[KS] Koreanstudies Digest, Vol 99, Issue 11

Bruce Cumings rufus88 at uchicago.edu
Fri Sep 9 10:52:16 EDT 2011


Dear Reudiger,

I am sorry for mixing up two Franks, both of whom I know well--and  
especially thankful to Reudiger for his long and substantial response.

Bruce Cumings

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> Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2011 10:36:58 +0200
> From: Ruediger Frank <ruediger.frank at univie.ac.at>
> To: AKSE <koreanstudies at koreaweb.ws>
> Subject: [KS] FRANK_Publications and Call for Papers
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> Dear colleagues,
> as promised earlier, I wanted to share a (rather long) link to the  
> first introductory chapter and the table of contents of the book  
> "Exploring North Korean Arts" that has been published in July:
> http://wirtschaft.ostasien.univie.ac.at/fileadmin/user_upload/lehrstuhl_wirtschaft_ostasien/Dokumente/2011_09_Exploring_North_Korean_Arts_First_chapter_and_table_of_contents.pdf
> Please also note the recent publication of "Korea 2011: Politics,  
> Economy and Society" (367 pp); more information is available here: http://www.brill.nl/korea-2011 
>  and here: http://wirtschaft.ostasien.univie.ac.at/fileadmin/user_upload/lehrstuhl_wirtschaft_ostasien/Dokumente/Flyer_KYB_2011.pdf
> The latter document contains a promotional code for a 25% discount  
> for orders until Dec. 2011.
> By the way, the editors are now inviting contributions for "Korea  
> 2012". The CFP is here: http://www.brill.nl/files/brill.nl/specific/downloads/49283-Call-for-papers-Korea-2012.pdf
> Best regards,
> Rudiger Frank
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> From: Ruediger Frank <ruediger.frank at univie.ac.at>
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> Dear Bruce,
> hmm, the other Frank has already responded. But since even long-term  
> friends tend to ignore the fact that Frank is my last name, there is  
> a chance your inquiry was related to my positing about the book  
> written by P. Ambrosius Hafner OSB (1960): Laengs der Roten Strasse  
> (Along the Red Road), EOS Verlag der Erzabtei St. Ottilien.
> So I read it again this morning. Here is, in a nutshell, the  
> contents. Don't be too critical; I should mention in my defense that  
> I am neither an expert in religious studies nor in literature.
> It is hard to say what this book is: a novel, a documentary, a  
> historical account? I guess it is a bit of all these. The author  
> only once, indirectly, mentions that the protagonists are  
> Benedictine; the narrator speaks of Christians, or Catholics. The  
> main protagonist is a nun known by her Christian name Sister  
> Theresa; her Korean name is Nam Song-wol. I suppose the book is  
> based on her recollections, although nothing to this effect is  
> stated. The other figures change continuously; German padres, Swiss  
> nuns and Korean padres and nuns are mentioned but often only  
> identified by their first names (Pater Egbert, Sister Martha etc.).  
> In total I think about 40 names appear in the book, obviously real  
> people.
> The language of the novel indicates that it is either a translation  
> from Korean, or that it was written by a person who spoke Korean  
> routinely. Maybe it is the product of a cooperation between a Korean  
> and a German speaker. The style of the German language is a bit old  
> fashioned, hinting either at the age of the writer or his non-German  
> nationality, maybe Swiss. In any case, it sounds very authentic. The  
> writer has clearly been in the area and is familiar with local  
> customs and terminology. Names of individuals and places pop up  
> almost out of nowhere and not following any pattern - at least I was  
> unable to identify one. Romanization is of a German style (see  
> below, Tsch for ch' etc.). Here and there, a few details on  
> historical events are provided but they are not very precise, and  
> sometimes mistaken. Almost no dates or numbers are provided.The name  
> of the order is not stated; however, at one point "money from  
> Switzerland" is mentioned where the head office of the order is in !
> !
> Cham, and after 1953 the nuns open a hospital in Pusan named after  
> St. Benedict. So I guess this is indeed a story about the destiny of  
> a Benedictine nun and her long journey from Japan-occupied Manchuria  
> via Russia-occupied north of Korea to Ch'ungch'?ngdo, and then the  
> flight to Pusan during the Korean War.
