Seoul, Korea Wednesday 13 November 2019

Seoul, Korea Wednesday.  13 November 2019 Our generous professor gave me about three hundred dollars worth of scholarly (his) books at our meeting, so my reading time is predetermined. In the meantime, I had to locate a dry cleaners. The Korean Tourist  Bureau is...

Seoul, Korea Tuesday 12 November 2019

Seoul, Korea Tuesday  12 November 2019 Today, we visited the $40-chocolate expert, a professor at Yonsei University, and he was well worth the $40 and then some. Learned all sorts of things and was informed of all of my typing errors (very painful—it is a draft!) but...

Seoul, Korea Monday 11 November 2019

Seoul, Korea Monday 11 November 2019 Autumn yet clings to the trees of Seoul and, surprisingly, petunias are blooming in the street baskets. Immersed as I am researching nineteenth-century Korea, my head is filled with images of the Seoul and Korea of that period....

Korea – Saturday 9 November 2019

Seattle Airport – Saturday 9 November 2019 Matt Olivia, a practicing ophthalmologist in Medford, Oregon, is currently in Ethiopia, where he is part of the Himalayan Cataract Project offering cataract surgeries to the many peoples there so afflicted. His generous...

Korea – Thursday 7 November 2019

Thursday 7 November 2019 To All Who Would Like to Know About Korea in 1908: It is possible (though I cannot imagine such a thing) that you might not care about the state of Korea in 1908.  Please do not hesitate to unsubscribe. But, in  fact, the story of early Korea...