[KS] Koreanstudies Digest, Vol 99, Issue 5

Tue Sep 6 12:26:02 EDT 2011

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.

Bruce Cumings
University of Chicago

On Sep 6, 2011, at 12:00 PM, koreanstudies-request at koreaweb.ws wrote:

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>   1. Re: Fwd: Korea in 1925 (German film with Korean narration)
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>   2. Re: Korea Studies in Tokyo (Kenneth Robinson)
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> Date: Mon, 05 Sep 2011 21:19:43 -0400
> From: "Charles K. Armstrong" <cra10 at columbia.edu>
> To: koreanstudies at koreaweb.ws
> Subject: Re: [KS] Fwd: Korea in 1925 (German film with Korean
> 	narration)
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> Dear Ed,
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> Thank you for sharing this. I believe this was made by the same
> Benedictine monk whom I interviewed in Waegwan more than 20 years ago,
> when he was quite ill and nearing the end of his life. He told me many
> fascinating stories of the Benedictines' work in Wonsan, where their
> monastery was located before the Korean War. best,
>
> Charles
> -- 
> Charles K. Armstrong
> Professor of History
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> Quoting "Edward J. Baker" <ejbaker at fas.harvard.edu>:
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>> Dear Friends,
>>
>> Some of you may have seen this fascinating hour-long film made by a
>> German Catholic priest/missionary (Father Norbert Weber (sp?), a
>> Benedictine monk or priest) in 1925, but, if you haven't, you
>> should. It also contains still photos Weber shot on an earlier trip
>> to Korea in 1911. It shows a lot of things that none of us, and
>> almost no living Korean, has ever seen. I think it should be shared
>> widely as our friend Peter Bartholomew has already done.
>>
>> It was put together as a KBS Special but somehow comes to us through
>> Chinese hands.
>>
>> If you just click on
>> <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
>> browser.
>>
>> Yours,
>>
>> Ed Baker
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> Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2011 14:38:03 +0900
> From: Kenneth Robinson <anagosama at hotmail.com>
> To: <koreanstudies at koreaweb.ws>
> Subject: Re: [KS] Korea Studies in Tokyo
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> Dear Colleagues,
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> 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.
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> Research Presentation:
> 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"
>
> Book Review:
> Shin Ch'angu. "Nihon no Chousen shokuminchi shihai to keisatsu:  
> 1905-1945," by Matsuda Toshihiko (Tokyo: Azekura Shobou, 2009)
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>
> 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.
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> Ken Robinson
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