Colonial Period School Architectural Archive
Thanks to a posting at The Marmot’s Hole I learned about a project being undertaken by the National Archives to display a variety of information, archival...
Category: Colonial
Comparing Police Crime Statistics in the 1940s
Matt over at Gusts of Popular Feeling has two wonderful postings (1, 2) based on his reading of Agnes Davis Kim’s I Married a Korean. In the second postin...
Done in by a Tangerine
In the memoirs of Tsuboi, Sachio, an official in the Japanese colonial police, the author goes into some detail about Korean-Russians who infiltrated Korea to w...
Exhibition: 벽(癖)의 예찬, 근대인 정해창을 말하다 2007.11.09 – 2008.02.03
There is a wonderful photo exhibit, 벽(癖)의 예찬, 근대인 정해창을 말하다 at the Ilmin museum of art right next to 광화문 station of the works of 정해창, whose 1929 exhibition was t...
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...
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Asian History News Dump, March 2007
This is a “dump”: all the Asia related stuff I’ve saved over the last…. two months? Anyway, nobody else has blogged about it, so I thoug...
Remixing Tagore
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...
Hankyoreh opens up the world of Korean convicted war criminals
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...
Boston and the Bamboo Grove
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...
Empty history
I’m spending a few weeks in Korea, mainly for the Academy of Korean Studies organised World Congress of Korean Studies that will be taking place this week...
History news round-up (brought to you by the Korea Times)
For some reason the Korea Times seems to be quite a decent source of history news these days, so in the absence of a more heavyweight post, here’s a round...
English craze as a modern Korean tradition
Even having seen for around 15 years how one’s ability to follow the CNN anchors’ pronounciation habits functions in South Korea as the modern equiv...
Finding historical riches
A few items from the news, blogs, etc. The Reverend Corwin & Nellie Taylor Collection at the Korean Heritage Library, part of the USC digital image collect...
Patriotic School Athletics – under the Japanese and After
To observe that modern “physical culture” (athletics) training in the compulsory schooling system is something closely linked to the conscription sy...
Hankyoreh on the return of cultural artifacts
Update: Korea Times reports on another long-running dispute over the return of historical documents taken from Korea – in this case those taken from the O...