[KS] Fwd: Korea in 1925 (German film with Korean narration)

[Hyung Pai]

Dear All
Thank you for the members' alert to the existence of this fascinating  
video. I think it will make great class materials as well, especially  
when we teach late 19th century travelers interest in Korea.
Can we order this from abroad?
On Sep 7, 2011, at 12:44 PM, Maya Stiller wrote:

> Dear list members,
>
> The video is indeed amazing. For those of you who need a hard copy,
> you can purchase it for 18.000 Won at
>
> http://www.benedictmedia.co.kr/front/php/product.php?product_no=208&main_cate_no=1&display_group=3
>
> Please also see the email posted by Frank Hoffmann last year with more
> information on Norbert Weber, and Prof Oak's link (see below).
>
> Kindest regards,
> Maya Stiller
>
>
> [KS] DVD, 1925 film by Norbert Weber, "Im Lande der Morgenstille"
>
> sung oak sungoak at hotmail.com
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> Dear Frank Hoffman,
>
> You can see its TV version at
> http://static.youku.com/v1.0.0103/v/swf/qplayer.swf?VideoIDS=XMTUzNzE0NjQw&embedid=OTguMjIwLjIyOC4xNDkCMzg0Mjg2NjACdWNjLnJlZHNwb3R0di5uZXQCL3Byb2MvYmJzL2JvYXJkLnBocA==&showAd=0
>
> I posted it on my website:
> http://koreanchristianity.humnet.ucla.edu/sources/filmsvideos
>
>
>
> Best,
>
> Sung-Deuk Oak
>
> UCLA
>
>
>> Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2010 00:29:47 -0400
>> From: hoffmann at koreaweb.ws
>> To: koreanstudies at koreaweb.ws
>> Subject: [KS] DVD, 1925 film by Norbert Weber, "Im Lande der  
>> Morgenstille"
>>
>> Dear All:
>>
>> The following DVD publication of a 1925 b/w documentary film by  
>> Father
>> Norbert Weber (1870-1956) of the German Benedictines seems worth
>> mentioning. The DVD was published last year. Yoo Kwang-On was so kind
>> to make me aware of this publication. Thanks!
>>
>> -------------------------------------------------------
>> 고요한 아침의 나라에서 / Im Lande der Morgenstille
>> (성 베네딕도회 한국진출 100주년 기념)
>> 노르베르트 베버 (Norbert Weber)
>> -------------------------------------------------------
>>
>> One of several possible order links with further info and still  
>> photos:
>> http://www.yes24.com/24/goods/3537472
>> (You can also order it via Aladin.co.kr or Kyobo.com.)
>> The German Benedictines in St. Ottilien have their own printing  
>> press,
>> EOS Verlag, but since this was published in Korea it is not available
>> through them, and thereby not available though any of the usual book
>> distribution systems in Europe or the U.S. (However, EOS Verlag has a
>> couple of other publications available about their missionary
>> experiences during the first half of the 20th century in southern and
>> northern Korea and in Yanbian.
>>
>> You may know Norbert Weber's fascinating 1915 book, _Im Lande der
>> Morgenstille_. Weber did not live in Korea all these years, but he
>> returned in 1925 to produce this now (re)published 118 minutes long
>> documentary. Roughly two thirds of the film show scenes of daily life
>> in Korea, some with a somewhat "National Geographic" almost (or
>> really) staged kind of aesthetics and outview, of course. After all,
>> this is a missionary movie. And -- to be expected -- the last third
>> shows the Benedictine's missionary work. Keeping this in mind, this  
>> is
>> just wonderful material of which you can sure use excerpts in any
>> class on traditional and modernizing Korea. Not a single Japanese to
>> be seen here! But as Yoo Kwang-On already noted in an email, a small
>> Korean boy performing a Cossack (Kaзaчoк) dance! Kalinka, Kalinka
>> ...aigo, that is pretty amazing to see in 1925! In any case, this is
>> worth getting. There also is a second DVD coming with this
>> publication, 67 minutes long, were a Korean speaker comments some of
>> the scences -- the clean up-to-date nationalist reinterpretation of
>> Weber's missionary view, so to say. It's poorly done ... there would
>> have just been so much to say, but that might then have disrupted the
>> beautifying statements, I suppose. So, in teh end this second film is
>> only good for clarifying some of the places and place names, for  
>> those
>> less familiar with Korea, is otherwise hardly worth viewing.
>>
>> In the early 1990s I stayed twice at the St. Ottilien Archabbey
>> (Bavaria, southern Germany) and also briefly met with two of the then
>> still alive old Korea hands, missionaries who had been there from the
>> 1930s to the 1950s. Most impressive was also the monastery's library.
>> Although just a late 19th century building, it somehow still had _The
>> Name of the Rose_ qualities to it (in my eyes anyway), and it was  
>> such
>> an amazing experience to see all those 1920s and 1930s publications,
>> partially handwritten Korean language books, used to teach kids in
>> their various abbeys in Korea and Manchuria. Please note that the
>> first German Koreanist, André Eckardt, son of a Munich painter, also
>> started out as a Benedictine monk there. It should also be noted that
>> the famous St. Ottilien "Diamond Mountains" (Kŭmgang-san) album by
>> Chŏng Sŏn (1676-1759) that was once bought by Norbert Weber and
>> brought to St. Ottilien is now back in Korea (at the Waegwan Abbey
>> there, and is on display since 2009).
>>
>>
>> Best,
>> Frank
>

Hyung Il Pai
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East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies Department, University of  
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