After more than two years of work, David Dolinger’s memoir of his experiences during the May 1980 Gwangju Uprising, which I co-wrote, has be...

This Saturday at 1pm I’ll be leading a Royal Asiatic Society excursion to Jeong-dong, the historic area behind Deoksu Palace, where missiona...

The Facebook page for Designersparty is well known for posting historical photos of Korea by the hundreds, though perhaps a better descripti...

I’ll be leading an excursion next Saturday, April 16 for the Royal Asiatic Society to the Gungsan area, where we will visit Yangcheon Confuc...

What happens when an American electrical engineer – almost certainly of Russian ancestry – works in Korea between 1947 and 1948 as part of t...

For my latest Korea Times article, I look at the lifting of Korea's nationwide curfew in January 1982 (something I previously looked a...

I thought I would write out my experience of leaving and re-entering Korea over the past two months, as it might be helpful to people since ...

For my latest Korea Times article , I look at the evolution of Christmas celebrations in Seoul in the early 1970s, as the raucous celebratio...

Back In September a post was written at the Oxford English Dictionary's website titled " The OED gets a K-update ," one which ...

(And other grumbling about factual errors, limited perspectives, and received wisdom) I've come across a few books and articles about th...