📢 Call for Papers! Korean Histories, an open-access journal from the Centre for Korean Studies at Leiden University, welcomes articles, translations, and review essays on Korean historiography as social practice. Deadline 1 Sept 2026. www.korean-histories.org/announcement...

Come see cool stuff and be inspired this Tuesday! The lessons on LLM use are useful beyond surveys too.

Korean Histories is back! 🎉 After nearly a decade, we proudly present issue 5.1. Featuring @remcobreuker.bsky.social & Wonkyung Choi, @stevendenney86.bsky.social @koreanologie.bsky.social Marion Eggert & Yu Myoungin, Vladimir Glomb, Anqi Gao & Adam Cathcart www.korean-histories.org/volumes/issu...

While looking at cover illustrations of colonial Korean magazines.. I decided to make a GIF with the scans I've been using. Kaebyŏk (개벽 - 開闢):

Christmas Cover of 'TheGounGukGongNon' - 建國公論 第1卷 第1號 from December 25th 1945 (Sourced from Hyundam Mun'go archives)

Maar je kiest er wel voor. De rest is retoriek. Je. Kiest. Hier. Voor. Own it.

Wrote a little something up on my usage astral_sh‘s uv on Leiden’s HPC cluster. Really improved my workflow. Of course the documentation explains usage a lot better! aronvandepol.com/posts/post_f...