<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Dear All<div>Thank you for the members' alert to the existence of this fascinating video. I think it will make great class materials as well, especially when we teach late 19th century travelers interest in Korea.</div><div>Can we order this from abroad? <br><div><div>On Sep 7, 2011, at 12:44 PM, Maya Stiller wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>Dear list members,<br><br>The video is indeed amazing. For those of you who need a hard copy,<br>you can purchase it for 18.000 Won at<br><br><a href="http://www.benedictmedia.co.kr/front/php/product.php?product_no=208&main_cate_no=1&display_group=3">http://www.benedictmedia.co.kr/front/php/product.php?product_no=208&main_cate_no=1&display_group=3</a><br><br>Please also see the email posted by Frank Hoffmann last year with more<br>information on Norbert Weber, and Prof Oak's link (see below).<br><br>Kindest regards,<br>Maya Stiller<br><br><br>[KS] DVD, 1925 film by Norbert Weber, "Im Lande der Morgenstille"<br><br>sung oak sungoak at hotmail.com<br>Wed Jul 21 11:29:35 EDT 2010<br>Previous message: [KS] DVD, 1925 film by Norbert Weber, "Im Lande der<br>Morgenstille"<br>Next message: [KS] DVD, 1925 film by Norbert Weber, "Im Lande der Morgenstille"<br>Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ]<br>Dear Frank Hoffman,<br><br>You can see its TV version at<br>http://static.youku.com/v1.0.0103/v/swf/qplayer.swf?VideoIDS=XMTUzNzE0NjQw&embedid=OTguMjIwLjIyOC4xNDkCMzg0Mjg2NjACdWNjLnJlZHNwb3R0di5uZXQCL3Byb2MvYmJzL2JvYXJkLnBocA==&showAd=0<br><br>I posted it on my website:<br>http://koreanchristianity.humnet.ucla.edu/sources/filmsvideos<br><br><br><br>Best,<br><br>Sung-Deuk Oak<br><br>UCLA<br><br><br><blockquote type="cite">Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2010 00:29:47 -0400<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">From: hoffmann at koreaweb.ws<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">To: koreanstudies at koreaweb.ws<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Subject: [KS] DVD, 1925 film by Norbert Weber, "Im Lande der Morgenstille"<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Dear All:<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">The following DVD publication of a 1925 b/w documentary film by Father<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Norbert Weber (1870-1956) of the German Benedictines seems worth<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">mentioning. The DVD was published last year. Yoo Kwang-On was so kind<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">to make me aware of this publication. Thanks!<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">-------------------------------------------------------<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">고요한 아침의 나라에서 / Im Lande der Morgenstille<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">(성 베네딕도회 한국진출 100주년 기념)<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">노르베르트 베버 (Norbert Weber)<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">-------------------------------------------------------<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">One of several possible order links with further info and still photos:<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">http://www.yes24.com/24/goods/3537472<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">(You can also order it via Aladin.co.kr or Kyobo.com.)<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">The German Benedictines in St. Ottilien have their own printing press,<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">EOS Verlag, but since this was published in Korea it is not available<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">through them, and thereby not available though any of the usual book<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">distribution systems in Europe or the U.S. (However, EOS Verlag has a<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">couple of other publications available about their missionary<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">experiences during the first half of the 20th century in southern and<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">northern Korea and in Yanbian.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">You may know Norbert Weber's fascinating 1915 book, _Im Lande der<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Morgenstille_. Weber did not live in Korea all these years, but he<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">returned in 1925 to produce this now (re)published 118 minutes long<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">documentary. Roughly two thirds of the film show scenes of daily life<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">in Korea, some with a somewhat "National Geographic" almost (or<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">really) staged kind of aesthetics and outview, of course. After all,<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">this is a missionary movie. And -- to be expected -- the last third<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">shows the Benedictine's missionary work. Keeping this in mind, this is<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">just wonderful material of which you can sure use excerpts in any<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">class on traditional and modernizing Korea. Not a single Japanese to<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">be seen here! But as Yoo Kwang-On already noted in an email, a small<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Korean boy performing a Cossack (Kaзaчoк) dance! Kalinka, Kalinka<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">...aigo, that is pretty amazing to see in 1925! In any case, this is<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">worth getting. There also is a second DVD coming with this<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">publication, 67 minutes long, were a Korean speaker comments some of<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">the scences -- the clean up-to-date nationalist reinterpretation of<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Weber's missionary view, so to say. It's poorly done ... there would<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">have just been so much to say, but that might then have disrupted the<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">beautifying statements, I suppose. So, in teh end this second film is<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">only good for clarifying some of the places and place names, for those<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">less familiar with Korea, is otherwise hardly worth viewing.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">In the early 1990s I stayed twice at the St. Ottilien Archabbey<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">(Bavaria, southern Germany) and also briefly met with two of the then<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">still alive old Korea hands, missionaries who had been there from the<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">1930s to the 1950s. Most impressive was also the monastery's library.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Although just a late 19th century building, it somehow still had _The<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Name of the Rose_ qualities to it (in my eyes anyway), and it was such<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">an amazing experience to see all those 1920s and 1930s publications,<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">partially handwritten Korean language books, used to teach kids in<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">their various abbeys in Korea and Manchuria. Please note that the<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">first German Koreanist, André Eckardt, son of a Munich painter, also<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">started out as a Benedictine monk there. It should also be noted that<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">the famous St. Ottilien "Diamond Mountains" (Kŭmgang-san) album by<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Chŏng Sŏn (1676-1759) that was once bought by Norbert Weber and<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">brought to St. Ottilien is now back in Korea (at the Waegwan Abbey<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">there, and is on display since 2009).<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Best,<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Frank<br></blockquote><br></div></blockquote></div><br><div apple-content-edited="true"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; 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; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Hyung Il Pai</div><div>Associate Professor</div><div>East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies Department, University of California, Santa Barbara, HSSB Building</div><div>Santa Barbara, CA 93106</div><div>Fax: 805) 893-7671</div><div>Email: <a href="mailto:hyungpai@eastasian.ucsb.edu">hyungpai@eastasian.ucsb.edu</a></div><div>Dept.profile:<a href="http://www.eastasian.ucsb.edu/content/people_pai.html">http://www.eastasian.ucsb.edu/content/people_pai.html</a></div><div><br></div></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"> </div><br></div></body></html>