<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><!--StartFragment--><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Courier;layout-grid-mode:line">In
early 1949 U.S. Ambassador John Muccio recorded a very interesting interview
with one Father Hopple, of the Wonsan Benedictine monastery; among other things
Father Hopple reported that there was little interference with their activities
and that Christian churches were still open in the North from 1945 to 1949. He also said that
he and his brethren rarely came across so-called Soviet-Koreans, and if they
did they tended to come from the Russo-Korean border area or from Manchuria.
Meanwhile secret North Korean Interior Ministry documents from November and
December 1947 indicate that some 61 Germans, mostly missionaries, lived in
Wonsan and Kangwon province at the time. The Muccio interview is dated January
6, 1949 and is in the National Archives, Diplomatic Branch, 740.0019 file, box
C-215; the North Korean documents are also in the National Archives, Record Group
242 (“Captured Enemy Documents”), SA2005, item 6/11.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<div apple-content-edited="true"> <div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; font-size: 12px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Bruce Cumings</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">University of Chicago</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br></span></div></span></div></div><div><div>On Sep 6, 2011, at 12:00 PM, <a href="mailto:koreanstudies-request@koreaweb.ws">koreanstudies-request@koreaweb.ws</a> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>Send Koreanstudies mailing list submissions to<br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><a href="mailto:koreanstudies@koreaweb.ws">koreanstudies@koreaweb.ws</a><br><br>To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit<br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>http://koreaweb.ws/mailman/listinfo/koreanstudies_koreaweb.ws<br>or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to<br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>koreanstudies-request@koreaweb.ws<br><br>You can reach the person managing the list at<br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>koreanstudies-owner@koreaweb.ws<br><br>When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific<br>than "Re: Contents of Koreanstudies digest..."<br><br><br><<------------ KoreanStudies mailing list DIGEST ------------>><br><br><br>Today's Topics:<br><br> 1. Re: Fwd: Korea in 1925 (German film with Korean narration)<br> (Charles K. Armstrong)<br> 2. Re: Korea Studies in Tokyo (Kenneth Robinson)<br><br><br>----------------------------------------------------------------------<br><br>Message: 1<br>Date: Mon, 05 Sep 2011 21:19:43 -0400<br>From: "Charles K. Armstrong" <cra10@columbia.edu><br>To: koreanstudies@koreaweb.ws<br>Subject: Re: [KS] Fwd: Korea in 1925 (German film with Korean<br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>narration)<br>Message-ID: <20110905211943.ia8cmf040cs8000k@cubmail.cc.columbia.edu><br>Content-Type: text/plain;<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>charset=ISO-8859-1;<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>DelSp="Yes";<br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>format="flowed"<br><br>Dear Ed,<br><br>Thank you for sharing this. I believe this was made by the same <br>Benedictine monk whom I interviewed in Waegwan more than 20 years ago, <br>when he was quite ill and nearing the end of his life. He told me many <br>fascinating stories of the Benedictines' work in Wonsan, where their <br>monastery was located before the Korean War. best,<br><br>Charles<br>-- <br>Charles K. Armstrong<br>Professor of History<br>Director, Center for Korean Research<br>Columbia University<br>930 International Affairs Building<br>420 West 118th Street<br>New York, NY 10027<br><br>Tel: 212-854-1721<br>Fax: 212-749-1497<br><br><br>Quoting "Edward J. Baker" <ejbaker@fas.harvard.edu>:<br><br><blockquote type="cite">Dear Friends,<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Some of you may have seen this fascinating hour-long film made by a <br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">German Catholic priest/missionary (Father Norbert Weber (sp?), a <br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Benedictine monk or priest) in 1925, but, if you haven't, you <br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">should. It also contains still photos Weber shot on an earlier trip <br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">to Korea in 1911. It shows a lot of things that none of us, and <br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">almost no living Korean, has ever seen. I think it should be shared <br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">widely as our friend Peter Bartholomew has already done.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">It was put together as a KBS Special but somehow comes to us through <br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> Chinese hands.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">If you just click on <br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><http://static.youku.com/v1.0.0103/v/swf/qplayer.swf?VideoIDS=XMTUzNzE0NjQw&e>, it should open, but if it doesn't try pasting it into your <br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">browser.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Yours,<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Ed Baker<br></blockquote><br><br><br><br><br>------------------------------<br><br>Message: 2<br>Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2011 14:38:03 +0900<br>From: Kenneth Robinson <anagosama@hotmail.com><br>To: <koreanstudies@koreaweb.ws><br>Subject: Re: [KS] Korea Studies in Tokyo<br>Message-ID: <SNT135-W47629AF526ED4B1E507116B71C0@phx.gbl><br>Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-2022-jp"<br><br><br>Dear Colleagues,<br><br>The September meeting of the Chousenshi Kenkyuukai will be held Saturday, September 17 at the Hongou campus of the University of Tokyo. This month's speakers, who will present in Japanese, are below. <br><br><br>Research Presentation:<br>Suzuki Kai. "Relations between Choson and Later Jin during the Reign of Kwanghaegun: Focusing on the Dispatch of ChOng Ch'ungshin to Later Jin in 1621"<br><br>Book Review:<br>Shin Ch'angu. "Nihon no Chousen shokuminchi shihai to keisatsu: 1905-1945," by Matsuda Toshihiko (Tokyo: Azekura Shobou, 2009)<br><br><br>The meeting will begin at 1:30 pm in the Akamon Sougou Kenkyuutou building, Room 738, the University of Tokyo. The University of Tokyo is located near Hongou san-choume. For further information, please contact Ken Robinson.<br><br><br>Ken Robinson<br> <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span> <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span> <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span> <br>-------------- next part --------------<br>An HTML attachment was scrubbed...<br>URL: <http://koreaweb.ws/pipermail/koreanstudies_koreaweb.ws/attachments/20110906/31103a66/attachment-0001.html><br><br>End of Koreanstudies Digest, Vol 99, Issue 5<br>********************************************<br></div></blockquote></div><br></body></html>