Remco Breuker

Remco Breuker

Korean Culture, Politics and Society: Past and Present

Remco E. Breuker is Professor of Korean Studies at Leiden University, the Netherlands. A historian, he has published extensively on Korean and Northeast Asian medieval history. Next to his work on historical Korea, he also works on contemporary North Korea, in particular on exile narratives, human rights issues, and DPRK overseas economic activities. A present research focus is the presence of forced labour and modern slavery in international supply chains. Together with Sebastian Weis, he is co-author of Cash For Kim (October 2021, HarperCollins), an exploration of DPRK overseas economic activities.