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The Banality of a New Spirit Movement 새마음운동

Posted on December 23, 2022 by K. M. Lawson / 0 Comment

While poking around for English language materials to offer students on post-1945 South Korea, I came across The New Spirit Movement, a 1979 collection of short...

Korea/North Korea/Posts

Drawings in the North Korean Magazine Hwalsal/Hwasal

Posted on November 13, 2022 by K. M. Lawson / 2 Comments

I’ve been watching Twitter not-so-slowly go into decline and it has made me reflect on  how, increasingly over the last decade, I’ve been sharing fun sour...

Korea/Literature/Teaching/Translation

Korean social history through yadam

Posted on August 4, 2020 by Alan Baumler / 1 Comment

I was recently sent a copy of Si Nae Park The Korean Vernacular Story: Telling Tales of Contemporary Chosŏn in Sinographic Writing (Columbia U.P., 2020) It̵...

1945-1950/1960s/1970s/1980s/Colonial/Current/Recent Events/Imperialism/Japan/Korea/Korea-Japan/North Korea/US-Korea

“North Korea: Hangover of the 20th Century”

Posted on November 2, 2017 by Jonathan Dresner / 2 Comments

Missouri Southern State, Pittsburg State’s rival/sister school across the state line in Joplin, does “international semesters” in the Fall, an...

Film/Korea/North Korea

Red Chapel Ironies

Posted on February 25, 2013 by K. M. Lawson / 2 Comments

I recently got around to watching the Red Chapel, the unusual guerrilla documentary by the Danish journalist Mads Brügger.1 The basic premise is a visit to Nort...

1960s/1970s/1980s/Christianity/Contemporary/General/Historiography/Korea/Postwar/Religion/US-Korea

Things I don’t know about Korea, part 3

Posted on September 2, 2012 by Jonathan Dresner / 2 Comments

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...

Atrocities/Contemporary/Diaspora/General/Korea/Korea-Japan/Memory/Nationalism/US-Korea

Diaspora And Diplomatic Communities Memorialize Conflict

Posted on May 18, 2012 by Jonathan Dresner / 2 Comments

A memorial plaque was dedicated in a park in Palisades Park, New Jersey in 2010 which reads In Memory of the more than 200,000 women and girls who were abducted...

Colonial/Journals/Korea/Korea-Japan

자료소개: Chōsen chihō gyōsei (朝鮮地方行政)

Posted on January 14, 2012 by sayaka / 2 Comments

I would like to quickly introduce one source from the colonial period, a journal called Chōsen chihō gyōsei, or Korean Local Administration. It was published mo...

Colonial/General/Historiography/Korea

Some Issues on Modern Education in Korea

Posted on November 9, 2011 by sayaka / 1 Comment

Education is always an important issue in history, and I regret that I have read works on the history of Korea’s modern education only sporadically. As I ...

1980s/English/Korea/Memory/Politics

Police Torture in Egypt and 1987 Korea

Posted on February 7, 2011 by K. M. Lawson / 5 Comments

Historical comparisons can open up new exciting ways of understanding events that have become trapped by a dominant narrative, or proposing solutions to pressin...

Academia/Korea/North Korea

The North Flank Guard: Everyday Life in North Korea

Posted on December 13, 2010 by K. M. Lawson / 6 Comments

This is the last of three postings in this series. Read the first posting here for an explanation of the idea of the “North flank guard” and the sec...

Academia/Korea/Korean War/North Korea/US-Korea

The North Flank Guard: A Military Exercise Escalated into Artillery Exchange

Posted on December 10, 2010 by K. M. Lawson / 0 Comment

This is the second of a three part series. Read the first posting here. On November 28, a South Korean artilleryman mistakenly fired a single 155mm shell north ...

Academia/Korea/North Korea/US-Korea/Web Sites

The North Flank Guard

Posted on December 9, 2010 by K. M. Lawson / 2 Comments

In politics, a direct attack is not always the most effective. One way to proceed is to target someone or something that is seen to represent a more extreme, a ...

Academia/Blogs and Carnivals/Conferences/English/Korea

Announcements and Encouragements

Posted on November 17, 2010 by Jonathan Dresner / 0 Comment

While the discussions on the Asia lists have been a bit wooden for a while, other H-Net communities are lively and thriving, and the book reviews are a fantasti...

1945-1950/Books and Articles/Film/Korea/US-Korea

Cultural Consumption and Comprehension

Posted on November 2, 2010 by Jonathan Dresner / 0 Comment

There’s an interesting article up at Japan Focus this week, “Disarming Japan’s Cannons with Hollywood’s Cameras: Cinema in Korea Under U.S. Occupati...

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