Korea: reunification by stealth? Intro: "There's a kind of reunification occurring between the long divided North and South Korea; it's based on cheap labour, economic opportunism and is happening in a place called Kaesong. It will probably be beneficial to only two people - those who dominate the still mighty chaebols of the ROK (those conglomerates such as Hyundai, Samsung etc) and Kim Jong-il, the unchallenged, un-elected and seemingly un-seatable ruler of the Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea (North Korea). The chaebols are getting a cheap source of labour, closer to home than even China, at a time when they need to reduce their costs to maximise their profits and also need a new stick to beat their notoriously vocal trade unions. Kim needs some hard currency to keep his regime afloat and some jobs for his underemployed and near-starving population. It could just be a win-win situation for both powerful groups - an alliance of raw capitalism and raw dictatorship, two phenomena which have often found themselves comfortable bedfellows." Link
monochrom is an art-technology-philosophy group having its seat in Vienna and Zeta Draconis. monochrom is an unpeculiar mixture of proto-aesthetic fringe work, pop attitude, subcultural science, context hacking and political activism. Our mission is conducted everywhere, but first and foremost in culture-archeological digs into the seats (and pockets) of ideology and entertainment. monochrom has existed in this (and almost every other) form since 1993. [more]
