From sayyes2korea at yahoo.com Sat Dec 2 01:53:02 2006 From: sayyes2korea at yahoo.com (Tracy Stober) Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2006 22:53:02 -0800 (PST) Subject: [KS] ABC Diane Sawyer inside North Korea next Friday In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <890113.3107.qm@web53003.mail.yahoo.com> Dear list members: I found this interesting that Diane Sawyer has been allowed inside North Korea. ABC has a lot of additional footage on their website: http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/story?id=2590191&page=1 The program will be broadcast on Friday December 8th. at 9PM. Sincerely, Tracy Stober MA International Relations-Korea Studies Seattle, Washington --------------------------------- Any questions? Get answers on any topic at Yahoo! Answers. Try it now. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Keith Pratt From qdai.uok at mbox.nc.kyushu-u.ac.jp Mon Dec 4 04:23:13 2006 From: qdai.uok at mbox.nc.kyushu-u.ac.jp (Research Center for Korean Studies, Kyushu Univ) Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2006 18:23:13 +0900 Subject: [KS] Position Opening at Research Center for Korean Studies, Kyushu University Message-ID: <00d901c71785$d5c86dc0$f8ca0585@FM2EB384D3EB9E> Visiting Professor Program Research Center for Korean Studies, Kyushu University Invitation for Applications, 2007-2008 The Research Center for Korean Studies of Kyushu University is pleased to announce one Visiting Professor will be recruited for the academic year of 2007-2008. Foreign specialists in the field of Korean studies who are interested in spending no more than 6 months at the Research Center for Korean Studies during the academic year of 2007-2008 (April to March), are invited to submit applications for this program. Obligations The Visiting Professor has the following obligations to the Center: 1. As the Center is a research institution, there are no teaching duties, but the visiting scholar is expected to be available for talks and consultation with the members of faculty and graduate students. 2. The Center will expect the Visiting Professor to give at least two formal presentations at international symposiums hosted by the Research Center for Korean Studies or other academic meetings at Kyushu University. 3. The Center will further expect the Visiting Professor to contribute an article during their stay in Fukuoka to the Center?s international refereed journal, Korean Studies, on a subject within the broad confines of Korean studies. 4. Upon the completion of the stay, the Visiting Professor is asked to submit a report on the program. Conditions of Awards The Center undertakes to provide the following: 1. One round-trip economy airfare between the place of residence and Fukuoka. Travel expenses for any dependents will not be paid. 2. A salary. It will be paid according to the professor?s experience and Kyushu University Regulations. 3. Inexpensive accommodation arranged by the Center. The rent of the designated accommodation and the cost of gas, electricity, water supply etc. must be paid separately. 4. A daily commuting allowance to and from the Center. 5. An office at the Center (including a personal computer) and access to all university and library facilities. Secretarial service is not provided. 6. The national medical insurance will be available at the Visiting Professor?s expense. 7. The Visiting Professor is expected to spend no more than 6 months at the Center. The above-mentioned conditions are preliminary and are subject to change once the final details of the program are determined in 2007-2008. Application Applicants should submit applications for this program by the deadline (December 28, 2006). The application form is available from the website of the?Center?(http://rcks.isc.kyushu-u.ac.jp/e-rcks/index.html). Applicants are expected to attach at least two letters of reference: one letter from the institution to which they are attached, testifying that they will be free during the duration of their stay in Fukuoka, and another, confidential letter from a recognized specialist in their field. Selection The selection process will be conducted during January 2007, carefully examining the applicants? research plans, academic achievements, possible contributions to the research projects of the Research Center for Korean Studies, and other factors. Notification Applicants will be informed of the selection results by the end of January, 2007. Correspondence Correspondence concerning this program should be addressed to: Tsugio Inaba, Director Research Center for Korean Studies, Kyushu University 6-10-1, Hakozaki, Higashi-ku, Fukuoka 812-8581, Japan -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Ken Robinson From petrov at coombs.anu.edu.au Thu Dec 7 13:40:40 2006 From: petrov at coombs.anu.edu.au (Leonid Petrov) Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2006 19:40:40 +0100 Subject: [KS] Korea and France in the Globalizing World (12 Dec. Sciences Po in Paris) Message-ID: Dear Friends and Colleagues, Please find below (and attached) the updated and final Programme for the Joint Workshop and Business Seminar "Korea and France in the Globalizing World" to be held this Tuesday, 12 December 2006, at Sciences Po in Paris. SUMMARY These Joint Workshop and Business Seminar are planned as a concerted effort undertaken by Sciences Po, the Graduate School of International Studies (GSIS) of Seoul National University (SNU), and the Chamber of Commerce and Industries of Korea and France (CCICF) to celebrate the 120th anniversary of diplomatic relations between France and Korea. This event is designed to combine both the academic scholarship and the economic management expertise, bringing together the scholars of international relations, political economy and history, along with businessmen, consultants, and analysts from Korea and France. Presenters and discussants will share their views on the past and present of French-Korean relations and offer some recommendations on the strengthening of political and economic cooperation between the two countries in the 21st century. We shall get a better and bigger picture of the place which Korea and France will occupy in the globalizing world. The joint participation of scholars from Sciences Po, GSIS SNU, and INALCO, along with the representatives of Korean business circles accredited in France, will help this Joint Workshop and Business Seminar become a remarkable forum where academic expertise and creative business thinking complement each other. PRESENTERS & DISCUSSANTS Prof. Taeho BARK, Dean of GSIS, SNU Prof. Jinhyun PAIK, Associate Dean, Director of EU Centre, GSIS, SNU Prof. Woosik MOON, Deputy Director of EU Centre, GSIS, SNU Prof. Youngmock LEE, Professor of French Language and Literature, SNU Prof. Fran?ois GODEMENT, Sciences Po. Prof. Bruno CAUTRES, Researcher, CEVIPOF, Sciences Po Prof. Jacques LE CACHEUX, OFCE, MPA, Sciences Po. Prof. Leonid A. PETROV, Chair of Korean Studies, Sciences Po Dr. Laurent QUISEFIT, Researcher, INALCO Mr. Olivier ROUX, Director, Phoenix Commercial Ventures Ltd Mr. Yoo-duk KANG, M.A., PhD Candidate, Sciences Po Mr. Oung BYUN, M.A., PhD Candidate, Sciences Po. PROGRAMME "Korea and France in the Globalizing World" Joint Workshop by Sciences Po and Graduate School of International Studies, Seoul National University 12 December 2006 L'amphith??tre Leroy Beaulieu, 3 Floor, 27 rue Saint-Guillaume, 75007 Paris 9:00 ? 10:30 Session 1: Korea-France Relations: Retrospect and Prospect Presenter: Prof. Youngmock LEE (in French) Presenter: Dr. Laurent QUISEFIT (in French) Presenter: Oung BYUN M.A. (in French) 10:30 ? 10:45 Coffee break 10:45 ? 12:15 Session 2: Promoting Closer Cooperation between Korea and EU Presenter: Prof. Taeho BARK and Prof. Woosik MOON (in English) Presenter Mr. Olivier ROUX (in English) Discussant: Mr. Yoo-duk KANG (in English) 12:15 ? 14:00 Lunch break Room J208, Sciences Po, 13 rue de'l Universite, 75007 Paris 14:00 ? 15:30 Session 3: Korean Peninsula after the North Korean Nuclear Test Presenter: Prof. Jinhyun PAIK (in English) Presenter: Prof. Fran?ois GODEMENT (in English) Discussant: Prof. Leonid PETROV (in English) 15:30 ? 16:30 Afternoon break (individual arrangements) Joint Business Seminar Sciences Po, Chambre de Commerce & d'Industrie Cor?e France Room J208, Sciences Po, 13 rue de'l Universite 75007 Paris 16:45 ? 17:00 Refreshments 17:00 ? 17:55 Session 1: France after the 2007 National Election - Possible Changes and Prospects for Foreign Investors. Presenter: Prof. Bruno CAUTRES (in English) 17:55 ? 18 :05 Refreshments 18:05 ? 19:00 Session 2: Relations between Economy and Politics in France Presenter: Prof. Jacques LE CACHEUX (in English) If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact me. I look forward to seeing you at Sciences Po on 12 December. Yours sincerely, Leonid A. Petrov PhD Chair of Korean Studies, -- Sciences Po Asia Centre Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris, Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques *********************************** Visiting address: 2 Floor, 224, Blvd S.Germain, 75007 PARIS Postal address: 27, Rue S.Guillaume, F - 75337 PARIS, Cedex 07, FRANCE Mob.+33 6 25615963 Tel: +33 1 45497768(office) Fax: +33 1 45497761 http://asia-centre.sciences-po.fr/academics/korean_chair.html -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Native-level English fluency) ACADEMIC AREAS: International Business (Marketing or HR or OB) or, Development Studies or Area Studies DESCRIPTION: The Graduate School of International Studies (GSIS) and the Division of International Studies (DIS) at Ewha Womans University (Seoul, S. Korea) is seeking foreign nationals to apply for a tenure-track position of Assistant / Associate Professor. Korean citizens are not eligible to apply. The faculty member will be expected to teach both graduate and undergraduate courses in English. QUALIFICATIONS: Candidates must have Ph.D. or ABD and relevant teaching competence in one or more of the following areas: International Business (Marketing or HR or OB), or Development Studies, or Area Studies. The successful candidate will have outstanding research potential and English proficiency at the native speaker level. Salary is competitive. Ewha Womans University is a top-tier university in Korea, and further, Ewha GSIS has been ranked as the #1 program of its kind by the Korean Ministry of Education. APPLICATION PROCEDURE Application: Please refer to the faculty recruiting announcement on the Ewha Womans University homepage (http://www.ewha.ac.kr/eng/index.html). For faculty positions at Ewha GSIS, the required documents and deadline of receipt have been slightly modified. Please send a completed application form, a list of publications, and two letters of recommendation to Dean Eun Mee Kim, Graduate School of International Studies (GSIS), Ewha Womans University, 11-1 Daehyun-dong, Seodaemun-ku, Seoul, 120-750, the Republic of Korea, no later than December 26, 2006. Further documentation may be requested at a later date. E-mail applications are welcome ? in such a case, the application material should be sent by regular mail as well. We will acknowledge receipt of your material via e-mail. The evaluation process consists of two stages: (1) Interview/lecture at the GSIS (January 