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Mark PetersonThe Korea Times |
I have just returned from a trip to Boston to hear the Spectrum Singers — a classical music choral group — in their early spring performance of...
In my last piece, I introduced you to the "munjip" — the collection of writings published posthumously for prominent scholar-officials in...
I recently met an old friend. He’s a very old friend; in fact, he died in 1979, but I “met” him through the massive book he left behind. His...
I’ve had an epiphany. This one is about Korean printing technology. The basic question is: Why, if the Gutenberg press spawned the Renaissance and...
I’ve had an epiphany. This one is about Korean printing technology. The basic question is: Why, if the Gutenberg press spawned the Renaissance and...
Say it’s not so! I read in the pages of The Korea Times that Royal Asiatic Society (RAS) Korea, after 124 years, is dying a lonely and isolated...
As a specialist in Korean culture, not Korean politics, it is things like shamanism that attract my attention. I haven’t studied political science,...
The oldest book printed with metal movable type has been discovered in Korea, eclipsing the former record holder, the Jikji of 1377. The new...