A little over a century ago, land travel in Korea was fraught with difficulty. There were only a few roads—generally nothing...
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.
Modern Seoul is filled with hotels and getting a room is generally not much of a problem, but it wasn’t always that way. The Luxury Hotels of Seoul in the early 1900s were quite rare. The first hotel to cater to Westerners was established in 1884 near the Japanese legation....
Life in Korea during the late 19th and early 20th centuries was hard – physically, emotionally, and spiritually – and...
Living History: 20 Ways to See Korea as it Used to Be A guide to authentic history tourism in South Korea....
During the Joseon era, it was considered abhorrent for a person to never marry.
50 years after the Californian gold rush of 1849, a group of Americans embarked on a much longer journey for...
Photos from the collection of Robert Neff Prior to the marvels of the computer and its email service or the...
In 1885, Percival Lowell published a book entitled “Choson: The Land of the Morning Calm.” It was a huge success and helped coin the phrase that is still often used to describe Korea. But when the first Westerners arrived in Seoul in the early 1880s, it was anything but calm....
You might be surprised to find out that today happens to be a day especially set apart for declarations of...