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The Korea Times

Mark Peterson

Choe Chi-won and Confucianism

21.04.2025 10

The Korea Times

Mark Peterson

Korean music in America

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...

24.03.2025 10

The Korea Times

Mark Peterson

'Munjip' as measure of status

In my last piece, I introduced you to the "munjip" — the collection of writings published posthumously for prominent scholar-officials in...

10.03.2025 10

The Korea Times

Mark Peterson

What is a 'munjip'?

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...

24.02.2025 9

The Korea Times

Mark Peterson

An epiphany about metal movable type — literacy and civilized government

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...

01.02.2025 10

The Korea Times

Mark Peterson

An epiphany about metal movable type - literacy and civilized government

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...

31.01.2025 10

The Korea Times

Mark Peterson

The passing of RAS Korea

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...

13.01.2025 10

The Korea Times

Mark Peterson

Presidential shamanism, again?

As a specialist in Korean culture, not Korean politics, it is things like shamanism that attract my attention. I haven’t studied political science,...

03.01.2025 6

The Korea Times

Mark Peterson

A new oldest book in world

The oldest book printed with metal movable type has been discovered in Korea, eclipsing the former record holder, the Jikji of 1377. The new...

23.12.2024 10

The Korea Times

Mark Peterson