Video of Korea from 1901
Michael GallagherI 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…
Wongoksa Pagoda (원각사지십층석탑) in Seoul, an early description
I love this description of Wongoksa Pagoda (원각사지십층석탑) in Tapkol Kangwon (탑골 공원) (Pagoda Park) from The Korean Repository by F. Ohlinger, H. G. Appenzeller, George Heber Jones (1895). I…
Unlocking Korean research potential with Digital Humanities Resources
With the rise (and, in some cases, fall) of digital humanities programs in North America and Europe (and presumably elsewhere), I have haphazardly looked around to see if Korea had…
Seaching for Seo Sang Don 서상돈 with social media
Seo Sang Don (서상돈) is my wife's great-great grandfather and the subject of numerous posts of mine. Spurred by my wife's aunt on a recent trip to Montreal, I am…
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…
James Gale, Old Korea, and Google Books
I went back to my wife's university library to grab more of the Korean History books that are so obsolete as to be primary sources. I stumbled across a few…