2,500 years after his death, Master Kong’s ideas continue to shape life on the Korean peninsula.
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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?”.
To this day the first day of Korean Lunar New Year (Seol) has always been the most important family holiday,...
A little over a century ago, land travel in Korea was fraught with difficulty. There were only a few roads—generally nothing...
Korean History: The American Empress Words by Robert NeffPhotos from the Robert Neff Collection It was once a widespread belief...
Modern Seoul is filled with hotels and getting a room is generally not much of a problem, but it wasn’t...
Life in Korea during the late 19th and early 20th centuries was hard – physically, emotionally, and spiritually – and...
During the Joseon era, it was considered abhorrent for a person to never marry.