View this rich collection of pre-1945 Korea photos now available at the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs room. The images seem to come from a Japanese photographer, judging by the hand writing on the back of the images. While the collection has been recently catalogued at http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2010645655 the images have not been fully processed for routine viewing or online reference. So to seem them in person you must follow the special procedure there.
Those able to read the handwritten Japanese notes that appear on the back of many photos are particularly encouraged to give the meanings or reflect on the wider significance depicted.
There are three ways to engage these reference copy images:
A. Cursor rapidly through the 250 images (some duplicates; observe only; no Japanese) in this large file, http://bit.ly/loc-colonialkr-pdf [about 14mb, hosted on google docs]
B. View paired pages: obverse shows 4-6 pictures, reverse shows the Japanese writing penciled on
http://pre1945korea.blogspot.com (blog platform allows viewers to write identifying information)
Each entry gives the option to download the 2 page PDF set for easy printout, too.
[hosted on blogger.com]
http://pre1945korea.blogspot.com (blog platform allows viewers to write identifying information)
Each entry gives the option to download the 2 page PDF set for easy printout, too.
[hosted on blogger.com]
C. Bundle of all 27 paired (obverse/reverse) PDF sets in one file
http://tinyurl.com/bundle27pre1945kr
[about 14mb, hosted on sites.google.com]
http://tinyurl.com/bundle27pre1945kr
[about 14mb, hosted on sites.google.com]
Tuesday, October 18, 2011
Korea and Koreans as featured in literary works by non-Korean(ist) writers
collected responses by the readers of the e-list, KoreanStudies.ws in early October 2011:
There is "Kim of Korea" by Faith Norris and Peter Lumm ( a pseudonym that Bernard Malamud used when collaborating with another writer) New York: Julian Messner, Inc. 1955. It is a story about a Korean boy and an American soldier set during the Korean War.
Faith Norris was the daughter of Joan Grigsby ( http://hompi.sogang.ac.kr/anthony/GrigsbyPreface.htm ) who lived in Seoul 1929-1930, and the story (meant for younger readers) includes mentions of the house Dilkusha where they lived. She imagined the war had left in ruined (not so it still stands, more or less). Faith Norris and Malamud taught together for a time at Oregon State College and Faith says that they sympathised as fellow Jews (she believed that her great-grandfather had been a Jew, a fantasy of her mother's invention).
Otherwise there is always the "Missionary Fiction" of the early 1900s by Lois Hawks Swineheart : "Jane in the Orient", "Sarange: A Child of Chosen" and "Korea Calls!" available to download at http://hompi.sogang.ac.kr/anthony/BooksKorea.htm
Oddjob, the villain with the lethal bowler hat in Ian Fleming's Goldfinger, was Korean, though in the film, as I recall, he was portrayed as a generic inscrutable oriental.
The male protagonist of Han Suyin's A Many Splendored Thing, dispatched (fatally, as it turns out ) to report on the Korean War, makes the curious observation that "Korean women are not beautiful."
Incidentally, I seem to remember David Lodge confused Kyongju and Kongju (as then spelt) in Small World.
Chaim Potok's novel set in Korea and featuring Korean protagonists is I am the Clay, which was translated into Korean as ??? ? (hanjum-ui heuk--a
handful of earth). I found it stark and haunting. Potok was an army chaplain in Korea around the time of the war. A character who appears at the end of
the book is based loosely on him.
handful of earth). I found it stark and haunting. Potok was an army chaplain in Korea around the time of the war. A character who appears at the end of
the book is based loosely on him.
Potok?s book [is] as good a character study of Koreans as any written by Koreans. By the way, Potok was a rabbi, not the more likely
Christian or Catholic chaplains whose faiths had established missionary infrastructures in Korea and the USA Army. His cultural sensitivity is based
upon a very different understanding and affinity for social constructs of family / community, the value of education, etc.
Christian or Catholic chaplains whose faiths had established missionary infrastructures in Korea and the USA Army. His cultural sensitivity is based
upon a very different understanding and affinity for social constructs of family / community, the value of education, etc.
Margaret Drabble's ambitious The Red Queen:
http://koreaweb.ws/pipermail/koreanstudies_koreaweb.ws/2005-July/004938.html
http://koreaweb.ws/pipermail/koreanstudies_koreaweb.ws/2005-July/004938.html
Eunice Park, in Gary Shteyngart's Super Sad Love Story.
