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In recent years, periodic updates of the Oxford English Dictionary have added many Korean-language words, albeit romanized, to fit the English...
Royal Asiatic Society (RAS) Korea has its roots in the Protestant missionary community, which gathered in Korea in the mid-1880s. Primarily...
Royal Asiatic Society (RAS) Korea has its roots in the Protestant missionary community, which gathered in Korea in the mid-1880s. Primarily...
A 60-plus-year-old "ajeossi" (uncle) strikes again. Of course, like so many other ideas of government officials, this is nothing new. He’s only...
This is a 1941 photo of a typical American school classroom. The salute was discontinued by an Act of Congress in 1942. Public domain, Steven L....
Rev. Steven L. Shields Not too long ago, two good friends of mine got into a row about culture. The question particularly revolved around "hanok"...
The world's first "property developers" emerged about 12,000 years ago. That was the approximate time when the eons-old hunter-gatherer culture of...
There is no such thing as a “Christian nation.” Of course, there are some nations with large, or even majority populations who self-identify as...
There is no such thing as a “Christian nation.” Of course, there are some nations with large, or even majority populations who self-identify as...
I’m often asked if it is difficult for me to live in Seoul. When the weather is cold, some assume my native land would have better weather. When...