Remco Breuker
Professor of Korean Studies
- Name
- Prof.dr. R.E. Breuker
- Telephone
- +31 71 527 2921
- r.e.breuker@hum.leidenuniv.nl
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0003-4320-927X
Remco Breuker is a historian of Korea and Northeast Asia, who works on medieval Korean and Northeast Asian history and on contemporary North Korean affairs. He published on the medieval state of Koryo, Korean historiography, Northeast Asia and North Korea, as well as literary translations from Korean into Dutch. Interested in margins, marginality, hybridity and pluralism, since 2014 he has been working on making the voices of elite exiles from North Korea heard in academic debates. He currently works on an ERC-sponsored project on perceptions of Manchurian histories and a LeidenAsiaCentre-sponsored project on North Korean forced labour in the EU.
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In the media
Fields of interest
- Korean medieval history (Koryŏ)
- Northeast-Asian medieval history (Liao, Jin)
- Korean cinema
- Korean and Japanese colonial period history
- Modernity
- World history
- Central Asian history
- Translation of modern Korean literature
CV
Education
1990-1997 MA Japanese Studies ( Leiden University)
1993-1997 MA Korean Studies (Leiden University)
1997-2001 MA Korean History coursework (Seoul National University)
2001-2006 PhD Korean History (Leiden University)
Employment
2001-2006 Leiden University PhD Scholar
2007-2008 Australian National University Post-doctoral Fellow
(Division of Pacific and Asian History)
2008-2011 NWO funded VENI researcher (Leiden University)
2011 Full Professor Korean Studies
Key publications
2012 “Mountains and water: Landscapes and limits in medieval Korea,” in Architecturalized Asia: Mapping the continent through architecture and geography, edited by Hazel Hahn and Vimalin Rujivacharakul.
2012 “‘And now, Your Highness, we'll discuss the location of your hidden rebel base’: Guerrilla's, rebels and Mongols in medieval Korea.” Journal of Asian History.
2011 With James B. Lewis (Oxford) and Grace Koh (SOAS). “Korean historiography,” in Oxford History of Historical Writing, vol. 2, edited by Daniel Woolf, Sarah Foot and Chase F. Robinson. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
2010 Establishing a pluralist society in medieval Korea (918-1170): History, ideology and identity in the Koryŏ dynasty. Leiden/Boston: Brill Academic Publishers. 500 pp.
2009 “Korea’s forgotten war: Appropriating and subverting the Vietnam War in Korean popular imaginings,” Korean Histories 1.1.
2009 Forging the truth: Creative deception and national identity in medieval Korea. Separate issue of East Asian History 35. Canberra: Division of Pacific and Asian Studies.
2007 “Landscape out of time: ‘De-chronicling’ the landscape in medieval Korea,” Sungkyun Journal of East Asian Studies 7.2: pp. 69-107.
2007 “Colonial modernities in the 14th century: Empire as the harbinger of modernity,” in Korea in the middle. Korean Studies and Area Studies: Essays in honour of Boudewijn Walraven, pp. 45-66, edited by Remco E. Breuker. CNWS Publications 153. Leiden: CNWS Publications.
2006 “The one in three, the three in one: The Koryŏ Three Han as a pre-modern nation,” Journal of Inner and East Asian History 2.2: 143-168.
2005 “Contested objectivities: Ikeuchi Hiroshi, Kim Sanggi and the tradition of Oriental History (Tōyōshigaku) in Japan and Korea,” East Asian History 29: pp. 1-38.
2003 “Koryŏ as an independent realm: The emperor’s clothes?” Korean Studies 27: pp. 48-84.
Translations of modern Korean literature
2013 (with Imke van Gardingen. Shim Ch'ŏng [Shim Chong]. To be published by Atlas, Amsterdam. Translation into Dutch of the Korean novel Shim Ch'ŏng by Hwang Sok-yong (Hwang Sŏg'yŏng). Approximately 700 pp.
2010 (with Imke van Gardingen). Het rijk der lichten [The Empire of Lights]. Published by Ambo-Anthos, Amsterdam. Translation into Dutch of the Korean novel Pit-ŭi cheguk by Kim Youg-ha (Kim Yŏngha). 350 pp.
2009 (with Imke van Gardingen). Tong [Tongue]. Published by Meulenhoff, Amsterdam. Translation into Dutch of the Korean novel Hyŏ by Cho Kyŏngnan. 239 pp.
