Politics of Health / Medicine, post 1945
I’ve been thinking again about the broader issue of beginning to approach the South Korean post-colonial state and post-1945 medicine, recognizing the imm...
Author: John P. DiMoia
Nuclear Power in Korea / Domestic and International
Just a quick note, even as the Japan situation continues to unfold, to recall that (1) the current ROK government wants to prioritize nuclear exports in the com...
South Korea and Thailand–(Comparative) Developmental Contexts
I’ve been playing with this image for quite some time now, and am still trying to build a “thick” context around it for a piece that should (...
Generating Power–Electric, hydroelectric, thermal (coal), atomic
I’m back once again to this question of electricity and power in its various forms, as I think the long-term story of generating power in NE Asia (1880...
Electricity, Infrastucture: “Reconstruction”
This image comes from a USIS publcity shot taken at Masan in the mid- 1950’s, detailing the work of electrical restoration undertaken prior to, during, ...
“Catching up”–conferences & SE Asia highways
It’s been quite some time since I have posted (teaching two classes this semester has had that effect), but I wanted to catch up by mentioning several con...
Cholera: Disease, Nation, and Identity?
I’ve been looking at disease patterns in the early stages of the USAMGIK occupation, focusing on the cholera outbreak of spring and summer 1946, covering ...
South Korea As Seen from Singapore: The “Korea Boom,” “Korea” Mobilized~
I can’t resist adding this, my admittedly very superficial observations based on slightly more than two months of residence in Singapore: South Korea...
Introduction
Hi, I’m new to the blog, and just wanted to introduce myself. I just completed a Ph. D. in the History of Science (2007) on the formation of “state...