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Korean Soldiers in the Japanese Army – talk at the Senate House

by Philip Gowman on 23 February, 2010

in Events news, General academia, History & heritage

The Comparative Histories of Asia Seminar is pleased to present:
Global Japan Series:
Professor Takashi Fujitani, University of California, San Diego
‘Korean Soldiers in the Japanese Amy: Some Reflections on Inclusionary or Polite Racism in WWII’
Thursday 25 February 2010, 5:30-7pm
Room G37, South Block, Senate House Building, University of London
All welcome.

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Kim Hong-do’s Album of scenes from Daily Life

31 January 2010 Arts
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Eunjung Shin continues her exploration of some of the works you can find in the British Museum’s Korean collection
Throughout the five hundred years of the Choson dynasty (1392-1910), the everyday lives of the common people were rarely depicted in painting. On the contrary, landscape painting was the preferred genre, or other paintings with themes related [...]

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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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Two Korea-related talks at the Senate House

26 January 2010 Events news
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News of two upcoming Korea-related seminars in the Comparative Histories of Asia Seminar hosted by the Institute of Historical Research at Senate House, University of London.
Thursday 28th January, 5.30pm
Dr Owen Miller (Cambridge / SOAS)
“The Idea of Stagnation in Korean History from Fukuda Tokuzo to the New Right”
Thursday 25 February, 5.30pm
Professor Takashi Fujitani [...]

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LKL Weekly Tweets, 2010-01-25

25 January 2010 Bae Doo-na
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Finally finished my top 10 K-films of the decade post. It took forever. 2003 was a good year! Post will be up on Tuesday. 12:57 PM Jan 22nd from web
Big article on Kimchi going global in the Washington Post http://bit.ly/89sKtf (HT: Marmot) 1:16 PM Jan 22nd from bit.ly
Trying to figure out why LKL is offline [...]

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A belated look back at 2009

9 January 2010 2009 year-end posts
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For the past 3 years LKL has concocted a quiz of the year as a way of gathering together some of the news stories which have most caught our eye. This year, as I came to draw up the list in mid December I found it hard to think of anything amusing or diverting: most [...]

Companies:
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The Stone Buddha in the British Museum

16 December 2009 British Museum
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Eunjung Shin continues her survey of the treasures in the Korean gallery in the British Museum

As you enter the Korean gallery in the British Museum you might easily overlook the small stone Buddha at the entrance, his face turned modestly to the ground. If you want to see his expression, you have to sit down [...]

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Before Babylon There Was…Pyongyang

4 December 2009 History & heritage
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Two thirds of the world’s dolmens are contained in the Korean peninsula. The Gochang, Hwaun, and Ganghwa dolmen sites can be found on the UNESCO World Heritage list. This probably begs the question, from me at least – what are dolmens exactly? They are stone monuments, generally consisting of two supporting stones and a cover stone [...]

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The full moon jar in the British Museum

20 November 2009 British Museum
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Eunjung Shin commences a series of articles helping those unfamiliar with Korean art to understand some of the treasures in the Korean Gallery in the British Museum. Her first choice is the famous Moon Jar.

Whenever people ask me what the essential characteristic of Korean art is, I always answer: ‘naturalism’. The full moon jar [...]

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Ch’udo yebae: Christian Accommodation to Korean Ancestral Rites

1 November 2009 General academia
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Details of November’s Global Korea Lecture at the Cultural Centre:
Tuesday 24th November 2009, 6.30pm
Subject: Ch’udo yebae: Christian Accommodation to Korean Ancestral Rites
Speaker: Professor James H. Grayson (School of East Asian Studies, University of Sheffield)
Venue: Multi-purpose Hall, Korean Cultural Centre
According to the 2005 Korean Household and Population Census, Christians now represent nearly 30 per cent of [...]

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Innovative Korea – from past to present

1 November 2009 Events news
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The Korean Spirit and Culture Promotion Project present an evening introducing Korea’s long-standing innovation:

Date: 18th November 2009
Time: 6.15 for 6.30 pm
Location: Korean Cultural Centre UK
Grand Buildings, Northumberland Avenue, London, WC2N 5BW
Programme
A short talk will precede three documentary films, covering three representative pieces of Korean culture,
and a detailed overview of Korea’s innovative industries today:

The Sarira [...]

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MacGyver and the Imjin War

30 October 2009 History & heritage
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I was puzzled when I learned that Koreans regard the time bomb as a proud addition to their list of inventions. This is because I associate the time bomb with incidents involving James Bond and MacGyver, in which the emphasis is on defusing the bomb and foiling the plans of an evil terrorist.
Although it has been [...]

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The Turtle Ship

25 October 2009 History & heritage
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There is a story that when the nascent Korean shipping industry was attempting to raise capital, Barclays asked what the Koreans could provide in the way of security for the loan. The Korean executive is said to have taken a 500 won bill from his pocket, which featured the turtle ship of Yi Sun-sin, and [...]

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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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Golden Earrings of Silla

9 September 2009 History & heritage
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Along with the famous Golden Crown of Hwangnam, the tombs of Silla contained many other, less immediately eye-catching objects of beauty. An example is the golden earrings, one of the literally thousands of accessories such as necklaces, rings, belts and shoes that were buried with the dead kings and queens in Kyongju, capital of the [...]

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