2009 (with Imke van Gardingen). De schaduw van de wapens [The Shadow of Arms]. Published by De Arbeiderspers (Oorlogsdomein), Amsterdam. Translation into Dutch of the Korean novel Mugi-ŭi kŭnŭl written by Hwang Sŏgyŏng.This novel deals with the author’s experiences as a South Korean soldier in the Vietnam War. 768 pp.
2008 (with Imke van Gardingen). Vogel [Bird]. Published by De Geus, Breda. Translation into Dutch of the Korean novel Sae written by O Chŏnghŭi.This novel deals with the author’s experiences as a young child. 190pp.
2006 (with Imke van Gardingen). Een huis in Seoel [Mother’s Stake/A House in Seoul]. Published by De Geus, Breda. Translation into Dutch of the Korean novel Ŏmma-ŭi malttuk written by Pak Wansŏ. This novel deals with the author's relationship with her mother. 188 pp.
2005 (with Imke van Gardingen). Mijnheer Han[Mister Han]. Published by De Arbeiderspers, Amsterdam. Translation into Dutch of the Korean novel Han-sshi yŏndaegiwritten by Hwang Sŏgyŏng. This novel was celebrated author Hwang Sŏgyŏng’s literary debut. 130 pp.
Academic translations
Scheduled for 2013/2014: Annotated translation into English with introduction of the Tongguk Yi Sangguk chip [ The collected works of Yi Kyubo], a literary miscellany from the Koryŏ dynasty's most reputed literary figure, Yi Kyubo. This work is of both historical and literary importance. The annotated translation will be published as an instalment in a longer series of Korean classical historical works
2012: Annotated translation into English of the Samguk yusa [ Memorabilia of the Three Kingdoms], a Buddhist history of the Korean peninsula from the late 13th century. The translation is based on the complete but not annotated translation made by the late Professor Frits Vos (Leiden University). This is a joint undertaking with Professor Boudewijn Walraven (Leiden), and Dr Grace Koh (SOAS) and sponsored by the Academy of Korean Studies. The annotated translation will be published as an installment in a longer series of Korean classical works
PhD supervision
- Promotor (with Ivo Smits; supervisor Kiri Paramore) of Jurre Knoest, Center or Periphery? The power of Networks and the Importance of the Frontier in Foreign Relations between Tokugawa Japan and Chosŏn Korea, degree expected in 2016
- Choon Beekman, Female Managers and Gender Discrimination in Korea and Japan, degree expected in 2019
- Geoffrey Cain, Economic and Political Consequences of the Republic of Korea’s nvolvement in the Vietnam War, degree expected in 2019
- Minuk Nam
- Aihua Li
Grants and awards
2010 Translation grant from the Academy of Korean Studies to translate, annotate and introduce The Collected Works of Yi Kyubo into English.
2010 Laureate of the KNAW Heineken Young Scientist Award 2010 awarded biannually by the Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences (Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen).
2010 Northeast Asian History Foundation grant to organize a workshop and publish the resulting edited volume (€ 10,000).
2009 Northeast Asian History Foundation grant to organize a workshop and publish the resulting edited volume (10,000).
2008 Korean Studies Strategic Initiative Grant from the Academy of Korean Studies together with Professor Boudewijn Walraven and Dr Koen De Ceuster–(€600,000 –€120,000 per year for a five-year period).
2008 Hub-Library for Korea Film Grant from the Korean Film Council (KOFIC). Support initially consisted of 300 DVDs and 600 books on Korean film. The collection is updated each year.
2008 (with Professors Boudewijn C.A. Walraven and Dr Grace Koh) Three year translation grant from the Academy of Korean Studies to produce an annotated translation of the Samguk yusa ( Memorabilia of the Three Kingdoms).
2008 VENI 3-year research grant from the NWO ( Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research). This grant is part of the Innovational Research Incentives Scheme which aims to promote innovation in the academic research field. Korea Foundation grant to publish the edited volume Koreain the middle.
2006 (with Imke van Gardingen) Korean Literature Translation Institute ( Han’guk munhak pŏnyŏk wŏn) grant for the translation of Mugi-ŭi kŭnŭl written by Hwang Sok-yong.
Administration and service to the profession
2011-present External member of the Academic Council of the Interdisciplinary Centre for East Asian Studies at Goethe-University, Frankfurt am Main
2010-present Joint editor together with Dr Benjamin Penny of the international peer-reviewed journal East Asian History, published by the ANU with Leiden University Institute for Area Studies.
