As we welcome in another New Year with copious amounts of food and alcohol in homes or at local pubs... Read More
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Robert Neff has authored several books including "Korea Through Western Eyes", "The Lives of Westerners in Joseon Korea", and "Letters from Joseon". He currently writes a twice-weekly column for the Korea Times entitled “Did You Know?”.
Korea, in the summer of 1894, was a hotbed of intrigue and uncertainty. China and Japan were on the brink... Read More
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In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, one of the most important events in village life was the five-day... Read More
Life in Korea during the late 19th and early 20th centuries was hard – physically, emotionally and spiritually – and... Read More
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Many readers will probably be surprised to know that from the early 1960s through the early 1980s there was an... Read More
Modern Seoul is filled with hotels and getting a room is generally not much of a problem, but it wasn’t... Read More
In 1885, Percival Lowell published a book entitled “Choson: The Land of the Morning Calm.” It was a huge success... Read More