A little over a century ago, land travel in Korea was fraught with difficulty. There were only a few roads—generally nothing...
From unwieldy pipes to black-market cigarettes, tobacco has been an important part of Korean society for over four hundred years....
Words by Vaughan Wallis, Illustrations by Pat Volz You may have heard of the Korean Wave, the spread of Korean culture through movies, dramas, pop music, and more. But did you know that leading the wave—at least in terms of cash—are video games? The Korean video game industry generates more...
You might know that March 1st is a 빨간날 bbalgan nal or “Red Day”, meaning a national public holiday in...
We have all been taught that aviation history was made on December 17, 1903, when the Wright brothers managed to...
The children of Joseon period Korea may not have had a holiday dedicated to them, but they still had to shoulder heavy domestic and scholastic responsibilities like their counterparts today.
If you really want to learn about early Korean-Western relations, you have got to start by looking at Nagasaki, Japan....
Life in Korea during the late 19th and early 20th centuries was hard – physically, emotionally, and spiritually – and...
History isn’t without its foibles and quirks. If it’s not lack a of information about Shakespeare, then it’s the real truths behind Lincoln’s press for abolishing slavery. Korean history, however, benefits from a stringent documentation of history and an unforgivingly detailed account of many historical figures. So here we are...
50 years after the Californian gold rush of 1849, a group of Americans embarked on a much longer journey for...