This Wednesday evening the Royal Asiatic Society will lead a visit to the Special Exhibition at the National Museum of Korean Contemporary H...

A couple of weeks ago Jacco Zwetzloot gave a lecture for the Royal Asiatic Society entitled "Glimpses of Korea Under American Occupatio...

A few weeks ago articles appeared in the Korea Times about a plan to "restore" a walkway around Deoksugung Palace ( here and here...

Update: The assertion below that the Kia Bongo was named after Omar Bongo appears to be wrong. As Ben pointed out in a comment below, Maz...

There's an issue of the British illustrated magazine The Sphere from 1945 posted at Ebay which has an interesting image of Seoul (click...

Last week I posted links to the first two parts of an interview with myself by Andre Goulet for his podcast, The Korea File (Part 1: "...

[Update: The second part of the interview, titled "Korean Identity and Anti-Americanism" can listened to here .] At the beginning...

A column in the Chosun Ilbo criticized the lack of hero's welcome given to the first group of nine Korean medical workers who returned ...

In my previous post , I reviewed and offered an interpretation of the recent film "Ode To My Father (국제시장)." Along the way to writ...

Youn Je-Kyoun's film "Ode to My Father" [국제시장, or 'International Market'] has become the first film this year to top t...

This Saturday, October 25, at 4pm, I will be giving a presentation titled ‘From Explorers and Missionaries to Vagabonds and Potential ...

This AP article was pointed out to me the other day: Back in the days of "Commies" and "pinkos," of Red scares, black...

This Saturday, September 6, at 3pm, the Royal Asiatic Society Cinema Club and Seoul Film Society will have a free screening of the 1961 Yu ...

Last week the Joongang Daily published an article about subway crimes , describing among them people who urinate in subway stations. I'd...

Korean rock and roll in the 1960s and 1970s Part 1: Shin Jung-hyun's 1958 LP 'Hicky Shin' What would be considered to be mod...

From Seoul Through Pictures 5: Expanding Seoul (1971-1980) (published by The City History Compilation Committee of Seoul) comes this 1976 ...

This Saturday, May 3, at 3pm Barry Welsh's Seoul Film Society and Royal Asiatic Society's Cinema Club will team up to show, with Eng...

Go check out Roboseyo's post on the 1972 Shin Joong-hyun song 아름다운강산 (Beautiful Rivers and Mountains). Beyond discussing Shin and the s...