2011-present Senior Fellow at Leiden University College, responsible for the Humanities in the curriculum of LUC
2011-present Member steering group representing scholars of premodern Asia in Asian Modernities and Traditions, one of the eleven separately funded research profiles of Leiden University
2010-present Member steering group MA Asian Studies
2009-2010 External assessor Australian National University Research Exercise
2009-present Member steering group to set up new BA East Asian Studies
2009-present Member of the Advisory Board of the Leiden Univerisity Institute for Area Studies (LIAS)
2009-present Convenor (with Dr Harold Hayes) of the LIAS Interdisciplinary seminar for PhD scholars and post-docs
2008-present Deputy director (and co-applicant) of the project History as social practice: Unconventional historiographiesof Korea. This five-year project is sponsored by the Academy of Korean Studies in Korea. The work also includes the position of managing editor of the peer-reviewed e-journal Korean Histories
Professor of Korean Studies
- Faculty of Humanities
- Leiden Institute for Area Studies
- SAS Korea
- Breuker R.E. (2024), Anchoring past and present in Korean Antiquity: hyangga and hyangch’al in the Samguk Yusa. In: Waal W. & Sluiter I. (Eds.), Anchoring the invention of writing in ancient societies: a global comparative approach. Euhormos: Greco-Roman Studies in Anchoring Innovation. Leiden: Brill.
- Breuker R.E., Walraven B.C.A., Vos F. & Vos Koh G. (2024), Vestiges of the Three Kingdoms of Ancient Korea: a translation of the Samguk Yusa. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press.
- Breuker R.E. (2024), Not everything unfolds as anticipated: an annotated translation of selections from Yi Kyubo’s Tonguk Yi Sangguk chip. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press.
- Breuker R.E. (2023), North Korean slavery and forced labor in present-day Europe. In: Pargas D.A. & Schiel J. (Eds.), The Palgrave handbook of global slavery throughout history. London: Palgrave MacMillan. 643-660.
- Breuker R.E. (2023), De Koreaanse golf: de onstuitbare opmars van de N.V. Zuid-Korea. Amsterdam: Prometheus.
- Breuker R.E. (2023), Hoe wetenschapsbeleid academische vrijheid fnuikt. In: Duyvendak J.W. & Verburgt L. (Eds.), Academische vrijheden in Nederland: wat staat er op het spel?. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press.
- Breuker R.E., Soest A. van & Ewals F. 7 February 2023, K-pod special: hoe Noord-Korea profiteert van de oorlog in Oekraïne. K-Pod 24. Haagsch College [podcast].
- Breuker R.E. (2022), Het staat geschreven, dus het is waar: vervalste teksten in Korea. In: Mouret A. & Sam-sin F. (Eds.), Misleiden: de kunst van verwarring. Leiden: Bot Uitgevers.
- Breuker R.E., Bod R., Gori Georgi P., Robeyns I. & Tuinier R. (24 June 2022), Minister Dijkgraaf zou zijn extra 1,3 miljard moeten verdelen over alle wetenschappers. Trouw.
- Jackson A.D., Sîntionean C, Breuker R.E. & Saeji C. (Eds.) (2021), Invented traditions in North and South Korea. Hawai‘i Studies on Korea. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press.
- Breuker R.E. (2021), Authenticating the past: filing in gaps with the 'Tan’gi kosa'. In: Jackson A.D., Sîntionean C., Breuker R.E. & Saeji C. (Eds.), Invented traditions in North and South Korea. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press. 52-75.
- Breuker R.E. (2021), Reimaging Tradition: History and Religion. In: Jackson A.D., Sîntionean C. & Saeji C. (Eds.), Invented traditions in North and South Korea no. 151. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press. 43-75.
- Breuker R.E., Soest A. van & Ewals F. 4 February 2021, K-Pod S211: het 'almachtige cyberzwaard' van Kim Jong-un. K-Pod 23. Haagsch College [podcast].
- Breuker R.E. (2021), De geschiedenis van Korea. Lossless compression: Home Academy. [audio].
- Breuker R.E. (2020), Size matters: the length of Korea’s history and the size of its historical territory. In: Kroll P. & Silk J.A. (Eds.), "At the shores of the sky": Asian studies for Albert Hoffstädt. Sinica Leidensia no. 151. Leiden: Brill. 51-61.
- Breuker R.E., Bod R. & Robeyns I. (2020), 40 stellingen over de wetenschap. Amsterdam: Boom.
