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The following conference has been announced. More information on contacts etc. to be added soon. Here's a link to the announcement in t...

I was happy to find old titles by Korea Development Institute (KDI) that have been out of print since long available as pdf files from the I...

Iltalehti reports that Russia had been given the biggest number of parking tickets in Helsinki with 154. South Korea came second with 54 ti...

Until yesterday, it had been one year since I've added anything to this site. This time I added some photographs taken in various restau...

• Call for Papers (NAJAKS website) The 8th NAJAKS Conference: Bridging Japan and Korea August 19 -21, 2010 Helsinki, Finland Japan and Kore...

I have added three new photograph sets to my Flickr photostream , one being a collection of neighborhood grocery stores ("supermarkets...

The Finnish Anthropological Society, which has had its homepage housed for a long time under the auspices of the Dept of Social and Cultural...

Normally I don't bother to open spam mails (who does), but the recent phenomenon of Finnish-language spam messages intrigued me so much ...

Professor Roger L. Janelli, scholar of folklore and anthropology of Korea, retired last year from Indiana University at Bloomington after 32...

The undiplomatic endeavors of North Korean diplomats have been noted in these pages before, as in the more recent case of anti-inspectorial ...

박 사장님은 잘 놀고 남들도 즐겁게 할 줄 안다. 2001년9월15일. Mr Pak knows how to have fun and make others have it too. Sept 15, 2001.

This late summer I've undertaken a rather big scanning project, supposedly taking place alongside writing a conference presentation, of ...

Mirae kyônch'al No Bo-gap sônsaeng sang (未來警察勞保甲先生象) Hankyoreh presents a selection of paintings by Son Dong-hyeon, with contemporary p...

허허바다 - 정 호 승 찾아가보니 찾아온 곳 없네 돌아와보니 돌아온 곳 없네 다시 떠나가보니 떠나온 곳 없네 살아도 산 것이 없고 죽어도 죽은 것이 없네 해미가 깔린 새벽녘 태풍이 지나간 허허바다에 겨자씨 한 알 떠 있네 Ulappa - Jeong H...

[Expletive] don't leave [expletive ]your care here [expletive]. I pass this place every morning at 6.30. [...] Sillim-dong, April 21, 19...

Seems like a very interesting conference on June 21 in Korea University ( from the Korean Studies mailing list ): "Crossing National an...