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Petal essay contest Salon des Refusés 1

by Michael Rank on 10 December, 2009

in Korean literature in translation

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Earlier this year the Korean Literature Translation Institute sponsored an essay competition based on Ch’oe Yun’s There a Petal Silently Falls. Now that the finalists have been announced, Michael Rank is the first to offer his submission for publication on the pages of LKL.
The Kwangju (Gwangju) massacre of 1980 has been called the most traumatic [...]

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100 years of the Salvation Army in Korea

23 November 2008 DPRK
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Michael Rank on a fascinating connection between an East London cemetery and Korea’s history

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Koryo Saram – the Unreliable People

10 May 2007 Documentaries
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Report of a documentary film screening at SOAS on 2 May, by Michael Rank

Koryo Saram – The Unreliable People is a fascinating one-hour documentary about the 200,000 ethnic Koreans who were deported to Kazakhstan by Stalin in 1937. It includes archive footage never seen before outside the former Soviet Union as well as interviews with [...]

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