A few weeks ago, when I was curious about the 1918 flu pandemic, I wondered what was available about Korea. As it turns out, Canadian medica...

I recently saw someone claim that Japan changed "Corea" to "Korea" and was prompted to dig up Kushibo's post from 20...

For my latest Korea Times article , I look at the reaction to the 1963 cholera epidemic in Korea. At that point there hadn't been an out...

I was contacted by the blogger Filmi Girl late last year and during the ensuing email conversation I found out she knew a lot about 1960s J...

My latest article for the Korea Times is essentially about the session band 동방의 빛, or ‘Light of the East,’ who recorded over 30 albums betw...

Andre Goulet interviewed me for his podcast The Korea File last week on the topic of 'Music, Dictatorship and the Rise of 1960s/70s You...

One of the features of the 1960s and 1970s weekly magazines I’ve been going through is the weekly top 10 music chart, and I realized a while...

As a sequel to last year's Korea Times article about Christmas in Korea in the early 1960s , I wrote a follow-up  last week about Christ...

A Vietnamese refugee's memories of Korea Part 1:  Yang Bumo   [Foster Parents] Part 2:  In Search of Freedom Part 3:  Drama at Phu Quoc ...

A Vietnamese refugee's memories of Korea Part 1:  Yang Bumo   [Foster Parents] Part 2:  In Search of Freedom Part 3:  Drama at Phu Quoc ...

A Vietnamese refugee's memories of Korea Part 1:  Yang Bumo   [Foster Parents] Part 2:  In Search of Freedom Part 3:  Drama at Phu Quoc ...

The 1988 Seoul Olympics Prologue 1: " Why can't Americans be Punished? " Part 1:   The Seoul Olympics, 25 years later Par...