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Category: Colonial

Colonial/Cultural/English/Korea/Korea-Japan/Seoul/Web Sites

Colonial Period School Architectural Archive

Posted on April 14, 2008 by K. M. Lawson / 0 Comment

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...

1945-1950/Colonial/English/Korea

Comparing Police Crime Statistics in the 1940s

Posted on March 27, 2008 by K. M. Lawson / 0 Comment

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...

Colonial/Korea

Done in by a Tangerine

Posted on January 16, 2008 by K. M. Lawson / 0 Comment

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...

Art/Colonial/Events/Korea

Exhibition: 벽(癖)의 예찬, 근대인 정해창을 말하다 2007.11.09 – 2008.02.03

Posted on January 11, 2008 by K. M. Lawson / 0 Comment

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...

Books and Articles/Colonial/Korea/Korea-Japan

Thought Crime Arrests 1928-1944

Posted on October 21, 2007 by K. M. Lawson / 4 Comments

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...

Archaeology/Blogs and Carnivals/Books and Articles/Colonial/Historiography/Koguryo/Korea/Korea-China/Korea-Japan/North Korea/US-Korea/World

Asian History News Dump, March 2007

Posted on March 26, 2007 by Jonathan Dresner / 0 Comment

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...

Colonial/Korea/Literature/Memory/Nationalism/Textbooks

Remixing Tagore

Posted on March 26, 2007 by Owen / 4 Comments

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...

1945-1950/Colonial/Korea/Korea-Japan/Postwar

Hankyoreh opens up the world of Korean convicted war criminals

Posted on March 15, 2007 by Owen / 1 Comment

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...

1945-1950/Colonial/Historiography/Korea/Korea-Japan/Literature

Boston and the Bamboo Grove

Posted on February 18, 2007 by Owen / 9 Comments

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...

Colonial/Conferences/Historiography/Intellectual/Korea/Late Chosŏn/Museums/Nationalism

Empty history

Posted on October 25, 2006 by Owen / 7 Comments

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...

Archaeology/Colonial/Korea/Korea-Japan/Koryŏ/Late Chosŏn/Law/Libraries/Museums

History news round-up (brought to you by the Korea Times)

Posted on August 31, 2006 by Owen / 0 Comment

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...

Colonial/English/Intellectual

English craze as a modern Korean tradition

Posted on August 15, 2006 by noja / 6 Comments

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...

Archaeology/Colonial/Cultural/English/General/Korea/Koryŏ/US-Korea/Web Sites

Finding historical riches

Posted on August 5, 2006 by Jonathan Dresner / 0 Comment

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...

Books and Articles/Colonial/English/General/Military/Postwar

Patriotic School Athletics – under the Japanese and After

Posted on July 20, 2006 by noja / 2 Comments

To observe that modern “physical culture” (athletics) training in the compulsory schooling system is something closely linked to the conscription sy...

Books and Articles/Colonial/Cultural/Korea/Korea-Japan

Hankyoreh on the return of cultural artifacts

Posted on June 5, 2006 by Owen / 0 Comment

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...

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