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Life as a banana – Korean adoptees speak at Cambridge

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by Philip Gowman on 25 February, 2010

in Conference reports, Koreans elsewhere

LKL reports from last Saturday’s half-day conference at Cambridge: “60 years of overseas Korean adoption and the Korean adoption issue”.

What is it like to be yellow on the outside but white on the inside? Adoptees freely joke about the banana analogy. But simply being a white person in a yellow skin is only part of [...]

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Yulgok Yi I – a learned slouch with a stomach problem

23 February 2010 Conference reports
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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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Han Yongun: Questioning a monk’s nation-building project

28 January 2010 Conference reports
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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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Transeurasian languages: are Japanese and Korean related?

6 December 2009 Conference reports
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Darren Southcott reports from the SOAS seminar given by Dr Martine Robbeets on 20 November: “Korean and the Transeurasian languages: similarities that make a difference”. With additional material from Peter Corbishley
Korean and the Transeurasian languages was not the title of a talk designed to bring in the crowds. But slowly SOAS room G50 filled up [...]

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“Asia! Asia!” – Stephen Epstein at SOAS

15 November 2009 Conference reports
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Stephen Epstein had a busy week last week giving lectures in Cambridge, Oxford and London. He is on a lecture tour of Europe, using the trip as an opportunity to test various chapters from his forthcoming book with a critical audience. Friday’s lecture at SOAS focused on the portrayal of some of Korea’s Asian neighbours [...]

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The Axis of Vaudeville: Images of North Korea in South Korean Pop Culture

6 November 2009 Conference reports
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Elizabeth Grace reports on Dr Stephen Epstein’s talk at Cambridge earlier this week
We are all too familiar with the Western media’s portrayal of North Korea as a rogue communist state, complete with an evil dictator whose regime is seen as an unrepentant member of the “axis of evil.” Although these one-sided portrayals are increasingly the [...]

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Margaret Drabble’s search for the Crown Princess

4 November 2009 Conference reports
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Jennifer Barclay, author of MEETING MR KIM: OR HOW I WENT TO KOREA AND LEARNED TO LOVE KIMCHI, reports from the Korean Cultural Centre on Dame Margaret Drabble’s lecture based on her novel THE RED QUEEN
Dame Margaret Drabble, CBE DBE, looks elegant with her hair in a natural bob and a touch of red lipstick. [...]

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The presentation of Korean Contemporary Art in London – a punter’s perspective

3 October 2009 Conference reports
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Having 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 [...]

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Gateways to Korea

26 April 2009 Conference reports
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Peter Corbishley digests some recent Korean history lectures at SOAS and the KCC, and a recent book by Alexis Dudden

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The Gwanghwamun and its many rebirths

29 March 2009 Conference reports
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A feature on the great gate of the Gyeongbukgung in Seoul

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Mudang and minhwa

28 February 2009 British Museum
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A write-up of a study day at SOAS and British Museum on 24 Feb 2009. Shamans, Chaekkori, Bojagi and Chogapko all demystified. And, meet the Toilet Spirit.

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A North Korean Feelgood Lecture

23 January 2009 Conference reports
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A report on the fascinating talk given by Nick Bonner about making documentaries in North Korea

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Inlaying techniques in Korean craft

7 December 2008 Ceramics
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Peter Corbishley digests the discussion on Korean crafts at the KCC on 2 Dec led by Professor Park Young-sook

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Korean wave: growing or receding?

6 December 2008 Conference reports
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An account of a somewhat disappointing talk by Kim Shin Dong on Korean popular culture

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Kaesong: ancient book-keepers, modern traders

30 November 2008 Business
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It was a very tantalising lecture. Dr Lewis and his co-authors had been given jpeg images of 18th-century accounting records from Kaesong by a shadowy intermediary. The agent hoped that having seen some quality goods, representing a very small portion of a set of books and records, the academics would fork out hard cash for [...]

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