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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

Portraits of Queen Min and Xiang Fei

On Aug. 31, 1894, the Hawaiian Gazette published in Honolulu carried an article on the Sino-Japanese war that broke out one week earlier. Headlines read: “China and Japan Still Fight, Korea's King Declares Himself Independent of the Emperor, He asks Japan to Fire China.”

2018-12-14 17:24

Separate lives of Koreans and foreigners

Where do foreign residents in Seoul hang out at 3 a.m.? And what about Koreans? A survey on the location and movement of more than 10 million people, including 270,000 foreigners, was conducted for one week in February and March of 2017, designed to find out their living and moving patterns.

2018-11-16 17:37

Biggest donor active at age 95

“Truly I tell you, no prophet is accepted in his hometown,” Jesus said to people. This is probably because people think the prophet does not do what people have heard he did in another town. Please forgive me if my quotation of Luke 4:24 is off the orthodox interpretation.

2018-10-19 17:41

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