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Five Essential Books for Understanding North Korea’s Cult of Personality
Cundill History Prize Finalist Jonathan Cheng Recommends Barbara Demick, Richard E. Kim, and More
https://lithub.com/five-essential-books-for-understanding-north-koreas-cult-of-personality/
Korea at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subjects/search/?query=korea
October 9th is #Hangul Day in #Korea! Learn about this fascinating holiday dedicated to a unique writing system. https://thelanguagegarage.com/hangul-day/
#Korean #Koreanculture #Koreanhistory
I once saw someone ask a Korean person, “What is native Korean?” — basically asking who the Indigenous people of Korea are.
It caught me off guard, because the distinction between “native Koreans” and just “Koreans” doesn’t really work the same way here.
Unlike settler countries such as the United States, Korea wasn’t established through large-scale overseas settlement and immigration. Most ethnic Koreans are descendants of populations that have lived on the Korean Peninsula for a very long time.
That doesn’t mean Korea has had no migration or population movement throughout history. Of course it has. It just means that different countries have very different histories of migration, settlement, and state formation, and concepts that make perfect sense in one country may not map neatly onto another.
Sometimes even a simple question can reveal how differently we imagine what a “country” is.
#Korea #KoreanHistory #Geography #HumanGeography #Migration #IndigenousPeople #CulturalDifference #HistoryMatters #History #GeographyMatters
ICYMI: Ancient Korean Kingdoms in K-Dramas: Historical Series Watch List https://popgeeks.com/ancient-korean-kingdoms-in-k-dramas-historical-series-watch-list/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #KDrama #KoreanHistory #HistoricalDrama #AncientKorea #Goguryeo
The Island of Sea Women: A Novel
"Many things exist under the sea that are stronger than we are"
Sale: $18 to $2.99
by Lisa See
Rating: 4.5/5 (24,573 Reviews)
#historicalfiction #booksky #lisasee #jeju #koreanhistory #womensfiction #books #friendship #bestseller #readerschoice
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Ancient DNA from a 1,500-year-old Korean burial complex shows close-kin marriage across social ranks, female kinship networks, and whole families sacrificed together. #ArchaeoGenomics #AncientDNA #KoreanHistory https://www.anthropology.net/p/the-sacrificed-were-kin-ancient-dna
📕 The Moon Reflected in a Thousand Rivers (A free, 261-page book of #poetry in translation from 2023)
Tags: #Paper #Medieval #KoreanHistory
https://buddhistuniversity.net/content/monographs/moon-reflected-thousand-rivers_sejong
It will be interesting to see what they learn from this recovered ship.
"South Korean archaeologists have recovered the full remains of a Joseon-era (1392-1910) cargo vessel, shedding light on how a premodern kingdom managed national taxation, logistics and sea-based infrastructure with surprising complexity.
Announced by the National Research Institute of Maritime Heritage on Monday, the 15th-century vessel — named Mado 4 by researchers — was raised from the seabed in October following nearly a decade of conservation and analysis.
It is now the only fully excavated Joseon-era ship ever recovered, and the clearest physical proof yet of the kingdom’s maritime tax network."
8 K-Dramas Set During Japanese Colonial Rule in Korea Pt 1 of 2 https://popgeeks.com/8-k-dramas-set-during-japanese-colonial-rule-in-korea-pt-1-of-2/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #KDrama #KoreanHistory #ColonialRule #JapaneseOccupation #KDramaRecommendations
Seodaemun Prison and Korea’s fight for freedom https://www.byteseu.com/1431195/ #FightForFreedom #ForeignVisitors #history #InterrogationChambers #KoreanHistory #LegacyOfResistance #SeodaemunPrison #SouthKorea
October 9th is #Hangul Day in #Korea! Learn about this fascinating holiday dedicated to a unique writing system. https://thelanguagegarage.com/hangul-day/
#Korean #Koreanculture #Koreanhistory
The remains of the forcibly conscripted Korean workers in Chousei (長生) coal mine in WWII were found as a result of undersea exploration. The mine collapsed to be submerged in 1942, and now the victims see the sun for the first time in 83 years.
Korean residents in Japan expressed the utmost respect and condolences to the deceased with keunjoel (큰절: deep bow, the formal and serious action in Korean traditional manner).
And the lanterns with the names of the victims were dedicated for the repose of souls in the evening.
