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Category: US-Korea

1945-1950/1960s/1970s/1980s/Colonial/Current/Recent Events/Imperialism/Japan/Korea/Korea-Japan/North Korea/US-Korea

“North Korea: Hangover of the 20th Century”

Posted on November 2, 2017 by Jonathan Dresner / 2 Comments

Missouri Southern State, Pittsburg State’s rival/sister school across the state line in Joplin, does “international semesters” in the Fall, an...

1960s/1970s/1980s/Christianity/Contemporary/General/Historiography/Korea/Postwar/Religion/US-Korea

Things I don’t know about Korea, part 3

Posted on September 2, 2012 by Jonathan Dresner / 2 Comments

One of the things that I noticed about the materials I used last time I taught Korean history1 is that the texts I chose for my course did not mention, much les...

Atrocities/Contemporary/Diaspora/General/Korea/Korea-Japan/Memory/Nationalism/US-Korea

Diaspora And Diplomatic Communities Memorialize Conflict

Posted on May 18, 2012 by Jonathan Dresner / 2 Comments

A memorial plaque was dedicated in a park in Palisades Park, New Jersey in 2010 which reads In Memory of the more than 200,000 women and girls who were abducted...

1945-1950/1960s/1970s/Contemporary/Korea-Japan/Korean War/Science / Technology/US-Korea

Politics of Health / Medicine, post 1945

Posted on August 7, 2011 by John P. DiMoia / 0 Comment

I’ve been thinking again about the broader issue of beginning to approach the South Korean post-colonial state and post-1945 medicine, recognizing the imm...

1970s/General/Korea-Japan/Science / Technology/US-Korea

Nuclear Power in Korea / Domestic and International

Posted on March 17, 2011 by John P. DiMoia / 2 Comments

Just a quick note, even as the Japan situation continues to unfold, to recall that (1) the current ROK government wants to prioritize nuclear exports in the com...

Academia/Korea/Korean War/North Korea/US-Korea

The North Flank Guard: A Military Exercise Escalated into Artillery Exchange

Posted on December 10, 2010 by K. M. Lawson / 0 Comment

This is the second of a three part series. Read the first posting here. On November 28, a South Korean artilleryman mistakenly fired a single 155mm shell north ...

Academia/Korea/North Korea/US-Korea/Web Sites

The North Flank Guard

Posted on December 9, 2010 by K. M. Lawson / 2 Comments

In politics, a direct attack is not always the most effective. One way to proceed is to target someone or something that is seen to represent a more extreme, a ...

1945-1950/Books and Articles/Film/Korea/US-Korea

Cultural Consumption and Comprehension

Posted on November 2, 2010 by Jonathan Dresner / 0 Comment

There’s an interesting article up at Japan Focus this week, “Disarming Japan’s Cannons with Hollywood’s Cameras: Cinema in Korea Under U.S. Occupati...

1945-1950/Food/Korea/US-Korea

Candy and School Lunches

Posted on October 27, 2010 by K. M. Lawson / 1 Comment

In the New York Times yesterday there was an interesting article entitled, “Is Candy Evil or Just Misunderstood?” In particular it discussed the rel...

1960s/Science / Technology/US-Korea

South Korea and Thailand–(Comparative) Developmental Contexts

Posted on May 18, 2010 by John P. DiMoia / 2 Comments

I’ve been playing with this image for quite some time now, and am still trying to build a “thick” context around it for a piece that should  (...

Academia/Colonial/Conferences/English/Frog in A Well/Historiography/Korea/Korea-China/Korea-Japan/US-Korea

AAS 2010 Blogging: Annexation Centennial

Posted on May 12, 2010 by Jonathan Dresner / 4 Comments

Final exams crash onto my desk tomorrow, but I’m as organized as I can be in advance, so I thought I’d do a little belated AAS blogging, especially ...

1945-1950/1960s/Contemporary/Economic/General/Korea-Japan/Science / Technology/US-Korea

Generating Power–Electric, hydroelectric, thermal (coal), atomic

Posted on February 15, 2010 by John P. DiMoia / 7 Comments

I’m back once again to this question of electricity and power in its various forms, as I think the long-term story of generating power in NE Asia (1880...

1945-1950/Colonial/General/Korea-Japan/US-Korea

Electricity, Infrastucture: “Reconstruction”

Posted on August 24, 2009 by John P. DiMoia / 0 Comment

This image comes from a USIS publcity shot taken at Masan in the mid-  1950’s, detailing the work of electrical restoration undertaken prior to,  during, ...

1960s/1970s/Art/General/Korea/Nationalism/North Korea/US-Korea

North Korean Propoganda Posters

Posted on July 7, 2009 by Jonathan Dresner / 0 Comment

Thanks to Adam at Mutantfrog for pointing me to these North Korean Propoganda posters. I think this is my favorite but the whole group is worth a look.

1960s/1970s/General/Korea/Nationalism/North Korea/US-Korea

North Korea’s engagement with the world

Posted on January 22, 2009 by Jonathan Dresner / 5 Comments

I remember the shocked look on my students’ faces fifteen years ago when I told them that we actually had no idea how decisions were made or leaders picke...

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