Thought Crime Arrests 1928-1944
I spent a beautiful Saturday hanging with the old folks in 효창공원 near my place. This small park is full of interesting things including an anti-Communist memoria...
Author: K. M. Lawson
Asian History Carnival #17
Welcome to the seventeenth Asian History Carnival. The next carnival will be held December 12th. If you are interested in hosting the next carnival, please send...
Asian History Carnival Coming October 10th
I just wanted to announce that we will be hosting an Asian History Carnival at the Frog in a Well: China weblog on October 10th. Read more about the Asian Histo...
Asian History Carnival Coming October 10th
I just wanted to announce that we will be hosting an Asian History Carnival at the Frog in a Well: China weblog on October 10th. Read more about the Asian Histo...
Asian History Carnival Coming October 10th
I just wanted to announce that we will be hosting an Asian History Carnival at the Frog in a Well: China weblog on October 10th. Read more about the Asian Histo...
Ding Mocun, Lung Ying-tai and Lust, Caution
Ang Lee‘s (李安) new movie Lust, Caution (色，戒) is apparently being released later this week in the United States. The movie won a Golden Lion at the Venice ...
Ethnocentrism and the Origins of Korean Nationalism
In the opinion pages of the 2007.09.17 issue of Chosun Ilbo, there is an article which discusses the nationalism (민족주의) of Korea’s “386 generation.&...
Korean War Criminals
Sayaka over at Prison Notebooks has been reading up on the history of Korea’s wartime B/C war criminals for a short paper she has been writing. In additio...
EALA Update: Yonsei Library and Korean Film Archive
I have added two entries to the East Asian Libraries and Archives wiki here at Frog in a Well. Yonsei University Central Library I have so far only made a few r...
There are Japanese legacies, and then there are Japanese legacies
When you’ve been a colony for a few decades, the marks of that experience don’t simply disappear overnight. We can refer to these marks as “le...
The Chinese Monster
Near Kwanghwamun this afternoon there were a number of nationalist Anti-China placards set up. Could China someday become the new Japan? I think it is too early...
Now you can join the Righteous Army
Seodaemun prison was open to the public today and as I write this posting various patriotic performances are underway on the grounds of a prison where the priso...
Comfort Women at the Japanese Embassy
A huge number of buses lined the central street that leads up to Kwanghwamun gate (which is no longer there, since it has been deemed a worthwhile expenditure t...
Kim Dae-jung – the “Pro-Japanese” Traitor?
Leaflet being handed out near the Japanese embassy today: On every trip I have made to Korea I have come across leaflets handed out at station exits accusing so...
Korean Patriots and Japanese Incense
This afternoon I dropped by the “Independence Hall” (독립관) found near the independence gate. It was open today for the festivities. Inside you can fi...