3 or 4, 2007; if the candidate cannot come to Seoul, a video-conference may be arranged) and (2) Interview at the headquarters and with the President of Ewha (January 15-19, 2007). Candidates will be contacted individually for the first (Dec. 27, 2006) and second stages (Jan. 8-12, 2007). Contact information: The Graduate School of International Studies, Ewha Womans University, 11-1 Daehyun-dong, Seodaemun-ku, Seoul, 120-750, the Republic of Korea. Tel: 82-2-3277-3956; Fax: 82-2-365-0942; E-mail: gsis97 at ewha.ac.kr; URL: http://gsis.ewha.ac.kr ____________________________________________________________________________________ Yahoo! Music Unlimited Access over 1 million songs. http://music.yahoo.com/unlimited From lowenmaulchen at hotmail.com Thu Dec 14 23:45:10 2006 From: lowenmaulchen at hotmail.com (naomi) Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2006 23:45:10 -0500 Subject: [KS] Koguryo inquiry In-Reply-To: <58c.46336f0.3236808c@aol.com> Message-ID: Dear List Members, My dissertation is focused on the political economy of Koguryo and includes the role of China and UNESCO. Any insight on locating North Korean sources of information available in either English or Chinese would be highly appreciated. Thank you, Naomi Naomi Hellmann Development Studies Brown University Naomi_Hellmann at brown.edu -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: /pipermail/koreanstudies_koreaweb.ws/attachments/20061214/93f0bb42/attachment.html From ed4linda at yahoo.com Fri Dec 15 11:03:10 2006 From: ed4linda at yahoo.com (Dr. Edward D. Rockstein) Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2006 08:03:10 -0800 (PST) Subject: [KS] Koguryo inquiry In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <463953.80598.qm@web33904.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Either UNESCO is a lot older than I knew or there're some connecting ideas referenced exaphorically! KCNA often has tirades in Korean and English in re the ?wnership"and/or preservation of Koguryo remains, but I'm not getting the Koguryo "political economy" connection. Doc Rock naomi wrote: st1\:*{behavior:url(#default#ieooui) } Dear List Members, My dissertation is focused on the political economy of Koguryo and includes the role of China and UNESCO. Any insight on locating North Korean sources of information available in either English or Chinese would be highly appreciated. Thank you, Naomi Naomi Hellmann Development Studies Brown University Naomi_Hellmann at brown.edu Dr. Edward D. Rockstein Korean Language Instructor Language Learning Center (LLC) 891 Elkridge Landing Road, Rm 301 Linthicum Heights, MD 21090 Office 410-859-5672 Fax 410-859-5737 ed4linda at yahoo.com "All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones" Benjamin Franklin __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: /pipermail/koreanstudies_koreaweb.ws/attachments/20061215/926d1aa1/attachment.html From petrov at coombs.anu.edu.au Sun Dec 17 20:39:45 2006 From: petrov at coombs.anu.edu.au (Leonid Petrov) Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2006 10:39:45 +0900 Subject: [KS] Koguryo inquiry In-Reply-To: References: <58c.46336f0.3236808c@aol.com> Message-ID: Dear Naomi and All, Indeed, on 2 July 2004 the DPRK had the Koguryo murals discovered around Pyongyang and Namp'o inscribed on UNESCO's World Heritage List. This move is expected to benefit the North Korea in many ways. A country that receives little international attention except for engineered famine and its crying abuse of human rights, its activities in nuclear weapons and missiles development has got a chance to emphasize that Koguryo was part of the history of Korean people. However, the DPRK was not only interested in preserving its cultural heritage. By having Koguryo mural tombs internationally recognized, North Korea also plans to establish its hegemony in the process of national unification and even to secure itself from possible preventive strikes. Even in a case of military dispute, a place once registered as a World Heritage Site is not permitted to be attacked under international law... More on the political economy of the Koguryo issue (as it is seen in contemporary Korea, China, and Japan) see < http://north-korea.boom.ru/koguryo.htm > With very best regards, Leonid A. Petrov PhD Chair of Korean Studies, -- Sciences Po Asia Centre Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris, Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques *********************************** Visiting address: 2 Floor, 224, Blvd S.Germain, 75007 PARIS Postal address: 27, Rue S.Guillaume, F - 75337 PARIS, Cedex 07, FRANCE Mob.+33 6 25615963 Tel: +33 1 45497768(office) Fax: +33 1 45497761 http://asia-centre.sciences-po.fr/academics/korean_chair.html On 15/12/06, naomi wrote: > > Dear List Members, > > > > My dissertation is focused on the political economy of Koguryo and > includes the role of China and UNESCO. Any insight on locating North Korean > sources of information available in either English or Chinese would be > highly appreciated. > > > > Thank you, > > Naomi > > > > > > Naomi Hellmann > > Development Studies > > Brown University > > Naomi_Hellmann at brown.edu > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: /pipermail/koreanstudies_koreaweb.ws/attachments/20061218/fb36f672/attachment.html From robinson at icu.ac.jp Mon Dec 18 06:57:17 2006 From: robinson at icu.ac.jp (robinson at icu.ac.jp) Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2006 20:57:17 +0900 (JST) Subject: [KS] Korea studies in Tokyo Message-ID: <2580.192.218.242.51.1166443037.squirrel@webmail.icu.ac.jp> Dear Colleagues, The December meeting of the Chousen Kindai Chiikishika Kenkyuukai will be held Monday, December 18, from 4:00 pm at the Daitou Bunka Kaikan (near the Toubu Nerima station on the Toubu Toujou line). Furukawa Noriko will offer this month's presentation in Japanese. The theme is "The Structure of Primary School Education in Colonial Modern Society: The Non-Compulsory Education System and the 'Spread' of Schools in Korea". For further information please contact Niino Yutaka at niino at y.email.ne.jp. Ken Robinson From wiredsquiremcguire at hotmail.com Mon Dec 18 01:18:03 2006 From: wiredsquiremcguire at hotmail.com (John McGuire) Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2006 06:18:03 +0000 Subject: [KS] Summer teaching positions at Hanyang University Message-ID: Hanyang University in Seoul is currently seeking both established professors and junior scholars from Korea and abroad for its International Summer School (HISS), which will run from June 25 to July 18, 2007. HISS aims to attract both domestic and foreign students by offering a wide range of transferable undergraduate courses in the following areas: 1) Sociology and Cultural Studies; 2) Natural Science; 3) Engineering; 4) International Relations; 5) Economics and Business; 6) Humanities; 7) Language Studies; and 8) Korean Studies. All courses will be conducted in English. Qualified candidates are invited to apply by sending a CV and brief letter of intent by email to Prof. John McGuire, Division of International Studies, Hanyang University (squiremcguire at gmail.com). Interested candidates are urged to apply as soon as possible, as only a limited number of positions remain. For scholars applying from abroad, Hanyang University will provide the following: 1) round-trip airfare, 2) accomodation for the duration of the program, and 3) very generous financial compensation. -- John Michael McGuire, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Philosophy Division of International Studies The Graduate School Building Hanyang University Seoul, 133-791 South Korea _________________________________________________________________ Off to school, going on a trip, or moving? Windows Live (MSN) Messenger lets you stay in touch with friends and family wherever you go. Click here to find out how to sign up! http://www.telusmobility.com/msnxbox/ From weko at eunet.at Tue Dec 19 05:55:15 2006 From: weko at eunet.at (Werner Koidl) Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2006 11:55:15 +0100 Subject: [KS] Koguryo inquiry References: <58c.46336f0.3236808c@aol.com> Message-ID: <001201c7235c$3cbaffc0$0100000a@acerorzjm7qpwt> Dear Leonid, in your article, you quoted Perrin (2000) saying: "The latter were sometimes found decorated with colorful wall paintings which are dated between the fourth and the seventh centuries A.D. These burials are found scattered on both sides of the Yalu River in Jian, Jilin province..." Which Koguryo tombs with wall paintings were found on the left side of the Yalu ? (in the vicinity of Kuknae-song) Best regards, Werner Koidl ----- Original Message ----- From: Leonid Petrov To: Korean Studies Discussion List Cc: Naomi_Hellmann at brown.edu Sent: Monday, December 18, 2006 2:39 AM Subject: Re: [KS] Koguryo inquiry Dear Naomi and All, Indeed, on 2 July 2004 the DPRK had the Koguryo murals discovered around Pyongyang and Namp'o inscribed on UNESCO's World Heritage List. This move is expected to benefit the North Korea in many ways. A country that receives little international attention except for engineered famine and its crying abuse of human rights, its activities in nuclear weapons and missiles development has got a chance to emphasize that Koguryo was part of the history of Korean people. However, the DPRK was not only interested in preserving its cultural heritage. By having Koguryo mural tombs internationally recognized, North Korea also plans to establish its hegemony in the process of national unification and even to secure itself from possible preventive strikes. Even in a case of military dispute, a place once registered as a World Heritage Site is not permitted to be attacked under international law... More on the political economy of the Koguryo issue (as it is seen in contemporary Korea, China, and Japan) see < http://north-korea.boom.ru/koguryo.htm > With very best regards, Leonid A. Petrov PhD Chair of Korean Studies, -- Sciences Po Asia Centre Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris, Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques *********************************** Visiting address: 2 Floor, 224, Blvd S.Germain, 75007 PARIS Postal address: 27, Rue S.Guillaume, F - 75337 PARIS, Cedex 07, FRANCE Mob.