<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">My understanding is that the agreed upon appellation for modern Korea, among Koreans and Westerners alike, is: The Land of Mourning Calm.<div><br></div><div>--Scott Bug</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br><br>--- On <b>Sun, 5/27/12, soratobutobi <i><soratobutobi@yahoo.co.jp></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><br>From: soratobutobi <soratobutobi@yahoo.co.jp><br>Subject: [KS] Korea Week and Korea Film Festival at Tuebingen University from June 11th-20th 2012<br>To: koreanstudies@koreaweb.ws<br>Date: Sunday, May 27, 2012, 8:16 AM<br><br><div id="yiv1344035205"><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" style="font:inherit;">
<p class="yiv1344035205MsoNormal" style="text-align:left;" align="left"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;
font-weight:normal;" lang="EN-US"> Korea-Week Festival<br>
"The End of Morning Calm" <br>
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Dear students, colleagues and friends, <br>
we would like to invite you to the Korea Week Festival at
Tuebingen from June 11<sup>th</sup>-20<sup>th</sup> 2012:
"The End of Morning Calm". <br>
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<p class="yiv1344035205MsoNormal" style="text-align:left;" align="left"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;
font-weight:normal;" lang="EN-US">The Department of Korean Studies at Tuebingen
University will be offering a series of cultural and academic
events all over Tuebingen during the Korea Week. There will be
Korean dance, music and ceremonies, as well as an opportunity to
see a Taekwondo-Show with the internationally renowned Kukkiwan
Taekwondo-Academy, and readings with contemporary Korean
writers.</span></p>
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font-weight:normal;" lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="yiv1344035205MsoNormal" style="text-align:left;" align="left"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;
font-weight:normal;" lang="EN-US">Furthermore, an academic symposium covering Korean
themes will be held and a series of Korean films will be shown.
From June 14<sup>th</sup>-20<sup>th,</sup> KINO ARSENAL will be
screening current Korean films in the Tübingen Korea Film
Festival. On June 12<sup>th</sup> and 13<sup>th</sup> Korean
specialties will be served at the Mensa Morgenstelle, and on
June 14<sup>th</sup> at the Mensa Prinz Karl. </span></p>
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font-weight:normal;" lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="yiv1344035205MsoNormal" style="text-align:left;" align="left"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;
font-weight:normal;" lang="EN-US">Also, as part of the Korean Week Festival, students
can take part in the video contest by submitting a 5-10 minute
video dealing with the theme “The End of Morning Calm”. “The End
of Morning Calm” is the motto of the Korea Week Festival
referring to the popular reports from Korea since the first
contact with visitors from the West, who described Korea as “the
land of morning calm”.<span style=""> </span>This
description was appropriated by the Koreans themselves with
positive associations; yet its origin is from a colonial
perspective which represents Korea as a passive, silent country.
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<p class="yiv1344035205MsoNormal" style="text-align:left;" align="left"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;
font-weight:normal;" lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="yiv1344035205MsoNormal" style="text-align:left;" align="left"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;
font-weight:normal;" lang="EN-US">Korea has changed dramatically and the end of the
“silence” started long ago. The recent history of Korea is
marked by intense dynamic forces: rapid economic growth as well
as the democratization of South Korea. These events and
processes have left their mark on the “silence” which is now a
feeling of emergence: “The end of morning calm breaking dawn’s
silence”! </span></p>
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font-weight:normal;" lang="EN-US"><span style=""> </span></span></p>
<p class="yiv1344035205MsoNormal" style="text-align:left;" align="left"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;
font-weight:normal;" lang="EN-US">“Emergence” : this is the positive association that
we would like to share with the city of Tübingen. The University
of Tübingen and especially the Department of Korean Studies
offer a unique cultural event for Tbingen with the diverse
program of the Korea Week Festival, and hope that Tuebingen
takes this opportunity to gain insight into a fascinating
country. </span></p>
<p class="yiv1344035205MsoNormal" style="text-align:left;" align="left"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;
font-weight:normal;" lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p>For more information: www.korea.uni-tuebingen.de (-> Aktuelles -> Korea-Woche) </p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p>Forwarded by </p><p>Scholl, Tobias </p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p>
</p><pre class="yiv1344035205moz-signature">--
Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen
Asien-Orient-Institut
Abteilung für Sinologie und Koreanistik
Sektion Koreanistik (http://www.korea.uni-tuebingen.de)
Anschrift: Wilhelmsstrasse 133; 72074 Tübingen
Email: tobias.scholl@aoi.uni-tuebingen.de</pre><p></p></td></tr></tbody></table></div></blockquote></div></td></tr></table>