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Archive for February, 2010

Today is the 91st anniversary of the 1919 Samil independence movement (and also one of the few holidays to fall on a weekday this year). I’ve written about Samil before, looking at towns burned by the Japanese and the Canadians involved in exposing this, the battle in newspapers for American support by both the Japanese and the Korean independence movement, unseen photos of the Samil movement ,…

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Today is the 91st anniversary of the 1919 Samil independence movement (and also one of the few holidays to fall on a weekday this year). I’ve written about Samil before, looking at towns burned by the Japanese and the Canadians involved in exposing this, the battle in newspapers for American support by both the Japanese and the Korean independence movement, unseen photos of the Samil movement ,…

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Even though they’ve never met each other face-to-face–indeed, they live in such far-flung places as Rochester, NY, Seoul, South Korea, and Mississauga, Ontario– Andrea Mack, Kate Fall, and Christina Farley have developed the kind of close bonds that usually form only after years of day-to-day friendships.That’s because these writers belong to an online critique group called MiG Writers…

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10 Magazine is running a poll regarding expats’ favorite English blogs in Korea. If you want to vote for me, go there now. If not, forget what you just read, as you’re probably better off checking out the Joongang Ilbo’s series ” Old Seoul: frame by frame .” There are lots of great articles and photos about Seoul’s history there. [Hat tip (and thanks) to Roboseyo .]

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to be safer than other parts of Afghanistan. It occupies an area nearly 10 times the size of Seoul, 70 percent of it mountains. Some 46 members of multi-national forces have been killed there since 2001. The Taliban, equipped with improvised explosive

… Slideshow:North Korea Play Video North Korea Video:Clinton: “Encouraged” by North Korea Reuters 17 mins ago SEOUL (AFP) – North Korea needs to show sincerity to the international community, South Korea’s president said Monday, and should “change