washington University. Professor Kim is a specialist in gender and legal history of early modern Korea. Her first book, The Emotions of Justice: Gender, Status, and Legal Performance in Chosŏn Korea, received the 2017 James B. Palais Book Prize and traces th...