The week in review., A week in pictures.

Of course she's not dead yet. According to the narrative you gave, the Queen was never identified. There is a strong implication that the trembling old woman who got cut down was Min, but a historian should be able to say whether this was actually her or not. The palace ladies may have identified her but it sounds from your account like they were on the verge of hysterics. I'd think it entirely likely that they were shown a body and badgered by the marauding Japanese officers until they broke down. Was this old lady definitively the Queen, and can you give some citation?

Unfortunately, I can't find any reference to Colonel John Cockerill's writings on this wild, wooly Internet, except those of McKenzie. Granted, these may be lost to history, but I've given Google a healthy workout and come up short. I did find mentions of his dealings with the Korean exhibit of the Chicago World's Fair and that he killed a man in a newsroom shoot-out, but little else. Does McKenzie provide a reference note we can use to get to Cockerill's material?

You said "There is a strong implication that the trembling old woman who got cut down was Min."
You're on the right track.

'A little woman hiding in a corner' is the Qween.
'Her son' is a 21 year old prince.

This site is good for nothing to Anglophone because of not English but Korean(Hangul).

I regret to say that McKenzie did not provide a reference note.

I guess that 'ニュ-ヨ-ク·ヘラルド新聞と閔妃殺害事件報道 (ie, The New York Herald and the report of Qween Min's murder)' gets a clue to the solution of a problem.
I will track down the missing(?) reports.

Thank you.

No posts in over three months!

My Gord... why have you forsaken me?!?!?

No posts in the "Passing Moment in the Life of Gord" forum, but if you look in the PC Room Building you will find far more, as Gord is currently Building a PC Room (Go figure!), and everything related to that is going into the forum devoted to it.

Maybe that's because you have a twisted view or serious problem in trying to understand different aspects of different cultures. If your neighbourhood koreans found out you were running this website to express your negativeness on their way of living, you would have been beaten to death during your sleep, and ended up as a headline for the next morning's choongang or chosun ilbo. And I would expect something like "A broke & desparate sorry-ass foreigner froze to death found in his dankanbang"

One would be very hard-pressed to honestly suggest that my writings or the majority of information on my server are negative in nature.

Though I am curious why you would condemn my postings for being negative, but then turn around and post about a hypothetical situation involving my violent end. Very contradictory of you.

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Wow! After spending time on this forum I seriously considered going to Korea, it seemed like an awesome place. Thank you, ckrocks, for enlightening me on just how violent it must be and saving me the trip.
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Hm... I don't know about that violent Korean syndrome CK is referring to. A couple of my 'foreigner' friends who visited korea have made comments in public akin to Gord's (aka "negative") and they came back alive. So... out goes your theory?