History isn’t without its foibles and quirks. If it’s not lack a of information about Shakespeare, then it’s the real...
To this day the first day of Korean Lunar New Year (Seol) has always been the most important family holiday,...
Photos from the collection of Robert Neff Prior to the marvels of the computer and its email service or the smartphone and its Kakao program, snail mail was the only economical way that foreigners in Korea could keep in touch with their families back home: postal service. Snail mail, as...
A little over a century ago, land travel in Korea was fraught with difficulty. There were only a few roads—generally nothing...
50 years after the Californian gold rush of 1849, a group of Americans embarked on a much longer journey for...
During the Joseon era, it was considered abhorrent for a person to never marry.
Korea is a land full of traditions where religions and beliefs have changed over time. The country has seen Shamanism,...
The quite strange superstitions of Korea's past agrarian society.
As we welcome in another New Year with copious amounts of food and alcohol in homes or at local pubs and clubs, let us pause for a moment and reflect on how the New Year was celebrated by Koreans a century ago. Although the solar New Year – December 31/January...
Korea, in the summer of 1894, was a hotbed of intrigue and uncertainty. China and Japan were on the brink...