Life in Korea during the late 19th and early 20th centuries was hard – physically, emotionally, and spiritually – and...
Modern Seoul is filled with hotels and getting a room is generally not much of a problem, but it wasn’t...
Life at the Western gold mines in northern Korea was dangerous both inside and out in the 19th and early 20th centuries. These Korean mines were generally located in sparsely populated mountainous regions and were the favored haunts of Korea’s big cats – Siberian tigers and leopards. Tiger and, to...
Photos from the collection of Robert Neff One of the most valued animals in Joseon Korea was the Korean bull,...
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 more than rough trails—that connected the larger cities. To transport goods, most instead took more watery paths: ferryman take you on ferries across Korea’s wide and winding rivers. One of...
Photos from the collection of Robert Neff Prior to the marvels of the computer and its email service or the...
To this day the first day of Korean Lunar New Year (Seol) has always been the most important family holiday,...
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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