Via ROK Drop , we learn that Shin Jeong-ah has been sentenced to eighteen months in prison : A disgraced former university professor has bee...

I visited my friend Mat's new place in Itaewon-2-Dong, near Namsan, and took in the view: No, even if you click on that photo, it won...

Over at the New York Times is a fascinating article about Korean writers and enthusiasts of Japanese poetry - and the negative response the...

While looking for something else I came upon this page , which has scans of a 1919 Korean Red Cross pamphlet about the suppression of the Sa...

In this post I compared the images below, showing how an image of the American merchant ship General Sherman (destroyed on the Taedonggang ...

I looked briefly at the book "I Married A Korean" in my last post . The author, Agnes Davis Kim, described the American occupation...

[Update: There is more information in Korean, and scans of many of the illustrations, here ] When I was at home over Christmas my mom mentio...

[An update is here .] Here is a photo of the USS Princess Royal, taken from this Wikipedia entry . Strangely enough, it doesn't mention...

A while ago I wrote a post on the 1941 film Volunteer , which was included in the box set " Unearthing the Past ", which Mark ove...