Not a write-up of John Lee’s fascinating recent talk at SOAS – more a place to store a couple of images of the translations of relevant sources that he talked about so that I don’t lose them. I for one am looking forward immensely to seeing this material fully discussed in his upcoming monograph, Kingdom of Pines: State Forestry and the Making of Korea, 1392-1910.
Jeong Yak-jeon on the curse of pine trees. Image from John S. Lee’s lecture at SOAS in November 2018.
