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Author: Owen

Archaeology/Korea/Korea-Japan

Open sesame

Posted on January 7, 2007 by Owen / 0 Comment

Click over to Nick Kapur’s post at Frog Japan for news on new plans to allow archaeologists to access Japanese imperial tombs (kofun). Depending on how fa...

Historiography/Korea/Nationalism/North Korea

5,000 years

Posted on January 4, 2007 by Owen / 4 Comments

One of those phrases that anyone dealing with Korean history must learn to live with is the ‘5,000 years’ business. Today I came across one of the m...

Historiography/Korea/Korean War/North Korea/Politics/Postwar

Revisionism (History news round up I)

Posted on January 2, 2007 by Owen / 2 Comments

It’s been a bit quiet around here lately, but hopefully that will improve with the new year. To kick things off this year I thought I’d gather toget...

Colonial/Conferences/Historiography/Intellectual/Korea/Late Chosŏn/Museums/Nationalism

Empty history

Posted on October 25, 2006 by Owen / 7 Comments

I’m spending a few weeks in Korea, mainly for the Academy of Korean Studies organised World Congress of Korean Studies that will be taking place this week...

Contemporary/Cultural/Korea/Late Chosŏn

If you thought the Chosŏn dynasty was over, think again

Posted on October 2, 2006 by Owen / 1 Comment

Actually, strictly speaking, 88-year-old Yi Hae-won was crowned queen (or should that be empress?) of the Great Han Empire (大韓帝國) last week, rather than the Cho...

Archaeology/Colonial/Korea/Korea-Japan/Koryŏ/Late Chosŏn/Law/Libraries/Museums

History news round-up (brought to you by the Korea Times)

Posted on August 31, 2006 by Owen / 0 Comment

For some reason the Korea Times seems to be quite a decent source of history news these days, so in the absence of a more heavyweight post, here’s a round...

Academia/bibliography/Historiography/Korea

James B. Palais (1934-2006)

Posted on August 10, 2006 by Owen / 5 Comments

I was very saddened to hear that Professor James Palais has died. Everyone in the world of Korean history will have heard of him and anyone who has read any of ...

Books and Articles/Korea/Military/임진왜란

African mercenaries in Chosŏn

Posted on August 7, 2006 by Owen / 1 Comment

I meant to post a note on this interesting piece at the Oh My News website a couple of weeks ago, but other things intervened. It recounts the story of the blac...

General/Korea

When is historical information not informative?

Posted on August 1, 2006 by Owen / 1 Comment

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 ...

Cultural/Film/Koguryo/Korea/Media/Nationalism

Koguryŏ on the box

Posted on July 23, 2006 by Owen / 6 Comments

I know I’m way behind the times on this subject as it was already brought up at the Marmot’s Hole weeks ago, but I’d like to put out a call fo...

Korea/Koryŏ/Late Chosŏn/Memory

Feuding clans

Posted on July 19, 2006 by Owen / 0 Comment

There is a fascinating article in today’s International Herald Tribune on Korean family grave sites, feng shui and the long-running feud between the Yoon ...

General/Korea/Translation/Web Sites

Glossing over history

Posted on July 6, 2006 by Owen / 2 Comments

I thought I’d write a quick post about another web resource I’ve just started to use quite a bit recently. This is the online Glossary of Korean Studies put tog...

Books and Articles/Korea/Web Sites

John D. Ford’s Korea

Posted on June 29, 2006 by Owen / 0 Comment

For readers interested in more early Western views of Korea and Koreans in a similar vein to those that Konrad has looked at in his series of posts here, Thomas...

Books and Articles/Colonial/Cultural/Korea/Korea-Japan

Hankyoreh on the return of cultural artifacts

Posted on June 5, 2006 by Owen / 0 Comment

Update: Korea Times reports on another long-running dispute over the return of historical documents taken from Korea – in this case those taken from the O...

bibliography/Books and Articles/Korea/Late Chosŏn/Libraries

Into the archives

Posted on May 28, 2006 by Owen / 1 Comment

Major source material publication projects for premodern history A bit of a change of pace here, but I thought I’d share a bit of the information I’ve gathered ...

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