...Someone is venturing into Inspector O territory. Adam Johnson's next novel, The Orphan Master's Son, is set in North Korea. An extract is available here
(part of which I fear qualifies as an entry for the Literary Review's annual Bad Sex award)
http://electricliterature.com/blog/2010/09/03/excerpt-%E2%80%9Cfor-the-love-of-juche%E2%80%9D-by-adam-johnson/
(part of which I fear qualifies as an entry for the Literary Review's annual Bad Sex award)
http://electricliterature.com/blog/2010/09/03/excerpt-%E2%80%9Cfor-the-love-of-juche%E2%80%9D-by-adam-johnson/
Pearl Buck's novel set in Korea was The Living Reed, published in 1963 or 64 and again in 2004.
Isabella L. Bird?s diary like account of her travels, Korea and Her Neighbors, contains many portraits, although the work is non-fiction.
Popular culture also includes the books and scripts that led up to several American films and TV programs about the MASH units. I would venture to say that more Americans have been exposed to something they think (if at all) about Korea from the still in reruns TV series which presented various Korean ?types? in complex stituations.
In 1953 Humphrey Bogart starred as a MASH surgeon, along with June Allison as an Army nurse, in the film Battle Circus set in a Korean War MASH. In 1968 the novel Mash: A Novel About Three Army Doctors by
Richard Hooker brought the drama of the MASH units fully into public view, and became the basis of Robert Altman's 1970 film , followed by the 1972-1983 smash hit TV series. MASH became a permanent fixture of American culture. (source: http://olive-drab.com/od_medical_treatment_mash.php).
This for sure is not literature -- but I thought I mention it anyway, given how important Chinoiserie and Japonism were for upper class arts and art collectors in Europe and North America, but that there was never anything like Koreanism -- this is as close as you get: "Die Braut von Korea" (The Bride from Korea) a ballet from 1897
Music: Joseph Bayer (1852-1913), choreography: Josef Hassreiter
http://www.book1950.co.kr/main.html?menu=view&uid=283 (click small image to magnify)http://www.bildindex.de/obj07053790.html costume sketch by Franz Gaul (click small image to magnify)
Music: Joseph Bayer (1852-1913), choreography: Josef Hassreiter
http://www.book1950.co.kr/main.html?menu=view&uid=283 (click small image to magnify)http://www.bildindex.de/obj07053790.html costume sketch by Franz Gaul (click small image to magnify)
The ballet was performed 38 times between 1897 and 1901 at the Wiener Hofoper (Vienna Court Opera)--that was the time when Gustav Mahler was the director there.
Perhaps this one is too well known to mention, but Jack London, who visited Korea when he was covering the Russo-Japanese War as a correspondent forHearst Newspapers, included a chapter set in Korea (Chapter 15, very loosely based around Hendrik Hamel's experiences) in his work *The Jacket *(*The StarRover* in the US), which was published in 1915 by Mills & Boon. See http://www.archive.org/details/jacketthestarrov00londuoft
Thursday, September 29, 2011
new book - Buddhist temple history of Okcheon-am
Through the power of the Internet, the Venerable Woon Saan discovered the old Korea photos selected from Library of Congress' Prints and Photographs collection and displayed online at http://old-koreaphotos.wikispaces.com and included these in the (Korean language) book about his temple history and traditions. He will donate a copy to the LoC by way of thanks, too.
[photo shows book jacket; contact Woon Saan-sunim at Woonsaan Seok, woonsaan [at]empas DOTcom]
Thursday, September 8, 2011
old photos by A. Mattice - naval photographer USS Juanita
Asa Mattice, a naval engineer and photographer attached to the *USS Juanita*.
Related is the *Syracuse University Magazine* article about an exhibition of the photos and more on how they were acquired.
Mattice Photos, http://jdstockphoto.zenfolio.com/p77737632
*Syracuse University Magazine* article, http://sumagazine.syr.edu/archive/winter03-04/viewfromhill/index.html
Related is the *Syracuse University Magazine* article about an exhibition of the photos and more on how they were acquired.
