via the KoreanStudies e-list today: Max Hastings The Korean War1987 Mark Phythian, The Labour Party, War and International Relations 1945-2006 (Routledge, 2007), Clement Attlee (his memoirs), As it Happened, 1954. Kenneth O. Morgan, Labour in Power 1945?51, Oxford University Press, 1984; Alan Bullock, Life and Times of Ernest Bevin, Politicos Publising in 2002.
Flagship of a Fleet, A Korean Gallery Guide Dr. Paul Michael Taylor and Christopher Lotis Asian Cultural History Program, Smithsonian Institute ISBN 078-0-9724557-0-1 Flagship of a Fleet: A Korea Gallery Guide ...serves as a companion guide to the Korea Gallery, an on-going exhibition at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History. The Korea Gallery presents a millennia of history and its distinctive culture through ceramics, paintings, textiles, and sculptures, ranging from the 6th century B.C.E. Introducing Korea to a broad audience, the guidebook highlights and identifies the objects on exhibit, many of them previously unpublished. The book includes an introduction to the Smithsonian's Asian Cultural History Program and its Korean Heritage Project, founded in 1985. It provides a historical context and background of how the Korea Gallery exhibition developed within an integrated curatorial program. The authors consider this exhibition the flagship of a fleet of related activities in the field of Korean heritage, including research, education, outreach, public programs and the development and improvement of museum collections.
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via the koreanstudies-web e-list [thanks to Todd Henry] "2009 Lost Memories," "YMCA Baseball Club," "Once Upon a Time," "Radio Days," "Modern Boy," "The Korean Peninsula," "Epitaph," and "Asako in Ruby Shoes," to name a few.
documentaries, "Annyong, Sayonara" and "Choi Sunghee: The Korean Dancer,"
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extract from KoreaToday story: ...On April 20, KT fired up the e-book open market with the launch of QOOK Book Café ( http://bookcafe.qook.co.kr), which provides diverse content such as books, comics and magazines on a range of terminals including computers, e-book readers and smart phones.
Sixty of Rich's photos are on display May-June, 2010 in Seoul. His book will be in two editions, (in Korean & in English) with the complete series of pictures. Korean War in Color: A Correspondent's Retrospective on a Forgotten War By John Rich 170 color photos. 248 pages. Seoul Selection. 60,000 won.
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April 1, 2010 An island in the Yellow Sea is the base of operations to find 46 missing South Korean sailors from a navy ship that went down March 26 after a mysterious explosion. Baengnyeong Island is about 10 miles from North Korea's west coast. Its residents try to live ordinary lives — but are among the first to suffer when tensions rise. [Nat'l Public Radio 1 April 2010]
The literacy rate in colonial Korea, according to statistics, was geographically very uneven. In 1930, the national average was 49% for men and 11% for women (age 12 and above). In Seoul, however, 80% of men and 44% of women could read and write Korean, and in P'yongyang 83% of men and 40% of women. Plus, about 53% of men and 15% of women in Seoul were bilingual. The most comprehensive compilation of statistics for colonial Korea in English, still, is Andrew Grajdanzev's Modern Korea. Here is a Google Books link: http://books.google.com/books?id=5jp8-KKy6eAC&dq=modern+korea&source=gbs_navlinks_s
The Korean Press Foundation (KPF) provides an index of all articles of Korean newspapers. Their KINDS service is well-known among Korean mass communication and journalism scholars. http://www.kpf.or.kr/index2.html [Korean Language website]
Korea and her neighbors; a narrative of travel, with an account of the recent vicissitudes and present position of the country, by Isabella Bird Bishop ... With a preface by Sir Walter C. Hillier ... With illustrations from photographs by the author ... Bird, Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy), 1831-1904.New York, Revell, 1897. (Full text) on GoogleBooks
via koreaweb.ws on Jan. 20, 2010; announced by
Angie Cope, Senior Academic Librarian
American Geographical Society Library - UW Milwaukee Libraries
2311 E. Hartford Avenue, Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53201 USA
AGS Library map: 1861 Territorial Map of the Great East online
view all 22 sheets, 1 index sheet and 1 composite map:
http://collections.lib.uwm.edu/u?/agdm,828
OTHER MAPS OF INTEREST
Haejwa Jondo or [A native map of Chosen] -
http://collections.lib.uwm.edu/u?/agdm,604
Whole map of Seoul, 2nd Book - http://collections.lib.uwm.edu/u?/agdm,605
Yeojido [atlas of Korea from between 1823-1869] -
http://collections.lib.uwm.edu/u?/agdm,705
Shannon McCune and George C. Foulk Photographs of Korea -
http://www4.uwm.edu/libraries/digilib/agsphoto/index.cfm
cf. http://old-koreaphotos.wikispaces.com
see also, Nov 20, 2009 symposium "Korean maps of the 19th Century"
http://www4.uwm.edu/libraries/AGSL/korean_maps.cfm
via the KoreanStudies e-list of January 12, 2010:
...the Academy of Korean Studies has started to distribute their wealth of premodern historical
data under a Creative Commons license. For one example, see: http://bit.ly/7OJHyu. Not all parts of the AKS website reflect this change yet...
