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Dear list members,<br><br>
Yesterday, our German colleague, Prof. Song Du Yul from Munster, has been
arrested at last in South Korea. As you have certainly heard, he was
accused of the things (membership in the North Korean Workers' Party,
activities as North Korean Politburo member - which he denies, and so on)
that -while still criminalized by the South Korean National Security Law
- are certainly not crimes in Germany he is a citizen of, nor in most
other countries of the world. Moreover, he was arrested after coming to
South Korea on his own and making clear that he no more feels the same
sympathies to the North Korean system he had once felt. As some South
Korean news sources state, his arrest may be interpreted as a
"gesture of appeasement" by the Roh regime towards these
political/juridical circles that long considered Prof. Song's
"intrinsic" (relativist) approach to North Korean realities and
his peculiar understanding of the tasks of Korean nationalism a major
threat for their ideological/cultural domination. While there are all
grounds to hope that Prof. Song will be set free soon any way - as it is
absolutely clear that he poses no "security threat" today - I
still wonder whether it is not a moral obligation on the part of all the
European Koreanists to register our protest against the arrest of our
German colleague. However controversial his views and actions might be,
the arrest of a European Koreanists on the grounds of the Cold War-time
law repeatedly criticized by many human right bodies, doesn't set a good
precedent.<br><br>
Best wishes,<br><br>
Vladimir Tikhonov <br><br>
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At 12:39 23.10.2003 +0200, you wrote:<br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite>Dear list members,<br><br>
a colleague here at the University of Vienna asked me to forward this
announcement to you. In case you are interested, please do not wait too
long, since they work under a somewhat tight schedule. Please do not
reply to the list or to me, but rather contact Dr. Manzenreiter directly.
Thank you.<br><br>
Cheers,<br><br>
Ruediger<br><br>
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other<br>
aspect characterising the globalising world of the 21st century,
i.e.<br>
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migration; international sport finance; the role of transnational
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nationalism; commercialism etc.<br><br>
Football Goes East: The People's Game in China, Japan and Korea<br><br>
The edited volume consists of multi- and interdisciplinary studies
on<br>
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sport<br>
football in contemporary China, Japan and Korea. The comparative<br>
collection is designed to contribute to the theoretical discourses
on<br>
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knowledge about the multi-facetted phenomenon of football in
distinctive<br>
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as<br>
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political and economic determinants of sport and leisure cultures
in<br>
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Please send submission proposals and inquiries directly to the
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As time is short, we can only consider contributions close to<br>
completion.<br><br>
Wolfram Manzenreiter, Ph.D.<br>
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Dept. of East Asian Studies / Japanese Studies Division<br>
University of Vienna<br>
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A-1090 Vienna, AUSTRIA<br><br>
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Vladimir Tikhonov,<br>
Department of East European and Oriental Studies,<br>
Faculty of Arts,<br>
University of Oslo,<br>
P.b. 1030, Blindern, 0315, Oslo, Norway.<br>
Fax: 47-22854140; Tel: 47-22857118<br>
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