Life at the Western gold mines in northern Korea was dangerous both inside and out in the 19th and early...
You might be surprised to find out that today happens to be a day especially set apart for declarations of...
Korea, in the summer of 1894, was a hotbed of intrigue and uncertainty. China and Japan were on the brink of war and many journalists eagerly made their way to Korea in hopes of witnessing the opening shots. Frank G. Carpenter was one of these journalists. Carpenter described the city...
Words by Robert Neff Images from the Robert Neff Collection Up until the mid-1890s, Buddhist priests were banned from...
If you really want to learn about early Korean-Western relations, you have got to start by looking at Nagasaki, Japan....
From unwieldy pipes to black-market cigarettes, tobacco has been an important part of Korean society for over four hundred years. The image that best typifies Koreans of the past is undoubtedly that of an old man, dressed in white, with a long tobacco pipe ready at hand. The pipe was...
We all know that students have it rough in Korea. They go to school early in the morning and then...
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 often dangerous. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, most Westerners lived in Seoul, Pyongyang, Chemulpo (Incheon), Fusan (Busan) or on the gold mining concessions in northern Korea and...
Photos from the collection of Robert Neff Prior to the marvels of the computer and its email service or the...