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...
Category: Korea
Feuding clans
There is a fascinating article in today’s International Herald Tribune on Korean family grave sites, feng shui and the long-running feud between the Yoon ...
전시소개: 잊혀진 제국/헤르만 산더의 여행
안녕하세요? 갑작스런 비에 다들 무사하신지… 이번에는 한국어로 포스팅하겠습니다. 다들 한국어 실력이 워낙 출중하신지라 걱정은 되지 않습니다만. 지금 서울에서는 재미있는 사진전들이 개최되고 있습니다. 간략히 소개하자면 1. 잊혀진 제국: 서울대학교 박물관 2. 헤르만 산더의 여...
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...
Gyewon Kim: Self-Introduction
To begin with, I’m very pleased to be involved in this weblog. Thanks, 미치 (K. M. Lawson)! My name is Gyewon Kim. I’m doing my PhD in art history in McGill Unive...
Korea University: 2nd International Forum on Korean Studies
Last week I attended (actually, I think the word “crashed” is more accurate) the 2nd International Forum on Korean Studies held by Korea University....
Japanese War Related Survey and its Results
Sasaki Kei, one of our contributors at the Japanese history blog here at Frog in a Well pointed out some results of a survey recently released in the Japanese p...
Glossing over history
I thought I’d write a quick post about another web resource I’ve just started to use quite a bit recently. This is the online Glossary of Korean Studies put tog...
The Korean Folk Village
A few days ago I visited the Korean Folk Village near Suwŏn. You can learn all about the village from the English version of its propaganda video, complete with...
John D. Ford’s Korea
For readers interested in more early Western views of Korea and Koreans in a similar vein to those that Konrad has looked at in his series of posts here, Thomas...
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Update: Korea Times reports on another long-running dispute over the return of historical documents taken from Korea – in this case those taken from the O...
Into the archives
Major source material publication projects for premodern history A bit of a change of pace here, but I thought I’d share a bit of the information I’ve gathered ...
The Marijuana Crisis of ’75
I’ve been dipping into an excellent book on the history of Korean popular music now and then (이혜숙 & 손우석 – 한국대중음악사) and came across a fascinatin...
Asian History Carnival #4
Big thanks to Katrina for putting together our fourth Asian history carnival. You can find it at Miscellany.
World Congress
Antti has already got there first and flagged this up at his site, but for those people not on the Korean Studies list or regular Hunjang visitors, the Academy ...