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Taejun Shin
Personal blog · taejun.substack.comeconomicspolitics
Taejun Shin writes Taejun’s Substack, a personal blog at taejun.substack.com about economics and politics. Since 2024, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-11, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Commenters discuss the Substack's travel guide for stateless people and the author's own legal statelessness, which stems from Korean residents in Japan after WWII. One comment links a speech script.
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My personal Substack.
Most-linked posts?
- /p/founders-peak-speech-script2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-04-02
What Hacker News says?
If you're wondering how the author became stateless, their CV has a line at the end about this: I am legally stateless, as my grandparents came to Japan before WWII and became stateless after it https://shorturl.at/MX9MK (PDF) Basically, Koreans who were in Japan before the Korean war and did not wish to become South Korean became stateless, since Korea was no longer a Japanese colony and Japan does not recognize th…
Comment linking /p/founders-peak-speech-script
on “Travel Guide for Stateless People”Submitted Travel Guide for Stateless People as a story · 31 points
HN discussionThe author can get citizenship[1] but chooses not to for what seems like activist reasons. [1]: https://taejun.substack.com/p/founders-peak-speech-script
Comment linking /p/founders-peak-speech-script
on “Travel Guide for Stateless People”Submitted Why Illegal Moneylenders Persist as a story · 2 points
HN discussion