Yun Chi-ho’s Diary Online
Owen has posted some great links on the study of pre-modern Korean history. In one of his postings he mentioned the National History Compilation Committee (국사편찬...
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More Yasukuni News
In a recent posting I summarized some recent developments related to the Yasukuni shrine issue in Japan. In addition to a steady stream of articles in the Japan...
Korea Studies Review 2006
Stephen Epstein posted a message on the Korean Studies email list with links to some new reviews of books related to Korea. You can find the full index of books...
Korea Foundation Cultural Center
Yesterday I paid a visit to the Korea Foundation’s Cultural Center (한국국제교류재단 문화센터). The center features gallery space, seminar and movie rooms, and a lend...
Homer B. Hulbert Event
I made a visit to the foreigner’s cemetery located at on the Seoul Union Church grounds in Hapjeong. Today banners were hanging in several places around t...
Asian History Carnival #6
The 6th Asian History Carnival will be hosted at Frog in a Well – Korea on August 8th! We are looking for good posts on Asian history posted around the in...
Asian History Carnival #6
The 6th Asian History Carnival will be hosted at Frog in a Well – Korea on August 8th! We are looking for good posts on Asian history posted around the in...
Asian History Carnival #6
The 6th Asian History Carnival will be hosted here at Frog in a Well – Korea on August 8th! We are looking for good posts on Asian history posted around t...
Museum: The Korean Christian Museum at Soongsil University
In my constant search for quiet, smoke-free, and affordable coffee shops to study in, I recently came upon the Starbucks near Soongsil University (숭실대학교), which...
English Translations of Korean Literature
Brother Anthony is hosting a list of Korean Literature in English translation. You can find it at this site: Korean Literature in English Translation Before 200...
Korean Society for Cultural Anthropology 2006 Conference
Thanks to Antti for making note of the fact that all the papers for the 2006 annual conference of the Korean Society for Cultural Anthropology are available onl...
Yasukuni: Why the Emperor Stopped Going
There have been two relatively important Japan history-related news items in the news of late. There have been revelations about US covert funding of Japanese p...
Japanese Historical Text Initiative at UC Berkeley
A recent message on H-Japan from Yuko Okubo at UC Berkeley announced an interesting online resource: The Japanese Historical Text Initiative Here is a part of t...
Japan Focus Back Online
Japan Focus is easily one of the best sources of articles online about Japan and Japanese history. I include the site among those I visit each day but since ear...
Books on Korea Available from the Gutenberg Project
A few recent messages on the KoreanStudies email list pointed out that the Gutenberg Project has a few old Korean books online. They are a wonderful resource to...