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RAS Korea lecture takes aim at early 20th-century vernacular Korean humor

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RAS Korea lecture takes aim at early 20th-century vernacular Korean humor
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There's a lot of information out there about Korean history, whether through academic study, historical sites or even period K-dramas. We know, or at least think we know, how society functioned, how people dressed, where they lived and so on. But was Korea ever funny? The history of humor in Korea has been largely overlooked by historians. When a visiting professor at Korea University introduced a 1916-published joke book to his class, it got the attention of G.S. Hand, then a grad student, now

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