The Stranglehold of Foreign Films in Korea 1948
The impact of foreign films on the Korean movie industry is frequently addressed in the Korean media. The Korean government, media, and the industry itself have...
Category: Korea
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...
Korean history talks: January-February 08
Some very interesting Korean history talks coming up in the next few months. Obviously to attend them all one would need the sort of jetsetting lifestyle that i...
Korea: Better than Vietnam, anyway
Thomas C. Reeves, perhaps my least favorite HNN blogger, is arguing that the success of South Korea justifies our Middle East policies, especially Iraq. The com...
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...
Journals: Critical Asian Studies Vol 39 No 3
Below is the table of contents for the september issue of Critical Asian Studies: Critical Asian Studies 2007 ; VOL 39 ; PART 3 (2007/09/01) EALA Wiki Entry ...
Journals: Journal of Asian Studies Vol 66 No 4
Below is the table of contents of the November issue of JAS. Journal of Asian Studies 2007 ; VOL 66 ; PART 4 (2007/11/01) EALA Wiki Entry for this journal Ar...
Asian History Carnival Coming Soon
We will soon be hosting an Asian History Carnival at the Frog in a Well: China weblog on December 12th. Read more about the Asian History Carnival and how you c...
Disparity Studies
In my discussion of the job market I said “I only saw two Korea positions, which seems about par for previous years: at some point, though, Korea position...
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...
Asian History Carnival Coming October 10th
I just wanted to announce that we will be hosting an Asian History Carnival at the Frog in a Well: China weblog on October 10th. Read more about the Asian Histo...
Ethnocentrism and the Origins of Korean Nationalism
In the opinion pages of the 2007.09.17 issue of Chosun Ilbo, there is an article which discusses the nationalism (민족주의) of Korea’s “386 generation.&...
The 30-second tour of historical Pukchon
When I was in Korea last month I stayed at a lovely place in the area of Seoul known as Pukchon or ‘North Village’ that lies between the two big pal...
Korean War Criminals
Sayaka over at Prison Notebooks has been reading up on the history of Korea’s wartime B/C war criminals for a short paper she has been writing. In additio...
EALA Update: Yonsei Library and Korean Film Archive
I have added two entries to the East Asian Libraries and Archives wiki here at Frog in a Well. Yonsei University Central Library I have so far only made a few r...