> The book begins in Hunchun (I am using romanization as provided in  
> the book) with a short retrospect into the colonial period around  
> 1941. The Japanese rulers are described very negatively. In  
> particular, sister Theresa (Korean, the central figure of the book)  
> notes the Japanese principal enmity towards Christianity and their  
> reckless policy of enforcing Shintoism upon people in southern  
> Manchukuo. At one point, Theresa is banned from teaching at a local  
> school unless she stops wearing her habit, which she of course  
> refuses to do.
> The actual story sets in with August 1945, Japanese capitulation  
> imminent and the Russians ante portas. Because of rumors of  
> atrocities, and amid a general panic of people leaving Hunchun, the  
> mission including Sister Theresa Song-Wol Nam leaves, too. They  
> don't get far and wait for the Japanese to go and the Russians to  
> arrive. The latter kill every Japanese they find and also everybody  
> with good clothes but leave the ordinary people alone (so she  
> heard). A senior nun (Paula) later pays a visit to the Russian  
> commander who, after a short discussion, even allows the German (!)  
> pater to continue holding religious services in Hunchun to calm the  
> local people's worries.
> A few days later sister Theresa is sent to Yongtschong, a city 4  
> hours from Yenki. There she observes how religion is being  
> criticized as opium for the people, and how formerly criminal  
> Koreans use the power vacuum to get influential positions with  
> support by the Russians. They then start looting and ideological  
> cleansing, resulting in the deaths of many people and enforced self- 
> criticism sessions for the intimidated survivors. The power-yielding  
> Chinese-Korean guerillas, by the way, are described as "the formerly  
> notorious bandits". There is also a short story about a Communist  
> Chinese-Korean village head who is tortured and then killed by  
> followers of Chiang Kai-shek, thus hinting at another story related  
> to the Chinese civil war.
> Things get more difficult around Spring 1946. The biggest problem  
> for the mission does not seem to be Russians but rather fellow  
> Koreans. As the Russians leave, the church is without protection.  
> The German padres and nuns are arrested; at some point a total of 30  
> Germans is said to be in jail in Yenki. Later, the complete group  
> around Theresa is arrested and put on trial in a village called  
> Paltoku. In his defence, the German padre Reginald mentions that he  
> spent 20 years in Korea. The village head is reluctant to have the  
> Christians executed for fear of public disapproval and so they get  
> away with a light punishment.
> As things are getting worse in China, in early 1947 Korean Pater Ho  
> and Sister Theresa decide to go to the south of Korea, i.e. make  
> their way through the northern part. Along the way their (forged)  
> passports are checked on the Chinese side by illiterate children,  
> farmers and other people who have been entrusted with powers by the  
> authorities (or who claim so). They make it to Hoeryong, discover  
> atrocities like burned churches and murdered priests, and move on  
> along the East coast to Tschongtschin, Ranam, Kiltschu, Songtschin,  
> Puktschon, and Hamhung. Finally they make it to Wonsan but stay only  
> briefly in the mission there. Along the way they observe that most  
> villages are left more or less intact; destruction took place only  
> in and around major cities where the Russians fought the Japanese.  
> Crossing the 38th parallel is adventurous but they make it with the  
> help of a local guide. In the south, they visit Seoul and a number  
> of other places. Finally, they settle down in Tschung!
> !
> tschon(g) province, in the village of Sosa. (Or so they say, as Sosa  
> is actually in Ky?nggi-do, to the South-West of Seoul).
> In June 1950, the Korean War breaks out. At first told by the  
> authorities to stay calm because the Americans would repel the  
> Northern troops, growing numbers of refugees convince them to leave  
> the village. As the situation gets more and more chaotic, refugees  
> die while falling off bridges. Nobody knows what is going on. After  
> realizing that they won't get far, the group returns to Sosa and  
> tries to arrange it self with the new situation. After a discussion  
> with the new Communist village head, where Theresa steadfastly  
> defends Christianity, it is decided that the group of eight nuns is  
> going to be executed. They are saved, however, by the landing at  
> Inch'?n in mid September 1950 (they can hear the artillery fire).  
