RESOURCE e-Asia Digital Library

"e-Asia [est. 2001 - ed.] is a library of downloadable full text
(currently over 4000 items -- primarily books -- are available.) Focus
is on China, Japan, Taiwan, and Korea (South and North). While most
items are in Western languages, there are many items in Chinese,
Japanese, and Korean. e-Asia also offers audio, video, and special
collections.

The e-Asia project is funded by the University of Oregon Library
through the generosity of Nissho Iwai.

While the e-Asia project is based largely on resources held at the University of Oregon Library, its purpose is neither to duplicate nor displace printed traditonal materials. Rather, by providing searchable full text, the digitalization efforts
of e-Asia represent a new tool aimed at facilitating the information-gathering process.

which romanization logic to use in Korea?

http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/nation/2009/06/113_47389.html

[thanks to Brother Anthony at Sogang University, Seoul
http://hompi.sogang.ac.kr/anthony/]

mythology for Korea

from e-list of KoreanStudies, 21 June 2009.

sources to read about myths besides Tangun, Chumong and Hyokkose:

<> Dr Grayson's "Myths and Legends from Korea: An Annotated Compendium of Ancient and Modern Materials"
http://www.amazon.com/Myths-Legends-Korea-Annotated-Compendium/dp/0700712410/ref=sr_1_1
is a classic standard-setter;
<> limited preview of this book, including table of contents, is available on http://books.google.com/books?id=HZO49KfGLiMC&pg=PP1&dq=Myths+and+Legends+from+Korea
<> This book by Grayson has been reissued by Routledge.

<> source also by Dr. Kim Hwa-kyong, (Yeungnam Univ), www.jisik.co.kr

<> Zong In-sob, Folk tales from Korea, Elizabeth NJ and Seoul: Hollym 1970, often reprinted
<> Korean National Commission for UNESCO, Korean Folklore,? Seoul: Si-sa yong-o-sa and Arch Cape Oregon: Pace, 1983
<> Choi Won-oh, An Illustrated Guide to Korean Mythology, Folkestone Kent UK: Global Oriental 2008

satellite images to read North Korea

DPRK on Google Earth VIA koreanstudies @koreaweb

http://gizmodo.com/5277184/north-korea-secrets-uncovered-in-google-earth-by-amateur-spies

http://www.koreanfilm.org/

Essays [among many other links]
A Short History of Korean Film by Darcy Paquet
A History of Korean Animation (Part One · Part Two) by Tom Giammarco
A Book Review of Contemporary Korean Cinema by Adam Hartzell
A Book Review of Im Kwon-taek by Adam Hartzell
Censorship in Korean Cinema, 1995-2002 by Darcy Paquet
Film Awards Ceremonies in Korea by Darcy Paquet
Going to the Movies in Korea by Darcy Paquet
Japanese Films in Korea by Darcy Paquet
South Korean Films about the Korean War by Darcy Paquet
Details and Decomposition: On Hong Sang-soo by Adrien Gombeaud
My Moments With Hong by Adam Hartzell
Notes from the Hong Sang-soo Retrospective by Adam Hartzell
Soojung Attends the Monster's Ball by Adam Hartzell
Yu Hyun-mok's School Excursion (1969) by Darcy Paquet
It Hurts: An Essay on Kim Ki-duk's The Isle by Larisa & Leonid Alekseychuk
On Yu Ha's Once Upon a Time in High School by Paolo Bertolin
Park Chan-wook's World of Personal Introspection by Boris Trbic
The Top Ten Korean Films of the 1990s by Darcy Paquet
Genrebending in Contemporary Korean Cinema by Darcy Paquet
Netizen Funds by Darcy Paquet
The People's Cinema by Timothy Savage
How to Start Your Own Film Festival by Michelle Svenson
New Old Men and Old New Men by Adam Hartzell
Essays from the Far East Film Festival by Darcy Paquet
Delays in Celluloid by Chris Stults

Royal Asiatic Society-Korea, LINKS

 http://www.raskb.com >Links to Other Organizations
1StopKorea      Korea Information Service  

Life in Korea      Korea Lore      KNTO

links at Library of Congress

http://www.loc.gov/rr/international/asian/korea/korea.html
 
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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)

Koreans brought to Japan during the Pacific War

English translation of Kangsangjung's Memories of a Zainichi Korean Childhood,

www.utoronto.ca/csk 

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

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."

sacred sites - map, pictures, text

http://www.sacred-destinations.com/south-korea/haeinsa.htm

blog about learning Korean

discovered when searching ["cultural literacy" Korean]
http://koreanlanguagenotes.blogspot.com (gerry bevers@gmail)

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.

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

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]