If you really want to learn about early Korean-Western relations, you have got to start by looking at Nagasaki, Japan....
Korea, in the summer of 1894, was a hotbed of intrigue and uncertainty. China and Japan were on the brink...
We all know that students have it rough in Korea. They go to school early in the morning and then after school spend several additional hours in private learning institutes studying math and English. These institutes are everywhere now, but they haven’t always been. In 1882—just prior to Korea opening...
Korean History: The American Empress Photos from the Robert Neff Collection It was once a widespread belief that Korea was...
A little over a century ago, land travel in Korea was fraught with difficulty. There were only a few roads—generally nothing...
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....
Words by Vaughan Wallis, Illustrations by Pat Volz You may have heard of the Korean Wave, the spread of Korean...
During the Joseon era, it was considered abhorrent for a person to never marry.
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...
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