Missouri Southern State, Pittsburg State’s rival/sister school across the state line in Joplin, does “international semesters” in the Fall, an...
One of the things that I noticed about the materials I used last time I taught Korean history1 is that the texts I chose for my course did not mention, much les...
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...
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 (...
In The Will of a Traitor, posted next door at 井底之蛙, I write about the controversial will of China’s most famous collaborator, and an interesting English t...
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...
Thanks to Adam at Mutantfrog for pointing me to these North Korean Propoganda posters. I think this is my favorite but the whole group is worth a look.
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...
Seungsook Moon at Japan Focus has an interesting historiographical essay about the contested life and legacy of Park Chung Hee, who led Korea through the 60s an...
I remember the shocked look on my students’ faces fifteen years ago when I told them that we actually had no idea how decisions were made or leaders picke...
In South Korean academia, one of the most long-standing and productive discussions (I have been following it for around 3 years now, but it may have begun even ...
Several days ago, I was happy to be presented a newly published book by the publishers who had also earlier printed two of my own books – that is, by Seou...
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 ...