North Korea in the Encyclopedia of World History
I recently ordered a very reasonably priced used copy of The Encyclopedia of World History, now edited by Peter N. Stearns but based on many earlier editions by...
Category: Korea
4.19 and 5.18: spot the difference
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 ...
Update on Masuda Sensei
A brief update on the case of Masuda Miyako, the Tokyo middle school teacher who was suspended for having her pupils write a letter of apology addressed to Sout...
Duelling histories? part 3
I thought I would revive this title once more and add another post to the series on recent historiographical clashes in South Korea since I recently came across...
Popular Gusts on the turn-of-the-century Japanese spin operation
Matt of the blog ‘Gusts of Popular Feeling‘ has produced two excellent posts in a row on apologist views of Japan’s colonisation of Korea. The...
Recent Downtime
I want to apologize for the recent few days of instable contact with Frog in a Well and some downtime. I’ll expand this post with more of an explanation l...
Monumental Repatriation
A Korean stone memorial commemorating victories over Hideyoshi’s armies has been returned [via] After decades of negotiations, the Bukgwan Victory Monument was ...
Supply Drops for Prisoners of War
The Japanese emperor’s famous surrender announcement came at noon on August 15th, 1945. However, for Korea (and Manchuria) the date is of limited use, des...
Fuji Kawashima, 1938-2006
The Korean Studies mailing list has been full of people’s recollections of the the Koreanist Fuji Kawashima of Bowling Green State University, who died re...
Asian History Carnival #3 Is Up
over on the China side
The use “chunghung”
Does anyone have any thought or evidence on whether the use of chunghung (restoration/renovation/rejuvenation) during the Park Chung Hee years was generic or de...
Asian History Carnival Coming Soon!
I will be hosting the third edition of the Asian History Carnival on Sunday, March 5. Deadline for nominations of posts — anything about Asian history wri...
New version of Yorha Ilgi discovered
It’s always exciting when something new and exciting is discovered getting dusty in a forgotten corner of a library somewhere. This time it’s an ear...
Duelling histories? Part 2
Continuing on the subject of the new, controversial history book 해방 전후사의 재인식 (‘A new understanding of Korea’s liberation’), I wanted to link to this rather help...
Duelling histories? Part 1
Another couple of history-related articles from the English-language Korean media that were brought to my attention on the mailing list of the British Associati...