Mattice Photos, http://jdstockphoto.zenfolio.com/p77737632
*Syracuse University Magazine* article, http://sumagazine.syr.edu/archive/winter03-04/viewfromhill/index.html
Monday, September 5, 2011
Korea in 1925 - one hour archival footage
... fascinating hour-long film made by a German Catholic priest/missionary (Father Norbert Weber (sp?), a Benedictine monk or priest) in 1925
...also contains still photos Weber shot on an earlier trip to Korea in 1911. It shows a lot of things that none of us, and almost no living Korean, has ever seen. I think it should be shared widely
...put together as a KBS Special but somehow comes to us through Chinese hands.
or paste the URL it into your browser
--more background:
Norbert Weber, the former arch abbot of St. Ottilien and the author of the documentary from 1925, passed away in 1956 (his dates are 1870-1956). The missionary you interviewed, I would think, was probably Corbinian Schr?fl (???, 1901-1990). Schr?fl had been a missionary in Yanji /Y?n?gil (in former Pukkando), and then later in the South, after the communists cosed down the abbeys in NE China and North Korea.
see also, http://tinyurl.com/3w82cdd [old images, but from a separate person's documentary sources]
Friday, August 19, 2011
glimpse of (Leprosy) Hansen's Disease
August 2011 presenter for the Korean-American Educational Commission
168-15 Yomni-dong, Mapo-gu |Seoul 121-874 http://www.fulbright.or.kr
168-15 Yomni-dong, Mapo-gu |Seoul 121-874 http://www.fulbright.or.kr
Hansen's disease in Korea historically existed at endemic levels until effective drugs became available in the 1930s to 1950s. It has been
referenced in Korean literature for centuries even including some Chosun era mask dances. In the 20th century, Hansen's disease patients became
what professor Jeong Keun-Shik of Seoul National University refers to as "the most significant social other" in ethnically homogeneous Korean
society. They have alternately been used as symbols of national shame, Christian salvation, Japanese imperial benevolence, and finally Korea's
national "han," or sorrow.
Joji Kohjima's research deals with the efforts of Hansens's disease patients to tell their own story, and to seek restitution for their
treatment under Japanese colonialism and post-colonial Korean governments. He has been researching the social and medical conditions
of Hansen's disease in modern Korea in conjunction with several institutions including the Catholic University Medical School's Leprosy
Center in Seoul, the 518 Memorial Hall at Jeonnam National University, Aeyangwon hospital in Yeosu, and Sorokdo National Leprosy Hospital in
Sorok Island, Jeollanamdo. This forum will explore leprosy in Korean society as a phenomenon originating at the microscopic level of bacteria
but extending to the level of social constructs in the discrimination, otherization and isolation faced by leprosy patients. Largely
originating in Japanese colonial policy, patients have historically faced quarantine, forced labor, and forced sterilization as they were
caught in the triangle of Japanese colonial government, missionaries, and an often hostile Korean population.
:::Biography:::
Joji Wilson Kohjima is originally from Tacoma, Washington. He is the great grandson of Robert Manton Wilson, an American missionary who
worked as a doctor on Hansen's disease in Korea from 1907 to 1941. Joji graduated in International Studies from the University of Washington
where he also studied pre-medicine with a focus on biochemistry. He will apply for medical school to begin in 2012. He hopes to continue
studies in medical anthropology in conjunction with medical school.
referenced in Korean literature for centuries even including some Chosun era mask dances. In the 20th century, Hansen's disease patients became
what professor Jeong Keun-Shik of Seoul National University refers to as "the most significant social other" in ethnically homogeneous Korean
society. They have alternately been used as symbols of national shame, Christian salvation, Japanese imperial benevolence, and finally Korea's
national "han," or sorrow.
Joji Kohjima's research deals with the efforts of Hansens's disease patients to tell their own story, and to seek restitution for their
treatment under Japanese colonialism and post-colonial Korean governments. He has been researching the social and medical conditions
of Hansen's disease in modern Korea in conjunction with several institutions including the Catholic University Medical School's Leprosy
Center in Seoul, the 518 Memorial Hall at Jeonnam National University, Aeyangwon hospital in Yeosu, and Sorokdo National Leprosy Hospital in
Sorok Island, Jeollanamdo. This forum will explore leprosy in Korean society as a phenomenon originating at the microscopic level of bacteria
but extending to the level of social constructs in the discrimination, otherization and isolation faced by leprosy patients. Largely
originating in Japanese colonial policy, patients have historically faced quarantine, forced labor, and forced sterilization as they were
caught in the triangle of Japanese colonial government, missionaries, and an often hostile Korean population.
