Another Korean textbook controversy is happening again:

A conservative high school history textbook is igniting a fresh round of ideological conflicts as it acknowledges Japanese colonial rule’s (1910-1945) contribution to the modernization of Korea.
The New Rights’ Textforum’s textbook focusing on “modernization” and pragmatism rather than ideology or “ethics” has put a twist on historical events. […]

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Go over to Japundit and check out the cool Korean time map he has over there:

Someone definitely put a lot of time in constructing this map, but they did a great job.
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On Wando Island the one thing a visitor can’t help but notice especially if you read Korean, is the influence the Korean historical figure Jang Bogo has over the island. The island is littered with Jang Bogo markets, hotels, shops, and movie sets from the 2004 Korean drama Emperor of the Sea that depicted […]

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This is a pretty cool discovery:

Archaeologists have dug up a 15-hundred-year-old skull with an earring from an ancient tomb in South Gyeongsang Province.
The Gaya National Research Institute of Cultural Heritage said Thursday that the skull had anearring two centimeters in diameter. The skull was found in one of ten newly found tombs of the Gaya […]

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DPRK Studies has an interesting posting about how former Korean Dictator President Chun Doo-hwan’s daughter Chun Hyo-sun was possibly a juicy girl active in the club seen at Osan Airbase in the 1980’s.  I did a web search on Chun Doo-hwan’s daughter to see if I can confirm this at all. 
What I found out […]

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Picture courtesy of DPRK Studies.
The battle flag taken by US Marines in the American Campaign of 1871 on Gangwha Island is being returned via a lease to the Korean government:

The United States has agreed to return a Korean battle flag to South Korea this month on a lease basis, 126 years after the U.S. Navy […]

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Entrance to Geonbong Temple
Geonbongsa is a little known, but historically significant Buddhist Temple in Korea. Geonbongsa is located in the foothills of North Korea’s famous Kumgangsan Mountain that stretches south across the Demilitarized Zone into South Korea. The temple could not even be visited until 1989 due to the temple’s proximity to the DMZ […]

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The Joong Ang Ilbo has now reported on the controversy surrounding the Yanghwajin Foreigner Cemetery in Seoul.  The article is a good read and provides a decent overview of the fight going on over the future of the cemetery:

Those visiting the cemetery’s 14,000 square meters likely appreciate the sacrifice of those early missionaries, but they […]

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This is quite a bold claim from the Chinese:
An academic will publish this week a complete translation of an official Chinese study that co-opts the early Korean Shilla and Bakje kingdoms for Chinese history. The offending paper was published by a research center under the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, which is under the jurisdiction […]

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The Marmot has a post about a new book being released that claims to prove the US helped the Japanese annex Korea after the Russo-Japanese War.  The book is titled, The Foreign Destruction of Korean Independence, by Carole Cameron Shaw.  The details of the book that the Marmot lists makes this book sound like Shaw […]

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From Reuters:

South Korea is fighting a battle with China over ancient history using one of the most powerful weapons in its arsenal — sappy TV dramas watched by hundreds of millions of viewers in Asia.
The dispute is over whether a 2,000-year-old kingdom, whose lands covered much of the Korean peninsula as well as parts of […]

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Courtesy the Marmot, are the below links to these unbelievable photos from an American doctor who worked in Daegu, Korea between 1954-1955.  The below links are from a Korean blog based from Texas that interviewed the doctor who took the photos.  The pictures are in color and of unbelievable quality.  Thanks to all those involved […]

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