<font color='black' size='2' face='arial'>Dear Aidan, et. al. --
<div>If you found the Taekwondo piece interesting, this memoir might]</div>
<div>also be of interest as an example of the liberating power of martial</div>
<div>arts for a Korean woman (in this case Guksulwon):</div>
<div><a href="http://blog.wrappedinfoil.com/category/nonfiction/memoir/">http://blog.wrappedinfoil.com/category/nonfiction/memoir/</a><br>
The memoirs is actually much better than the title suggests!</div>
<div>Cheers,</div>
<div>Heinz Insu Fenkl<br>
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Cc: coyner <coyner@gol.com>; Philip <Philip@londonkoreanlinks.net><br>
Sent: Wed, Sep 28, 2011 8:14 am<br>
Subject: [KS] Taekwondo as women's self-empowerment<br>
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<div><font size="4">Dear friends and colleagues,</font></div>
<div><font size="4"></font> </div>
<div><font size="4">Like many Koreanists, unless you are sporty
types,</font></div>
<div><font size="4">I'm usually guilty of </font><font size="4">paying all too
little heed to </font></div>
<div><font size="4">what - even in this age of <em>hallyu</em> - surely
remains</font></div>
<div><font size="4">Korean culture's most successful global export.</font></div>
<div><font size="4"></font> </div>
<div><font size="4">The recent ITF championships in Pyongyang made</font></div>
<div><font size="4">me ponder anew the odyssey of Choe Hong-hui:</font></div>
<div><font size="4">from ROK general to the bosom of Kim Il-sung,</font></div>
<div><font size="4">and now buried in the Patriotic Martyrs Cemetery.</font></div>
<div><font size="4"></font> </div>
<div><font size="4">Choe continues to command fierce loyalty; see eg</font></div>
<div><a target="_blank" href="http://www.itf-information.com/information01.htm"><font size="4">http://www.itf-information.com/information01.htm</font></a></div>
<div><font size="4"></font> </div>
<div><font size="4">I'd be interested in how his followers, eg in the
US,</font></div>
<div><font size="4">make sense of his defection. (One UK paper </font><font size="4">wrote an </font></div>
<div><font size="4">obituary which omitted to mention where he
died!)</font></div>
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<div><font size="4">In search of such material, I found something
different.</font></div>
<div><font size="4">Taekwondo as specifically empowering women is a</font></div>
<div><font size="4">novel thought; but this lengthy article, from what
I</font></div>
<div><font size="4">think is the suburbs of Denver, makes a strong
case.</font></div>
<div><font size="4">I am much enlightened, and not a little moved:</font></div>
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<div><font size="4">Kind regards</font></div>
<div><font size="4">Aidan FC</font></div>
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