:::Biography:::
Joji Wilson Kohjima is originally from Tacoma, Washington. He is the great grandson of Robert Manton Wilson, an American missionary who
worked as a doctor on Hansen's disease in Korea from 1907 to 1941. Joji graduated in International Studies from the University of Washington
where he also studied pre-medicine with a focus on biochemistry. He will apply for medical school to begin in 2012. He hopes to continue
studies in medical anthropology in conjunction with medical school.
Saturday, August 13, 2011
funeral, Lee Han-yeol photos from 1987
...pictures during the funeral and march for Lee Han-yeol on July 9, 1987, a watershed event for democracy in South Korea, in which over one million people participated.
After many years, I finally put the pictures up on the web at http://chwe.net/hanyeol/
From: MichaelChwe, michael@chwe dotnet
After many years, I finally put the pictures up on the web at http://chwe.net/hanyeol/
From: MichaelChwe, michael@chwe dotnet
Friday, July 29, 2011
Thursday, July 28, 2011
bronze age - so many dolmens on the SW Korean peninsula
www.dolmen.com has an option for English and Japanese, too. The site dates to 2001, so there is not a lot of video, blog feedback or panoramic views and maps, but it does introduce this wealth of ancient society, quoting that 19,000 of the world's known 55,000 dolmens are located in the Jeollanam-do (sw province) of South Korea.
Monday, July 25, 2011
film list - possibly some formerly banned ones
www.koreanfilm.org (including articles in English)
=====titles that are available on DVD with English Subtitles:
"The Last Witness" http://www.koreafilm.org/feature/100_63.asp
"Holiday" http://www.koreafilm.org/feature/100_46.asp
"Night of the Strike" http://www.koreafilm.org/feature/50_26.asp
"Oh! Land of Dreams" http://www.koreafilm.org/feature/50_22.asp
"Holiday" http://www.koreafilm.org/feature/100_46.asp
"Night of the Strike" http://www.koreafilm.org/feature/50_26.asp
"Oh! Land of Dreams" http://www.koreafilm.org/feature/50_22.asp
"Guro Arirang" (no English subtitled DVD)
=====Or a little more recently:
"Yellow Hair" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_Hair
"Timeless, Bottomless Bad Movie" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bad_Movie
"Yellow Hair" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_Hair
"Timeless, Bottomless Bad Movie" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bad_Movie
Thursday, July 14, 2011
border crossing people smugglers to Korea
Defecting from North Korea is a dangerous business.
It comes at a high price and there's no guarantee of success.
Many make the journey to South Korea with the help of brokers - individuals and organisations who smuggle people along the illegal overland route
known as the "Underground Railroad". For Assignment, Lucy Williamson meets some of the brokers in Seoul who make a living helping people escape North Korea.
RELATED LINKS
Download this episode (mp3) http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/docarchive
SHADOWY WORLD OF KOREA'S PEOPLE SMUGGLERS
(http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-14044794)
"I'm not a drug-dealer. I'm not bad, I'm just bringing people out. I'm
doing something the South Korean government can't do."
It comes at a high price and there's no guarantee of success.
Many make the journey to South Korea with the help of brokers - individuals and organisations who smuggle people along the illegal overland route
known as the "Underground Railroad". For Assignment, Lucy Williamson meets some of the brokers in Seoul who make a living helping people escape North Korea.
RELATED LINKS
Download this episode (mp3) http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/docarchive
SHADOWY WORLD OF KOREA'S PEOPLE SMUGGLERS
(http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-14044794)
"I'm not a drug-dealer. I'm not bad, I'm just bringing people out. I'm
doing something the South Korean government can't do."
Monday, July 11, 2011
famous image discussion
[KoreanStudies e-list member F.Hoffman reponds to request to identify an iconic image]
Sin Yun-bok and "Miin-do" are good keywords.
The most famous one by Sin Yun-bok is this one: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Hyewon-Miindo.jpg
The one you find in every tourist booklet, on umbrellas, as ball pen designs, etc. The term "miin-do" seems to be a generic term, not an actual title. You also find miin-do
paintings in China and Japan, also in later periods (e.g. during the Taisho period in Japan). That is a genre that traveled and changed throughout the centuries, was kind of "back-introduced" in a modern version to Korea in the 1920s.