> After the truce of 1953, the nuns go to Pusan where they at first  
> just survive but later manage to open a hospital led by a certain  
> Dr. Yoo. That's it.
>
> To answer Bruce's question, according to the book, incarceration  
> etc. was done by Koreans, not Russians. The reasons were of a  
> principal nature, since Christianity was regarded as a competing  
> ideology. While reports about executions and torture in the book are  
> based on hearsay, it was clear to the missionaries that they were  
> not welcome. In fact, in terms of style and contents the accusations  
> the Christians faced reminded me of Han Sorya's S?ngnyangi novel  
> (see in particular Brian Myers' excellent book [Han Sorya and North  
> Korean Literature] for context and an analysis). At one point, they  
> were accused of leading a capitalist and parasitic life style  
> because they were allegedly walking around the village self-inviting  
> themselves for lunch and dinner at the local houses. But I guess the  
> real reason has to do with the power vacuum left behind by the  
> Japanese, and the fact that religious groups with their common  
> ideology and existing organizational structure are an almost natural!
> !
> nucleus for the organization of worldly power. I only say Cho Man- 
> sik. And I can't resist: just watch what is going to happen in Libya  
> in the next months.
>
> Best,
> Rudiger
>
>
>
>
>
>
> on Mittwoch, 7. September 2011 at 17:51 you wrote:
>
>> Dear Frank,
>
>> Thanks for this important information about the Benedictine folks.
>> Does the German-language book give the North Korean reason for
>> incarcerating these selfless people, who undoubtedly were much
>> appreciated in the Korean community? Or what they took to be the real
>> reason?
>
>> Best,
>
>
>> Bruce Cumings
>
>
>> On Sep 6, 2011, at 6:42 PM, koreanstudies-request at koreaweb.ws wrote:
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>>> Today's Topics:
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>>>  1. Re: Fwd: Korea in 1925 (German film with Korean narration)
>>>     (Dr. Edward D. Rockstein)
>>>  2. Re: Koreanstudies Digest, Vol 99, Issue 5 (Frank Hoffmann)
>>>  3. Re: Fwd: Korea in 1925 (German film with Korean narration)
>>>     (Jim Thomas)
>>>  4. Postdoctoral Fellowship in Korean Studies,       Australian
>>>     National University (Hyaeweol Choi)
>
>
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>>> Message: 1
>>> Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2011 09:37:09 -0700 (PDT)
>>> From: "Dr. Edward D. Rockstein" <ed4linda at yahoo.com>
>>> To: Korean Studies Discussion List <koreanstudies at koreaweb.ws>
>>> Subject: Re: [KS] Fwd: Korea in 1925 (German film with Korean
>>>      narration)
>>> Message-ID:
>>>      <1315327029.12664.YahooMailClassic at web33901.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
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>>> Ed Baker's email and Charles Armstrong's response called to mind a
>>> colleague of yesteryear, the late Ross MacDonald from the University
>>> of Toronto, whom I met and saw at several AAS conventions and who
>>> always had time for me and other younger, erstwhile Korean scholars.
>>> Ross was, I believe, born or grew up in Wonsan of missionary
>>> parents. His wife, in 1981, found some film in a trunk among her
>>> late husband's possessions. I suggest that those interested in old
>>> Korean footage check out this website:
>
>>> http://tinyurl.com/3w82cdd
>
>>> Regards,
>
>>> Ed Rockstein
>
>>> Dr. Edward D. Rockstein
>
>>> ed4linda at yahoo.com??
>
>
>
>
>>> --- On Mon, 9/5/11, Charles K. Armstrong <cra10 at columbia.edu> wrote:
>
>>> From: Charles K. Armstrong <cra10 at columbia.edu>
>>> Subject: Re: [KS] Fwd: Korea in 1925 (German film with Korean
>>> narration)
>>> To: koreanstudies at koreaweb.ws
>>> Date: Monday, September 5, 2011, 9:19 PM
>
>>> 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 13:04:16 -0700
>>> From: Frank Hoffmann <hoffmann at koreaweb.ws>
>>> To: Korean Studies Discussion List <koreanstudies at koreaweb.ws>
>>> Subject: Re: [KS] Koreanstudies Digest, Vol 99, Issue 5
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>>> As regards to Professor Cumings' note below:
>
>>> Yes, that is right, until 1949, the year of the
>>> interview that was the situation. That's the year
>>> when they all got imprisoned and put away a North
>>> Korean Gulag, to Oksad?k prison camp. One of the
>>> books I had just listed in my last posting is a
>>> record of this imprisonment from 1949 to 1954,
>>> and about the period before that (from 1944).
