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Thursday, November 23, 2023

Wooing your lover and modernizing the fatherland with Goldstar radios

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I found this Goldstar portable radio ad in the Seoul Women's University (μ„œμšΈμ—¬λŒ€) newspaper from the summer of 1972. While the images initi...
Wednesday, November 15, 2023

Foreign English teacher received constant verbal abuse and even assault at hands of Yeosu hagwon owner

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MBC reported last week on the egregious abuse of a foreign English teacher taking place at an English hagwon in Yeosu: Hearing the level of...
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Tuesday, October 31, 2023

"Paradise" by the projector's light, and real estate databases

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 For my latest Korea Times article , I interviewed Todd Henry and Minki Hong about their documentary, ‘Paradise,’ which uses oral history an...
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Monday, October 30, 2023

Exploring Gaehwasan with the RAS this Saturday

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I’ll be leading an excursion next Saturday, November 4, for the Royal Asiatic Society to Gaehwasan (near Gimpo Airport), a low mountain cove...
Thursday, October 26, 2023

Yeouido sinkhole redux

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The Korea Herald reports that yesterday a "4-meter-deep, 5-meter-wide sinkhole was found on a traffic island between IFC Mall and Parc...
Thursday, October 05, 2023

Restored Palaces, tunnels, and bunkers (among other things)

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Over the Chuseok long weekend I visited a number of sites that might be of interest. First up was  Dondeokjeon, the European-style building ...
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Tuesday, July 11, 2023

MMCA Exhibition on "Experimental Art in Korea, 1960s-1970s"

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 The National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Seoul (next to Gyeongbok Palace) has an exhibit - until next Sunday, July 16 - titled...
Sunday, June 25, 2023

Evacuating the US embassy in June 1950, and the photos Shirley Dawes took of Korea in the late 1940s

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For my latest Korea Times story I look at the events surrounding the evacuation of the US Embassy during the outbreak of the Korean War in ...