+33 6 25615963 Tel: +33 1 45497768(office) Fax: +33 1 45497761 http://asia-centre.sciences-po.fr/academics/korean_chair.html On 15/12/06, naomi wrote: Dear List Members, My dissertation is focused on the political economy of Koguryo and includes the role of China and UNESCO. Any insight on locating North Korean sources of information available in either English or Chinese would be highly appreciated. Thank you, Naomi Naomi Hellmann Development Studies Brown University Naomi_Hellmann at brown.edu -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: /pipermail/koreanstudies_koreaweb.ws/attachments/20061219/23d4a7d4/attachment.html From byington at fas.harvard.edu Tue Dec 19 12:37:38 2006 From: byington at fas.harvard.edu (Mark Byington) Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2006 12:37:38 -0500 (EST) Subject: [KS] Koguryo inquiry In-Reply-To: <001201c7235c$3cbaffc0$0100000a@acerorzjm7qpwt> References: <58c.46336f0.3236808c@aol.com> <001201c7235c$3cbaffc0$0100000a@acerorzjm7qpwt> Message-ID: Hello, Regarding the question of Koguryo mural tombs on the left side of the Yalu, the actual passage cited from Ariane Perrin reads: "These burials are found scattered on both sides of the Yalu River in Jian, Jilin province, in the Liaodong peninsula of northeast China and in the vicinity of Pyeongyang in North Korea." The passage can be parsed multiple ways, and the punctuation does seem to suggest that such mural tombs are to be found in the DPRK opposite Ji'an. But I suspect that the punctuation here is at fault and that the intended reading is that Koguryo mural tombs are in general found on both sides of the Yalu (i.e., both in the PRC and in the DPRK). Examples provided for each broad region include those in Ji'an in the PRC and in and near Pyongyang in the DPRK. I know of no Koguryo mural tombs in the DPRK located outside of the P'yongan and Hwanghae regions, though there may well be some that have not yet been discovered or identified. Lists of Koguryo mural tombs compiled in the DPRK in the 1990s include no tombs outside of the areas I mentioned above (additional mural tombs have been discovered since these lists were published, but the tombs are in the same general region). In the PRC, Koguryo mural tombs are concentrated on Ji'an, of course, but there is one mural tomb in Huanren and at least one newly discovered one in Fushun. There are Koguryo tombs in the northern part of the DPRK, especially on the Changja (Tongno) River opposite Ji'an - though no mural tombs are reported there, several other types of Koguryo tomb have been found, including the so-called keyhole cairns. If anyone knows of such mural tombs on the DPRK side of the Yalu, I would also appreciate hearing about them. Regards, Mark Byington On Tue, 19 Dec 2006, Werner Koidl wrote: > Dear Leonid, > > in your article, you quoted Perrin (2000) saying: "The latter were sometimes found decorated with colorful wall paintings which are dated between the fourth and the seventh centuries A.D. These burials are found scattered on both sides of the Yalu River in Jian, Jilin province..." > > Which Koguryo tombs with wall paintings were found on the left side of the Yalu ? (in the vicinity of Kuknae-song) > > Best regards, > > Werner Koidl > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Leonid Petrov > To: Korean Studies Discussion List > Cc: Naomi_Hellmann at brown.edu > Sent: Monday, December 18, 2006 2:39 AM > Subject: Re: [KS] Koguryo inquiry > > > Dear Naomi and All, > > > > Indeed, on 2 July 2004 the DPRK had the Koguryo murals discovered around Pyongyang and Namp'o inscribed on UNESCO's World Heritage List. This move is expected to benefit the North Korea in many ways. A country that receives little international attention except for engineered famine and its crying abuse of human rights, its activities in nuclear weapons and missiles development has got a chance to emphasize that Koguryo was part of the history of Korean people. > > > > However, the DPRK was not only interested in preserving its cultural heritage. By having Koguryo mural tombs internationally recognized, North Korea also plans to establish its hegemony in the process of national unification and even to secure itself from possible preventive strikes. Even in a case of military dispute, a place once registered as a World Heritage Site is not permitted to be attacked under international law... > > > > More on the political economy of the Koguryo issue (as it is seen in contemporary Korea, China, and Japan) see < http://north-korea.boom.ru/koguryo.htm > > > > > With very best regards, > > > > Leonid A. Petrov PhD > > Chair of Korean Studies, > > -- > > Sciences Po Asia Centre > > Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris, > > Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques > > *********************************** > > Visiting address: 2 Floor, 224, Blvd S.Germain, 75007 PARIS > > Postal address: 27, Rue S.Guillaume, F - 75337 PARIS, Cedex 07, FRANCE > > Mob.+33 6 25615963 Tel: +33 1 45497768(office) Fax: +33 1 45497761 > > http://asia-centre.sciences-po.fr/academics/korean_chair.html > > > > > > On 15/12/06, naomi wrote: > Dear List Members, > > > > My dissertation is focused on the political economy of Koguryo and includes the role of China and UNESCO. Any insight on locating North Korean sources of information available in either English or Chinese would be highly appreciated. > > > > Thank you, > > Naomi > > > > > > Naomi Hellmann > > Development Studies > > Brown University > > Naomi_Hellmann at brown.edu > > From provine at umd.edu Tue Dec 19 10:37:13 2006 From: provine at umd.edu (Robert Provine) Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2006 10:37:13 -0500 Subject: [KS] Seeking Advice about Graduate Degree Programs: Request from a Russian Student in Korean Studies Message-ID: <45880729.9030708@umd.edu> Dear Members of This Listserv and Other Individuals Engaged in Korea-Related Studies, I am writing to request your advice and assistance in identifying the most appropriate graduate degree programs in which to continue my studies in international relations following my receipt of the B.A. degree this coming June. I wish to apply not only for admission to programs in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom and/or Australia but also for the funding that will be necessary to support these studies (tuition, room and board, and other related expenses). I specifically wish to pursue a Master's degree in international relations and to study the economic relations of North Korea with the outside world. As the restructuring of the North Korean economic system seems to be imminent and irreversible, I would also like to investigate some of the country's possible development strategies. I am currently nearing the completion of my studies for the B.A. degree in the Department of Korean History (Oriental Faculty) at Saint Petersburg State University (Russia). My B.A. thesis, supervised by Professor Sergey O. Kourbanov, deals with the special economic zones in North Korea (particularly the Gaeseong Industrial Complex), and focuses on the process of its formation and on some of the approaches of the South Korean government and the world of South Korean business. I recently presented a paper at the Korean Studies Graduate Students' Convention in the Czech Republic. Dealing with the newspaper Tong'a ilbo as a source of information for the social history of Korea during the first half of 1935, it is expected to be published next year in the proceedings of this conference. In addition, I have published an overview of Russian dissertations about Korea, 1939-2003, in the Proceedings of the 2003 Korean Studies Conference in Saint Petersburg. I speak, read and write Korean fluently (I have passed the sixth level of the Korean Language Proficiency Test). I spent nearly five years of my childhood from 1992 to 1997 in South Korea and attended Korean primary school in Seoul. More recently, after completing my two years of study at Saint Petersburg State University, I received a Korea Foundation scholarship to study for one year at Yonsei University in Seoul. In 2005, I graduated from the Korean Language Institute that is affiliated with Yonsei University. In addition, I have an advanced command of English (I am prepared to take the TOEFL test); and I can speak, read and write some Japanese and some French. I hope to go into international diplomacy or government-related work (perhaps in the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs) upon completing the Master's degree in international relations. While the M.A. degree is accepted as a terminal degree, I eventually plan on continuing my studies and pursuing the Ph.D. degree in international relations as well. I would be most grateful for whatever advice, assistance and insights you and your colleagues can extend at this time. Would you please direct your correspondence to my e-mail address as follows: nsibirskaya at yahoo.com Thank you very much in advance for your kind consideration of this inquiry. With my best wishes for the holiday season and for the new year, Yours sincerely, Natalia Sibirskaya (Ms.) Natalia Sibirskaya 199155 ul. Korablestroitelei, 42-1-37 Saint-Petersburg, Russia tel: 7-812-352-21-91 mob: 7-921-74-22-370 nsibirskaya at yahoo.com From vladimir.tikhonov at ikos.uio.no Wed Dec 20 05:03:44 2006 From: vladimir.tikhonov at ikos.uio.no (Vladimir Tikhonov) Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2006 11:03:44 +0100 Subject: [KS] Seeking Advice about Graduate Degree Programs: Request from a Russian Student in Korean Studies In-Reply-To: <45880729.9030708@umd.edu> References: <45880729.9030708@umd.edu> Message-ID: <45890A80.2020001@ikos.uio.no> Dear Natalia (and anybody else who may be potentially interested), Norway is not exactly an English-speaking country, but the overwhelming portion of the academic work is done here in English, and, in addition, the Norwegian universities have some MA programmes taught exclusively in English. In case of UiO (Oslo University), I personally supervise the one called "East Asian Studies Master" (http://www.uio.no/studier/program/aas-master/east-asian/). It does not deal exclusively with the int-l relations - one of our former students, for example, defended her MA thesis on one of Kim Siseup's novels - but the int-l relations figure prominently as one of the disciplines being taught to our students (http://www.uio.no/studier/emner/hf/ikos/EAST4505/index-eng.xml) , and it is fully possible to specialize in int-l relations while writing one's MA thesis. Thankfully, Norway charges neither its citizens nor foreigners for the education (so far...), but living costs here are probably among the highest in the world. So, the citizens of the countries deemed to be in need of assistance (Russia is on the list) are eligible to apply for stipend through the so-called "Quota Scheme" (http://www.uio.no/english/academics/admission/quota/). Unfortunately, the application deadline for those wishing to begin their studies with UiO from next autumn, has just passed. I wonder if the Norwegian University Center in St-Petersburg (http://www.hf.uio.no/st-petersburg/) may have more information about the rest of the stipend programmes available for the Russian citizens. best greetings, Vladimir Tikhonov/Pak Noja On 19.12.2006 16:37, Robert Provine wrote: > Dear Members of This Listserv and Other Individuals Engaged in > Korea-Related Studies, > > I am writing to request your advice and assistance in identifying the > most appropriate graduate degree programs in which to continue my > studies in international relations following my receipt of the B.A. > degree this coming June. I wish to apply not only for admission to > programs in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom and/or > Australia but also for the funding that will be necessary to support > these studies (tuition, room and board, and other related expenses). > > I specifically wish to pursue a Master's degree in international > relations and to study the economic relations of North Korea with the > outside world. As the restructuring of the North Korean economic system > seems to be imminent and irreversible, I would also like to investigate > some of the country's possible development strategies. I am currently > nearing the completion of my studies