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Author: Owen

Academia/Events/Korea

Korean history talks: January-February 08

Posted on January 16, 2008 by Owen / 0 Comment

Some very interesting Korean history talks coming up in the next few months. Obviously to attend them all one would need the sort of jetsetting lifestyle that i...

1945-1950/Historiography/Korea/Seoul

The 30-second tour of historical Pukchon

Posted on September 19, 2007 by Owen / 1 Comment

When I was in Korea last month I stayed at a lovely place in the area of Seoul known as Pukchon or ‘North Village’ that lies between the two big pal...

Archaeology/Koguryo/Korea/Koryŏ/Nationalism

Why octopuses are good at archaeology and Yonsama is the son of God

Posted on July 26, 2007 by Owen / 1 Comment

A brief news round-up. I meant to blog on the story of the octopus that ‘discovered’ a treasure trove of twelfth century pottery off the coast of Ko...

Books and Articles/Contemporary/Cultural/Historiography/Korea/Literature

History ‘faction’

Posted on June 22, 2007 by Owen / 2 Comments

According to the Hankyoreh, historical novels are all the rage at the moment in Korea. This doesn’t really surprise me all that much as historical novels ...

1980s/Contemporary/Korea/Memory/Politics

The June struggle in the British newspapers

Posted on June 11, 2007 by Owen / 3 Comments

Over at my own blog I’ve decided to mark the anniversary of the events of June 1987 in South Korea by following contemporary reports from the British news...

Koguryo/Korea/Korea-China/Nationalism/Sport

… and then they came for Taekwondo

Posted on June 1, 2007 by Owen / 4 Comments

Another sign of Korea’s increasing sense of insecurity in the face of rapidly growing Chinese economic and political power, or another sign of China’...

Contemporary/Events/Korea/Korea-China/Late Chosŏn

Two talks this week

Posted on May 21, 2007 by Owen / 0 Comment

A couple of very interesting talks coming up at short notice for anyone who happens to be around in LA or Seoul in the next couple of days (or perhaps both if y...

Korea/Late Chosŏn/임진왜란

Sea Devils (revisited)

Posted on April 13, 2007 by Owen / 3 Comments

Professor Gari Ledyard of Columbia University has left a couple of extremely good posts on the Korean Studies Mailing List that deserve to be shared here. They ...

Colonial/Korea/Literature/Memory/Nationalism/Textbooks

Remixing Tagore

Posted on March 26, 2007 by Owen / 4 Comments

This story in the Korea Times about Rabrindranath Tagore’s poem ‘The Lamp of the East’ caught my eye. In the South Korean nationalist imaginat...

1945-1950/Colonial/Korea/Korea-Japan/Postwar

Hankyoreh opens up the world of Korean convicted war criminals

Posted on March 15, 2007 by Owen / 1 Comment

At the risk of attracting more trackbacks from the lovely people at Occidentalism, I thought I’d bring people’s attention to this really fascinating...

Economic/General/Korea/Labor/Late Chosŏn

Sell yourself

Posted on February 26, 2007 by Owen / 2 Comments

“Selling yourself” – one of those phrases we use in a somewhat metaphorical sense, but which nonetheless has a more literal meaning than we pr...

1945-1950/Colonial/Historiography/Korea/Korea-Japan/Literature

Boston and the Bamboo Grove

Posted on February 18, 2007 by Owen / 9 Comments

I must admit that I’ve not felt at all keen on bringing up here the most recent Korea-related history controversy to hit the news. As many readers are pro...

Historiography/Korea/Nationalism/Politics

Is there such a thing as an innocent nation?

Posted on January 23, 2007 by Owen / 7 Comments

Moving away from the news reports for the moment, something a bit more speculative. The above question is one that crops up in my mind every now and then when I...

Archaeology/Koguryo/Korea/Paekche

New book on Paekche

Posted on January 17, 2007 by Owen / 2 Comments

News comes, via the Korean Studies mailing list, that Jonathan Best’s history of Paekche is now out. I wouldn’t normally use this blog to advertise ...

Historiography/Korea/Politics/Textbooks

Orthodoxy, or more revisionism? (History news round up II)

Posted on January 10, 2007 by Owen / 7 Comments

Time for part two of my history news round up. Another big history-related story toward the end of last year concerned a proposed new rightwing history textbook...

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