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Sun, September 22, 2019 | 17:03

Archive to revive 1907 Korea

While I was finalizing my dissertation in November 2017, UNESCO decided to list on the Memory of the World Register the very documentary archives I had been researching - the National Debt Redemption Movement Archives. Those thousands of historical records, handwritten letters and newspaper articles from of 1907 to 1910 attest to the first nationwide voluntary fundraising movement by the Korean people.

2019-09-20 17:38

Korea's UNESCO man

On July 26, 2001, my conference organizing company ConvEx Korea was selected as the planner-organizer for the “ICOM Seoul 2004” conference by the organizing committee of the event. I attended the bidding urged by my high school friend Dr. Lee, who was a director of a college museum in Seoul then. She is an expert in Roman glass from the Silla period.

2019-08-23 17:33

Translation professionalism

On Sept. 1, 1979, the Graduate School of Simultaneous Interpretation had its first matriculation ceremony on the campus of Hankuk University of Foreign Studies (HUFS) in Seoul. As it was the first master's degree course in Asia to train professional conference interpreters in nine languages, fully financed by the government, it seemed quite an overshot at that time.

Na Jeong-ju | 2019-07-26 14:44

Foods unite two Koreas

The book “Traditional Foods of Korea” (Joseon Minjok Eumsik) introduces the authentic foods of North Korea. Published by the Foreign Language Publishing House of the DPRK in 2018, this 118-page catalog in English printed in color is impressive by any standard.

2019-06-28 17:30

Missionary history in Daegu

Old photos of Korea in modern times fascinate me. The first photos taken by Westerners bring us back to the lost and never-seen land of the past.

2019-06-02 17:10

15,000-year-old rice

In a lecture on Korean history for foreign CEOs in 2011, I showed a photo of a few samples of the earliest cultivated rice grains which were discovered in 1998 at Soro-ri, a small village in central Korea. Common sense had it then, and still in 2019, that rice farming moved from China to Korea and Japan.

2019-05-05 17:44

Dangerous family?

The names of three women - the wife of Hanjin Group Chairman Cho Yang-ho, Lee Myung-hee, and their two daughters Cho Hyun-ah and Cho Hyun-min, have now become household names in Korea. By any standard, the three women's rude behavior and morbid personalities have invited a limitless level of criticism from the public.

2019-04-07 17:07

Memoir of independence activist's wife

On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the March 1 Independence Movement this year, three topics have drawn attention.

2019-03-12 17:42

Story of Korea told century ago

The July 25, 1897, issue of the New York Journal carried a sizable story headlined “Prince of Corea Comes to America Wearing a Coat of Mail for Fear of Assassins.” It features large drawings of a Korean prince and the imaginative protective steel wire undershirt, two Korean royal women (both dead), and two suspected assassins from Korea.

2019-02-11 17:12

Kim Jong-un's new image in Seoul?

During the last several days of December, Cheong Wa Dae staff must have spent grueling hours waiting in anticipation for the news from Pyongyang of Kim Jong-un's decision to visit the South in 2018.

2019-01-11 18:39

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