A few things I've found while researching the 1904-05 Russo-Japanese War: “The situation here is a little more serious today, as the Cor...

[Update: I mixed up Robert Lee Dunn's biography with that of Robert Steed Dunn. This has been corrected, and what I wrote about the lat...

Awhile ago I linked to archive.org's scanned century-old books about Korea . More have been added since then. Korea and her neighbors; ...

The Korea Times had an article back in February about a new player in the tobacco industry: Woori Tobacco ― the first local licensed cigare...

[Update] Things seem to be better. Maybe. Hopefully some new posts will be up soon! My computer is not working so well (for a week now), and...

Back in October of 2001, I went to a wedding in Korea for the first time. I've been to many since then, but it still rates as perhaps th...

Several weeks ago Andrei Lankov wrote an article about the history of beer in Korea: It seems that we relish accurately pinpointing the fir...

I watched The Host again a few weeks ago before reading Gord Sellar's posts which examine the film in a number of contexts. If you haven...

I picked up a few classic Korean films recently, among them Petty Middle Manager , a comedy released after the April 19, 1960 uprising (and ...

I realized the other day that I'd taken the final photo of this development , seeing as tenants had started moving in to the finished pr...