| Queen Min (Myong Hwanghu) [message #8288] |
Thu, 19 January 2006 01:12  |
eun
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Registered: September 2005
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I am writing a thesis which include artwork by contemporary Korean American
artists that utilize images and references to Queen Min. As a cross-
reference to popular culture, I wanted to know if there are Korean movies or
mini-series featuring the life and stories about Queen Min. I would like to
know if such examples from popular Korean culture exists.
Eun Jung Smith
Graduate Student
Art History Department
San Francisco State University
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| Re: Queen Min (Myong Hwanghu) [message #8294 is a reply to message #8288] |
Thu, 19 January 2006 19:20  |
Afostercarter
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There is/was of course the big musical The Last Empress.
Big in Korea, anyway. And in the US, I think?
In London it got some snide reviews, upsetting Koreans.
To a non-specialist the plot was unfamiliar and complex,
but I thought it was a terrific production.
Others on this list will know far more about this.
Perhaps it was just too early (late 90s) for the hallyu?
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In a message dated 20/01/2006 00:09:08 GMT Standard Time, eun@sfsu.edu
writes:
> Subj:[KS] Queen Min (Myong Hwanghu)
> Date:20/01/2006 00:09:08 GMT Standard Time
> From:eun@sfsu.edu
> Reply-to:Koreanstudies@koreaweb.ws
> To:Koreanstudies@koreaweb.ws
> Sent from the Internet
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> I am writing a thesis which include artwork by contemporary Korean American
> artists that utilize images and references to Queen Min. As a cross-
> reference to popular culture, I wanted to know if there are Korean movies or
>
> mini-series featuring the life and stories about Queen Min. I would like to
>
> know if such examples from popular Korean culture exists.
>
> Eun Jung Smith
> Graduate Student
> Art History Department
> San Francisco State University
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>
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| Re: Queen Min (Myong Hwanghu) [message #8295 is a reply to message #8294] |
Thu, 19 January 2006 22:06 |
Darcy Paquet
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Registered: July 1999
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Korean musicals, incidentally, seem to be receiving a new
(economic, not necessarily artistic) boost from the hallyu
phenomenon. The Last Empress will travel to Beijing and
Shanghai this spring, and it will be marketed as part of the
overall Korean wave. At the same time, large numbers of
Japanese spectators have been coming to Korea to watch both
Korean musicals and Korean versions of Western musicals
(often with well-known stars in the lead roles). Quite a
few Korean musicals and Korean-produced Western musicals
will also be touring through Japan this year, including the
musical version of the TV drama Winter Sonata. A musical
version of Jewel in the Palace is scheduled to be ready by 2007.
(I have an article about this appearing in this coming
week's issue of Variety, and a search through the websites
of Korean newspapers will turn up more related articles)
Back to Queen Min, there will be a major film production
centering on the story of Queen Min that will open shooting
this summer. It's from what can probably be called Korea's
leading production company, Sidus FNH. There was also a
popular TV drama from 2001 with Lee Mi-yeon and a music
video. Here's a link to a news story (in Korean):
http://tinyurl.com/9ztb8
Best of luck,
Darcy
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Darcy Paquet
KPO Box 1142
Gwanghwamun Post Office
Seoul 110-611 South Korea
darcy@koreanfilm.org
http://www.koreanfilm.org
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| Re: Queen Min (Myong Hwanghu) [message #8301 is a reply to message #8294] |
Fri, 20 January 2006 13:42 |
Stefan Ewing
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There was also the television drama _Myo^ngso^ng Hwanghu_, which aired on
KBS TV between 2001 and 2002 and starred Ch'oe Myo^nggil as the eponymous
empress. (http://www.kbs.co.kr/end_program/drama/myungsung/index.html ).
For some reason, the "see again" link doesn't work from the main page, but
can be accessed here:
http://www.kbs.co.kr/end_program/drama/myungsung/view/previe w/preview.html.
(Should be called "postview.html," I suppose....)
Stefan Ewing
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>To: Koreanstudies@koreaweb.ws
>Subject: Re: [KS] Queen Min (Myong Hwanghu)
>Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2006 19:20:22 EST
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>There is/was of course the big musical The Last Empress.
>Big in Korea, anyway. And in the US, I think?
>
>In London it got some snide reviews, upsetting Koreans.
>To a non-specialist the plot was unfamiliar and complex,
>but I thought it was a terrific production.
>
>Others on this list will know far more about this.
>Perhaps it was just too early (late 90s) for the hallyu?
>
>Aidan FC
>
>AIDAN FOSTER-CARTER
>Honorary Senior Research Fellow in Sociology & Modern Korea, Leeds
>University
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>...
>
> > Subj:[KS] Queen Min (Myong Hwanghu)
> > Date:20/01/2006 00:09:08 GMT Standard Time
> > From:eun@sfsu.edu
> > Reply-to:Koreanstudies@koreaweb.ws
> > To:Koreanstudies@koreaweb.ws
> > Sent from the Internet
> >
> > I am writing a thesis which include artwork by contemporary Korean
>American
> > artists that utilize images and references to Queen Min. As a cross-
> > reference to popular culture, I wanted to know if there are Korean
>movies or
> >
> > mini-series featuring the life and stories about Queen Min. I would
>like to
> >
> > know if such examples from popular Korean culture exists.
> >
> > Eun Jung Smith
> > Graduate Student
> > Art History Department
> > San Francisco State University
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| Re: Queen Min (Myong Hwanghu) [message #8302 is a reply to message #8288] |
Fri, 20 January 2006 21:12 |
Stefan Ewing
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Dear KS list members:
Sorry, just a quick note that my last link got rendered in the KS archives
with the trailing period as part of the link. It should have been:
http://www.kbs.co.kr/end_program/drama/myungsung/view/previe w/preview.html
Yours,
Stefan Ewing
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There was also the television drama _Myo^ngso^ng Hwanghu_, which aired on
KBS TV between 2001 and 2002 and starred Ch'oe Myo^nggil as the eponymous
empress. (http://www.kbs.co.kr/end_program/drama/myungsung/index.html ).
For some reason, the "see again" link doesn't work from the main page, but
can be accessed here:
http://www.kbs.co.kr/end_program/drama/myungsung/view/previe w/preview.html.
(Should be called "postview.html," I suppose....)
Stefan Ewing
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