James Gale, Old Korea, and Google Books
Michael Gallagher 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…
Seoul
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…
Music for 3.05.2010: Magnetic Fields and Wedding Music
I went back and searched through my old postings for this blog and realized that I have never posted about The Magnetic Fields. Is that even possible? I feel like…
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…
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…