Words BY Robert Neff, Photos courtesy of the Robert Neff collection The anti-Western sentiment pervasive in Pyongyang today has a... Read More
2,500 years after his death, Master Kong’s ideas continue to shape life on the Korean peninsula. Read More
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From unwieldy pipes to black-market cigarettes, tobacco has been an important part of Korean society for over four hundred years.... Read More
Words by Robert Neff, Photos courtesy of the Robert Neff collection As the primary way of accessing Seoul during the early... Read More
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History isn’t without its foibles and quirks. If it’s not lack a of information about Shakespeare, then it’s the real... Read More
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In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, one of the most important events in village life was the five-day... Read More
In 1882, three courageous American officers became the first Westerners to step foot in Busan. When the intrepid elderly British adventurer Isabella Bird Bishop visited Fusan (modern Busan) in January 1894, she declared, “It is not Korea but Japan which meets one on anchoring.” She was, of course, referring to the large population of Japanese that literally dominated the foreign settlement of that port, and, for the most part, the surrounding Korean community. Read More
Korea, in the summer of 1894, was a hotbed of intrigue and uncertainty. China and Japan were on the brink... Read More
Words by Robert Neff Photos courtesy of the Robert Neff collection For the high and mighty in Joseon Korea, moving... Read More
Words by Robert Neff, Photos from the collection of Robert Neff One of the most valued animals in Joseon Korea was... Read More