The one you have there, the one the stage image is based on, looks to me like a 19th century work based on Sin Yun-bok. Especially the way the face is done would to me indicate that it is later than Sin Yun-bok's period. The Japanese National Museum in Tokyo in whose collection it is gives the painter as "anonymous."
Painter: anonymous, 114.2 cm x 56.5 cm, colors on paper, Collection: Tokyo National Museum (in Ueno Park), http://www.tnm.jp/?lang=en
The most famous one by Sin Yun-bok is this one: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Hyewon-Miindo.jpg
The one you find in every tourist booklet, on umbrellas, as ball pen designs, etc. The term "miin-do" seems to be a generic term, not an actual title. You also find miin-do
paintings in China and Japan, also in later periods (e.g. during the Taisho period in Japan). That is a genre that traveled and changed throughout the centuries, was kind of "back-introduced" in a modern version to Korea in the 1920s.
The one you have there, the one the stage image is based on, looks to me like a 19th century work based on Sin Yun-bok. Especially the way the face is done would to me indicate that it is later than Sin Yun-bok's period. The Japanese National Museum in Tokyo in whose collection it is gives the painter as "anonymous."
Painter: anonymous, 114.2 cm x 56.5 cm, colors on paper, Collection: Tokyo National Museum (in Ueno Park), http://www.tnm.jp/?lang=en
Tuesday, July 5, 2011
Seoul stream restoration of the Cheonggye- Article
Flowing Back to the Future: The Cheongye Stream Restoration and the Remaking of Seoul
by Hong KAL
Abstract: This article concerns how the urban life in Seoul under the Lee Myung-bak government, which pursues neoliberal political economy, has come to present an immense accumulation of spectacles. It examines the Cheonggye stream restoration promoted as upgrading Seoul to become a cleaner, greener and competitive global city. The Cheonggye stream project points to a new form of governance in which the display of national progress through conventional museums or monumental structures, as previous regimes once did, is no longer effective. Instead, the representation of progress of the city and the nation is increasingly being portrayed through the popular use of urban space.
Key words: the Cheonggye stream restoration, Seoul, spectacle, urban redevelopment, public space, national identity, neoliberalism
Introduction: Public space has gained new centrality in the life of Seoul in contemporary Korea. Noticing the political potential as well as the threat of public space, in 2005 the government formally designated the area in front of the City Hall as the Seoul plaza and opened it with an official spectacle, "Hi Seoul Festival". With the construction of the Kwanghwa square in 2009 in front of the Kyǒngbok palace of the Chosǒn dynasty and the new city hall building expected to be completed in 2012 in a design more transparent and open to the public, downtown Seoul is becoming a city of "public spaces." In the remaking of the city through a display of people and participation, the most prestigious and controversial site is probably the new Cheonggye stream. While the Cheonggye stream restoration was aimed at making Seoul a cleaner, greener and competitive global city, it actively employs discourses of restoration, history and people. It is a site that stages images of the collective national body rooted in shared ancestry and historical experience. It makes the current urban transformation historically necessary and even natural and frames collective national subjectivity within the mutually constituting narratives of nationalism and globalization.
Full Article, http://japanfocus.org/site/view/3556
Monday, June 27, 2011
East Asia in the Middle School (lesson plans)
Teaching East Asian in the Middle School Web site at http://www.iu.edu/~easc/outreach/educators/teams/index.shtml .
These lesson plans were originally published in 1996-98, but most of them still have relevance today.
These lesson plans were originally published in 1996-98, but most of them still have relevance today.
Thursday, June 16, 2011
Watch KR television dramas on Hulu.com
Korean dramas are available on Hulu.com, one of the most popular American TV internet sites. Over 50 Korean dramas are available to view for free.
Visit www.hulu.com and search for "Korean Dramas". They are all subtitled (not dubbed).
Visit www.hulu.com and search for "Korean Dramas". They are all subtitled (not dubbed).