- Breuker R.E., Soest A. van & Ewals F. 2 April 2020, K-Pod S2-01: het geheim van de Zuid-Koreaanse corona-aanpak. K-Pod 13. Haagsch College [podcast].
- Breuker R.E., Soest A. van & Ewals F. 18 April 2020, K-Pod S202: overleeft het Noord-Koreaanse regime corona?. K-Pod 14. Haagsch College [podcast].
- Breuker R.E., Soest A. van & Ewals F. 1 May 2020, K-Pod S203: wie volgt Kim Jong Un (ooit) op?. K-Pod 14. Haagsch College [podcast].
- Breuker R.E., Soest A. van & Ewals F. 6 June 2020, K-Pod S204: Zuid-Korea als gidsland. K-Pod 16. Haagsch College [podcast].
- Breuker R.E., Soest A. van & Ewals F. 4 July 2020, K-Pod S0205: spanningen tussen Noord en Zuid - En de grote Q&A met Remco. K-Pod 17. Haagsch College [podcast].
- Breuker R.E., Soest A. van & Ewals F. 29 August 2020, K-Pod S206: de vernietigingskampen in Noord-Korea. K-Pod 18. Haagsch College [podcast].
- Breuker R.E., Soest A. van & Ewals F. 14 October 2020, K-Pod S207: cultuurverschillen Zuid-Korea en Nederland: en wat moet je weten als je op zakenreis gaat?. K-Pod 19. Haagsch College [podcast].
- Breuker R.E., Soest A. van & Ewals F. 14 October 2020, K-Pod S208: bonus update: raketten en tranen van Kim Jong-un. K-Pod 20. Haagsch College [podcast].
- Breuker R.E., Soest A. van & Ewals F. 6 November 2020, K-Pod S209: Breukers brief aan Joe Biden. K-Pod 21. Haagsch College [podcast].
- Breuker R.E., Soest A. van & Ewals F. 19 December 2020, Kpod S210: het Grote Korea jaaroverzicht. K-Pod 22. Haagsch College [podcast].
- Breuker R.E. (18 March 2020), Zuid-Koreaans collectivisme in aanpak coronavirus is een hersenspinsel. ScienceGuide. [web article].
- Breuker R.E. (28 January 2020), Hou toch op met dat racistische, sleetse en fictieve beeld van Azië. NRC Handelsblad.
- Breuker R.E. (5 July 2020), We moeten de slavernij uitroeien, ook als dat niet kan. Het Financieele Dagblad.
- Breuker R.E., Bod R. & Robeijns I. (26 August 2020), De universiteit wordt steeds verder uitgehold. De Telegraaf.
- Breuker R.E., Bod R. & Robeijns I. (18 November 2020), Massale actie nodig tegen structureel overwerk aan universiteiten. NRC Handelsblad.
- Weis S., Augustin L., Gierstorfer C. & Breuker R.E. (Screenwriter) (2020), Bureau 39: Kim's cash machine documentary. [film].
- Breuker R.E., Bod R., Robeyns I. & Hakverdian A. 27 August 2020, Crisis aan de universiteit. Stuk rood vlees. UvA [podcast].
- Breuker R.E. & Hakverdian A. 20 March 2020, De onzin van de volgzame en collectivistische Koreaanse volksaard. Stuk rood vlees. UvA [podcast].
- Breuker R.E. & Gardingen I.B.L.H. van (2019), Tightening Belts: Two Regional Case Studies on Corporate Social Responsibility. Edited with I.B.L.H. van Gardingen. The Hague Asser Institute, 2019. Leiden: LeidenAsiaCentre.
- Breuker R.E. (26 February 2019), Top Trump en Kim Jong-un: misdaad tegen menselijkheid. NRC Handelsblad.
- Breuker R.E., Soest A. van & Ewals F. 6 January 2018, K-Pod #5: de macht van de Zuid-Koreaanse multinationals. K-Pod 5. Haagsch College [podcast].
- Breuker R.E., Soest A. van & Ewals F. 8 February 2019, K-Pod #6: de grote voorbeschouwing op de top. K-Pod 6. Haagsch College [podcast].
- Breuker R.E., Soest A. van & Ewals F. 28 February 2019, K-Pod #7: de grote nabeschouwing op de top. K-Pod 7. Haagsch College [podcast].
- Breuker R.E., Soest A. van & Ewals F. 15 March 2019, K-Pod #8: hoe deal je met Kim Jong-Un?. K-Pod 8. Haagsch College [podcast].