for the B.A. degree in the > Department of Korean History (Oriental Faculty) at Saint Petersburg > State University (Russia). My B.A. thesis, supervised by Professor > Sergey O. Kourbanov, deals with the special economic zones in North > Korea (particularly the Gaeseong Industrial Complex), and focuses on the > process of its formation and on some of the approaches of the South > Korean government and the world of South Korean business. > > I recently presented a paper at the Korean Studies Graduate Students' > Convention in the Czech Republic. Dealing with the newspaper Tong'a > ilbo as a source of information for the social history of Korea during > the first half of 1935, it is expected to be published next year in the > proceedings of this conference. In addition, I have published an > overview of Russian dissertations about Korea, 1939-2003, in the > Proceedings of the 2003 Korean Studies Conference in Saint Petersburg. > > I speak, read and write Korean fluently (I have passed the sixth level > of the Korean Language Proficiency Test). I spent nearly five years of > my childhood from 1992 to 1997 in South Korea and attended Korean > primary school in Seoul. More recently, after completing my two years of > study at Saint Petersburg State University, I received a Korea > Foundation scholarship to study for one year at Yonsei University in > Seoul. In 2005, I graduated from the Korean Language Institute that is > affiliated with Yonsei University. In addition, I have an advanced > command of English (I am prepared to take the TOEFL test); and I can > speak, read and write some Japanese and some French. > > I hope to go into international diplomacy or government-related work > (perhaps in the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs) upon completing the > Master's degree in international relations. While the M.A. degree is > accepted as a terminal degree, I eventually plan on continuing my > studies and pursuing the Ph.D. degree in international relations as well. > > I would be most grateful for whatever advice, assistance and insights > you and your colleagues can extend at this time. Would you please > direct your correspondence to my e-mail address as follows: > nsibirskaya at yahoo.com Thank you very much in advance for your kind > consideration of this inquiry. > > With my best wishes for the holiday season and for the new year, > > Yours sincerely, > > Natalia Sibirskaya > > (Ms.) Natalia Sibirskaya > 199155 ul. Korablestroitelei, 42-1-37 > Saint-Petersburg, Russia > tel: 7-812-352-21-91 > mob: 7-921-74-22-370 > nsibirskaya at yahoo.com > -- Vladimir Tikhonov, Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages, Faculty of Humanities, University of Oslo, P.b. 1010, Blindern, 0315, Oslo, Norway. Fax: 47-22854828; Tel: 47-22857118 Personal web page: http://folk.uio.no/vladimit/ http://www.geocities.com/volodyatikhonov/volodyatikhonov.html Electronic classrooms: East Asian/Korean Society and Politics: http://folk.uio.no/vladimit/eastasianstudies.htm http://www.geocities.com/uioeastasia2002/main.html East Asian/Korean Religion and Philosophy: http://www.geocities.com/uioeastasia2003/classroom.html From weko at eunet.at Tue Dec 19 23:04:48 2006 From: weko at eunet.at (Werner Koidl) Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2006 05:04:48 +0100 Subject: [KS] Koguryo inquiry References: <58c.46336f0.3236808c@aol.com><001201c7235c$3cbaffc0$0100000a@acerorzjm7qpwt> Message-ID: <000401c723eb$fe92f8c0$0100000a@acerorzjm7qpwt> Dear Mark, a bit off-topic, but you wrote: "...and at least one (a Koguryo mural tomb) newly discovered one in Fushun." Could you please explain more about this tomb. I remember on last year's Koguryo Foundation sponsored Koguryo conference at Berlin university (Germany) somebody of the Koguryo Research Foundation showed a slide of a newly discovered Koguryo (?) tomb near Fushun. But because of lack of time he just showed quickly the picture and could not tell anything about the tomb. What struck me was the very different style of the wall paintings we could see on that slide. Instead of lotus flowers, clouds or tree symbols very geometrical lines, edges and zick-zacks were shown that reminded me of the art and design of the Nanai people who live along the Songhua, Ussuri and Amur river. I guess we are talking about the same tomb, but I am not sure. Best regards, Werner Koidl ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark Byington" To: "Korean Studies Discussion List" Sent: Tuesday, December 19, 2006 6:37 PM Subject: Re: [KS] Koguryo inquiry > > Hello, > > Regarding the question of Koguryo mural tombs on the left side of the > Yalu, the actual passage cited from Ariane Perrin reads: "These burials > are found scattered on both sides of the Yalu River in Jian, Jilin > province, in the Liaodong peninsula of northeast China and in the > vicinity of Pyeongyang in North Korea." > > The passage can be parsed multiple ways, and the punctuation does seem to > suggest that such mural tombs are to be found in the DPRK opposite Ji'an. > But I suspect that the punctuation here is at fault and that the intended > reading is that Koguryo mural tombs are in general found on both sides of > the Yalu (i.e., both in the PRC and in the DPRK). Examples > provided for each broad region include those in Ji'an in the PRC and in > and near Pyongyang in the DPRK. > > I know of no Koguryo mural tombs in the DPRK located outside of the > P'yongan and Hwanghae regions, though there may well be some that have not > yet been discovered or identified. Lists of Koguryo mural tombs compiled > in the DPRK in the 1990s include no tombs outside of the areas I mentioned > above (additional mural tombs have been discovered since these lists were > published, but the tombs are in the same general region). > > In the PRC, Koguryo mural tombs are concentrated on Ji'an, of course, but > there is one mural tomb in Huanren and at least one newly discovered one > in Fushun. There are Koguryo tombs in the northern part of the DPRK, > especially on the Changja (Tongno) River opposite Ji'an - though no mural > tombs are reported there, several other types of Koguryo tomb have been > found, including the so-called keyhole cairns. > > If anyone knows of such mural tombs on the DPRK side of the Yalu, I would > also appreciate hearing about them. > > Regards, > > Mark Byington > > > On Tue, 19 Dec 2006, Werner Koidl wrote: > >> Dear Leonid, >> >> in your article, you quoted Perrin (2000) saying: "The latter were >> sometimes found decorated with colorful wall paintings which are dated >> between the fourth and the seventh centuries A.D. These burials are found >> scattered on both sides of the Yalu River in Jian, Jilin province..." >> >> Which Koguryo tombs with wall paintings were found on the left side of >> the Yalu ? (in the vicinity of Kuknae-song) >> >> Best regards, >> >> Werner Koidl >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: Leonid Petrov >> To: Korean Studies Discussion List >> Cc: Naomi_Hellmann at brown.edu >> Sent: Monday, December 18, 2006 2:39 AM >> Subject: Re: [KS] Koguryo inquiry >> >> >> Dear Naomi and All, >> >> >> >> Indeed, on 2 July 2004 the DPRK had the Koguryo murals discovered around >> Pyongyang and Namp'o inscribed on UNESCO's World Heritage List. This move >> is expected to benefit the North Korea in many ways. A country that >> receives little international attention except for engineered famine and >> its crying abuse of human rights, its activities in nuclear weapons and >> missiles development has got a chance to emphasize that Koguryo was part >> of the history of Korean people. >> >> >> >> However, the DPRK was not only interested in preserving its cultural >> heritage. By having Koguryo mural tombs internationally recognized, North >> Korea also plans to establish its hegemony in the process of national >> unification and even to secure itself from possible preventive strikes. >> Even in a case of military dispute, a place once registered as a World >> Heritage Site is not permitted to be attacked under international law... >> >> >> >> More on the political economy of the Koguryo issue (as it is seen in >> contemporary Korea, China, and Japan) see < >> http://north-korea.boom.ru/koguryo.htm > >> >> >> >> With very best regards, >> >> >> >> Leonid A. Petrov PhD >> >> Chair of Korean Studies, >> >> -- >> >> Sciences Po Asia Centre >> >> Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris, >> >> Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques >> >> *********************************** >> >> Visiting address: 2 Floor, 224, Blvd S.Germain, 75007 PARIS >> >> Postal address: 27, Rue S.Guillaume, F - 75337 PARIS, Cedex 07, FRANCE >> >> Mob.+33 6 25615963 Tel: +33 1 45497768(office) Fax: +33 1 45497761 >> >> http://asia-centre.sciences-po.fr/academics/korean_chair.html >> >> >> >> >> >> On 15/12/06, naomi wrote: >> Dear List Members, >> >> >> >> My dissertation is focused on the political economy of Koguryo and >> includes the role of China and UNESCO. Any insight on locating North >> Korean sources of information available in either English or Chinese >> would be highly appreciated. >> >> >> >> Thank you, >> >> Naomi >> >> >> >> >> >> Naomi Hellmann >> >> Development Studies >> >> Brown University >> >> Naomi_Hellmann at brown.edu >> >> > > From byington at fas.harvard.edu Wed Dec 20 09:48:39 2006 From: byington at fas.harvard.edu (Mark Byington) Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2006 09:48:39 -0500 Subject: [KS] Koguryo inquiry In-Reply-To: <000401c723eb$fe92f8c0$0100000a@acerorzjm7qpwt> References: <58c.46336f0.3236808c@aol.com><001201c7235c$3cbaffc0$0100000a@acerorzjm7qpwt> <000401c723eb$fe92f8c0$0100000a@acerorzjm7qpwt> Message-ID: <45894D47.5010405@fas.harvard.edu> Dear Werner, This has strayed a bit from the original inquiry, but the topic may be worth exploring as we wait for clarification of the question that was asked. The mural tomb in Fushun was also discussed at last year's Harvard Conference on Koguryo History and Archaeology in a presentation given by the vice director of the Liaoning Institute of Archaeology. The mural tomb was one of 43 tombs excavated in 2000 and 2001 at the Shijia cemetery to the northeast of Fushun. To my knowledge there has yet to appear an official report of this work. The cemetery dates roughly to Koguryo's final century and lies very close to the fortress ruins at Gaoershan, believed to be the site of Koguryo's Sin-song fortress (a very important strategic point throughout Koguryo's history). I have been to these sites, but my most recent visit was some years before the mural tomb was discovered, so I have not seen anything of it other than the slides presented at the conference and some sketches of its layout. The tomb in question was designated M1, and was a stone-chamber earth-mound tomb, though it was badly damaged and only portions of the murals survive. I don't recall the zigzag pattern you mentioned, but there were paintings of women wearing Koguryo-style clothing with long skirts and trousers. There were also lotus and mountain patterns and the lower part of a horse (the upper part was destroyed), and a man with a dagger. Skeletal fragments showed that an adult male and an adult female were interred in this tomb. There was also a tile end with a lotus