>>> Both, male missionaries and nuns (e.g. Maria
>>> Gerstmayer and Bertwina Caesar who is still
>>> alive) were imprisoned there, and some died of
>>> permanent malnutrition and from the consequences
>>> of hard labor with no treatment of diseases etc.
>
>>> Here again the book:
>>> Kugelmann, Willibald, et al: Schicksal in Korea:
>>> Deutsche Missionare berichten. 2nd ed., St.
>>> Ottilien: EOS-Verlag, 1974 (reprint 1992, and 3rd
>>> extended ed. 2009).
>>> The new 2009 edition has new editors: Witgar Dondorfer and
>>> Willibrord Driever.
>
>>> Amazon.de link to the latest, revised 3rd edition (with new editor):
>>> http://www.amazon.de/Schicksal-Korea-Missionare-berichten-1944-1954/dp/3830674031/
>
>>> There are 24 eyewitness reports in this book.
>
>
>>> Best regards,
>>> Frank
>
>
>>>> 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
>
>>> -- 
>>> --------------------------------------
>>> Frank Hoffmann
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>>> Message: 3
>>> Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2011 12:12:48 -0700
>>> From: Jim Thomas <jimpthomas at hotmail.com>
>>> To: Korean Studies Discussion List <koreanstudies at koreaweb.ws>
>>> Subject: Re: [KS] Fwd: Korea in 1925 (German film with Korean
>>>      narration)
>>> Message-ID: <BLU165-W981D910199F8F98BA6B91DD1C0 at phx.gbl>
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>
>>> Would Dr. Rockstein or other listserve members know if a copy of the
>>> full 6 hours of Morris' film footage still exits? And where?
>>> And if it has been digitized and made available online?
>>> thank you,
>>> jim thomas
>
>
>
>
>>> Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2011 09:37:09 -0700
>>> From: ed4linda at yahoo.com
>>> To: koreanstudies at koreaweb.ws
>>> Subject: Re: [KS] Fwd: Korea in 1925 (German film with Korean
>>> narration)
>
>
>
>
>
>>> Ed Baker's email and Charles Armstrong's response called to mind a
>>> colleague of yesteryear, the late Ross MacDonald from the University
>>> of Toronto, whom I met and saw at several AAS conventions and who
>>> always had time for me and other younger, erstwhile Korean scholars.
>>> Ross was, I believe, born or grew up in Wonsan of missionary
>>> parents. His wife, in 1981, found some film in a trunk among her
>>> late husband's possessions. I suggest that those interested in old
>>> Korean footage check out this website:
>
>>> http://tinyurl.com/3w82cdd
>
>>> Regards,
>
>>> Ed Rockstein
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>>> Dr. Edward D. Rockstein
>
>
>>> ed4linda at yahoo.com
>
>
>
>
>>> --- On Mon, 9/5/11, Charles K. Armstrong <cra10 at columbia.edu> wrote:
>
>
>>> From: Charles K. Armstrong <cra10 at columbia.edu>
>>> Subject: Re: [KS] Fwd: Korea in 1925 (German film with Korean
>>> narration)
>>> To: koreanstudies at koreaweb.ws
>>> Date: Monday, September 5, 2011, 9:19 PM
>
>
>>> 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: 4
>>> Date: Wed, 07 Sep 2011 08:30:50 +1000
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>>> To: koreanstudies at koreaweb.ws
>>> Subject: [KS] Postdoctoral Fellowship in Korean Studies,       
>>> Australian
>>>      National University
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>
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>
>>> Best wishes,
>>> Hyaeweol Choi
>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
>>> -- 
>>> Hyaeweol Choi
>>> ANU-Korea Foundation Professor of Korean Studies
>>> Director, Korea Institute
>>> School of Culture, History and Language
>>> College of Asia and the Pacific
>>> Australian National University
>>> Canberra, ACT 0200
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