… and then they came for Taekwondo
Another sign of Korea’s increasing sense of insecurity in the face of rapidly growing Chinese economic and political power, or another sign of China’...
Category: Korea
Analogy Alert: Iraq/Korea
this via: White House spokesman Tony Snow said Bush would like to see a U.S. role in Iraq ultimately similar to that in South Korea. “The Korean model is ...
Two talks this week
A couple of very interesting talks coming up at short notice for anyone who happens to be around in LA or Seoul in the next couple of days (or perhaps both if y...
RG242: Foreigners in North Korea
There are all sorts of interesting materials in the National Archives collection of Captured North Korean Documents in record group 242 that I introduced in an ...
AHC #13
The Thirteenth Asian History Carnival is now up over at my personal weblog Muninn! In addition to the usual selection of blog postings I have added a section to...
Asian History Carnival
I will be hosting the thirteenth installment of the Asian History Carnival at Muninn on the evening of April 21st. Please make your submissions by noon the 21st...
Sea Devils (revisited)
Professor Gari Ledyard of Columbia University has left a couple of extremely good posts on the Korean Studies Mailing List that deserve to be shared here. They ...
National Archives: Captured North Korean Documents
I returned last week from the second of what will be four trips to the National Archives before I leave for Korea in June. On my first trip I had only two days ...
Unity is Almost Always a Myth
In an otherwise interesting discussion of North Korean defector readjustment and North-South relations in the Washington Post, Samuel Songhoon Lee drops this In...
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Asian History News Dump, March 2007
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...
Remixing Tagore
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...
A Few Small Changes
While doing a regular WordPress software upgrade at Frog in a Well, I have made a few small technical changes to the three blogs: 1) In the list of Frog in a We...
Hankyoreh opens up the world of Korean convicted war criminals
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...
Korea Journal Blog
The Korea Journal, which has for some time provided online access to its articles in PDF format has now added a weblog. The Korea Journal Blog has just started ...
Getting Out the Vote
In the weeks leading up to May 10th, 1948, the United States run interim Military Government in southern Korea was busy preparing the national assembly election...