pattern found in the burial chamber. Your association of the murals with the Nanai is interesting, as the archaeologists observed that, while this is a Koguryo cemetery, the tombs are stylistically and structurally not typical for Koguryo, but they do resemble some Parhae tombs. I have not explored this in much detail (I'm waiting for the publication of the excavation report), but this association with Parhae suggests at least two explanations: first, that this is really an early Parhae cemetery (doubtful), and second, that the tomb builders were Mohe (Malgal) people who were subject to Koguryo (much more likely). In the latter case, the builders would be most likely to be Sumo Mohe (Songmal Malgal) people, who are known to have been closely allied with or subject to Koguryo and to have played a very important role in the establishment of Parhae. One problem is that that pre-Parhae Sumo Mohe (who typically lived on the Songhua north of Jilin city) are not known to have built tombs with murals, which does not mean that those Mohe subject to Koguryo wouldn't think that tomb murals were a good thing and include some in one of their burials. This all suggests that the tombs at Shijia are probably the result of a combination of both Koguryo and other cultural elements, the other being quite probably the Sumo Mohe. I qualify the above by pointing out that the Mohe association is my own - none of the archaeologists has suggested anything beyond the similarity between the Shijia tombs and some Parhae tombs. I have reason to believe that an excavation report is forthcoming in China, if it has not in fact already appeared. When it is available, you will have more complete information on the tomb with murals. I am presently editing a book that will include some information on the tomb along with layout diagrams, so either way something will be available regarding this tomb in the near future. Best Regards, Mark Byington On 12/19/2006 11:04 PM, Werner Koidl wrote: > Dear Mark, > > > a bit off-topic, but > > you wrote: "...and at least one (a Koguryo mural tomb) newly > discovered one in Fushun." > > Could you please explain more about this tomb. > > I remember on last year's Koguryo Foundation sponsored Koguryo > conference at Berlin university (Germany) somebody of the Koguryo > Research Foundation showed a slide of a newly discovered Koguryo (?) > tomb near Fushun. But because of lack of time he just showed quickly > the picture and could not tell anything about the tomb. > What struck me was the very different style of the wall paintings we > could see on that slide. Instead of lotus flowers, clouds or tree > symbols very geometrical lines, edges and zick-zacks were shown that > reminded me of the art and design of the Nanai people who live along > the Songhua, Ussuri and Amur river. > > I guess we are talking about the same tomb, but I am not sure. > > Best regards, > > Werner Koidl > > > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark Byington" > > To: "Korean Studies Discussion List" > Sent: Tuesday, December 19, 2006 6:37 PM > Subject: Re: [KS] Koguryo inquiry > > >> >> Hello, >> >> Regarding the question of Koguryo mural tombs on the left side of the >> Yalu, the actual passage cited from Ariane Perrin reads: "These >> burials are found scattered on both sides of the Yalu River in Jian, >> Jilin province, in the Liaodong peninsula of northeast China and in the >> vicinity of Pyeongyang in North Korea." >> >> The passage can be parsed multiple ways, and the punctuation does >> seem to suggest that such mural tombs are to be found in the DPRK >> opposite Ji'an. But I suspect that the punctuation here is at fault >> and that the intended reading is that Koguryo mural tombs are in >> general found on both sides of the Yalu (i.e., both in the PRC and in >> the DPRK). Examples >> provided for each broad region include those in Ji'an in the PRC and >> in and near Pyongyang in the DPRK. >> >> I know of no Koguryo mural tombs in the DPRK located outside of the >> P'yongan and Hwanghae regions, though there may well be some that >> have not yet been discovered or identified. Lists of Koguryo mural >> tombs compiled in the DPRK in the 1990s include no tombs outside of >> the areas I mentioned above (additional mural tombs have been >> discovered since these lists were published, but the tombs are in the >> same general region). >> >> In the PRC, Koguryo mural tombs are concentrated on Ji'an, of course, >> but there is one mural tomb in Huanren and at least one newly >> discovered one in Fushun. There are Koguryo tombs in the northern >> part of the DPRK, especially on the Changja (Tongno) River opposite >> Ji'an - though no mural tombs are reported there, several other types >> of Koguryo tomb have been found, including the so-called keyhole cairns. >> >> If anyone knows of such mural tombs on the DPRK side of the Yalu, I >> would also appreciate hearing about them. >> >> Regards, >> >> Mark Byington >> >> >> On Tue, 19 Dec 2006, Werner Koidl wrote: >> >>> Dear Leonid, >>> >>> in your article, you quoted Perrin (2000) saying: "The latter were >>> sometimes found decorated with colorful wall paintings which are >>> dated between the fourth and the seventh centuries A.D. These >>> burials are found scattered on both sides of the Yalu River in Jian, >>> Jilin province..." >>> >>> Which Koguryo tombs with wall paintings were found on the left side >>> of the Yalu ? (in the vicinity of Kuknae-song) >>> >>> Best regards, >>> >>> Werner Koidl >>> ----- Original Message ----- >>> From: Leonid Petrov >>> To: Korean Studies Discussion List >>> Cc: Naomi_Hellmann at brown.edu >>> Sent: Monday, December 18, 2006 2:39 AM >>> Subject: Re: [KS] Koguryo inquiry >>> >>> >>> Dear Naomi and All, >>> >>> >>> >>> Indeed, on 2 July 2004 the DPRK had the Koguryo murals discovered >>> around Pyongyang and Namp'o inscribed on UNESCO's World Heritage >>> List. This move is expected to benefit the North Korea in many ways. >>> A country that receives little international attention except for >>> engineered famine and its crying abuse of human rights, its >>> activities in nuclear weapons and missiles development has got a >>> chance to emphasize that Koguryo was part of the history of Korean >>> people. >>> >>> >>> >>> However, the DPRK was not only interested in preserving its >>> cultural heritage. By having Koguryo mural tombs internationally >>> recognized, North Korea also plans to establish its hegemony in the >>> process of national unification and even to secure itself from >>> possible preventive strikes. Even in a case of military dispute, a >>> place once registered as a World Heritage Site is not permitted to >>> be attacked under international law... >>> >>> >>> >>> More on the political economy of the Koguryo issue (as it is seen >>> in contemporary Korea, China, and Japan) see < >>> http://north-korea.boom.ru/koguryo.htm > >>> >>> >>> >>> With very best regards, >>> >>> >>> >>> Leonid A. Petrov PhD >>> >>> Chair of Korean Studies, >>> >>> -- >>> >>> Sciences Po Asia Centre >>> >>> Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris, >>> >>> Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques >>> >>> *********************************** >>> >>> Visiting address: 2 Floor, 224, Blvd S.Germain, 75007 PARIS >>> >>> Postal address: 27, Rue S.Guillaume, F - 75337 PARIS, Cedex 07, FRANCE >>> >>> Mob.+33 6 25615963 Tel: +33 1 45497768(office) Fax: +33 1 45497761 >>> >>> http://asia-centre.sciences-po.fr/academics/korean_chair.html >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> On 15/12/06, naomi wrote: >>> Dear List Members, >>> >>> >>> >>> My dissertation is focused on the political economy of Koguryo >>> and includes the role of China and UNESCO. Any insight on locating >>> North Korean sources of information available in either English or >>> Chinese would be highly appreciated. >>> >>> >>> >>> Thank you, >>> >>> Naomi >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> Naomi Hellmann >>> >>> Development Studies >>> >>> Brown University >>> >>> Naomi_Hellmann at brown.edu >>> >>> >> >> > > From provine at umd.edu Wed Dec 20 14:15:34 2006 From: provine at umd.edu (Robert Provine) Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2006 14:15:34 -0500 Subject: [KS] Position announcement: Professorship in Korean Studies, Hamburg University Message-ID: <45898BD6.1060903@umd.edu> Professorship in Korean Studies, Hamburg University. A description of this position may be found at: http://www.verwaltung.uni-hamburg.de/stellenangebote/profs/aai.html Enquiries should be directed to: Helene Kang Universit?t Hamburg, Asien-Afrika-Institut Arbeitsbereich Korea, Bibliothek Edmund-Siemers-Allee 1, Ostfl?gel D-20146 Hamburg Tel. 040-42838 2355 Fax 040-42838 6783 http://www.uni-hamburg.de/Wiss/FB/10/ChinaS/KoreA/KoreA.html From rcmiller at wisc.edu Fri Dec 22 11:08:46 2006 From: rcmiller at wisc.edu (Richard Miller) Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2006 10:08:46 -0600 Subject: [KS] Korean Confucianism conference announcement Message-ID: <458C030E.50404@wisc.edu> *"Roundtable Conference on Religious Dimensions of Korean Confucianism"* *at the **University** of **Wisconsin** ? **Madison**, **Pyle** **Center**, **702 Langdon Street**, **Madison**, **WI** February 9 & 10, 2007 (**1 pm - 5 pm** on Friday and **8 am - 5 pm** on Saturday)* Hosted by the Center for East Asian Studies and the Department of East Asian Languages & Literature at UW-Madison, with support from the Korea Foundation and the Anonymous Fund at UW-Madison. *Featured speakers include (listed in alphabetical order):* *Donald Baker*, Associate Professor, Department of Asian Studies, University of British Columbia *Michael Kalton*, Professor, Graduate Faculty, Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences, University of Washington, Tacoma *Youngmin Kim*, Professor, Department of Political Science, Seoul National University *Shinhwan Kwak*, Professor, Department of Philosophy, Soongsil University This conference seeks to examine both the religious dimensions of traditional Korean Confucianism and its modern reception. The transformation of Confucian thought as it adapted to and transformed Korean ethics and social relations has long been a subject of serious scholarly research. The "Roundtable Conference on Religious Dimensions of Korean Confucianism" will focus on this subject through the lens of the category of religion. Confucian studies in general has seen a shift to appreciating the religious elements of the various dimensions or sub-traditions of Confucianism. The work of scholars such as Tu Wei-ming, Rodney Taylor, and Asano Yuichi have re-examined Confucian traditions, bringing to bear comparative and theoretical perspectives from religious studies. This conference brings together some of the most distinguished scholars of Korean thought to treat issues such as the supernatural elements in Tasan?s philosophy, the place of nature in Neo-Confucian philosophy, the interaction between politics and religion and the making of orthodoxy, and the religious dimensions of daily Neo-Confucian practice. The roundtable format will also allow the participants to address the underlying issue of where the study of Korean Confucianism stands relative to the broader shift to addressing Confucianism as both a philosophical