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.
Aron 🟥
@aronvandepol.bsky.social
PhD researcher in digital humanities and Korean studies at Leiden University. I map visual and textual patterns in colonial-era print with AI methods. www.aronvandepol.com
📢 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...
Call for Papers: Korean Histories 5.2 – Korean Histories
Korean Histories invites submissions for issue 5.2. The journal welcomes original research articles, translations with commentary, and review essays engaging with the broad field of Korean historiogra...
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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...
Korean Histories
Vol. 5 No. 1 (2026)
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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.
Vooropgesteld: de plannen van dit kabinet voor onderwijs zijn niet de plannen waar het CDA voor zou hebben gekozen, dat zullen het ook nooit worden. De bezuinigingen die overeind blijven zijn niet de onze. 3/8
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...
ARON - Astral uv sped up my HPC workflows
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