Strange bedfellows: Why right‐wing intellectuals in South Korea chose to cooperate with their country's former coloniser

Abstract Why and when do today's Far‐Right groups cooperate across national boundaries? This paper seeks to provide answers these questions by examining a deviant rather than representative case: the transnational connections between right‐wing intellectuals in South Korea Japan. Analysing recent publication of highly controversial provocative book politics around it, we emphasise roles processes which divergent political interests converge changing geopolitical domestic contexts. By situating Far Right activities its broader context shaping—colonial history, American hegemony confrontation with socialist regimes such as China North Korea—this develops contextual account Right.