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Dear Frank Hoffman,<BR>
You can see its TV version at <BR><A href="http://static.youku.com/v1.0.0103/v/swf/qplayer.swf?VideoIDS=XMTUzNzE0NjQw&embedid=OTguMjIwLjIyOC4xNDkCMzg0Mjg2NjACdWNjLnJlZHNwb3R0di5uZXQCL3Byb2MvYmJzL2JvYXJkLnBocA==&showAd=0">http://static.youku.com/v1.0.0103/v/swf/qplayer.swf?VideoIDS=XMTUzNzE0NjQw&embedid=OTguMjIwLjIyOC4xNDkCMzg0Mjg2NjACdWNjLnJlZHNwb3R0di5uZXQCL3Byb2MvYmJzL2JvYXJkLnBocA==&showAd=0</A><BR><BR>I posted it on my website: <BR><A href="http://koreanchristianity.humnet.ucla.edu/sources/filmsvideos">http://koreanchristianity.humnet.ucla.edu/sources/filmsvideos</A><BR>
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Best,<BR>
Sung-Deuk Oak<BR>
UCLA<BR><BR> <BR>> Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2010 00:29:47 -0400<BR>> From: hoffmann@koreaweb.ws<BR>> To: koreanstudies@koreaweb.ws<BR>> Subject: [KS] DVD, 1925 film by Norbert Weber, "Im Lande der Morgenstille"<BR>> <BR>> Dear All:<BR>> <BR>> The following DVD publication of a 1925 b/w documentary film by Father <BR>> Norbert Weber (1870-1956) of the German Benedictines seems worth <BR>> mentioning. The DVD was published last year. Yoo Kwang-On was so kind <BR>> to make me aware of this publication. Thanks!<BR>> <BR>> -------------------------------------------------------<BR>> 고요한 아침의 나라에서 / Im Lande der Morgenstille<BR>> (성 베네딕도회 한국진출 100주년 기념)<BR>> 노르베르트 베버 (Norbert Weber)<BR>> -------------------------------------------------------<BR>> <BR>> One of several possible order links with further info and still photos:<BR>> http://www.yes24.com/24/goods/3537472<BR>> (You can also order it via Aladin.co.kr or Kyobo.com.)<BR>> The German Benedictines in St. Ottilien have their own printing press, <BR>> EOS Verlag, but since this was published in Korea it is not available <BR>> through them, and thereby not available though any of the usual book <BR>> distribution systems in Europe or the U.S. (However, EOS Verlag has a <BR>> couple of other publications available about their missionary <BR>> experiences during the first half of the 20th century in southern and <BR>> northern Korea and in Yanbian.<BR>> <BR>> You may know Norbert Weber's fascinating 1915 book, _Im Lande der <BR>> Morgenstille_. Weber did not live in Korea all these years, but he <BR>> returned in 1925 to produce this now (re)published 118 minutes long <BR>> documentary. Roughly two thirds of the film show scenes of daily life <BR>> in Korea, some with a somewhat "National Geographic" almost (or <BR>> really) staged kind of aesthetics and outview, of course. After all, <BR>> this is a missionary movie. And -- to be expected -- the last third <BR>> shows the Benedictine's missionary work. Keeping this in mind, this is <BR>> just wonderful material of which you can sure use excerpts in any <BR>> class on traditional and modernizing Korea. Not a single Japanese to <BR>> be seen here! But as Yoo Kwang-On already noted in an email, a small <BR>> Korean boy performing a Cossack (Kaзaчoк) dance! Kalinka, Kalinka <BR>> ...aigo, that is pretty amazing to see in 1925! In any case, this is <BR>> worth getting. There also is a second DVD coming with this <BR>> publication, 67 minutes long, were a Korean speaker comments some of <BR>> the scences -- the clean up-to-date nationalist reinterpretation of <BR>> Weber's missionary view, so to say. It's poorly done ... there would <BR>> have just been so much to say, but that might then have disrupted the <BR>> beautifying statements, I suppose. So, in teh end this second film is <BR>> only good for clarifying some of the places and place names, for those <BR>> less familiar with Korea, is otherwise hardly worth viewing.<BR>> <BR>> In the early 1990s I stayed twice at the St. Ottilien Archabbey <BR>> (Bavaria, southern Germany) and also briefly met with two of the then <BR>> still alive old Korea hands, missionaries who had been there from the <BR>> 1930s to the 1950s. Most impressive was also the monastery's library. <BR>> Although just a late 19th century building, it somehow still had _The <BR>> Name of the Rose_ qualities to it (in my eyes anyway), and it was such <BR>> an amazing experience to see all those 1920s and 1930s publications, <BR>> partially handwritten Korean language books, used to teach kids in <BR>> their various abbeys in Korea and Manchuria. Please note that the <BR>> first German Koreanist, André Eckardt, son of a Munich painter, also <BR>> started out as a Benedictine monk there. It should also be noted that <BR>> the famous St. Ottilien "Diamond Mountains" (Kŭmgang-san) album by <BR>> Chŏng Sŏn (1676-1759) that was once bought by Norbert Weber and <BR>> brought to St. Ottilien is now back in Korea (at the Waegwan Abbey <BR>> there, and is on display since 2009).<BR>> <BR>> <BR>> Best,<BR>> Frank<BR>> <BR>> <BR>> <BR>> <BR>> <BR>> <BR>> <BR> </body>
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