23 February 2010
Conference reports
LKL reports from the most recent Friday evening seminar at SOAS, in which Isabelle Sancho examined the letters of Confucian Scholar Yulgok Yi I
What should one expect from the letters of one of the best-known Confucian scholars? In some respects, the sort of thing you might expect from any correspondence: pleasantries about health, about [...]
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28 January 2010
Conference reports
More details about this Friday’s seminar at SOAS
Friday, January 29th, 5pm, room G50 (main building)
Jung-Shim Lee, Leiden University
Han Yongun’s posthumous novel Death: Questioning a monk’s nation-building project
Abstract:
This paper will explore how a Korean monk Han Yongun produced Confucian-inspired nation-building ideas in his novel Death (Chugǔm, 1924). Han Yongun (韓龍雲, 1879-1944) is Korea’s most recognized and [...]
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The presentation of Korean Contemporary Art in London – a punter’s perspective
3 October 2009 Conference reportsHaving fumbled my incoherent, jet-lagged way through a half prepared presentation at I-MYU a couple of days ago, here, Thucydidean style, is what I would have said if I had been better prepared.
Since LKL went online three and a half years ago, we’ve tracked over 90 exhibitions of Korean art and artefacts, most of which [...]