- Breuker R.E., Dams T. & Beekhuis M. 13 February 2019, Waarom steunt China Noord-Korea?. China Podcast. BNR [podcast].
- Breuker R.E. (2019), Warband Cohesion in Thirteenth Century Korea: Northeast Asian Influences on Sinitic Military Models [War of Words] (translation: Breuker R.E.), Journal of Asian History 53(2): 241-265.
- Breuker R.E. & Gardingen I.B.L.H. van (2019), EU-ǔi Pukhan haeoe nodongja: pŏb-ŭi chunsu-wa chiphaeng-ǔi chungyosŏng EU의 북한 해외노동자: 법의 준수와 집행의 중요성. In: Lee Charles & Kim Ida (Eds.), 북한을 파견하다 = Dispatching North Korea abroad no. 2. Seoul: Seoul University Press. 99-166.
- Breuker R.E., Soest A. van & Ewals F. 26 April 2019, K-Pod #9 de middelvinger van Kim en het Noord-Koreaanse verzet. K-Pod 9. Haagsch College [podcast].
- Breuker R.E., Soest A. van & Ewals F. 20 May 2019, K-Pod #10: het leven van de gewone Noord-Koreaan. K-Pod 10. Haagsch College [podcast].
- Breuker R.E., Soest A. van & Ewals F. 26 May 2019, K#11: de bloedigste en vergeten oorlog. K#11: de bloedigste en vergeten oorlog 11. Haagsch College [podcast].
- Breuker R.E., Soest A. van & Ewals F. 12 July 2019, K-Pod #12: de Koreaanse vakantiespecial. K-Pod 12. Haagsch College [podcast].
- Breuker R.E. (24 April 2019), De academische vrijheid wordt bedreigd, maar anders dan politici denken. Frontaal Naakt. [web article].
- Breuker R.E. (24 April 2019), De academische vrijheid, zeker die van mij, staat onder zware druk (en de politiek kijkt weg). Leids Universitair Weekblad Mare.
- Breuker R.E. (1 September 2019), Stop met verdacht maken van de geesteswetenschappen. NRC Handelsblad.
- Breuker R.E. (10 March 2018), Met Noord-Korea onderhandel je niet. NRC Handelsblad.
- Breuker R.E. (28 April 2018), De werkelijkheid blijft: Noord-Korea is een kernwapenstaat. De Morgen.
- Breuker R.E. (30 April 2018), Vrede? Pyongyang consolideert zijn doelen. NRC Handelsblad.
- Breuker R.E. (2018), De B.V. Noord-Korea: een kernmacht in de marge. Amsterdam: Prometheus.
- Breuker R.E. (24 May 2018), Iedereen let op de Noord-Koreaanse kernwapens, maar die zijn het ergste niet. Trouw, De Verdieping.
- Breuker R.E. (2018), Wantrouw die zoete woordjes van Noord-Korea!, Elsevier : .
- Breuker R.E. (12 June 2018), Kim wint, zijn onderdanen zijn de verliezers. NRC Handelsblad.
- Breuker R.E., Soest A. van & Ewals F. 5 September 2018, K-Pod #1: de macht van Kim Jong-Un. K-Pod 1. Haagsch College [podcast].
- Breuker R.E., Soest A. van & Ewals F. 5 October 2018, K-Pod #2: de vrienden van Kim Jong-Un. K-Pod 2. Haagsch College [podcast].
- Breuker R.E., Soest A. van & Ewals F. 9 November 2018, K-Pod #3: Noord-Koreaanse slaven. K-Pod 3. Haagsch College [podcast].
- Breuker R.E., Soest A. van & Ewals F. 6 December 2018, K-Pod #4: het jaar van Kim. K-Pod 4. Haagsch College [podcast].
- Breuker R.E. & Liempt P. van 26 April 2018, Deel 19: Remco Breuker. RTL Z Podcast Paul van Liempt Een op Een. RTL Z [podcast].
- Breuker R.E. (5 January 2018), Kim Jong-un kan een wig drijven tussen VS en Zuid-Korea.
- Breuker R.E. & Gardingen I.B.L.H. van (2018), Pervasive, Punitive, and Predetermined: Understanding Modern Slavery in North Korea: Walk Free Foundation.
- Breuker R.E., Gardingen I.B.L.H., Boonen M.C.H., Boonstra K., Chung C., Kim K., Kyuwook O. & Veere A.P. van der (2017), Slaves to the system: North Korean forced labour in the European Union, the Polish case. How the supply of a captive DPRK workforce fits our demand for cheap labour. Leiden: LeidenAsiaCentre.
