The Marijuana Crisis of ’75
I’ve been dipping into an excellent book on the history of Korean popular music now and then (이혜숙 & 손우석 – 한국대중음악사) and came across a fascinatin...
Author: Owen
World Congress
Antti has already got there first and flagged this up at his site, but for those people not on the Korean Studies list or regular Hunjang visitors, the Academy ...
4.19 and 5.18: spot the difference
In lieu of actually providing some original content myself (soon…), can I point our patient readers once again toward the excellent blog Gusts of Popular ...
Update on Masuda Sensei
A brief update on the case of Masuda Miyako, the Tokyo middle school teacher who was suspended for having her pupils write a letter of apology addressed to Sout...
Duelling histories? part 3
I thought I would revive this title once more and add another post to the series on recent historiographical clashes in South Korea since I recently came across...
Popular Gusts on the turn-of-the-century Japanese spin operation
Matt of the blog ‘Gusts of Popular Feeling‘ has produced two excellent posts in a row on apologist views of Japan’s colonisation of Korea. The...
Fuji Kawashima, 1938-2006
The Korean Studies mailing list has been full of people’s recollections of the the Koreanist Fuji Kawashima of Bowling Green State University, who died re...
New version of Yorha Ilgi discovered
It’s always exciting when something new and exciting is discovered getting dusty in a forgotten corner of a library somewhere. This time it’s an ear...
Duelling histories? Part 2
Continuing on the subject of the new, controversial history book 해방 전후사의 재인식 (‘A new understanding of Korea’s liberation’), I wanted to link to this rather help...
Duelling histories? Part 1
Another couple of history-related articles from the English-language Korean media that were brought to my attention on the mailing list of the British Associati...
Bloody progress
It’s time to get my industrial strength can opener out and open the can of worms labeled ‘Japan’s colonial domination of Korea and modern inte...
CFP: Graduate Students’ Convention in Prague
I expect a lot of people will have seen this call for papers from Charles University in Prague already, but I’m reproducing it here in case you haven̵...
‘An Elementary Reader for Citizens’ (國民小學讀本)
At my own blog I’ve been writing a series of posts about some interesting old Korean books I’ve come across in the library of the School of Oriental and African...
Wages
Just a nugget of information I thought I might throw out to our readers, all comments or reflections are welcome: It seems that unskilled wage labourers in late...
Seasonal treat for Koreanists
It has been brought to my attention that historians of premodern Korea have a very special Christmas treat in the form of the annals of the Chosŏn Dynasty (Chos...