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Prince Sado

LKL Weekly Tweets, 2010-02-15

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by Philip Gowman on 15 February, 2010

in Celebs, Film reviews and comment, Humour, Sport, Technology, Twitter Tweets

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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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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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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The Shining Fortress part 2: its remarkable story.

7 August 2009 Gyeonggi-do
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by Matthew Jackson
The story which surrounds the building of the Hwaseong fortress is an extraordinary one. The fortress was originally built as part of the new Suwon city, a project initiated by King Chongjo.
King Chongjo (or King Jeongjo, depending on your preferred romanization) had been greatly devoted to his father, Sado Seja, who died [...]

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The LKL Korea Trip 2009 pt 2: Suwon

23 July 2009 Gyeonggi-do
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Thursday 16 July
Today the plan is to get a few UNESCO world heritage points: the Hwaseong Fortress at Suwon, followed maybe by the nearby folk village. From my base in Insadong, a one-hour tube journey direct from Jonggak station on Line 1 takes me to Suwon, armed with my guide books. A moment of mild [...]

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2006 BAKS conference

11 September 2006 BAKS

The BAKS conference in Sheffield last week had a broad range of speakers. What follows is a personal response to the proceedings, and isn’t meant to be in any way an official account. I apologise to those speakers to whom I devote fewer words. No disrespect is intended. In any occasion like this, some [...]

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Jahyun Kim Haboush (tr): Memoirs of Lady Hyegyong

17 April 2006 Book reviews: History

(California UP, 1995)

The style of this takes a bit of getting used to (and this is attributable to the original author, not the translator), but the content is gripping. This is the autobiographical writings of a Korean crown princess – wife of the heir to the throne – and documents at first hand the [...]

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Margaret Drabble: The Red Queen

8 April 2006 Book reviews: Foreign literature

(Penguin, 2005)

Inspired by the Memoirs of Lady Hyegyong. The first half is a re-telling of the original story with the benefit of an additional 200 years’ hindsight; the second half is set in modern times, in a story which echoes some of the themes of the original. The only part which stretches the credulity is [...]

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