[KS] Koreanstudies Digest, Vol 99, Issue 5

Wed Sep 7 03:34:26 EDT 2011

Dear all,
those who are interested in the story of the Benedictine padres (and who read German) might want to take a look at a book describing the events after liberation written by "Pater Ambrosius HAFNER OSB" titled "Laengs der Roten Strasse" (Along the Red Road), published in 1960 by "EOS Verlag der Erzabtei St. Ottilien". It is written in the style of a novel with documentary character and has about 170 pages. I have a, well, safety copy made in Korea that contains a stamp from the library of the Goethe Zentrum in Pusan. 
Best,
Rudiger Frank

on Dienstag, 6. September 2011 at 18:26 you wrote:

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

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Today's Topics:

  1. Re: Fwd: Korea in 1925 (German film with Korean narration)
     (Charles K. Armstrong)
  2. Re: Korea Studies in Tokyo (Kenneth Robinson)

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Message: 1
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,

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
Director, Center for Korean Research
Columbia University
930 International Affairs Building
420 West 118th Street
New York, NY 10027

Tel: 212-854-1721
Fax: 212-749-1497

Quoting "Edward J. Baker" <ejbaker at fas.harvard.edu>:

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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Message: 2
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,

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. 

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)

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.

Ken Robinson

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