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South Korea, Elections, Mandates, and Habits…

» by USinKorea August 8th, 2008 at 10:38 am » Comments (43)

I've been trying to prepare to write a review of Cows Gone Wild!! Hysteria -- and I stumbled across something that could turn into a good post -- if I ...more »

New Elements in Old Protest Culture

» by USinKorea August 7th, 2008 at 1:30 am » Comments (19)

I started to leave this as a comment on one of Kalani's posts when I decided it might be better done as a post of its own. It meanders ...more »

Book Review: The Russo-Japanese War - by the British War Department

» by USinKorea August 1st, 2008 at 8:57 pm » Comments (1)

This will likely be the first review I'll do of books available for free at Google that focus on a specific period in Korean history --- this time the Russo-Japanese ...more »

Book Review: Korea and Her Neighbors by Isabella Lucy Bird

» by USinKorea August 1st, 2008 at 8:18 am » Comments (4)

This will be the first book I'll cover in a series that will look at the wealth of material available for free at Google Books. Korea and Her Neighbors by Isabella ...more »

Book Review: Korea Art & Archaeology

» by USinKorea July 24th, 2008 at 10:50 am » Comments (14)

Korea: Art and Archaeology by Jane Portal This is both a special interest and general interest book: If you are a person who gets into art and art history (I ...more »

ROK Drop Book Review: A New History of Korea by Lee Ki-Baik

» by USinKorea July 17th, 2008 at 11:38 am » Comments (7)

Since someone over at Marmot's Hole, apparently co-opting another user's name (...by the way....does anybody know what happened to Kushibo in the K-blogsphere???), told me in a pissy way I ...more »

ROK Drop Book Review: The Reluctant Communist

» by USinKorea July 10th, 2008 at 10:18 am » Comments (10)

[For those totally unfamiliar with this book --- it is about Robert Jenkins - an American soldier stationed in South Korea in 1965 who defected to North Korea. ...more »

Looking for the Next Spike in Anti-US Activity

» by USinKorea June 26th, 2008 at 12:05 pm » Comments (30)

GI Korea asked me if I'd like to do some posts here at his blog and I was honored. He runs a top flight K-blog, and it is ...more »