A Turkish Red to Dye For (via )
Michael Gallagher This post had me thinking about how the cultural associations we place on color (red, for example) is often influenced not only by aesthetic taste as it is by (economic)…
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Ernest Henry Wilson and early encounters with Quelpaert, aka Jeju, Korea (via )
For those of you who like their Korean history (as I do) and those early turn of the century (last) encounters as Korea plunged headlong into modernity. Generally at the…
Thoughts on my birthday of August 3rd: History, Dalmatians, and a certain je ne sais quoi
08_I_Just_Wanna_Get_Along.m4a Listen on Posterous (I literally listened to this Breeders track as I was typing this post so in the interests of full disclosure, there you are). Not being much…
Video of Korea from 1901
I have nothing original to add to this video aside from the person who posted it to YouTube. It is a video of Korea at the turn of the 20th…
Old Seoul in color (1938): rare video footage
I would like to submit this as Evidence #1000 that YouTube is the greatest treasure trove of gobbledygook the world has ever known. Despite the slightly melodramatic soundtrack, this is…
Village life in Korea circa 1991, Masatake Terauchi (and Google Books)
Since I can’t seem to get enough of archaic and often out of print books on Korea at the turn of the last century, I have another few that I…
Hiatus and reading about Korea
I did receive a few messages of concern asking why I had stopped blogging (or more or less any of my social media channels). I was just finishing up course…