neighborhoodly relations

[Expletive] don't leave [expletive ]your care here [expletive]. I pass this place every morning at 6.30. [...] Sillim-dong, April 21, 1999. (c) AL This photograph reminds me that despite all the talk I've been told about the good neighborhood life, the neighborly relations have points of strain as well. Update, August 16, 2007 Attentive commentors have paid attention to what what I had failed to notice, that actually the expletives had been added by another person to what had originally been a fairly neutral note asking not to park in that place. One line of the note is hidden below the windscreen wiper, but the last line seems to read musûn muryehan chisiyeyo ("what is this impolite act" or whatever). Or perhaps the same person who originally put up the note added the expletives later, when the note didn't produce a desired outcome? Categories at del.icio.us/hunjang: neighborhood ∙ urbanspace ∙ Sillim/Gwanak

Conference: "Crossing National and Disciplinary Boundaries in Korean and Japanese Studies"

Seems like a very interesting conference on June 21 in Korea University (from the Korean Studies mailing list): "Crossing National and Disciplinary Boundaries in Korean and Japanese Studies" what: recent scholarship in Korean and Japanese Studies that transgress established boundaries in interesting ways. when: Thursday, June 21, 2007 where: Centennial Hall, Korea University sponsors: Asiatic Research Center Korea University and The National Research Council for Economics, Humanities, and Social Sciences conference organizer: Henry Em, Korea University *Program* (10:00 - 10:45) Opening Remarks: Choi Jang Jip, Director, Asea munje yon'guso Welcome: Han Sung-Joo, President, Korea University Keynote Address: Kim Uchang, Professor Emeritus, Korea University. "Crossing Boundaries: Dangers, Fears, Historical Truths" Session I: Imperial Ideology and Colonial Korea (10:45 - 12:30) chair: Henry Em, Associate Professor, Dept. of Korean History, Korea University presenters: Helen Lee, Assistant Professor, Dept. of African and Asian Languages and Literatures, University of Florida: "Dying as Daughter of the Empire" Jun Uchida, Assistant Professor, Dept. of History, Stanford University: "Between Fascism and Colonialism: Japan's Naisen Ittai Policy and Mass Mobilization in Wartime Korea" discussants: Roger Janelli, Professor Emeritus, Folklore and Ethnomusicology, East Asian Languages & Cultures, Indiana University Jung, Keun-Sik, Professor, Dept. of Sociology, Seoul National University Session II: Korean Narratives and the Hegemony of the West (14:00 - 16:30) chair: Kwon Heok-Tae, Department of Japanese Studies, Sungkonghoe University presenters: Henry Em, Associate Professor, Dept. of Korean History, Korea University: "Sovereignty and Modern Korean Historiography" Theodore Hughes, Assistant Professor, Dept. of East Asian Lang. & Cultures, Columbia University: "Death, Target, Virtuality: Cold War Memories of North Koreans and the Korean War" Youngju Ryu, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Asian Lang. & Cultures, University of Michigan (from July): "Refractory Fictions: Countering the "Novel" in Modern Korea" discussants: Han, Suk Jung, Professor, Dept. of Sociology, Dong-A University Cho Chulwon, Professor, Dept. of English Lang. & Literature, and Director, American Studies Institute, Seoul National University Jin-kyung Lee, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Literature, University of California San Diego Session III: Colonialism, Modernity, and Memory (16:15 - 18:30) chair: Roger Janelli, Professor Emeritus, Folklore and Ethnomusicology, East Asian Languages & Cultures, Indiana University presenters: Jun Yoo, Assistant Professor, Dept. of History, University of Hawaii: "The New Woman and the Politics of Gender in Colonial Korea" Alexis Dudden, Associate Professor, Dept. of History, and Director of the Program in Humanitarian Studies, University of Connecticut (from July): "Modern History. Old Islands." discussants: Jung, Tae-Hern, Professor, Dept. of Korean History, Korea University Kwon Heok-Tae, Department of Japanese Studies, Sungkonghoe University Categories at del.icio.us/hunjang: academic ∙ Koreanstudies ∙ Koreanhistory

IASS Round table: La litterature coréenne

The 9th World Congress of the International Association for Semiotic Studies is held in Helsinki and Imatra on June 11-17. My office mate from the Dept of Religious Studies is involved in the arrangements - that's how I became aware of it, actually. Browsing the conference program (pdf), I found out something that must be taking place for the first time in this country: a session on Korean literature. The only problem is that it appears to be entirely in French, a language for which the two years of study decades ago in high school will not be of much help. 10.30–13.00 Round table: La litterature coréenne (Chair Chie-Sou Kim), U40 room 5 Kim, Chie-Sou: Mythe contemporain dans le roman de LEE Cheong-Jan Song, Ki-Jeong: La Communication entre les vivants et les morts - Etude sur L’Invité de WHANG Suk-Yong Choi, Yong-Ho: The Azaleas Liu, HyoSook: L’analyse de l’espace théatral à travers Le Cordon ombilical d’Oh Tae-Seok Categories at del.icio.us/hunjang: academic ∙ literature/movies

Busan panoramas

Busan is a photogenic place - at least as far as using the panorama function of digital cameras is concerned - with its hills and the sea, and houses that are more colorful than in Seoul. Ever since I visited Korea during the latter half of last December and early January I've been thinking of putting up some of my gratuitious use of the aforementioned camera function. The small photos below are from Flickr, and the adjoining links to a larger file of the same picture stored at Imageshack. Busan (Dec 29, 2006) • Link to a large picture at Imageshack (2702x700, 890K) Busan downtown and Yeongdo (Dec 29, 2006) • Link to a large picture at Imageshack (2491x700, 890K) Busan fishing harbor (Dec 30, 2006) • Link to a large picture at Imageshack (4594x700, 911K) • Link to a large picture at Imageshack (2654x700, 836K) 부산 자갈치의 국밥집 A rice soup restaurant in Jagalchi, Busan; see also the blog header (Dec 30, 2006) • A large file at Imageshack (2025x700, 475K) Yeongdo, Busan (Dec 30, 2006) • Large file at Imageshack (3770X700, 774K) Categories at del.icio.us/hunjang: photography ∙ cities ∙ urbanspace

Youtube says: you have nothing

Visited my Youtube account after a long time. A look at my profile was not too encouraging: You have nothing in your video log. User info continues: You have no favorites. Further: You have no subscribers. And finally: You have no Friends. What is one to do? Find some solace in Ain't Got No/I Got Life by Nina Simone in... Youtube. Categories at del.icio.us/hunjang: music