So exciting, this lovely book has arrived!! Many thanks to @nabibabi.bsky.social, my amazing co-author Barbara Wall, and super organized editor @uncannydazzler.bsky.social Nick Miller for making it happen. #Seventeen #kpop

"Das Erinnerungsvermögen kann nicht von der Vorstellungskraft getrennt werden. Sie gehen Hand in Hand. Auf die eine oder andere Weise sind wir all Erfinder unserer Vergangenheit." (10) #BotanikDesWahnsinns

Our Hanmun is fun quiz is now listed in the AAS program! The exercises are designed so that even students in their first year of Korean language learning can try them. No prior Hanmun experience needed! Please share widely with your students and colleagues: forms.gle/oLgLh8Ja5AjT... #AAS2026

Have you studied some Korean and are curious about taking your first steps into Hanmun (Classical Chinese / Literary Sinitic)? 😄 If you’d like to test it yourself (and perhaps make your brain happy too), try it here: 👉 forms.gle/oLgLh8Ja5AjT... #AAS2026 Please share widely! It's much fun!

Friends, an article (short one, just 2,400 words) that I wrote just came out. It's part of the @eastasiaforum.bsky.social issue on "Resource Geopolitics" and my article is on #Korean #SoftPower (or rather my misgivings that Soft Power actually exists and really can help Korea, beyond

Seven years ago, my previous employer's head of data science told me that machine learning would soon advance to the point where machines would be able to interpret and translate classical Chinese documents. My response was, no chance. He turned out to be absolutely right; I was wrong.

"I had a vague feeling. That my incompleteness would continue - that wherever I was, I'd be writing and erasing, writing and erasing. That even after writing the last period, I would be endlessly refining the words I had written." (38) #IWentToSeeMyFather #아버지에게갔었어

"여행은 인간의 본능이다. 그렇기에 여행은 인간의 사유와 감정을 다룬 모든 매체 속에 들어 있다. 인간 이외의 다른 동물들도 여행을 한다. 하지만 인간은 동물과 달리, 생리적이거나 본능적인 이유 이외의 특별한 목적을 가지고 여 행을 한다." (5) #여행 #심경호

📣 New lecture series on Korea at Københavns Folkeuniversitetet (Spring 2026) From April 8 to May 6, 2026, I'll be part of a new public lecture series exploring Korea’s history, politics, society, and culture — from historical roots to K-pop, democracy, and global influence.

Vand 2, luft -4. Coldest plunge of this season until now, but had many swimming buddies 🐟🦆🦢🦢🦤☃️🐒🔥🔥🔥

"Det er også derfor, et fænomen som aktivistisk kunst ikke giver mening for mig. Jeg forstår ikke, hvad det betyder. For mig er kunst per definition en udforskning af noget, man ikke forstår." (Habitat)

"Or is the message really that we should look at everything in a different way?" (Eco's Foucault's Pendulum)

"Der Januar gilt zwar als Monat der Läuterung, ist jedoch im wahren Leben meteorologisch wie emotional eine Zumutung. Man joggt im Nieselregen, isst Sellerie mit dem Ernst eines mittelalterlichen Mönchs und wundert sich, warum das Glück trotzdem nicht anruft. Vielleicht, weil Glück ungern....

Happy New Year of the Horse! 🦄 2025 ended with a series of excursions with my mother, the kind I always want to do, but somehow only get around to when we have guests.

If you don’t train enough people to understand narratives and how they shape the world, they will be at the mercy of the powerful who do. It’s the perfect weapon, because they don’t even know they’re being had Signed, a literary scholar who is often told that studying literature isn’t “useful”

Korea summer 2025: Discussing Korean Literature in the "Post-Nobel Era"

"Among sinologists the study of Japanese is now _de rigueur_, and surely none would dispute the usefulness of Japanese as a sinological tool." (Durrant 1979: 273f. @ doi.org/10.2307/823513)

Many thanks to Nikolai Johnsen (British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow, SOAS University of London) for giving a guest talk on "Korean memories of wartime forced labour and the 'history war'" in Copenhagen last week. If you are looking for a really good presenter on this topic, reach out to him. 🤩

#AAS2025 draws to a close today, but our conference discount lasts through April 10! Save 30% when you use code AAS25 at checkout on our website or that of our UK partner, CAP. #AsianStudies buff.ly/tII03wC

And that brings our time in Columbus to a close! Big thanks to @aasasianstudies.bsky.social and all #AAS2025 attendees for a great conference. Our AAS website where you can save 40% on our displayed books will remain up for a limited time so act quickly to save! buff.ly/Va6unpm See you next year!

Last moments from #AAS2025 Thanks to @thekpopprof.bsky.social for making sure that we always have a nice group photo! ❤️ Big shout out to the wonderful organizers of #AAS2025 !

Treasure book hunt 🤩 on Day 2 of #AAS2025! Dennis' opus: 𝘗𝘰𝘦𝘮𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘚𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘴 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘖𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘐𝘥𝘭𝘦𝘯𝘦𝘴𝘴: 𝘗’𝘢𝘩𝘢𝘯 𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘱 𝘣𝘺 𝘠𝘪 𝘐𝘭𝘭𝘰 uhpress.hawaii.edu/title/and-so... Martin and Vladimir's 𝘉𝘦𝘺𝘰𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘚𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘌𝘹𝘢𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝘌𝘷𝘢𝘭𝘶𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘒𝘯𝘰𝘸𝘭𝘦𝘥𝘨𝘦 𝘪𝘯 𝘗𝘳𝘦𝘮𝘰𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘯 𝘒𝘰𝘳𝘦𝘢 www.harrassowitz-verlag.de/isbn_9783447...

Some moments from my day 1 at #AAS2025 😊Thanks to Shiho Takai and Youlim Kim for organizing the panel "Mothers imagined" with a focus on Japanese and Korean literature. And a book panel on "Civic activism in South Korea". Also check out our video on the book: youtu.be/0RZwa4MJnc8

Will democracy survive? When I had the chance to talk about Seungsook Moon's new book with the author and Yoonkyung Lee, I didn't expect the last question of the interview to be so timely. But here we are...Enjoy! youtu.be/0RZwa4MJnc8?...

"Literature dominated the top eight spots of the most borrowed books at the SNU library." & "'Young readers in their 20s have been exposed to digital content since childhood, so they find printed text refreshing and stylish,' said a publishing industry representative." www.chosun.com/english/trav...

New video on MIGRATION & DIASPORA in ASIA with Markus Bell, Jamie Coates and MA students from Asian Studies in Copenhagen! youtu.be/VNXNrVPlfuQ?... Please also check out the subtitles in Chinese, Japanese and Korean, produced by our wonderful students themselves!!!

What a nice surprise! 😊 I was just wondering when my book will appear and realized that it's OPEN ACCESS perhaps only today! So, BE QUICK and download if you like monkey or transmedia storytelling. 🐒❤️ brill.com/display/titl...

For your consideration, a poster promoting vasectomies in a Seoul hospital. Very interesting font and style here, I think. I would dig an oral history of how this poster came to be . . . Oh, and better say linguistic landscape to make this searchable!