For the Love of Hanja: On 以朴制昌 and 朝鮮日報
I confess that I’m one of those Orientalists who really loves the characters used in the Chinese, Korean, and Japanese. There have been many voices (e.g.) over the last century or so who have argued...
View ArticleMaking Choices in Research
I have recently switched to almost full-time reading of early postwar Korean newspapers. I’m avoiding those newspapers (조선일보, 동아일보, 서울신문) from this period that I have easy access to back in my library...
View ArticleCouldn’t you wait a few years?
Couldn’t the Korean government wait until I got my first book published or at least until I finished my dissertation? The new government will not extend the mandate of five out of the 10 current...
View ArticleA Japanese Speaking Chinese Officer in the Korean War
I went to 춘천 in Kangwon province this past Monday to scout out what the state of local history was in the province and what materials I might be able to find on life there in the early postwar period...
View ArticleAre You Korean?
I caught a taxi today to visit the Baotuquan（趵突泉）springs here in Jinan. I asked the driver what my chances were of catching a cab to the airport around 5:30 in the morning on Monday to get to Jinan...
View ArticleCode-Switching Spotting and Living Korean History
I spent the afternoon in a coffee shop mining footnotes of various secondary accounts of the violence in the autumn of 1946 (it is also known as the Autumn Harvest Uprising, the October People’s...
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The Other Korean Wave
I mentioned in an earlier posting written while visiting Taiwan in 2005 that, in addition to media products such as Korean movies and dramas, there is another “Korean wave” out there. As I mentioned in...
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That Very Special Day Has Arrived
Google Korea has offered something really special for this year’s offering on this very special date: Google 사투리 번역을 소개합니다 Introducing the New Google Dialect Translation Service If you read Korean,...
View ArticleTrip to Cheju-do
I haven’t had a chance to blog much about it but I made a trip of almost a week to Cheju-do. The original purpose was for a Fulbright researcher conference where all the junior researchers presented on...
View ArticleWeekend in Kanghwa-do
Spent the weekend in Kanghwa-do with a friend. I have never been one for the usual tourist destinations so many of the highlights of the island listed in tourist brochures went unseen. The highlight...
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Korea National Police University Song
It seems like everything has a song in Korea. Go to the web page of almost any institution, whether it be a school, political organization, clubs of all kinds, you can often find their song online....
View ArticleQuotational Quarantines
As historians, we often engage in the liberal use of quotations to sanitize and quarantine distasteful terms or phrases that lend legitimacy to a category or a way of referring to an institution or...
View ArticleAnti-Korean Sentiment in Taiwan
Having spent a wonderful year or so in Korea I have had occasion to speak of my experiences to people I meet here in Taiwan. I have been surprised to see some anti-Korean sentiment amongst people I...
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More Evidence Uncovered of Devious Japanese Plan to Claim Dokdo
Evidence continues to mount of, “a carefully coordinated action plan among Japanese officials and ministries to claim territorial rights over the islets” of Dokdo. Last week’s breathtaking revelation...
View ArticleTwo Conference Paper Proposals
I recently submitted two conference paper proposals. One is somewhat connected to one of the chapters of my dissertation, and the other is something of a prequel for a post-dissertation project I hope...
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