pop culture KR, book review

How One Nation Is Conquering the World Through Pop Culture

by Kindle Editors on 08/19/2014

The Birth of Korean Cool reveals how a really uncool country became cool, and how a nation that once banned miniskirts, long hair on men, and rock 'n' roll could come to mass produce boy bands, soap operas, and one of the world's most important smart phones. Here, the author, Euny Hong, gives a guide to modern Korean etiquette. [see full article by clicking headline, above]

early photos from National Museum of Korea

The director-general Dr. Youngna Kim of The National Museum of Korea stated that we can now download and use freely the high resoluation (HD) images of7,000 works from the museum's image database on the home pages.  We need to
credit the images to the museum but there is no need to fill out the forms any more for the free use of these images.  For the database, see
http://www.museum.go.kr/program/relic/relicSearchListEng.jsp?menuID=002004001&langCodeCon=LC2

Further details from the registrar's contact person, Ms. Jieun Jung of the registrar (dept
of Collections) at lethe11@korea dot kr