and a religious system. Another goal of this conference is to bring together both faculty and graduate students, older established scholars and young beginning scholars, and U.S. and Korean scholars of Korean Confucianism. The scholars who study Korean Confucianism in the U.S. are a scattered group who often work in isolation, and we expect that a conference to share our work with each other will help stimulate further collaboration among these far-flung scholars. An additional goal of the conference is to publish the papers presented in a special issue of an appropriate scholarly journal to share the fruits of this conference with other scholars. *_Registration Deadline_: **Feb. 1, 2007**. *Registrations will be accepted after the deadline on a space available basis. Registration is free. *_To Register:_ *Please complete and send the *?Registration Form? *available on the Center for East Asian Studies website http://www.eastasia.wisc.edu . If you have questions about registration, please contact Jimi Kim, Department of East Asian Languages & Literature, Email: jkim66 at wisc.edu *-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Center for East Asian Studies, **University** of **Wisconsin** - **Madison*** 333 Ingraham Hall, 1155 Observatory Dr., Madison, WI 53705 Tel: 608/262-3643 Fax: 608/265-2919 Email: eas at intl-institute.wisc.edu Website: http://www.eastasia.wisc.edu -- Acting Associate Director Center for East Asian Studies University of Wisconsin-Madison From J.Han at unesco.org Wed Dec 27 06:17:04 2006 From: J.Han at unesco.org (Han, Junhi) Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2006 12:17:04 +0100 Subject: [KS] Koguryo inquiry References: <58c.46336f0.3236808c@aol.com> Message-ID: <475718613147B44682976AF45D6FD34502447AA1@MAILSERVER-01.hq.int.unesco.org> Dear List members, I am afraid that the thread of the ?Koguryo Inquiry? got already lost, nevertheless, I felt obliged to come back to this thread to comment on a couple of issues. I have read with great interest the article of Dr Petrov published in ?Review of Korean Studies Journal" referenced in the below-email, and I should say some information contained in the article are susceptible to provide some misunderstanding on the UNESCO World Heritage Convention and its procedure of inscription on its List. First of all, through the article, one could believe that when the koguryo cultural heritage was put on the list of WH from Chinese side, then it could be considered as if ?Koguryo was named a Chinese state?. Inscription of a cultural or natural property on the List of WH provides in no case a direct link to its cultural identity or nationality. Borders between states have been changing constantly throughout history, while built monuments or archaeological sites have for millennia been standing and still stand where they were built. For example, many Armenian cultural heritages are found in the current Turkish territory. Recently the Ohkhon Valley in Mongolia has been put on the list of WH as a Turkic heritage. The Government of Mongolia, when submitting the nomination dossier, clearly pointed out that this was a cultural heritage site dated Turkic period. In this way, the cultural identity of the Orkhon Valley was clarified. On the other hand, China' s case is different. Like many other aspects in China, nomination dossier of heritages located in the CPR is prepared in accordance with its national policy: One Greater China composed of number of multi-ethnic tribes. This means that any cultural property submitted for the WHL, regardless of its cultural identity, it is Chinese. Clarifying its cultural identity is not the duty of the WH Committee as it is an intergovernmental committee, however, when ICOMOS (which is an non-governmental organization) evaluating the value of proposed properties, there are rooms to comment and I personally believe that ICOMOS should be more vigilant in this issue? Secondly, the above-article also describes the DPRK authorities completely incompetent in the procedure of nomination of the Koguryo heritage, while Chinese would get a glorious victory over it. It is true that the inscription of the Koguryo tombs and mural paintings in the DPRK side, examined by the WH Committee in 2003, were postponed into 2004. In light of this, one should note that this was partly due to the calendar of the examination of the nomination dossier of the Chinese side of Koguryo heritage planned for 2004. Although the ICOMOS evaluation mission carried out to the complex of the Koguryo tombs in DPRK came out with a couple of issues to be clarified in terms of conservation and accessibilities to certain tombs, thanks to the additional report from the DPRK providing additional information/clarification on the questions raised by the ICOMOS evaluation mission, the presentation of the candidature (DPRK Koguryo) to the 2003 WH Committee by ICOMOS was very positive. It was, nevertheless, recommended and thus decided to differ the examination of the nomination dossier of the Koguryo Tombs of the DPRK to 2004 in order to have a harmonized examination of the properties along with the Koguryo heritage from China to be examined by the WH Committee in 2004. In this way, the Committee could examine the Koguryo heritage lying scattered in both side of the Amnok river (we often use this expression) together, taking into account the fact that two separately submitted nomination dossiers concerned the heritage from same civilization, more or less same period and most importantly very much complement each other. Indeed, from UNESCO side, from the very beginning we wanted to have both sides of the Koguryo heritage on the list of WH same time in order to avoid any political implication it could have given. Unfortunately, the Chinese government decided to come to join in this nomination quite lately, which made the calendar of the examination of the Chinese side of Koguryo heritage for 2004. Just for further information, UNESCO has been making efforts to convince the DPRK authorities on the need of ratifying the UNESCO 1972 World Heritage Convention since beginning of 90s. Certainly Professor Hirayama?s efforts accelerated the ratification of the DPRK of the WH Convention, but one should not ignore the 10 -year efforts made behind of this. In the same way, when received the intention of the DPRK government to submit the Koguryo tombs for their inscription on the WH List, UNESCO contacted immediately the relevant authorities in China so that they would in their turn submit the other side of the Koguryo heritage on the WH list. However, as mentioned above, the Chinese acted positively after some time, which made the time-lapse between the calendar of the examination of two sides of Koguryo heritage. All these (5th paragraph) coincided with the fact that China held the chairmanship of the WH Committee for two years, 2003 and 2004. By tradition, the chairmanship within the WH Committee is lying with the state party hosting a Committee meeting. In 2003 WH Committee meeting was supposed to be hosted by China, unfortunately, due to SARS, the Committee meeting took place in Paris, and China sent an exceptionally big delegation by keeping of course the chairmanship (so it was the Chinese delegation that were exceptionally numerous while 2 DPRK delegation members participating in the WH Committee was a quite common practice, all the more the DPRK was not the committee member). Finally in 2004, the Committee meeting took place in Suzhou, China. Therefore I felt that it was too severe to call ?incompetent? or ?failure? the above-mentioned situation. On the contrary, UNESCO appreciated very much the efforts made by the DPRK government to come out with a very good nomination dossier, all the more it was their first such exercise. The preparation of nomination dossier is a long and complex procedure which often lasts more than two years. In spite of difficult condition of preparation (no doubt), the nomination dossier finally submitted by the DPRK met with the necessary criteria stipulated by the operational guidelines of the WH Convention and well accepted by the Secretariat, as well as by ICOMOS. Regarding the authenticity, this is a very much argued issue, I must say. However, I also would like to mention that the notion of authenticity has been evolved since 60s (since the declaration of the Venice Charter) and it is now applied into much broader context, in particular since the adoption of the Document on Authenticity declared in Nara 1994 (so-called the Nara Document on Authenticity). Since then, the notion on authenticity blindly applied until recently according to the Venice Charter (1964) is no longer valid. Authenticity should comprises not only physical authenticity but also intangible value of monuments or sites. The intangible value can be traditional knowledge, technique or even tradition(practice). For such reason, the beautification of the Tongmyong Tomb (Jinpari X) provided an intensive debates and deliberation between experts involved in the evaluation and in the WH inscription procedure. It is true that in Korea, there is a tradition of taking care of ancestors? tombs and beautification can be perceived even as duty even for ordinary citizens? I do not know what is the usual practice in South Korea or in China in care of a dynasty?s founder?s tombs?but it was from this point of view that the beautification of the King Tongmyong? tomb was argued and finally accepted. Fortunately, the tumulus itself was not included in the beautification range? Certainly the beautification of Tongmyong? Tomb is at a different level than the reconstruction of the Tanggun Tomb which is not included among the complex of the 63 Koguryo tombs inscribed on the WH List. I am not arguing here that the beautification of the Tongmyong Tomb was appropriate or not, but simply say that this issue could be seen from different angles?. At last, regarding the information ?Even in a case of military dispute, a place once registered as a World Heritage Site is not permitted to be attacked under international law,? in fact, this concerns the UNESCO Hague Convention (adopted in 1954) concerning the protection of cultural heritage in case of armed conflicts. The inscription of a cultural or natural property in the list of the WH Convention does not provide automatic application of the UNESCO Hague Convention, however, application of two conventions can provide a better protection of cultural and natural properties in the list of WH. I hope my email written quickly in disorder could make sense for most of the list members. If you have any question, or need clarification, I would be more than happy to provide it. Best regards Junhi Han Junhi Han Asia and Pacific unit World Heritage Centre UNESCO Tel: 33 1 45 68 14 74 fax: 33 1 45 68 56 61 ________________________________ From: koreanstudies-bounces at koreaweb.ws ?(?) ?? ?? ?? ?? Leonid Petrov Sent: 12/18/2006 (?) 