Recorded by · the recorder
· Seongnam, South Korea
Gachon Herald — *what a Korean history student notices about modern Korean history, campus life, and the news affecting my generation*.
I started writing about Korean history because the standard textbook treatment did not match what I was learning when I actually engaged with primary sources and with the historians whose work I was reading for class. The textbook version was tidy. The actual history was messier. I started writing as a way to work through the gap between what I had been taught and what the sources actually showed.
The site has expanded since then to include campus life and news topics that affect young Koreans. The writing remains first-person because that is what I actually have to offer — my perspective as a student trying to understand things, not authority I have not yet earned. When I get something wrong I will say so. When my understanding changes I will say that too. The site is honest engagement with the topics rather than performed expertise.
- Korean History
- University
- News
- Generation
- Honest
- Student
- Recordings
- 122
- Locales worked
- 9
- Years in the field
- 1
◉ Recording policy. Every transcript is anonymised on request. Subjects review their words before publication. No tape is destroyed.
— — Soomin