The last couple of weeks have been rather busy. I think though they are fairly typical of life in graduate school. Here is what I did over the last week:
Monday: stay home and do research and translate
Tuesday: go to class on historiography taught by my adviser, then go to office and study. after that introduce colleague to adviser. go home, clean up, go to Somerset Palace Hotel to give presentation to Royal Asiatic Society--Korea Branch. After that go and have a beer with people from that meeting, end up sitting next to a Catholic friar who did translations I was interested in. Get home about 10:30 (I usually go to bed around 9!).
Wednesday: get up, talk to mom and dad, do work, go to give talk at Rotary Club, come home, work
Thursday: Go to class taught by adviser (same as Tuesday), meet with colleague to work on translation together, go to office, work in archives. Forget folder in newspaper collection book but by God's grace find it just before library closes.
Friday: Get up and work, in the afternoon go to church history institute to introduce two colleagues, then do research there.
The talks I gave at the Rotary Club and the Royal Asiatic Society-Korea Branch were all based on the Fulbright Forum talk I gave. Representatives from those two organizations attended my talk and invited me to give the same talk. Giving talks is important. For one thing it helps people who have an interest in Korean history and culture to have exposure to it without having to do a lot of research or read a lot of academic texts. It's also good for the speaker. I was able to make some contacts, get more exposure, and polish my public speaking skills.
There is a kind of cycle of work:
1) Do research
2) Make a presentation
3) Publish research
I will present a paper on Hwang Sayong and his Silk Letter at the Korean Church History Institute on the 21st which will hopefully be published later on in their journal.
So things are busy but my work is coming together.
Giving a presentation at the Fulbright Forum
Just like in October, children came and sang two songs. They are really good.
Flowers donated in honor of An. The president of Korea also gave flowers.
They will build a new memorial hall for the 100th year anniversary. There was a ribbon to cut and shovels to shovel dirt. 
The whole gang save me who went on the trip. This was taken at Tasan's birthplace.
Me in front of Tasan's grave.
A model of a crane that Tasan help build. To give an idea of how important he was, our pediatrician said that "Our (Korean) history would be a lot different if he had power," meaning that if Tasan would have been in charge of the country it could have modernized without having become a colony of Japan and would not have suffered division.
A view from Jessica's apartment, focused on the playground.
We live next to the national health insurance building and so there are often protests outside. 
Here is his shrine.
The inside of his shrine with incense burning in front of his spirit portrait. I think this is officially a government site but a Buddhist temple runs it.
This is the grave of Admiral Yi's favorite son who died in battle during the invasion. The writing on the stone tablet is in Korean, not Chinese characters as it was erected during a period in Korean history in which there was an effort to use Korean, rather than Chinese letters.
After going to the shrine we went to the Onyang Folk Museum. They had a neat outdoor display. This is an old house with jars for fermenting kimchi and for storage purposes outside.
This is a model of a paper mill, I imagine the real thing was bigger.
A child's sled.
A child's cart.
Except for the vest and fly whisk, these are all pillows.
Farming implements. One can see how they could easily become weapons during peasant rebellions.
A blacksmith's shop.
Puppets: disturing in any culture
After the folk museum we went to the Independence Memorial Hall. Despite the name it's gigantic. You have to walk about a mile from the parking lot to where the exhibition halls are. It's really big to allow for large national ceremonies. There was one on this day because it was Idependence Day. They have these neat little family bikes which you can see on the right side of the picture.
A model of Korean guerilla armies fighting Japanese soldiers.
A very large monument.
Have your picture taken with a great independence fighter!
A statue of An Chunggun, one of the people I am studying. They had a neat exhibit on him and I was able to pick up some useful books. The clerks were so kind that they gave me a couple that had been damaged for free (the undamaged ones had all sold out so I wouldn't have been able to get them otherwise--the damaged ones were in pretty good shape).