2:39 ?? To: Korean Studies Discussion List Cc: Naomi_Hellmann at brown.edu Subject: Re: [KS] Koguryo inquiry Dear Naomi and All, Indeed, on 2 July 2004 the DPRK had the Koguryo murals discovered around Pyongyang and Namp'o inscribed on UNESCO's World Heritage List. This move is expected to benefit the North Korea in many ways. A country that receives little international attention except for engineered famine and its crying abuse of human rights, its activities in nuclear weapons and missiles development has got a chance to emphasize that Koguryo was part of the history of Korean people. However, the DPRK was not only interested in preserving its cultural heritage. By having Koguryo mural tombs internationally recognized, North Korea also plans to establish its hegemony in the process of national unification and even to secure itself from possible preventive strikes. Even in a case of military dispute, a place once registered as a World Heritage Site is not permitted to be attacked under international law... More on the political economy of the Koguryo issue (as it is seen in contemporary Korea, China, and Japan) see < http://north-korea.boom.ru/koguryo.htm > With very best regards, Leonid A. Petrov PhD Chair of Korean Studies, -- Sciences Po Asia Centre Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris, Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques *********************************** Visiting address: 2 Floor, 224, Blvd S.Germain, 75007 PARIS Postal address: 27, Rue S.Guillaume, F - 75337 PARIS, Cedex 07, FRANCE Mob.+33 6 25615963 Tel: +33 1 45497768(office) Fax: +33 1 45497761 http://asia-centre.sciences-po.fr/academics/korean_chair.html On 15/12/06, naomi wrote: Dear List Members, My dissertation is focused on the political economy of Koguryo and includes the role of China and UNESCO. Any insight on locating North Korean sources of information available in either English or Chinese would be highly appreciated. Thank you, Naomi Naomi Hellmann Development Studies Brown University Naomi_Hellmann at brown.edu -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://koreaweb.ws/pipermail/koreanstudies_koreaweb.ws/attachments/20061227/de5af664/attachment-0001.html From hoffmann at koreaweb.ws Thu Dec 28 05:53:48 2006 From: hoffmann at koreaweb.ws (Frank Hoffmann) Date: Thu, 28 Dec 2006 02:53:48 -0800 Subject: [KS] Koguryo inquiry In-Reply-To: <475718613147B44682976AF45D6FD34502447AA1@MAILSERVER-01.hq.int.unesco.org> References: <58c.46336f0.3236808c@aol.com> <475718613147B44682976AF45D6FD34502447AA1@MAILSERVER-01.hq.int.unesco.org> Message-ID: To Junhi Han: Reading your last posting I would like to make two points: (A) You wrote: >First of all, through the article [by Dr >Petrov], one could believe that when the koguryo >cultural heritage was put on the list of WH from >Chinese side, then it could be considered as if >'Koguryo was named a Chinese state'. (...) >Inscription of a cultural or natural property on >the List of WH provides in no case a direct link >to its cultural identity or nationality. What is wrong with such statement? There was a pretty clear labeling attempt here, and as you know a very intense discussion followed. Wouldn't it be too blue-eyed to claim there was no such intended labeling going on? UNESCO declaring that things should not be this way seems wishful thinking at best. What is wrong here with Dr. Petrov's statement? (B) In your "authenticity" discussion, quoted below, you make it sound as if the adaption of a discourse that was going on in archaeology and art history a product of UNESCO's policy. I guess you do this in your function as UNESCO official. To me this seems like a reversal of reason and outcome. "Authenticity should comprise not only the physical but also intangible value[s] of monuments" -- that's indeed a one-to-one adoption of changes in perspectives of archaeology and art history. Every archaeologist knows that authenticity is a very elastic term that changes by the hour. Go to any Romanesque or Gothic European cathedral and what the average tourist may think is an authentic building was in fact restored and reconstructed ten times and each wall may show a different taste of a different period and that period's taste and representation of the past. In that sense we are never in a "historic" building "as it once was." If one looks closer the meaning of authenticity in Japan and its wooden building constructions and reconstructions are not any more extreme than is the case in Europe. I find it therefore also very questionable to point to the "beautification" of King Tongmyong's Tomb -- is what was done there any different from what was done at Notre Dame de Paris or in Dresden or at Sokkuram? I do not see any qualitative or structural difference. As for your Tan'gun Tomb example -- why is this called a "reconstruction"? Isn't it a construction? Or is there any archaeologic evidence that this completely new constructed pyramid is even the geographic site for the *mythological* founder of Koguryo? Not everything North Korea puts on the plate needs to be discussed as if it where on the same level in a scientific discourse. Best, Frank quote Junhi Han: >Regarding the authenticity, this is a very much >argued issue, I must say. However, I also would >like to mention that the notion of authenticity >has been evolved since 60s (since the >declaration of the Venice Charter) and it is now >applied into much broader context, in particular >since the adoption of the Document on >Authenticity declared in Nara 1994 (so-called >the Nara Document on Authenticity). Since then, >the notion on authenticity blindly applied until >recently according to the Venice Charter (1964) >is no longer valid. > >Authenticity should comprises not only physical >authenticity but also intangible value of >monuments or sites. The intangible value can be >traditional knowledge, technique or even >tradition(practice). For such reason, the >beautification of the Tongmyong Tomb (Jinpari X) >provided an intensive debates and deliberation >between experts involved in the evaluation and >in the WH inscription procedure. It is true that >in Korea, there is a tradition of taking care of >ancestors' tombs and beautification can be >perceived even as duty even for ordinary >citizens? I do not know what is the usual >practice in South Korea or in China in care of a >dynasty's founder's tombs?but it was from this >point of view that the beautification of the >King Tongmyong' tomb was argued and finally >accepted. Fortunately, the tumulus itself was >not included in the beautification range? > >Certainly the beautification of Tongmyong' Tomb >is at a different level than the reconstruction >of the Tanggun Tomb which is not included among >the complex of the 63 Koguryo tombs inscribed on >the WH List. I am not arguing here that the >beautification of the Tongmyong Tomb was >appropriate or not, but simply say that this >issue could be seen from different angles?. -- -------------------------------------- Frank Hoffmann http://koreaweb.ws -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://koreaweb.ws/pipermail/koreanstudies_koreaweb.ws/attachments/20061228/ba6ead17/attachment.html From jay.lewis at oriental-institute.oxford.ac.uk Thu Dec 28 11:06:08 2006 From: jay.lewis at oriental-institute.oxford.ac.uk (Jay Lewis) Date: Thu, 28 Dec 2006 16:06:08 +0000 Subject: [KS] Korean Studies post in Linguistics at Oxford Message-ID: <20061228160608.AD04B87049@webmail223.herald.ox.ac.uk> An embedded and charset-unspecified text was scrubbed... Name: not available Url: http://koreaweb.ws/pipermail/koreanstudies_koreaweb.ws/attachments/20061228/93c6a08b/attachment.ksh From J.Han at unesco.org Fri Dec 29 01:27:07 2006 From: J.Han at unesco.org (Han, Junhi) Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2006 07:27:07 +0100 Subject: [KS] Koguryo inquiry References: <58c.46336f0.3236808c@aol.com> <475718613147B44682976AF45D6FD34502447AA1@MAILSERVER-01.hq.int.unesco.org> Message-ID: <475718613147B44682976AF45D6FD34502447AA6@MAILSERVER-01.hq.int.unesco.org> Dear Frank Hofmann, Re. your comment on my last posting, What is wrong with such statement? There was a pretty clear labeling attempt here, and as you know a very intense discussion followed. Wouldn't it be too blue-eyed to claim there was no such intended labeling going on? UNESCO declaring that things should not be this way seems wishful thinking at best. What is wrong here with Dr. Petrov's statement? I think my comment was not very well understood. My apologies for Dr Petrov, if it sounded criticizing, which was not my intention. I did not say there was no such attempt, but simply wanted to take this opportunity to bring attention to what is the appropriate definition of being in the WHList and accurate understanding on the UNESCO WH Convention ( I think accurate understanding on the Convention is also important). After that, independently from how Convention should work, how member states would use it in reality for any political purpose, is a totally different matter and these two things should not be mixed and must be dealt with separately. So as a South Korean, before being UNESCO official, I fully agree with you that in the case of Koguryo, there was and still is ?clear attempting? , no doubt. But again, I also would like to insist that does not mean that inscription of Koguryo heritage in the Chinese side on the WHList brings an automatic official recognition by the Committee for their cultural identity. That is why I mentioned the role of ICOMOS. I am currently in Seoul for my holidays and there is an ICOMOS executive committee member who was in Seoul for WH Business. Yesterday, when I had a dinner with him, took the opportunity of being in Korea (I can say more freely as a Korean citizen rather than UNESCO official), I severely critised ICOMOS for the fact they have become almost an IGO, and did not pay enough attention on the issue clarifying cultural identify of proposed cultural properties for the WHL. Indeed, the issue of ?ancient civilization and modern geography? is a wide, complex and complicate issue, and he agreed that at least there should be a serious deliberation on this among the ICOMOS members dealing with WHC and responsible for evaluation of the proposed properties. In reality and officially, it is only the Central Government of China who is entitled to submit the Koguryo sites in China to the WHCommittee for their inscription on the WH List, neither DPRK nor ROK can do it under the current geography! And I should say that I am very pleased to see that three Koguryo historic sites in China along with the tombs and mural paintings were put on the WHList. The inscription of the Koguryo heritage in China shows the Koguryo civilization in a more complex way, rather than inscription of the individual tombs as monuments (the DPRK side). And after all, thanks to this initiative, by now the ICOMOS executive members are aware of Koguryo?s sensitive issue, they had no idea on Koguryo: its sensitive nature and meaning for Koreans, neither its linkage with China nor political use from Chinese side?I can not go further details here, but I can say that it was one of the most sensitive and highly politised inscription. At the Secretariat there was even reminder of the code of ethics on conduct of international civil servant?, and of course that was more or less targeted officials like me with delicate nationality (Korean in this business). ? I hope this time, I made myself understood. There was clearly a political attempt from Chinese side, but I wanted to explain there theoretically how UNESCO Convention functioned and again would like to insist that this should be dealt with separately from how state parties would use it according to their intention? Regarding your comment on authenticity, I think your point is exactly what I wanted to point out in my previous email, as I felt the Tongmyong Tombs (in Dr Petrov? s paper) authenticity was questioned in the article of Dr Petrov. Did I misunderstood the article of Dr Petrov ? If yes, again my apologies. At least that was my understanding when I read his article so I wanted to explain that indeed, that beautification (I think Dr Petrov used another wording, maybe ?reconstruction??) was hotly debated but at the end it was accepted by ICOMOS that the beautification carried out did not much damage authenticity of the Tomb. It is true that many European historic cities, damaged during the second world war, were put on the WHList after having gone through the reconstruction. Re. Tangun tomb, I used the wording of reconstruction, because it was reconstructed on the basis of a tomb, so actually the tomb itself of reconstruction. But again, of course, one can argue that if the tomb originally placed is not the Tangun tomb, then we can not possibly call it ? reconstruction?. We can go on and on with these issue, but I will stop here. I thank Frank Hofmann for providing me with the opportunity to bring additional comment. Best Junhi Han ________________________________ From: koreanstudies-bounces at koreaweb.ws ?