No, nothing is wrong with your monitor. I’ve simply boosted the font size and switched the font style to oh-so-pleasing Georgia. In theory, this should make the blog easier to read. OK, went back to old fonts, but narrowed blog to 800px.
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Here’s some more photos—black and white—of early modern Korea.
It seems like my brother had issues with “Napoleon Dynamite”:
During the 19th century, Bethlem Psychiatric Hospital became a popular London attraction, particularly on the first Tuesday of every month when admission was free. All other days, visitors paid a penny to look into the cells of the insane and watch them fight and fornicate. Some [...]
Wife got me a new camera—a Canon PowerShot SD700, to be exact—so I strolled around Sungnyemun Gate (i.e. Namdaemun) after work to see if the image stabilization feature helped any with the night shots. The results would seem to suggest it does.
Sungnyemun at night is something of an iconic shot—perhaps no image captures the harmony [...]
On one hot summer night in 1982, US Army Private Joseph White shot a lock on the gate leading to Korea’s Demilitarized Zone and made his way into North Korea. He never returned. Of the handful of Americans defecting to North Korea, the story of this seemingly typical GI Joe is the strangest.
After speaking with [...]
The Korea Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society will hold its second semi-monthly Lecture-Meeting of February this Tuesday the 27th, at 7:30 pm, in the 2nd-floor Resident’s Lounge of the Somerset Palace Residence (downtown, near Anguk Station, west of Exit #6; north of Jogye-sa Temple). All in English, for free and open to the public, [...]
A professor at Hanseo University has analyzed a Joseon-period folding screen portraying the faces of gisaeng from around Korea to determine the regional particularities of Joseon-era beauties and to get an idea of what Joseon-era Koreans considered beautiful.
The folding screen in question, the Paldomi’indo (i.e., “The Painting of the Beauties of the Eight Provinces”), is [...]
Transgender singer Harisu is getting hitched in May to some rapper dude living in Busan—I think the photos say it all.
Wordpress has released version 2.1.1. And there was much rejoicing.
My brother’s film review site, Pretentious Musings, now comes with an RSS feed (via Feedburner here). BTW, he has a review up on “Running with Scissors.”
Zenkimchi, in addition to moving to Wordpress, has become a veritable media complex. The new-look Food Journal is here.
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Hana Bank is sending a group of 20 of its single female employees on a blind date with 20 men selected by a matchmaking service. The venue? Why, North Korea of course—the romance capital of the world! (HT to reader)
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For the wonks: Over at NBR, Jonathan Pollack outlines three possible scenarios for North Korea’s nuclear program, while Christopher Hughes looks at the implications of North Korea’s nuclear weapons for Japan, South Korea and Taiwan. (HT to reader)
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Were Stalin, Mao and Kim Il-sung plotting to invade Japan during the Korean War? I doubt it, but it’s still interesting to contemplate. If the intel was misinformation, one wonders if Kim Philby had a hand in it.
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Are you a gyopo who has just been impressed into the ROK Army? You’ll be happy to know the Army now has a program just for you!
I’ve been dying a slow death in front of my Mac. But it’s been worth it.This episode has actually been in the works for the longest of any of them, from all the way back in the summer of last year, when my friend Soyeon was still busy surviving the major elimination rounds of the [...]
A word of warning, this is may get awfully dull for some of you awfully fast.
While going through my news files over the holidays, I was struck by a column by Bloomberg writer Andy Mukherjee. As far as the text itself, it has little to do with Korea, however some of the items he brings [...]
North Korean propaganda once again has outdone itself by criticizing Japan for “a crackdown on expatriate North Koreans amid concerns the group may have a role in the communist state’s nuclear and chemical weapons program”.
As per the Associated Press news release:
In August, Japanese police arrested a pro-North Korean resident in Japan for allegedly exporting [...]
One interesting series of photos by the Korean photographer Jung Yeondoo is based upon the drawings of children as a means of exploring the special vision of children. As per Yukie Kamiya, Associate curator of the New Museum of Contemporary Art (New York):
Yeondoo Jung transforms photography into a magical wand that, with the wave of [...]
So everybody says to each other “saehae-bok mani-padeu-seyo” [new year (good-) fortune receive do] (implying that i hope you do). That “receive” in there comes from the ancient belief that good or bad fortune comes from the spirits (or gods, or God, or Heaven, or what have you), in a somewhat arbitrary way that can [...]
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