Words by Robert Neff Images from the Robert Neff Collection Up until the mid-1890s, Buddhist priests were banned from...
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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?”.
In the summer of 1905, the world was a scary place for Korea. The Russo-Japanese War had recently ended but...
Words by Robert Neff Photos from the collection of Robert Neff One of the earliest modernizations to Seoul was the...
During the late Joseon era, Koreans were well-known for their fondness for children—not only their own, but foreign children as...
We all know that students have it rough in Korea. They go to school early in the morning and then...
From unwieldy pipes to black-market cigarettes, tobacco has been an important part of Korean society for over four hundred years....
Photos courtesy of the Robert Neff collection The anti-Western sentiment pervasive in Pyongyang today has a long history, as historian...