(?) ?? ?? ?? ?? Frank Hoffmann Sent: 12/28/2006 (?) 11:53 ?? To: Korean Studies Discussion List Subject: Re: [KS] Koguryo inquiry To Junhi Han: Reading your last posting I would like to make two points: (A) You wrote: First of all, through the article [by Dr Petrov], one could believe that when the koguryo cultural heritage was put on the list of WH from Chinese side, then it could be considered as if ?Koguryo was named a Chinese state?. (...) Inscription of a cultural or natural property on the List of WH provides in no case a direct link to its cultural identity or nationality. What is wrong with such statement? There was a pretty clear labeling attempt here, and as you know a very intense discussion followed. Wouldn't it be too blue-eyed to claim there was no such intended labeling going on? UNESCO declaring that things should not be this way seems wishful thinking at best. What is wrong here with Dr. Petrov's statement? (B) In your "authenticity" discussion, quoted below, you make it sound as if the adaption of a discourse that was going on in archaeology and art history a product of UNESCO's policy. I guess you do this in your function as UNESCO official. To me this seems like a reversal of reason and outcome. "Authenticity should comprise not only the physical but also intangible value[s] of monuments" -- that's indeed a one-to-one adoption of changes in perspectives of archaeology and art history. Every archaeologist knows that authenticity is a very elastic term that changes by the hour. Go to any Romanesque or Gothic European cathedral and what the average tourist may think is an authentic building was in fact restored and reconstructed ten times and each wall may show a different taste of a different period and that period's taste and representation of the past. In that sense we are never in a "historic" building "as it once was." If one looks closer the meaning of authenticity in Japan and its wooden building constructions and reconstructions are not any more extreme than is the case in Europe. I find it therefore also very questionable to point to the "beautification" of King Tongmyong's Tomb -- is what was done there any different from what was done at Notre Dame de Paris or in Dresden or at Sokkuram? I do not see any qualitative or structural difference. As for your Tan'gun Tomb example -- why is this called a "reconstruction"? Isn't it a construction? Or is there any archaeologic evidence that this completely new constructed pyramid is even the geographic site for the *mythological* founder of Koguryo? Not everything North Korea puts on the plate needs to be discussed as if it where on the same level in a scientific discourse. Best, Frank quote Junhi Han: Regarding the authenticity, this is a very much argued issue, I must say. However, I also would like to mention that the notion of authenticity has been evolved since 60s (since the declaration of the Venice Charter) and it is now applied into much broader context, in particular since the adoption of the Document on Authenticity declared in Nara 1994 (so-called the Nara Document on Authenticity). Since then, the notion on authenticity blindly applied until recently according to the Venice Charter (1964) is no longer valid. Authenticity should comprises not only physical authenticity but also intangible value of monuments or sites. The intangible value can be traditional knowledge, technique or even tradition(practice). For such reason, the beautification of the Tongmyong Tomb (Jinpari X) provided an intensive debates and deliberation between experts involved in the evaluation and in the WH inscription procedure. It is true that in Korea, there is a tradition of taking care of ancestors? tombs and beautification can be perceived even as duty even for ordinary citizens? I do not know what is the usual practice in South Korea or in China in care of a dynasty?s founder?s tombs?but it was from this point of view that the beautification of the King Tongmyong? tomb was argued and finally accepted. Fortunately, the tumulus itself was not included in the beautification range? Certainly the beautification of Tongmyong? Tomb is at a different level than the reconstruction of the Tanggun Tomb which is not included among the complex of the 63 Koguryo tombs inscribed on the WH List. I am not arguing here that the beautification of the Tongmyong Tomb was appropriate or not, but simply say that this issue could be seen from different angles?. -- -------------------------------------- Frank Hoffmann http://koreaweb.ws -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://koreaweb.ws/pipermail/koreanstudies_koreaweb.ws/attachments/20061229/d1a7517f/attachment-0001.html From hoffmann at koreaweb.ws Fri Dec 29 20:16:07 2006 From: hoffmann at koreaweb.ws (Frank Hoffmann) Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2006 17:16:07 -0800 Subject: [KS] Koguryo inquiry In-Reply-To: <475718613147B44682976AF45D6FD34502447AA6@MAILSERVER-01.hq.int.unesco.org> References: <58c.46336f0.3236808c@aol.com> <475718613147 B44682976AF45D6FD34502447AA1@MAILSERVER-01.hq.int.unesco.org> <475718613147B44682976AF45D6FD34502447AA6@MAILSERVER-01.hq.int.unesco.org> Message-ID: Hello Junhi Han and others: In your reply you seems you continue to discuss *internal* UNESCO politics. Did anyone here misunderstand UNESCO policies (meaning of WH List,etc.)? I think nobody did. But there is a political application, use and abuse of UNESCO's work -- and that is not all too complicated to understand. >It is true that many European historic cities, >damaged during the second world war, were put on >the WHList after having gone through the >reconstruction. I heard rumors that some small pockets of life exist even outside of UNESCO -):: "WH List"? Building preservation and reconstruction was going on since ever. *That* was my point. UNESCO's role in all this is very minor. You find building preservation measures and reconstructions of older castles, cathedrals, etc. that were done in the 18th century, for example. These followed contemporary ideas of antiquity, and this was happening all through history. The Romans reconstructed Greek buildings and statues. And in my cathedral example I was trying to point to the fact that in the very same building you usually find many preservation and reconstruction attempts from various periods that reconstructed different periods of the same building. Even within the same reconstruction attempt, if it went on for several decades, you will find huge differences in what was actually reconstructed. The Green Vault in the Dresden castle as well as the castle itself are wonderful examples for this. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gr?nes_Gew?lbe Various parts of the castle were reconstructed -- starting shortly after the building had been finished. The building was under permanent construction and reconstruction ever since it existed. And each decade had different ideas of what was "historic" and how to preserve or beautify this. So you end up with a building that reflects different historic periods in every wall and in various details of the same building. There is no historic building that would be preserved as it was in say the early 18th century. My home town, Hildesheim, was one of the main centers in medieval Europe (around the year 1000). And even the changes of city wall reconstructions, placement of bricks, metal and stone decorations from that period, re-opening or closing of entrances to historic buildings, positioning of entrance and street levels, etc., have changed quite dramatically between the time I went to school there and 2006. All this started well before the bombings of WW II. It's an ongoing project. For example (I am preparing a piece about this issue) it had always been taken for granted that individualism of the artist resp. artisan begun with the Renaissance. But looking at various art pieces from mentioned medieval city we now have plenty of evidence that there was quite a strong sense of individualism and understanding of the role of the artist (rather than the artisan) going on as early as the late 10th century. From this changing perspective (still not well published) I noticed that the emphasis in how the city displays art since the 1990s and also in how and what it preserves and reconstructs is changing. That is what I meant -- we are facing a different reality of historic buildings and art, and we are preserving and reconstructing things according to our ever changing interests and knowledge. If you then study building history you will be able to detect and read this like the rings of a tree. All this is really not about WW II or UNESCO. And in Northern Korea and China it relates to UNESCO only since a couple of years. Preservation specialists like Professor Rocco Mazzeo (from Bologna) are now involved for UNESCO in leading positions with the task to help North Korea and China to find better preservation techniques of Kogury? tombs. How very political this entire issue is, and how little UNESCO is in control of any such issues (other than what you seem to indicate) became evident at the October 2005 Kogury? conference in Berlin. Not just that the North Koreans did not show up at all (although Berlin might be considered neutral ground -- they even have their own embassy there), but the reaction towards Professor Mazzeo's talk, where several leading South Korean archaeologists and art historians left the conference room, shows that all this is politics-pure. Best regards, Frank -- -------------------------------------- Frank Hoffmann http://koreaweb.ws From morgenstille at hotmail.com Sat Dec 30 07:02:35 2006 From: morgenstille at hotmail.com (Maya stiller) Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2006 13:02:35 +0100 Subject: [KS] Koguryŏ conference Message-ID: An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://koreaweb.ws/pipermail/koreanstudies_koreaweb.ws/attachments/20061230/a3c862cb/attachment.html