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Han Yongun: Questioning a monk’s nation-building project

by Philip Gowman on 28 January, 2010

in Conference reports, Events news, History & heritage, Literature, SOAS

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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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Melodrama of the Modern Girl: Jaesaeng by Yi Gwangsu

1 December 2009 Events news
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Further details of this Friday’s talk at SOAS:
Friday, December 4th, 5pm, room G50 (main building)
Dr. Michael Shin, University of Cambridge
Melodrama of the Modern Girl: The Novel Jaesaeng by Yi Gwangsu (1924-25)
Abstract:
Yi Gwangsu’s Jaesaeng (Rebirth) was one of the most popular novels in colonial Korea during the 1920s. One reason for its popularity [...]

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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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Korean Literature Workshop with Ch’oe Yun

21 October 2009 Events news
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Alas, it comes too late to give me any useful input into the Korean Literature Translation Institute’s essay competition, but this is a worthwhile initiative:
The Korean Literature Workshop
With Ch’oe Yun, the author of ‘There a Petal Silently Falls’
The Korean Cultural Centre
Tuesday 27th October 2009: 18.30~21.00
Facilitator: Dr Jo Elfving-Hwang, the University of Sheffield
As a part [...]

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Margaret Drabble: the search for the Crown Princess

20 September 2009 Events news
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A couple of years ago at the BAKS conference Margaret Drabble gave a fascinating talk about how she came to be captivated by the story of Lady Hyegyong, wife of Prince Sado. Sado was son of a king and father of a king, but never made it to the throne himself. Lady Hyegyong wrote her [...]

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Michael Shin on Yi Kwang-su’s The Heartless

29 August 2009 Events news
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The third Global Korea lecture of 2009 will be held at the KCC on 29 September at 6:30pm. Michael Shin from Cambridge University will talk on Yi Gwangu’s The Heartless, sometimes known as Korea’s first modern novel. There will be a raffle to win the novel in an English translation.
The novel The Heartless by Yi [...]

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LKL Weekly Tweets, 2009-08-24

24 August 2009 Bong Joon-ho
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Congratulations to Yang Yong-eun on winning the US PGA golf championship http://bit.ly/2Jw6M #. “It’s not like you’re in an octagon where you’re fighting against Tiger and he’s going to bite you, or swing at you with his 9-iron,” Yang said through an interpreter. “The worst that I could do was just lose to Tiger. So [...]

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A meeting with Brother Anthony

23 August 2009 Food & Drink
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LKL talks to Brother Anthony on poetry, tea, temple stays and romanisation
On the twelfth floor of an anonymous building in the Sincheon area of Seoul there’s an overcrowded study. From a cassette player in the corner wafts the soothing sounds of kayageum and daegeum sanjo. Books line every available inch of wall space, and more: [...]

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Korean Literature essay contest

30 July 2009 KCCUK
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Now here’s the kind of initiative I like. The Korean Cultural Centre has teamed up with the Korean Literature Translation Institute to bring you the inaugural Korean Literature Essay Contest. In what I hope will be the first of many contests of this nature, the subject text is the novel on which Jang Sung-woo based [...]

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