The Korean War Begins

On today’s Saturday Matinee, it's Christmas in April! Host Lindsay Graham discusses the history behind his European Christmas Market Tour with fellow podcaster, Will Clark of 'Grey History.' They trace back the origin of these markets, their surprising ties to Nazi Germany, the h ...  Show more

April 17, 1860. Englishman Tom Sayers and American John Heenan clash in a brutal and chaotic 2-hour boxing match—now regarded as the world’s first world championship bout. Support the show! Join Into History for ad-free listening and more. History Daily is a co-production of Airs ...  Show more

The Korean War was a brutal affair. It is estimated that 3,000,000 people were killed in the conflict that absolutely devastated the Korean Peninsula. And the legacy of it is still with us today; it was over the course of this war that the division between North and South solidif ...  Show more

Whilst we know the Korean Peninsula is split into two quite separate countries, North Korea and South Korea, that has not always been been the case. Korea was an independent, singular nation until the Japanese colonised it at the start of the 20th century. This collapsed after th ...  Show more

On today's Everything You Wanted to Know episode, we're covering the Korean War, exploring how the nation came to be divided in two, what the impact of fighting was on the peninsular's civilian population, and how close the clash came to going nuclear. In conversation with Spence ...  Show more

<div dir="auto"><span dir="auto">In this episode of Guerrilla History, we bring back our comrade Ju-Hyun Park (whom you will remember from our recent episodes  <a href= "https://guerrillahistory.libsyn.com/a-history-of-american-imperialism-in-korea-us-out-of-korea-w-ju-hyun-park- ...  Show more