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Chuno is a 24 episode historical drama set in Joseon Korea, in the year 1648. It is about Lee Dae Gil, a former noble who became an embitter...

There is a 56 volume series of books on American history called Chronicles of America, published by Yale University circa 1920. Many years ...

Although it is depressing to see America descending into socialism, and away from the rugged individualism that was its glory for so long, i...

While watching episode 13 of Dae Jang Geum , I noticed another of the seemingly countless Romantic moments of the drama. I mean those moment...

For some reason the word stragglers came into my mind today. In my teenage years I used to read a lot of military history, and especially a...

From C. M. Bowra's The Greek Experience (© 1957): Greek Poets had their own notion of the kind of truth which their art demanded. In th...

I don't think there's ever been a better statement of rugged individualism than this. This was the American sense of life, back when...

Under this title, I'm going to post continuing tributes to the great artists, intellectuals, and heroes of the past. A young girl's...

There is a Korean drama called Shining Inheritance . I haven't seen it, but I like the title. It applies nicely to our intellectual an...

A beautifully lyrical performance of a touching Korean song from the OST of My Lovely Sam Soon. The song is Ibyol Mothan Ibyol (A Separation...

In the old days Hollywood photographed actors and actresses in ways that made them look stunningly beautiful. The stylish clothes, the hats...

Beethoven Virus is a Korean Drama that aired in 2008, and consisted of 18 hour-long episodes. It tells the story of an unlikely group of peo...

Under the Water , by Merril Bainbridge

I've been watching a Korean drama called Jumong . It does not compare with Dae Jang Geum , because Jumong is filled with fatalism, and ...