RAS lecture featuring Robert Neff tomorrow

Tomorrow (May 25), Robert Neff, the author of Korea Through Western Eyes, will be giving a lecture for the Royal Asiatic Society titled "Superstitions and Perceptions of Early Korean-Western Relations"

In this lecture we will talk about the interaction between these early Westerners and their Korean hosts by examining Korean superstitions and the perceptions and misperceptions of the Westerners and Koreans.

More details can be found here. The lecture will be held at 7:30 p.m. in the Residents' Lounge on the 2nd floor of the Somerset Palace in Seoul, which is north of Jogyesa Temple (see map here).