Saturday, April 16, 2011
old Korea (and Japan) photos
late 19c. and early 20c old photos of Korea by three very prominent Americans, housed in the American Geographical Society Library at University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, http://collections.lib.uwm.edu/cdm4/results.php?CISOOP1=any&CISOBOX1=korea&CISOFIELD1=CISOSEARCHALL&CISOROOT=all&CISOSTART=1,41 1. George Clayton Foulk Collection (1883 -1887): 59-64, 150-178, 182-185, 188, 190-194 2. Shanon Boyd-Bailey McCune Collection(1938-1939): 65-148, 180, 182-185, 188-194 3. Mary Jo Read Collection(1935): 179-181, 186-187, 189 (duplicate) :::Notes 1. George Clayton Foulk was Acting U.S. Minister to Korean Court, 1884-1887 2. Shannon Boyd-Bailey McCunem was director of the American Geographical Society of New York from 1967 to 1969. Won Medal of Freedom. His Father, George Shannon McCune was Dean(1929-1936) of Sungsil Christian Collage, Pyonggyang, center of anti Japanese activity. His brother George McAfee "Mac" McCunne born in Pyongyang, developed with Edwin O. Reischauer, McCune-Reischauer romanization of Korean in 1937. His extensive collection of Old Korean Maps is now at the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. 3. Mary Jo Reed was a Geography Professor at University of Wisconsin -Milwaukee See also: early photos from the Prints and Photograph collection at Library of Congress, http://old-koreaphotos.wikispaces.com See also, -post this item below from the H-Japan e-list of www.h-net.org (April 6, 2011). > The East Asia Image Collections, an open-access digital repository hosted at Lafayette College, has recently added 259 postcards and 300 negatives. The website now contains over 3700 records of imagery from East Asia, mostly from the period 1905-1945, with one subcollection of images from 1950s Japan. Wednesday, March 9, 2011series - Korean Food flavors
[weekly story in the Amazon.com Food Blog; click headline for full text] Korean Cuisine: Gimbap More and more these days, I see sushi and sashimi showing up at Korean restaurants. You'll find the traditional Japanese raw fish versions, but "Korean sushi" or gimbap is gaining popularity too. As we have the past few Sundays, we're talking Korean food. Today we're talking gimbap... Korean Cuisine: Roasted Corn and Barley "Teas" You may eat corn and barley in a variety of ways, but you ever tried them roasted and made into tea? Today I'm talking Korean cuisine, like I have these past few Sundays. Not long ago, Al Dente reader Phyllis mentioned corn tea, and I couldn't wait to discuss oksusu cha and boricha, roasted corn and barley tea, respectively... Korean Cuisine: Dukbokki Dukbokki is one of my sister's favorite Korean dishes. It's made with noodles. People expect Korean cuisine to include rice, but most people are surprised to learn how popular rice noodles are. (My sister always keeps a package in the freezer.) Dukbokki is a spicy hot stew made with rice noodles (duk) that are long and tubular and really, really chewy. It's a very common dish in Korean homes, though I don't see it on a lot of restaurant menus. (Of course that just could be the case because my Korean is not yet up to snuff.) Korean Cuisine: Red Beans and Rice On Sundays I talk Korean food here at Al Dente, a cuisine that I love and that I love to share with others. Have you already discovered Korean cuisine? If so, I'd like to hear from you. If not, I'm discussing Korean food, dish by dish, so you can become familiar with the wonders of rice and spice. Korean Cuisine: Soft Tofu Soup I've long been a fan of Korean cuisine and instrumental in introducing the fascinating foods of this country to my friends. When Korean cuisine turned up on the 2011 trend list compiled by Epicurious, I couldn't have been more pleased. Finally, Korean food would be known to the masses. At least I hope... Korean Cuisine: Dumplings for Beginners by Tracy Schneider on February 27, 2011 If you're new to Korean food, then one of the best places to begin is with mandoo (or mandu), Korean dumplings. Dumplings are popular all around the world. Japan has its gyozas. China has its potstickers. Russia has its pelmeni, Poland has its pierogi. I love them all... Korean Cuisine: A Feast at Every Meal on February 20, 2011 I have a penchant for Korean food. Given an opportunity to eat out, I'll look for the best Korean restaurant in the area. How about you? Are you acquainted with cuisine of Korea? For years, prognosticators have been saying that Korean food would soon come into its own in the U.S, the way Japanese and then Thai food did over the last twenty years...
Wednesday, March 2, 2011rare photos from the March 1, 1919 uprising/movement
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