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Thursday, September 18, 2008
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Thursday, July 24, 2008
Korean Traditional Music sampler
PDF file with liner notes for 21 selected tracks; click the play button to hear the excerpts - permission received to use for educational, non-commercial purposes
http://koreanstudies08.googlepages.com/kr-trad-music.zip (about 4 megabytes)
http://koreanstudies08.googlepages.com/kr-trad-music.zip (about 4 megabytes)
Friday, April 4, 2008
Koreans brought to Japan during the Pacific War
English translation of Kangsangjung's Memories of a Zainichi Korean Childhood,
Wednesday, March 12, 2008
audio links
April 29, 2006 Poets House New York City - Readings and conversation with two of the leading Korean writers of the postwar period, novelist Hwang Sok-Yong and poet Ko Un; moderated by Janet Poole. http://www.pen.org/audio_archive/2006_world_voices/Hwang_Ko.mp3
Tuesday, March 11, 2008
experience of Confucianism at home
from Lee, Chang-Rae (1995, Riverhead Books) Native Speaker, page 6.
...My father, a Confucian of high order... For him, all of life was a rigid matter of family. I know all about that fine and terrible ordering, how it variously casts you as the golden child, the slave-son or daughter, the venerable father, the long-dead god. But I know, too, of the basic comfort in this familial precision, where the relation abides no argument, no questions or quarrels. The truth, finally, is who can tell it.
page 137... it was clearly Kwang's Confucian training at work, his secular religion of pure hierarchy, his belief that everyone is at once a noble and a servant and then just a man. Its adherents know no hubris. Instead this: you simply bow down before those who would honor you. You honor them back. For you are but ash to their fire. All spent of light.
page 277... [folksong] it's the same register my mother used to hum while doing the housework, a languourous baritone, the most Korean range, low enough for our gut of sadness, high for the wonder of chance, good luck.
page 278... I say to him, "Korean stories always work like that. Everbody dies but one. And the one has little to live for."
"But somehow he lives," John says. "The one goes one. We're too stubbborn."
"I think we're too brave and too blind," I answer... "I read that Korean nationals are the most rescued people from the world's mountaintops."
...My father, a Confucian of high order... For him, all of life was a rigid matter of family. I know all about that fine and terrible ordering, how it variously casts you as the golden child, the slave-son or daughter, the venerable father, the long-dead god. But I know, too, of the basic comfort in this familial precision, where the relation abides no argument, no questions or quarrels. The truth, finally, is who can tell it.
page 137... it was clearly Kwang's Confucian training at work, his secular religion of pure hierarchy, his belief that everyone is at once a noble and a servant and then just a man. Its adherents know no hubris. Instead this: you simply bow down before those who would honor you. You honor them back. For you are but ash to their fire. All spent of light.
page 277... [folksong] it's the same register my mother used to hum while doing the housework, a languourous baritone, the most Korean range, low enough for our gut of sadness, high for the wonder of chance, good luck.
page 278... I say to him, "Korean stories always work like that. Everbody dies but one. And the one has little to live for."
"But somehow he lives," John says. "The one goes one. We're too stubbborn."
"I think we're too brave and too blind," I answer... "I read that Korean nationals are the most rescued people from the world's mountaintops."
Saturday, February 23, 2008
Monday, January 28, 2008
blog about learning Korean
discovered when searching ["cultural literacy" Korean]
http://koreanlanguagenotes.blogspot.com (gerry bevers@gmail)
Saturday, December 15, 2007
photo essay, PoongSoo (feng shui)
from PRI, "The World" program for Friday, 14 Dec. 2007.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/pritheworld/sets/72157603460042115/
South Korea’s presidential campaign (6:00)
The World's Matthew Bell reports from South Korea about the country's upcoming Presidential elections. Some Korean politicians are turning to an ancient Korean tradition in an effort to win the election.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/pritheworld/sets/72157603460042115/
South Korea’s presidential campaign (6:00)
The World's Matthew Bell reports from South Korea about the country's upcoming Presidential elections. Some Korean politicians are turning to an ancient Korean tradition in an effort to win the election.
Friday, September 28, 2007
links from special Korea issue of Calliope magazine
http://www.koreasociety.org/ and http://www.koreasociety.org/korean_studies
http://www.koreak12.org/ [lesson plans and resource book - download by subject]
www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/kobs/hd_kobs.htm [Buddhist sculpture & links]
www.marymount.k12.ny.us/marynet/TeacherResources/SILK%ROAD/html/sillatang.htm
[photo-rich and fact filled about Shilla Kingdom]
www.orientalarchitecture.com/kyongju/bulguksaindex.htm
[architectural treasures]
cf. Silk Road seen from Korean perspective
http://www.koreak12.org/ [lesson plans and resource book - download by subject]
www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/kobs/hd_kobs.htm [Buddhist sculpture & links]
www.marymount.k12.ny.us/marynet/TeacherResources/SILK%ROAD/html/sillatang.htm
[photo-rich and fact filled about Shilla Kingdom]
www.orientalarchitecture.com/kyongju/bulguksaindex.htm
[architectural treasures]
cf. Silk Road seen from Korean perspective
Monday, April 16, 2007
Korean Memories of the Vietnam and Korean Wars: A Counter-History
by Theodore Hughes [www.japanfocus.org for 16 April 2007]
The Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington D.C. provides a privileged site for Americans to "remember" the Vietnam War. The monument, however, produces meaning, and constructs a national narrative, precisely in its performance of differentiation, its exclusion of the deaths of the "other" (the Vietnamese).
The monument also elides those who fought on the side of the U.S. during the war: the "more flags" program that brought Australia, New Zealand, the Philippines, South Korea, and Thailand into the war in the mid-1960s does not appear on the screen of the U.S. national imaginary. Americans do not learn in their high school history textbooks that over 300,000 South Korean troops fought in Vietnam, and that over 4,000 of them were killed.
This article considers the meaning of the Vietnam War for Korean soldiers through analysis of Hwang Suk-Young's novel, The Shadow of Arms.
Theodore Hughes is an assistant professor, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, at Columbia University. This article was written for Japan Focus. Posted on April 12, 2007.
Read more . . . [see also several other Korea articles carried by the weekly JapanFocus journal]
The Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington D.C. provides a privileged site for Americans to "remember" the Vietnam War. The monument, however, produces meaning, and constructs a national narrative, precisely in its performance of differentiation, its exclusion of the deaths of the "other" (the Vietnamese).
The monument also elides those who fought on the side of the U.S. during the war: the "more flags" program that brought Australia, New Zealand, the Philippines, South Korea, and Thailand into the war in the mid-1960s does not appear on the screen of the U.S. national imaginary. Americans do not learn in their high school history textbooks that over 300,000 South Korean troops fought in Vietnam, and that over 4,000 of them were killed.
This article considers the meaning of the Vietnam War for Korean soldiers through analysis of Hwang Suk-Young's novel, The Shadow of Arms.
Theodore Hughes is an assistant professor, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, at Columbia University. This article was written for Japan Focus. Posted on April 12, 2007.
Read more . . . [see also several other Korea articles carried by the weekly JapanFocus journal]
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