Royal Asiatic Society - Korea will hold its first semi-monthly Lecture-Meeting of April on Tuesday the 10th, 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 and open to the public, as always; more info: 763-9483 and [...]
Korea is Not #1. Damn, it’s not even #2! — in spam-sending. It might not even be #3, the article (Yahoo News) doesn’t say who is. But in the reported situation that almost 70% of all e-mail originating in Asia is spam, at least Philippines and China are ahead of South Korea. Come on, where is the [...]
The Korea Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society will hold its second semi-monthly Lecture-Meeting of March 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, as [...]
The RAS tour that i’m going to lead to Tap-sa [Pagoda Temple] in Ma-i-san [Horse-Ears Mountains] and the Muju Gucheon-dong Valley (in Deokyusan National Park) has been postponed due to the expected bad weather this Saturday, and in order to include this year’s cherry blossoms. It will now be offered on Sunday, April 8th. [...]
The Korea Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society will hold its first semi-monthly Lecture-Meeting of March this Tuesday the 13th, 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, [...]
So you thought that spring had already sprung upon us, but last night & today there’s snow & freezing-rain, and it’s going to be at or below zero from the rest of the week… Well, Korea’s always like that, a “false spring” in late February is quite common; they say “the wind envies the flowers” [...]
Two articles that i happened to read on the same day interested me enough to post about: they are about current trends in Korean education, but in kind of opposite directions; both are on topics we’ve discussed here before.
The first one shows the globalization project here making some progress, with increased international-level university education with [...]
The New York Times ran a fairly long article yesterday on the phenomena of Korean men importing foreign wives wholesale, and the changes going on in that business. It focuses on the Vietnamese brides, who are now second in number only to China and might in the future become number one. Filipinas no longer so much [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
Yow, check out today’s scary KH story on this spring’s prospects for the goddamn Yellow Dust. It certainly has started much earlier than previous years, and has already been severe twice that I noticed. I have really come to hate it, and wonder how much time outdoors during an attack is the equivalent is smoking up a carton [...]
The Korea Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society will hold its first semi-monthly Lecture-Meeting of February this Tuesday the 13th, at 7:30 pm, in the 2nd-floor Resident’s Lounge of the Somerset Palace Residence (near Anguk Station, downtown). All in English, for free and open to the public, as always; more info: 763-9483 and http://www.raskb.com/ (includes [...]
Sorry to post this so late, but there were technical blocks all weekend… There will be a Memorial Ceremony Dr. Zo Za-yong, the great champion of Korean folkways & folk-art, with meeting of his friends, his students and those who admire and continue his legacy, at the Gahoe Folk-Art Museum in northern downtown Seoul (Bukchon area, north [...]
The Korea Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society will hold its first semi-monthly lecture-meeting of the year this Tuesday January 9th, at 7:30 pm, in the 2nd-floor Resident’s Lounge of the Somerset Palace Residence (near Anguk Station, downtown). All in English, free and open to the public, as always; more info: 763-9483 and http://www.raskb.com/
This time [...]
The Korea Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society will hold its final semi-monthly lecture-meeting of the year this Tuesday December 12th, at 7:30 pm, in the 2nd-floor Resident’s Lounge of the Somerset Palace Residence (near Anguk Station, downtown). All in English, for free and open to the public, as always; more info: 763-9483 and http://www.raskb.com/
This [...]
The Royal Asiatic Society - Korea Branch will bold its semi-monthly lecture-meeting this Tuesday November 28th, at 7:30 pm, in the 2nd-floor Resident’s Lounge of the Somerset Palace Residence (near Anguk Station, downtown). Free and open to all the public, as always; more info: 763-9483 http://www.raskb.com/
This one could be interesting to some of us: “Possible [...]
The Royal Asiatic Society - Korea Branch will bold its semi-monthly lecture-meeting this Tues November 14, at 7:30 pm, in the 2nd-floor Resident’s Lounge of the Somerset Palace Residence (near Anguk Station, downtown). Free and open to all the public, as always; more info: 763-9483 http://www.raskb.com/
This one looks potentially more interesting than most. Prof. Lee [...]
Vaclav Havel, Elie Wiesel and Kjell Bondevik (former PM of Norway) have jointly made a public appeal for refocusing on NK’s human-rights crisis, in the NYT. Worth reading, but nothing new.
Seems to me that global opinion-leaders are stuck in a sortta cycle — some will say “we just can’t do anything about NK’s human-rights problems, the regime just [...]
By now everyone must be well aware of the unusual conjunction of holidays and weekend(s) at the beginning of October — Gaecheon-jeol on Tuesday, October 3rd and Chuseok Thurs-Sat Oct 5~7. Nobody but putzes and drones will work or attend classes on the Wednesday “sandwich day” and many will find a way to take [...]
If you’re not going on Robert’s next grand expedition this weekend, the Royal Asiatic Society — Korea Branch is offering a half-day walking-tour of the “Bukchon” neighborhood of remaining Hanok (Korea’s traditional wooden/stone/tile houses) and fascinating small museums in northern central Seoul. This Saturday Sept 23, from 9:30 am to about one.
I will be the tour-guide, doin’ the best i can.
“The close proximity [...]
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