AHC Call for Posts, plus
Roy Berman, the MutantFrog himself, will host the next Asian History Carnival at Mutant Frog Travelogue on the 18th. Get your nominations in to him directly (ro...
Category: Korea
History news round-up (brought to you by the Korea Times)
For some reason the Korea Times seems to be quite a decent source of history news these days, so in the absence of a more heavyweight post, here’s a round...
James B. Palais (1934-2006)
I was very saddened to hear that Professor James Palais has died. Everyone in the world of Korean history will have heard of him and anyone who has read any of ...
Asian History Carnival #6
Welcome to the sixth Asian History Carnival with some of the great blog postings related to Asian history from around the past month. China EastSouthWestNorth i...
African mercenaries in Chosŏn
I meant to post a note on this interesting piece at the Oh My News website a couple of weeks ago, but other things intervened. It recounts the story of the blac...
Yun Chi-ho’s Diary Online
Owen has posted some great links on the study of pre-modern Korean history. In one of his postings he mentioned the National History Compilation Committee (국사편찬...
Finding historical riches
A few items from the news, blogs, etc. The Reverend Corwin & Nellie Taylor Collection at the Korean Heritage Library, part of the USC digital image collect...
Korea Studies Review 2006
Stephen Epstein posted a message on the Korean Studies email list with links to some new reviews of books related to Korea. You can find the full index of books...
Korea Foundation Cultural Center
Yesterday I paid a visit to the Korea Foundation’s Cultural Center (한국국제교류재단 문화센터). The center features gallery space, seminar and movie rooms, and a lend...
Homer B. Hulbert Event
I made a visit to the foreigner’s cemetery located at on the Seoul Union Church grounds in Hapjeong. Today banners were hanging in several places around t...
Asian History Carnival #6
The 6th Asian History Carnival will be hosted here at Frog in a Well – Korea on August 8th! We are looking for good posts on Asian history posted around t...
When is historical information not informative?
Taemin at Sanch’on hunjang does an excellent job of taking apart the English information sign for a Chosŏn government official’s tomb in Seoul. The ...
Museum: The Korean Christian Museum at Soongsil University
In my constant search for quiet, smoke-free, and affordable coffee shops to study in, I recently came upon the Starbucks near Soongsil University (숭실대학교), which...
Koguryŏ on the box
I know I’m way behind the times on this subject as it was already brought up at the Marmot’s Hole weeks ago, but I’d like to put out a call fo...
English Translations of Korean Literature
Brother Anthony is hosting a list of Korean Literature in English translation. You can find it at this site: Korean Literature in English Translation Before 200...