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...Naturally speaking, Seoul has always been blessed. Surrounded by mountains and washed by a wide river, it was the site's propitious geomancy that recommended it as the seat of the Choson Dynasty in 1394. If the area's natural beauty has been neglected over the past few decades, the Seoul City Government is now making up for lost time. A visit to the new Seoul Museum of History, located downtown near the recently rebuilt Gyeonghuigung Palace, illustrates Seoul's new attitude. An in-depth (and bilingual) exhibition, "Seoul, 2002: A Vision of the City," details the new policies being...
...major scholarly undertaking of Wagner’s career was the Munkwa Project, a detailed study of the 14,607 Korean men known to have passed the civil service examination during the Choson dynasty, which lasted from 1392 to 1910 C.E. Wagner used the records of this period to glean significant insights into the social and political dynamics of Korean society and to make the material more accessible to other scholars...
...Wagner published The Literati Purges: Political Conflict in Early Yi Korea, which analyzed the nature of the Korean monarchy and bureaucratic system early in the Choson dynasty...
...project began 25 years ago, he said, and he and a colleague have catalogued the names of the 14,607 people who served as Choson officials. But "that's just scratching the surface," he said. He will explore "who these people were, where they lived," their marriage ties and influence on the ruling family...
Wagner will have plenty of time to dig deeper into Choson history, as he and eight other Faculty of Arts and Sciences colleagues retire at the end of this academic year...