Do you really know Korea? Aka, what it means to be an expat
Michael GallagherIf this video doesn't capture everything I love about Korea, I don't what will. It was referred to me by a former colleague in Korea who mentioned that this is…
Google Latitude and my wife’s progress to Seoul
Do not doubt for a moment that this type of application, while not specifically designed for this (I assume), has wonderfully reassuring properties especially as one's wife is hurtling close…
To Live and Dye in Korea at the end of the 19th century (via )
I am perhaps a bit more amused by the post title than I am anything else, but I love this kind of blogging. Pseudo-academic, ephemeral, fast, and enough left over…
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…
Seoul alleyways
Like I said in the previous post, some serious jetlagged induced insomnia here (posting this at 3:00 AM), but in anticipation of my move to Seoul next month, a return…
Seo Sang Don (서상돈) in Daegu, Korea (1912)
Occasionally I reserve the right to just post cool photographs on my blog, which might have been the reason for starting it many years ago. This photograph is from 1912…
Tanzania, Melbourne, Edinburgh, London,botany, Seoul, music: a cabinet of curiosities of a post
I originally had the following songs at the end of the post and realized that was just plain rude. Here are the songs I was listening to as I was…