Photos from the collection of Robert Neff Prior to the marvels of the computer and its email service or the...
A little over a century ago, land travel in Korea was fraught with difficulty. There were only a few roads—generally nothing...
Korean History: The American Empress Photos from the Robert Neff Collection It was once a widespread belief that Korea was an ethnically homogeneous country but that belief has pretty much been dispelled, not so much from the large numbers of immigrants arriving each year in Korea but from the discovery...
Photos from the collection of Robert Neff One of the most valued animals in Joseon Korea was the Korean bull,...
Experience a piece of Korea’s war-fraught past with a visit to the Fortress in Jinju and a peek at the...
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...
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...
50 years after the Californian gold rush of 1849, a group of Americans embarked on a much longer journey for the precious metal to the Korean gold mines. During the early 20th century, the American-owned Oriental Consolidated Mining Company (OCMC) operated some of the richest gold mines in the world...
During the Joseon era, it was considered abhorrent for a person to never marry.