http://www.froginawell.net/korea The Korea History Group Blog Mon, 06 Feb 2012 15:50:50 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I would like to quickly introduce one source from the colonial period, a journal called Chōsen chihō gyōsei, or Korean Local Administration. It was published monthly starting the early 1920s (I think it’s 1922). I am not sure exactly when they stopped publishing it, but we can read all the issues published between October 1924 [...]]]> http://www.froginawell.net/korea/2012/01/%ec%9e%90%eb%a3%8c%ec%86%8c%ea%b0%9c-chosen-chiho-gyosei-%e6%9c%9d%e9%ae%ae%e5%9c%b0%e6%96%b9%e8%a1%8c%e6%94%bf/ Education is always an important issue in history, and I regret that I have read works on the history of Korea’s modern education only sporadically. As I try to organize my notes while reading both secondary and primary sources recently, I get confused about exactly what issues are on debate back then and now. I [...]]]> http://www.froginawell.net/korea/2011/11/some-issues-on-modern-education-in-korea/ I’ve been thinking again about the broader issue of beginning to approach the South Korean post-colonial state and post-1945 medicine, recognizing the immense problems that this presents. Even leaving aside lengthy traditons of shamans and religious healers of varying persuasions, if we restrict medicine to two loose clusters–한의학 and biomedicine–then minimally this leaves us with [...]]]> http://www.froginawell.net/korea/2011/08/politcs-of-health-medicine-post-1945/ Just a quick note, even as the Japan situation continues to unfold, to recall that (1) the current ROK government wants to prioritize nuclear exports in the coming years; and that (2) the domestic industry provides a significant portion of the nation’s energy (28 plants either in operation or under construction). At this point, it [...]]]> http://www.froginawell.net/korea/2011/03/nuclear-power-in-korea-domestic-and-international/ Historical comparisons can open up new exciting ways of understanding events that have become trapped by a dominant narrative, or proposing solutions to pressing current issues. We do, however, have to be very careful when we juxtapose highly distinct clusters of events. As I have watched things in Egypt unfold (I emerged from my own [...]]]> http://www.froginawell.net/korea/2011/02/police-torture-in-egypt-and-1987-korea/