- Breuker Remco (2017), Multi-proxy dating the ‘Millennium Eruption’ of Changbaishan to late 946 CE [War of words] (translation: Oppenheimer C., Wacker L., Xu J., Galván J.D., Stoffel M., Guillet S., Corona C., Sigl M., Di Cosmo N., Hajdas I., Pan B., Breuker R.E., Schneider L., Esper J., Fei J., Hammond J.O.S. & Büntgen U.), Quaternary Science Reviews 158: 164-171.
- Breuker Remco (2017), Koryŏ yŏksasang-ǔi t'amsaek: Kukka ch'egye-esŏ kajok-kwa salm-ǔi munje-kkaji (Searching for the histories of Koryŏ: from the state system to family and daily life [War of Words] (translation: Ro M.H., Suh S.H., Lee I.C., Pak C.W., Yoon K.J., Choe Y.S., Lee C.S., Chu M.Y., Jeong Y.G., Lee K.H., Choi J.S., Kang H.S., Lee M.M., Kim U.T., Jung D.H., Hwang H.J., Breuker R.E., Morihira M. & Oh H.E.). Seoul: Jipmoondang Publishing.
- Breuker R.E. (24 November 2017), Doe iets aan Noord-Korea. Juist nu. NRC Handelsblad.
- Breuker R.E. (5 October 2017), Vertrouw niet blind op China om Kim te temmen. NRC Handelsblad.
- Breuker R.E. (3 September 2017), Noord-Korea laat zich niet ongestraft meer uitlachen. NRC Handelsblad.
- Breuker R.E. (22 February 2017), Noord-Korea snoeit familie. NRC Handelsblad.
- Breuker R.E. (30 August 2017), Zo'n vaart loopt het dus wel. De Morgen.
- Breuker R.E. (6 July 2017), Deze keer is het Noord-Korea om de knikkers te doen. De Morgen.
- Breuker R.E. (10 August 2017), De stilte uit Brussel wordt in Pyongyang opgevat als een teken dat Noord-Korea nog ruimte heeft om verdere provocaties uit te voeren.
- Breuker R.E. (2017), Sancties van Rutte III tegen Noord-Korea zijn slechts symbolisch (Scienceguide.nl). [other].
- Breuker Remco (2016), 유럽연합 내 북한 해외 강제노동 : Yurop yŏnhap nae Pukhan haeoe kangjenodong [War of Words] (translation: Breuker R.E. & Gardingen I.B.L.H. van), KINU T'ongil P'ǔllŏsǔ 2(3): 50-61.
- Breuker R.E. & Gardingen I.B.L.H. (7 June 2016), Rutte, kom de Noord-Koreaanse slaven in Polen te hulp. NRC Handelsblad, Opinie.
- Breuker R.E. (11 February 2016), Noord-Korea is geen staat, maar een bedrijf. NRC Handelsblad, Opinie.
- Breuker R.E. & Chung C. (2016), North Korea farming out forced labor to the European Union (Reuters). [other].
- Breuker R.E. (11 February 2016), Drijf wig tussen systeem en volk Noord-Korea. Reformatorisch Dagblad.
- Breuker R.E. (2016), Pyongyang intimideert wetenschappers (Scienceguide.nl), Scienceguide 28: .
- Breuker Remco (2015), « Louer des vies » ? Le travail forcé des Nord-Coréens [War of Words] (translation: Breuker R.E. & Gardingen I.B.L.H. van), Korea Analysis 9(4): 45-49.
- Breuker R.E. & Gardingen I.B.L.H. van (12 November 2015), Pyongyang zal blij met je zijn, Guus Hiddink. NRC Handelsblad, Opinie.
- Breuker R.E. & Jang J.S. (2014), Over de grens: een dichter vlucht uit Noord-Korea. Amsterdam: Arbeiderspers.
- Breuker R.E., Lewis J.B. & Koh G. (2014), The Tradition of Historical Writing in Korea. In: Woolf D., Foot S. & Robinson C.F. (Eds.), The Oxford History of Historical Writing no. 2. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 128-139.
- Breuker R.E. (27 December 2014), De VN drijven Noord-Korea in het nauw. NRC Handelsblad, Opinie.
- Breuker R.E. (21 February 2014), Investeer in Noord-Korea, alleen dat zal helpen. NRC Handelsblad, Opinie.
