Update, August 7: The Korea Times published a worthwhile article on the Korean atomic bomb survivors here . Original post: Korean f...

It was with some interest that I came across this article about inventor Franky Zapata’s failed attempt to cross the English Channel on his...

As Japan-Korea relations spiral downwards, a primer on the direction it may go can be found by looking at the 2002 candlelight protests aim...

My latest Korea Times article, about the methadone scandal (메사돈 파동) of 1965, which involved medicines containing methadone that were sold at...

Update, August 2: I forgot to mention that I learned that SMOE sent watermelon to our school to thank it for allowing the media to film th...

Peace Corps Volunteer Tim Warnberg, center, helps carries an injured person during the Kwangju Uprising. From here . Kim Yong-chang, a ...

Today is the 39th anniversary of the Kwangju Uprising. I've written quite a bit about the uprising in the past. A brief  timeline  is ...

Today is the 44th anniversary of the arrival of Vietnamese refugees in Busan at the end of the Vietnam War. Last July I wrote an article abo...

My latest article for the Korea Times , about comic book reading rooms and the censorship of comic books in the 1960s and early 1970s can be...

There was an interesting article in the Korea Times the other day by Amanda Price titled "The Japanese who fought for Korea's free...

In 2008 the city of Seoul decided to act on stories told by local residents that the Japanese military had a tunnel dug under Gungsan , near...

My latest Korea Times story  is about the long-lost holiday, Arbor Day / 식목일. For decades April 5 was a day off so students, citizens and ci...