우물 안 개구리

The 6th Asian History Carnival will be hosted here at Frog in a Well – Korea on August 8th! We are looking for good posts on Asian history posted around the internet in the past month or two. For more details, check out the Asian History Carnival homepage.

Please nominate postings for the carnival here. If you use del.icio.us to tag your links, another way you can nominate postings is to simply tag them “ahcarnival” (http://del.icio.us/tag/ahcarnival/) and I’ll look through the tagged postings when the time comes. The deadline for nominations is August 7th.

Taemin at Sanch’on hunjang does an excellent job of taking apart the English information sign for a Chosŏn government official’s tomb in Seoul. The main point of the post is that these English-language sign boards for cultural properties (although they often seem to have decent English these days) are not actually all that informative for people who are not already experts on Korean history and culture. I would suspect that this category also includes a lot of Koreans too. Anyway, make sure you read it, it’s very good.

I have a further question to add to his ones: what’s with the sheep (actually a ram if you look carefully at Taemin’s picture) at Chosŏn official tombs?