It all started from a random question - how expensive was Black pepper in early Chosŏn? These kind of questions require some ingenuity....

According to food historian Lee Hoyoung, King Kojong (r. 1873-1907) was first introduced to coffee when staying at the Russian embassy in...

I just visited the "The Pop Culture We Loved, and Rise of the Korean Wave" in the National Museum of Korean Contemporary History...

A new article published this week surveys the influences of large language models (LLMs) such as the one that ChatGPT uses on the...

Just back from the AKSE where I watched the most exciting panel on colors in Chosŏn. This left me thinking a lot about colors. Chosŏn was...

Sitting right now in the 75th International Communication Association conference in Toronto, surrounded by experts, is a good time to say...

The dominance of English language in Computational Linguistics and Automatic Text Processing have taught us that preprocessing is...

I was reading King T’aejo’s record on the Veritable Records from the 26th day of the eighth month of 1398. Not just any day – this is...

Thinking about networks