Guy Podoler is Lecturer at the Department of Asian Studies of the University of Haifa in Israel where he teaches modern and contemporary Korean history. He received his PhD degree in East Asian Studies from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 2005. His publications and research areas include Korean memory politics, identity formation, and sports nationalism.

• Contents: Constructing Korean roots and an heroic past – Images of the colonial past – The structure of patriotism – Politics of South Korean tangible history.

Guy Podoler is Lecturer at the Department of Asian Studies of the University of Haifa in Israel where he teaches modern and contemporary Korean history. He received his PhD degree in East Asian Studies from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 2005. His publications and research areas include Korean memory politics, identity formation, and sports nationalism.

• Contents: Constructing Korean roots and an heroic past – Images of the colonial past – The structure of patriotism – Politics of South Korean tangible history.

Guy Podoler is Lecturer at the Department of Asian Studies of the University of Haifa in Israel where he teaches modern and contemporary Korean history. He received his PhD degree in East Asian Studies from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 2005. His publications and research areas include Korean memory politics, identity formation, and sports nationalism.

• Contents: Constructing Korean roots and an heroic past – Images of the colonial past – The structure of patriotism – Politics of South Korean tangible history.