| More than 650,000 high school seniors in South Korea on Thursday took the only national college placement exam that many believe will determine the rest of their lives. The government takes it so seriously that even those infected with the H1N1 virus took the exam under medical supervision. [Nat'l Public Radio 12 Nov 2009 story] 
...quite a number of early books about Korea are available through the Internet ...a list of some of the most obviously interesting titles [is] at
[via KoreanStudies.ws] Brother Anthony at Sogang University, Seoul
a concise explanation for the question: > WHY is there still, in 2009, no concerted move among the (very limited) number of people regularly using the McCune-Reischauer method of transciption to revise it and get rid of those impossible breves? What is the great advantage of retaining them? Do they have magic powers?
[R King writes] They do indeed have magical powers -- they render unambiguously and without resorting to clumsy digraphs vowels that the Korean sound system insists be distinguished and that otherwise would go undistinguished in roman script. They signal, through their unitary unigraphicity, that a single vowel is being represented -- something that Seong-su or Seung-mi from Incheon cannot do with the new system. ...there is a trade-off between the clumsiness of the special character and the clumsiness of a digraph... =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= in short, those who no longer need the romanized aids to pronunciation do not have a stake in the system of diacritics any more. Those new to the language do not have a stake in one system of transcription over another. But those who are neither beginners or intermediate students of Korean language do very much benefit from the diacritic cues to distinguish sounds.
Monash Korean language textbooks 'My Korean 1 and 2' (by Young-A Cho, In-Jung Cho and Douglas Ling) are now available free of charge at http://www.arts.monash.edu.au/korean/klec/ . supported by the Korea Foundation with a 2008 grant (Support for Instructional Materials Development). -- Young-A Cho & In-Jung Cho, Korean Studies at Monash
For those interested in the sijo form itself, or a story about Korean literature
making its way into English language circles, please do check the Boston Globe
story about it... [English submissions welcome]
--via D. McCann [koreanstudies.ws]
http://www.boston.com/lifestyle/gallery/sijocontest/
via Korean Studies Discussion List <http://us.mc580.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=koreanstudies@koreaweb.ws>
http://english.yonhapnews.co.kr/national/2009/08/06/56/0302000000AEN20090806001200315F.HTML
[compare to] ...other instances in the past where other cultures attempted to adopt Han'gu(l / Choso(n'gu(l as their written language only to have it be rejected, no?
I don't recall as it has been a long time since I read Kim-Renaud, Y-K.
(ed) 1997. The Korean Alphabet: Its History and Structure.
Anyway, this is a very interesting language development that *gasp* for
once doesn't involve romanizations.
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The case of using hangeul by one of Indonesian tribes as a practical systemof writing is funny. It is one more ?success? of local nationalists in theera of globalization, when the state sponsors such "experiments"! Koreanalphabet is excellent only for the Korean language, but is almost unsuitablefor the transmission of sounds, which are absent in the Korean language. Inthe Soviet Union in 1920-30?s attempts were made to create scripts fornationalities, which had no their own script on the basis of the Latinalphabet. This letter alphabet, as well as Cyrillic, is much more suitablethan Korean letter-syllabic alphabet, for transcription of all kinds ofsounds through a combination of letters or diacritics. But the grandioseexperiment failed. It is difficult to believe that the Korean experimentwill last for long.
---Lev Kontsevich [Moscow] =-=-=-= more [Sept. 12, 2009]
reporting by Choe Sang-Hun in this morning's NY Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/12/world/asia/12script.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=Korean%20alphabet%20/%20Indonesia&st=cse |
"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.
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
English translation of Kangsangjung's Memories of a Zainichi Korean Childhood,
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."
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]
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