Pompeii comes to life after 2,000 years The volcanic eruption of Mount Vesuvius on August 24, 79, covered Pompeii and the residents who could not escape with an almost 4-meter thick pile of ash. In the first century, the Roman Empire city was a port city near Naples with 20,000 people. However, after…
‘Dokdo is the proper name’ Representative Ed Royce, R-Calif., chairman of the U.S. House Committee on Foreign Affairs, said on December 6 that “Dokdo” is the proper name to refer to Korea’s easternmost islands. Royce is known to have said that, “We have to understand history and what abuses occurred, because it is…
First British memorial to Korean War veterans unveiled in London Some 60 years after the Korean War (1950-1953) ended, a memorial has now been unveiled in London to remember the sacrifices of the British soldiers. The unveiling ceremony was held outside the Ministry of Defence in the Victoria Embankment Gardens near the Thames…
Gugak jazz mesmerizes Berlin audiences Joyful or sometimes plaintive, the singular tones of jazz fill the concert hall. The audience shouts, “Bravo,” as exotic sounds are made by the sad melody of the daegeum, a large bamboo flute, of the haegeum, a fiddle-like stringed instrument, and of the drums and saxophone. This…
Korean Literature in English ‘The Guest,’ by Hwang Sok-Yong ‘The Guest,’ by Hwang Sok-Yong The Korean War is a historic event that had a great impact on the Korean Peninsula and the people living on it. Of the many different faces of war, big or small, that haphazardly happened across the war-stricken peninsula,…