- Breuker R.E. (21 February 2014), N-Korea luistert alleen naar de stem van het geld. NRC Handelsblad, Opinie.
- Breuker R.E. (30 December 2014), Een hack kan wat een raket niet kan.
- Breuker R.E. (8 March 2013), Bereid je maar voor op een oorlog met Noord-Korea. NRC Handelsblad.
- Breuker R.E. (20 December 2013), Positie Kim Jong Un minder solide dan gedacht. Reformatorisch Dagblad.
- Breuker R.E. (4 April 13), Noord-Korea wil geen oorlog, ondanks alle oorlogsretoriek. De Morgen.
- Breuker R.E., Lewis J.B. & Koh G. (2012), Korean historiography. In: Daniel Woolf, Sarah Foot & Chase F. Robinson (Eds.), Oxford History of Historical Writing. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- Breuker R.E. (2012), Mountains and water: Landscapes and limits in medieval Korea. In: Hazel Hahn H. & Rujivacharakul Vimalin (Eds.), Architectura-ized Asia: Mapping the continent through architecture and geography, edited by. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press.
- Breuker R.E. (2012), And now, Your Highness, we'll discuss the location of your hidden rebel base’: Guerrilla's, rebels and Mongols in medieval Korea, Journal of Asian History 45: .
- Breuker R.E. (13 April 2012), Overreactie leidt tot oorlog met Noord-Korea. NRC Handelsblad.
- Breuker R.E. (2011), Narratives of inauthenticity, impurity and disorder: Or, how forgeries, half-castes and hooligans shaped pre-modern Korean history, Sungkyun Journal of East Asian Studies 11(2): 183-208.
- Breuker R.E. (Ed.) (2011), . Korean Histories.
- Breuker R.E. & Penny B. (Eds.) (2011), . East Asian History.
- Breuker R.E. (2011) The power of the Buddhas: The politics of Buddhism during the Koryŏ dynasty (918-1392) by Sem Vermeersch. Review of: Vermeersch S. (2009), The power of the Buddhas: The politics of Buddhism during the Koryŏ dynasty (918-1392) no. 1. Harvard: Harvard University Press. Harvard journal of Asiatic studies 71: 155-163.
- Breuker R.E. (7 November 2011), Het Noord-Korea van Kim Jong Il is de facto een kapitalistische natie. NRC Handelsblad.
- Breuker R.E. (20 December 2011), Waarom een volk zo'n spijkerhard dictator duldde. De Morgen.
- Breuker R.E. (31 October 2011), Een raam is wagenwijd open: Uitgelekte volkstelling geeft gedetailleerde informatie over bevolking Pyongyang. Trouw.
- Breuker R.E. & Van Gardingen I.B.L.H. (2010), Het rijk der lichten. Amsterdam: Ambo/Anthos.
- Breuker R.E. (2010), Forging the truth: Creative deception and national identity in medieval Korea. Canberra: Division of Pacific and Asian Studies.
- Breuker R.E. (2010), The formation of plural identities in medieval Korea (918-1170): History, ideology and identity in the Koryŏ dynasty. Leiden/Boston: Brill Academic Publishers.
- Breuker R.E. (2010), O fleeting joyes of Paradise, or: How nativism enjoyed its 15 minutes of f(r)ame in medieval Korea. In: Blezer H.W.A. & Teeuwen M.J. (Eds.), Framing identity discourse in Buddhist environments: The special case of ‘nativist’ strategie. Leiden/Boston: Brill Academic Publishers.
- Breuker R.E. (Ed.) (2010), . Korean Histories.
- Walraven B.C.A., Breuker R.E. & Ceuster K. de (Eds.) (2010), . Korean Histories.
- Walraven B.C.A., Breuker R.E. & Ceuster K. de (Eds.) (2010), . Korean Histories.
- Breuker R.E. (2010) Confucianism and modernization in Korean history. Review of: Yi T.J. (2007), Confucianism and modernization in Korean history no. 2. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. Sungkyun Journal of East Asian Studies 10: 254-256.
- Breuker R.E. (2010), Writing history in Koryŏ: Some early Koryŏ historical works reconsidered, Korean Histories 2(1): 57-84.
- Breuker R.E. & Van Gardingen I.B.L.H. (2009), Tong. Amsterdam: Meulenhoff.
- Breuker R.E. & Van Gardingen I.B.L.H. (2009), De schaduw van de wapens. Amsterdam: De Arbeiderspers.
