[KS] Re: Koreanstudies Digest, Vol 15, Issue 6

Erik J. Mobrand emobrand at Princeton.EDU
Thu Sep 9 20:44:19 EDT 2004 

The Seoul subway (part of today's Line #1) opened on Aug 15, 1974. (Park Chung-hee's wife was killed at the ceremony.) From newspapers at the time, I don't recall anything about Japanese participation in the construction but I cannot confirm that.

Erik Mobrand

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>   1. Re: Koreans scoring points (in cho)
>   2. Fwd: JIN HI KIM Artist-In-Residence at Cornell University
>      (Lucas H?sgen)
>   3. Re: Koreans scoring points (ken.kaliher at us.army.mil)
>   4. Re: Koreans scoring points (P.S.) (ken.kaliher at us.army.mil)
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> Date: Wed, 08 Sep 2004 09:08:08 -0700
> From: in cho <insoocho at usc.edu>
> Subject: Re: [KS] Koreans scoring points
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> 1)  When was the statue of Yi Sunsin in Sejongro erected:
> 
> Based on quick web search, I found:
> 
> It was commissioned to a famous sculpture Kim Saejung(1928-1986), 
> formerprofessor of Seoul National University and director of 
> National Museum of
> Contemporary Art, Korea in 1966 and erected in 1968.
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Keith Pratt <keith.pratt at durham.ac.uk>
> Date: Wednesday, September 8, 2004 7:16 am
> Subject: [KS] Koreans scoring points
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> > Dear List,
> > 
> > Please can anybody answer the two following questions for me. 
> They are
> > both so factual that I should be able to find the answers for 
> myself, but
> > (like arguments about the fall of Singapore) whoever I ask seems 
> to come
> > up with a different answer:
> > (1)  When was the statue of Yi Sunsin in Sejongro erected, and 
> was there
> > any suggestion of contemporary anti-Japanese feeling in the 
> accompanying> speeches?
> > (2)  I have heard that the first Seoul subway line was
> > dug/built by a Japanese company, but that when it was officially 
> opened in
> > 1973 (?) the ceremony was arranged for August 15th, Liberation 
> Day, as a
> > means of saving a bit of Korean face. Is this actually so?
> > 
> > Thanks for any advice,
> > 
> > Keith Pratt
> > 
> > 
> 
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> Date: Wed, 08 Sep 2004 18:21:55 +0200
> From: Lucas H?sgen <lhusgen at kirogi.demon.nl>
> Subject: [KS] Fwd: JIN HI KIM Artist-In-Residence at Cornell
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> From: "Jin Hi Kim" <jhk47 at cornell.edu>
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> Subject: JIN HI KIM Artist-In-Residence at Cornell University
> Date: Wed, 8 Sep 2004 11:26:28 -0400 (EDT)
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> JIN HI KIM Artist-In-Residence at Cornell University
> 
> Ms. Kim is appointed for Artist-In-Residence at Cornell for the 
> fall  
> semester 2004. The residency is sponsored by the Departments of 
> Music and  
> Asian Studies, Society for the Humanities, Cornell Council for the 
> Arts,  
> Korean Students Association, and GPSAFC.
> 
> Jin Hi Kim will teach Living Tones & Korean Music in a Global 
> Context. The  
> course includes Introduction to Korean Traditional Music & 
> Instruments,  
> Korean Music as Ritual, Hypnotic Energy of Rhythmic Cycles, 
> Komungo and  
> Meditation, Living Tones Compositions for Orchestra and Chamber 
> Ensemble,  
> Cross-cultural Multimedia Performances, and Improvisations in a 
> Global  
> Context.
> 
> In addition, Ms. Kim will give two concerts on campus during her  
> residency. Komungo Muse & Permutation, a komungo/electric komungo 
> solo  
> recital will be presented at Johnson Museum of Art on September 
> 16. Unknot  
> & Tie, conceived by Kim for komungo/electric komungo, Chinese pipa 
> (Min  
> Xiao-Fen) and American jazz drum set (Gerry Hemingway) will be 
> performed  
> at Barnes Hall on October 27.
> 
> About the Artist:
> Jin Hi Kim is highly acclaimed as both an innovative komungo 
> virtuoso and  
> for her cross-cultural compositions. Her work has been presented 
> on  
> Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, the Kennedy 
> Center  
> for the Performing Arts, Royal Festival Hall (London), Haus der 
> Kulturen  
> der Welt (Berlin), and many significant new music festivals and 
> jazz  
> festivals throughout the USA, Europe, Canada, South America, 
> Russia, Asia,  
> New Zealand and Australia.
> 
> Ms. Kim introduced the Korean indigenous komungo for the first 
> time into  
> Western contemporary music scene with her compositions for various 
> chamber  
> ensembles, orchestra, as well as jazz and avant-garde 
> improvisations. Over  
> the past twenty years she has developed a series of compositions, 
> “Living  
> Tones”, in which the timbral persona of each tone generated is 
> treated  
> with an abiding respect, as its philosophical mandate from 
> Buddhism, a  
> reverence for the 'life' of a tone, the color and nuance granted 
> each  
> articulation from Korean Shamanism.
> --
> Artist-In-Residence
> Cornell University
> 376 Rockefeller Hall
> Asian Studies Department
> Ithaca, NY 14853
> 607-255-1342
> www.JinHiKim.com
> jhk47 at cornell.edu
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> There's nothing like the old songs, but what's the good if you 
> can't  
> remember them. Mem. Mem. Memory.
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