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 thomo the lost posted this in  China, Hong Kong, Korea, Mongolia, Singapore, Taiwan on  January 21st, 2012It’s Lunar New Year with the New Year’s Eve tomorrow night. So, to my Korean friends – 새해 복 많이 받으세요. And to my Chinese friends – 新年快樂 or for those who are Cantonese, 恭喜發財 (did I get that right Pauline?). Prosperity, peace and happiness for all in the year of the Dragon. thomo the lost posted this in Asia Pacific, Europe, Germany, History, Korea, Wargaming on June 20th, 2011The most commented post here in Thomo’s Hole is Korean Soldiers in WW2 German Army. The comments have ranged from polite to vitriolic. The post concerned a photograph of a Korean soldier in Wehrmacht Uniform from the Second World War. It seems that this story has caught on and the movie makers are currently making [...] thomo the lost posted this in Asia Pacific, History, Japan, Korea, Naval, Wargaming on May 27th, 2010One of the recent searches in Thomo’s Hole was the word “imjin”. There are two Imjins I can think of, both military (well three really, there is that Korean river, the Imjin river too, of course). The first I can recall is the Battle of Imjin River in the Korean War. This was a [...]  Tags: Choson, History, Japan, Korea, Naval, Naval History, Ships | 
One comment so far |  Print This Post |  Email This Post |  thomo the lost posted this in Asia Pacific, China, General, Hong Kong, Japan, Korea, Mongolia on February 13th, 2010Tonight is bituun so the home is cleaned and now the belly is full. Tomorrow is Tsagaan Sar (Цагаан сар) for Mongolians, the White Month. So, to my Mongolian friends – I hope you have a happy Tsagaan Sar. This year it also coincides (well, is one day different really) with the Lunar New Year [...] One of my favourite exhibits in the Korea War Memorial Museum in Seoul is the Hwacha. This is the equivalent of a Multiple Launch Rocket System but from the early Choson period of Korean History. Mythbusters set out to prove or disprove it and the result is on YouTube. [...] thomo the lost posted this in Asia Pacific, Australia, History, Korea, Naval, New Zealand on May 19th, 2009As it was on this day, 19 May, in 1882 that Commodore Shufeldt landed in Korea from the USS Swatara, and as the Swatara has some connections to Australia, I thought I’d mention her here. The ship is also quite interesting as she started life as a wooden, screw sloop in the United States [...] Jeffro has done it again and got the gallery back in Thomo’s Hole. That means that the Korean War Memorial Museum exhibits I’d photographed are able to be viewed again. I’ll back these up over time to a cloud service somewhere and post alternate links, however, in the interim, http://thomo.coldie.net/gallery/v/museums/korean_war_memorial/ will take you to those [...] To my Mongolian friends – I hope you have a happy Цагаан сар((1)) To my Korean friends – 새해 복 많이 받으세요((2)) To my Chinese friends – 新年快樂((3)) or for my Cantonese Friends, 恭喜發財((4)) Tsagaan Sar [↩]say hay boke mahn he pah du say oh [↩]Happy New Year [↩]kone hay far choi – or litterally, [...] Just a reminder to those of you that have been using the pictures of Korean armour and weapons, that because I still can’t get to the Gallery in here, I have them placed in a web album in Picassa. You can find them at Thomo the Lost’s Picassa Album. There was the report this morning on CNN and other sources of a fire at Namdaemun (South Gate) in Seoul. This is one of my favourite historical places in Korea and a location most visitors pass at least one when they visit Seoul. It seems as though the fire was the result of arson and [...] |
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