Hiatus and reading about Korea
Michael GallagherI 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…
Korean National Debt Repayment Movement (국채보상운동): Newspapers from 1907, Google Translate, and Digital (mini)Histories
To close out (hopefully) this thread of posts concerning 국채보상운동을, I leave you with a few newspaper images from the period (roughly 1907) that chronicle the National Debt Repayment Movement…
Seo Sang Don and the Korean National Debt Repayment Movement of 1907
This post is performing some double duty for me. It explains a bit more about my wife's relative (서상돈), but also is a test to see if the scheduling function…
1001 Wonders of the Cultural Heritage/Digital Media Variety: Old Goguryeo (고구려) Kingdom
This post will be brief as I have mentioned it before, but 1001 Wonders>Earth documents in some wonderful panorama photography older cultural heritage sites throughout the world. I naturally gravitate…
Valentine’s Day: Seoul, 원구단, and the Westin Chosun Hotel
Disclaimer: this is a thoroughly sentimental, personal post. Proceed with caution. My wife and I were married on October 7, 2006, in Roslyn Harbor, Long Island, New York, at St.…
Old photographs and family histories: The Seo (서 or 徐) Family of Daegu, Korea in the 1930s
In keeping with a previous post about my wife's relative, 서상돈 (Seo Sang Don), here are a few more pictures for those interested in such things. These are from my…
Korean Digital Library: Review (please consider a name change) and Suggestions
In keeping with all things digital library, I wanted to briefly mention the new Korean Digital Library that has recently opened (both online and as a physical location) that seems…