In the 15th century, Korea unleashed a battlefield game-changer: the Hwacha — a fearsome rocket launcher that could fire 100+ arrows in seconds. A fusion of gunpowder science and tactical genius, it predated modern rocket artillery by centuries. It wasn’t just a weapon — it was a warning to invaders.
Dive into the explosive history:
https://www.utubepublisher.in/2025/05/Hwacha-weapon.html
#Hwacha #History #MilitaryTech #KoreanHistory #MastodonHistory #AncientWeapons
I read this novel recently and and would recommend it to anyone with an interest in Korean and East Asian literature, culture, and history.
In addition, readers wanting to read fiction focused on the working class will find this a rewarding book.
Admirers of Latin American magical realist writing might well engage with the author's "mindam realism".
Mater 2-10 | Book | Scribe US
https://scribepublications.com/books-authors/books/mater-2-10-9781957363318
#Mater210 #HwangSokYong #Books #KoreanLiterature #KoreanHistory #Korea #WorkingClassHistory #Fiction #MagicalRealism
Please boost for reach.
I watch lot of #kdramas lot of them seem to be based on Joseon era. I figure I might enjoy them more if I knew of history during that era. I would be very grateful if someone could point me to good sources where I might be able learn more about this period in korean history. If you know if good sources either online or in book form, I would really love that. Those sources will need to be in English unfortunately as I am not yet able to read or speak the language.
¨Painter of the Wind" , 2008
starring Moon Geun Youg & Park Shin-Yang
The life and work of Joseon's famous painter Shin Yun-bok and mysteries around him. Not shown are his pictures with erotic atmosphere not-allowed in Joseon. The scenes with Shin Yun-Bok getting in the mood for painting are wonderful. So is the appropriate music.
https://asianwiki.com/The_Painter_of_Wind
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sin_Yun-bok
'Women By The Crystal Stream¨
#PainterOfTheWind #Kdrama #MoonGeunYoung #KoreanArt #ShinYoonBok #KoreanHistory
A bit off topic.
Coming Sunday I will work with an older colleague.
81 yr. , but 100 % fresh in his mind and body.
As sailor often in Asia in the '60's. From Holland to Japan, from there to ports in S Korea and picking up Korean crew on Jeju on the way back to Europe.
We know each other but never worked the same shift.
He told some stories already about Jeju-life in the 1960's. " It was NOT a holiday-island".
Looking forward for new 🙂.
Hendrik Hamel Museum Gorinchem.
History of Hendrik Hamel has attention in South Korea's education as well, several sources claim.
The Dutch history in Asia has a very dark side as well, things we did not learn at school in our generation. Recent generation does.
The museum in Gorinchem, Holland has become a place to visit for South Korean visitors , when on a business-, cultural- or other kind of trip to The Netherlands.
@Korean_Leaflets RT by @JChengWSJ: Creator: Chinese People’s Volunteers Number: 120 Size: ? Theme: Merry Christmas, stop fighting, end the war, demand peace Target: UN soldiers Date: Christmas 1951 #SouthKorea #NorthKorea #삐라 #propaganda #koreanhistory #defection #UnitedNations #KoreanWar #MerryChristmas https://nitter.hongkongers.net/Korean_Leaflets/status/1737278981249118541#m
Another request: seeking recommendations for a book on #KoreanHistory, please! Something rather comprehensive for an educated reader who’s learning Korean but doesn’t have a strong basis in East Asian history. #Korea #History
I wrote up a post over at Frog in a Well on former president Park Geun-hye's 1970s speeches for the "New Spirit Movement"
The Banality of a New Spirit Movement 새마음운동
https://froginawell.net/frog/2022/12/the-banality-of-a-new-spirit-movement/
#introduction
Hiya, I'm a lecturer in modern history at the University of St Andrews in Scotland with a focus on East Asia. I'm from Stavanger, Norway
. I'm interested in #transnationalhistory, #spatialhistory, #japanesehistory #taiwanhistory, #koreanhistory #chinesehistory, the #digitalhumanities, #qgis, #gischat, as well as #openaccess, #digitization, and #digitalarchives. Hoping to find other #histodons.
I founded froginawell.net, host chinajapan.org and am co-director of spatialhistory.net
Some hashtags that overlap with my overly broad interests (many of which return very little so far on my instance/graph - but I’ll keep checking in on them): #transnationalhistory #spatialhistory #japanesehistory #koreanhistory #chinesehistory #eastasianhistory #mastodonhistorians #gischat #qgis #dh #digitalhumanities #openaccess #internetarchive