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Korean Adoptee Artists: Discourses of Migration, Exile and Transversality

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by Philip Gowman on 17 March, 2010

in Arts, Events news, SOAS

Further details of Friday’s seminar at SOAS:

Friday, March 19th, 5pm, room G50 (main building)
Dr. Aino Rinhaug, University of Oslo
Korean Adoptee Artists: Discourses of Migration, Exile and Transversality
Abstract:
In view of how the development of large-scale globalisation changes our perception of family structures, nationhood and sense of belonging, my presentation seeks to highlight a particular form of [...]

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Life as a banana – Korean adoptees speak at Cambridge

25 February 2010 Conference reports
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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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LKL Weekly Tweets, 2010-02-15

15 February 2010 Celebs
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Game for a laugh? Don't forget Kim Jong-il's Comedy Club tonight, BBC4, 10pm http://bit.ly/bT9eZE #
Eternal Empire (1995) – a nice-looking costume drama about murder and court intrigue in the Yi dynasty soon after the death of Prince Sado. One of Darcy’s top 10 K-films of the 90s. Not one of mine, but well worth a [...]

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Contributions sought for adoptee anthology

14 February 2010 Classifieds
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A message just received from Perlita Harris for the British Association of Adoption and Fostering.
We are editing an anthology of writing and poetry by adopted adults who were adopted in England, Scotland, Wales or Ireland including adoptees born in another country (e.g. Korea) and raised by their adoptive family in the UK. This collection will [...]

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A pizza shovel for the Dear Leader: was he amused by “Kim Jong-il’s Comedy Club”?

9 February 2010 DPRK
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Kim Jong-il’s Comedy Club is a Danish documentary which follows the two-week visit to North Korea by a Danish comedy double-act who had received permission to perform in Pyongyang’s National Theatre. The documentary is fascinating on many levels. First, the two comedians are ethnic Korean adoptees, born in South Korea but brought up in Denmark, [...]

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Saharial reviews Stranger than Paradise

8 February 2010 TV drama
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Story:
No Yoon Jae (Lee Sung-Jae) was adopted as a child and taken to Canada and now, at age 33 has been looking for his parents for some time. A successful lawyer with a love for coffee and his girlfriend he travels to Korea to meet once more with disappointment. Kang Son Ho (Uhm Tae Woong) [...]

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60 years of overseas Korean adoption and the Korean adoption issue

7 February 2010 Events news
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News of an interesting half-day seminar in Cambridge:
This is an invitation to the seminar “60 years of overseas Korean adoption and the Korean adoption issue” which will take place in Cambridge on Saturday the 20th of February 2010.

Ever since the Korean War Armistice in 1953, almost 200,000 Korean children have been adopted to more than [...]

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Love and loathing: This isn’t Romance

17 February 2009 Event reports and reviews
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A review of In-sook Chappell’s powerful debut play about a Korean woman, brought up in the West, returning to Seoul to find the brother she abandoned.

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In-sook Chappell: This isn’t Romance

27 January 2009 Events news
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Details of an upcoming play by Korean-born, English-raised In-sook Chappell

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Elizabeth Kim: Ten Thousand Sorrows

8 April 2006 Book reviews: Foreign literature

(Doubleday, 2000)

This one’s really depressing, and it’s amazing how the author (this is autobiographical) seems to have ended up reasonably unscathed — outwardly at least. If ever you think you’ve had a tough time, read this book and you’ll feel better: someone’s had it worse. This is the story of the mixed-race daughter [...]

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