February 13, 2008 – 10:55 am
Most of the links in this post are to Korean-language articles in the online Naver encyclopedia—albeit with pictures, which are intelligible in any language. I’ll add links to English-language articles as I find them.
Given the tragedy that recently beset Sungnyemun, this seems as good a time as any to clear up the incumbent confusion over the [...]
September 12, 2007 – 10:37 am
(Now, isn’t that just the kind of sappy title that so fits in with the spirit of this blog?)
As some long-time readers of this blog may know, I’ve been working on and off for years on a list of basic Korean vocabulary. To cut to the chase, this is to let everyone know that after [...]
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Update 3 (1:35 p.m., Tue 31 July 2007 (Korea Time)): Associated Press (AP) is now reporting that a Korean hostage’s body has been found in a village some 8 or 9 kilometres southwest of Ghazni. Says the AP: “The victim, who appeared to be in his late 20s or early 30s, was wearing white [...]
Update: Apparently, the problem has been fixed, and my comments are showing up in real time again. (It’s all about me, me, me! after all….) If anyone encounters this problem in the future, contact the blog administrator at marmotshole AT gmail.com.
Original post: If anyone is having trouble posting comments, rest assured that you’re [...]
October 19, 2006 – 2:04 am
Update: Joshua already posted on this on the 17th at One Free Korea. He takes a healthy attitude of skepticism regarding whether any of this news has any meaningful relevance to future developments. I’ve also minorly tweaked some sentences below.
In recent years, declassified Soviet and Eastern Bloc archives have greatly increased our knowledge of North [...]
October 17, 2006 – 2:25 am
As all of you readers in Korea are fast asleep with hopefully happy dreams—some of you recovering from the shock of air raid drills which the Old Hands (TM) among us are serenely complacent about—here are some overnight developments to get you up to speed:
The US is confirming that radiation indicates that it was, in [...]
September 20, 2006 – 1:43 am
“Textbook revision? Oh no, not again!”
Fear not: this is not what it seems. Nothing to do with nationalistic reinterpretations of history, or pitched battles between countries, but rather updating South Korean social-curriculum (my term) textbooks to reflect changing realities. (Or perhaps, in a prescriptive, normative society such as Korea’s, to try to help change such [...]
September 15, 2006 – 4:14 am
Good morning to those of you in Korea and elsewhere in East Asia, and good afternoon or evening to the rest of us!
Here are the top three stories in each of the Korea Herald and Korea Times, and the English editions of the Chosun, JoongAng, and Dong-A Ilbo and Hankyoreh (18 stories total), as of 4 [...]
September 13, 2006 – 4:56 am
Put the terms “Korea” and “foreign relations” together, and what comes to mind? The Korean Peninsula itself, where the Cold War has never ended; oscillating and historically complex relationships with China and Japan; six-party talks; ongoing discussions on the future of the USFK. Northeast Asia is the “hot zone” as far as the two Koreas’ relations with [...]
September 6, 2006 – 3:59 am
I thought someone would have covered this by now, but this news is a reminder that although the Uri Party currently runs the country, Roh Moo-hyun’s shoot-from-the-hip policies and the governing party’s overall ideology has turned a lot of Koreans off.
According to the Chosun Ilbo and Donga Ilbo—as reported by GI Korea and relayed by [...]
September 6, 2006 – 2:26 am
Update (6 September 2006): Posted under category “Korean Culture,” although ”Arts” (for which there isn’t a category) would be more appropriate….
My knowledge of ballet extends only as far as seeing Gene Kelly’s numbers at the end of An American in Paris, et al. and listening to endless repetitions of Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker Suite as a child on [...]
September 2, 2006 – 8:43 am
Update (6 Sept 2006): Thanks to KimcheeGI, link to song posted in “Sources and References” section.
Greetings, dear readers!
The Marmot temporarily lost his mind, and in a fit of misguided good grace, has allowed me on board as a guest blogger. I’m going to focus on relatively uncontentious stories of cultural interest…and for the cynics among [...]