- Breuker R.E. (2009), Nawoord. In: Hwang S.Y. (Ed.), De schaduw van de wapens. Amsterdam: De Arbeiderspers.
- Breuker R.E. (Ed.) (2009), . Korean Histories.
- Breuker R.E. (2009), Toppling the tiger, devouring the dragon: Alternative readings of Korean history through the muhyŏp genre, Sungkyun Journal of East Asian Studies 9(2): 243-266.
- Breuker R.E. (2009), Korea’s forgotten war: Appropriating and subverting the Vietnam War in Korean popular imaginings,”, Korean Histories 1(1): 36-59.
- Breuker R.E. (2007), Landscape out of time: ‘De-chronicling’ the landscape in medieval Korea, Sungkyun Journal of East Asian Studies 7(2): 69-107.
- Breuker R.E. & Van Gardingen I.B.L.H. (2007), Vogel. Breda: De Geus.
- Breuker R.E. (2007), Colonial modernities in the 14th century: Empire as the harbinger of modernity. In: , Korea in the middle. Korean Studies and Area Studies. Leiden: CNWS Publications. 45-66.
- Breuker R.E. & Ceuster K. de (2007), Introduction. The Area in the middle, or: The globalisation of eccentricity. In: Breuker R.E. (Ed.), Korea in the Middle. Korean Studies and Area Studies. Leiden: CNWS Publications. 1-19.
- Breuker R.E. (Ed.) (2007), Korea in the middle. Korean Studies and Area Studies. Leiden: CNWS Publications.
- Breuker R.E. (2007) Korean ethnic nationalism. Review of: Gi-Wook Shin (2006), Korean ethnic nationalism: Genealogy, Politics, and Legacy no. 1. Stanford: Stanford University Press. Sungkyun Journal of East Asian Studies 7: 143-146.
- Breuker R.E. (2007) South Korean golden age melodrama: Gender, genre, and national cinema. Review of: Abelmann N. & McHugh M. (2005), South Korean golden age melodrama: Gender, genre, and national cinema no. 2. Detroit: Wayne State University Press. Acta Koreana 10.
- Breuker R.E. (2007) The overlooked historical records of the Three Korean Kingdoms. Review of: Kim Dal-yong (2006), The overlooked historical records of the Three Korean Kingdoms no. 2. Seoul: Jimoondang. Acta Koreana 10.
- Breuker R.E. (2006), Siebold-ŭi pogosŏ ‘Nippon’ chung-ŭi Chosŏn-e kwallyŏnhan sŏsul, Kukche Koryŏhak = International journal of Korean studies 7: 151-161.
- Breuker R.E. (19 December 2006), When truth is everywhere: the formation of plural identities in medieval Korea, 918-1170 (Dissertatie. CNWS/Centre for Korean Studies, Faculty of Arts, Leiden University). Supervisor(s): Walraven B.C.A.
- Breuker R.E. (2006), The one in three, the three in one: The Koryŏ Three Han as a pre-modern nation, Journal of Inner and East Asian Studies 2(2): 143-168.
- Breuker R.E. & Van Gardingen I.B.L.H. (2005), Mijnheer Han. Amsterdam: De Arbeiderspers.
- Breuker R.E. (2005), Contested objectivities: Ikeuchi Hiroshi, Kim Sanggi and the tradition of Oriental History (Tōyōshigaku) in Japan and Korea, East Asian History 29: 1-38.
- Breuker R.E. (2004), Listening to the beat of different drums: Ideology, ritual and music in Koryŏ, The Review of Korean Studies 7(4): 147-174.
- Breuker R.E. (2004), History with a capital H: Kaesŏng’s forgotten claim to capital history, Acta Koreana 7(2): 65-102.
- Breuker R.E. (2003), Hamel-gwa Nedŏllandŭ Tongindo hoesa-ŭi Tongbang muyŏk. In: National Museum of Cheju-do (Ed.), Hanghae-wa p’yoryu-ŭi yŏksa. Seoul: Sol. 324-330.
- Breuker R.E. (2003), Koryŏ as an independent realm: The emperor’s clothes?, Korean Studies 27: 48-84.
- Breuker R.E. (2001) Generals and scholars: Military rule in medieval Korea. Review of: Shultz E.J. (2000), Generals and scholars: Military rule in medieval Korea. Honolulu: Hawaii University Press. IIAS Newsletter (Special Issue, The Asia-Pacific War 60 Years On: History and Memory) 25.
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