New working paper with @aronvandepol.bsky.social. How do the language and ideas of national identity in educational material vary over time and especially across regime types? We examine the question using 67 South Korean national history textbooks (kuksa, in KR) covering the period 1895 to 2016.

📢 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...