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And the wall came down
Last night, November 9th I watched the 20 year commemoration of the fall of the Berlin Wall, broadcast live from Berlin. Earlier this year I wrote this piece linking the fall with the still existent division between North Korea and South Korea. What I thought was so heartening about the celebration/commemoration was that Germany related this event to the world, not only with the presence of world leaders but the 3 metre high dominoes, a wonderful metaphor for the fall. They were shipped all over the wall and painted by various people and then erected in the place where the wall stood.. When they were pushed over they stopped symbolically at a concrete pillar painted by a Korean artist who spoke of the current situation in Korea. The most moving statement was by Bangladeshi Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus, who said that the last war was the war on poverty. And that he wanted poverty moved into a museum.
My mother is a returned servicewoman and asked me to tell a story to her comrades at their annual luncheon. Most of these women, aged between 75 and 97 are ex-army nurses who served in WW2 and the 1950-53 war in Korea. Like Afganistan, Iraq and Chechnya, whenever the West report on Korea it is usually in relation to aggression; specifically the actions of North Korea. While not denying the seriousness of armed conflict, I see my role as a storyteller to promote peace through understanding. Folktales are my chief medium of doing so...1989 was a year of celebration for me as my oldest daughter, Atlanta was born, albeit reluctantly; it took her two days to make the transition from womb to world but she arrived healthy and happy to be cherished by her parents and brother. It was also a year of celebration for all freedom fighters throughout the world because in that same year the Berlin Wall, die Berliner Mauer, came down and the country of Germany began its reunification. This constructed barrier completely encircled West Berlin, separating it from East Germany, the German Democratic Republic (GDR). Erected in 1961, it was a physical representation of the Iron Curtain; the ideological and physical boundary dividing Europe into two separate areas from the end of WW11 in 1945 until the end of the Cold War 1991. During its 28 year life, over 100 people were killed, trying to cross the Wall into West Berlin. Unfortunately Germany was not the last remaining country in the world to be reunified. Today, twenty years on, Korea is still a divided country; the communist Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, DPRK in the North and the Republic of Korea, ROK, in the South. The War the Korean people suffered from 1950-1953 was colloquially named by the Western world as The Forgotten War, because it was not a victory and has culturally been forgotten. While the civilians and combatants of a war will never forget it, neither must the rest of the world. The writer Maya Angelou said ‘History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.’ Long before there were geographical and ideological divisions, the Korean people had a rich tradition of folktales, embodying their cultural values. These tales live on today.
Brotherly Love
A long, long time ago, there lived two brothers. They were both very poor, but the older brother had a little more rice than the other one. However, he had a larger family to support than his younger brother. In autumn they each harvested their crops and bagged up the grain. But the older brother was worried about his younger brother and so when it was dark he took a bag of grain and secretly placed it in his brother’s rice store.
Strange to say the following day when the older brother went to his own store, he counted the same number of bags as he had before he took the bag to his brother. So the next night he took another bag and put it in his brother’s storehouse, exactly as he had done before.
But when he checked his store the next morning once again there was the same amount of bags. His supply had not diminished at all. The brother was puzzled. “How could this be?”
The following evening he took another bag of rice to his brother’s grain store, but instead of going home to bed, he waited behind a bush near his own store. A little while later he saw a figure coming through the darkness, carrying a sack. When he saw it was his younger brother he was very surprised.
For each night the younger brother had taken a bag of rice and put it in his older brother’s store because he was worried about him. When the two brothers realized what they had been doing they laughed and laughed. They now knew that they were not poor at all because they had something more precious than sacks of rice... they had brotherly love. (reprinted from my book Tell Me: Storytelling as a Global Language)
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This Inflating Bra Commercial Left Me Confused Yet Reaching For My Wallet [N...
via Gizmodo by Rosa Golijan on 11/6/09
Based on my non-existent Chinese skills, I managed to understand that this inflatable bra makes boobs big, BIG, BIG. And I guess it comes with odd sound effects included? Can someone watch please this commercial and translate for me?
I just really need to know whether the voice over guy or the girl with the measuring tape are included with the purchase or sold separately.
Korea Gathering
From: karen rash
Sent: Saturday, November 07, 2009 6:26 AM
To: Chris Starr
Subject: photo for WWD from Korea
Sent: Saturday, November 07, 2009 6:26 AM
To: Chris Starr
Subject: photo for WWD from Korea
| Hi Chris, I've been meaning to send you info on my WWD dinner and your request is just what I needed to actually get this out. Thanks!I went to an Indian buffet in Seoul, hoping to see other alumni and keeping seats open in case someone came in. I had been at a conference all day and invited some colleagues to join me for dinner in celebration of my first school in India. I told stories about studying in the mountains, relying on a group of my peers, and recalled C.S.Lewis bedtime stories while sucking on those sour vitamin C pills. Andrew, my partner, and I visited Woodstock in February 2008, and I was pleased to see that much of the Woodstock identity and atmosphere has remained unchanged over the decades.In the "Woodstock Day picture, I am the only Woodstocker, but we're an eclectic group! There's Tom from the States, Erica from Korea, Andrew (my partner) from Canada, me holding a Woodstock "Brown and Gold". Ben from Australia and a man from Singapore who joined us from the next table. We had an enjoyable evening.the second picture "Woodstock-Seoul dinner" was taken back in February when Miss Holmes and ? came to do recruitment. (Hanna Jang was the organizer for this dinner but she didn't responded to my October email or calls so I'm not sure what's going on for her). I thought I'd better send it along. I did try to send it to Miss Holmes before but the email address she gave me seems to have been changed.... anyway...Thanks for taking all all these hundreds of little details and helping to provide us with continuity as we spread ourselves all over the globe!Warm regards, Karen Rash (class of ''70) South Korea |
Trip to Korea
It's a good thing I didn't apply for my passport at the citizenship oath ceremony, because we're going to Korea in 3 weeks. Tickets were so cheap it was too good to pass up - something like $570 + tax per person on United. We had to make trips to get Alex's birth certificate and apply for both our passports super-expedited. Off to Seoul for Thanksgiving!
Time for TED (TEDxSeoul)
This week TEDMed is happening in San Diego in California and of course I wish I could be there, however, TEDxSeoul, an even I have been working on for a few months with a great team is priming to hold our first event on November 28th.
We will have onsite realtime translation to English and Korean depending on the language of the speaker and we will be live streaming the event online. I will post more details when we have opened registration but for now if you are interested, follow us on twitter and join our facebook group.
The video is just a TED teaser which I am sure most of you are familiar with. If you are new to TED, please get watching.
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For the longest time, I've been a Japanese pop-culture addict, but recently I've been pulled into the world of KPOP and Korean pop-culture in general. (Mostly thanks to the lovely SNSD. Warning: There might be some fangirling involved in this post.) Lately I've been streaming TV shows and dramas, reading Korean news online, delving into Korean history and trying to learn Korean. It might sound a bit nuts to some, especially since I don't even live in South Korea, but to properly understand a subculture, I think one has to figure out what the status quo is in the first place.
Anyhow, while looking for information online, I came across a series of articles from MTV Iggy (http://bit.ly/3E2hQo). It certainly reinforced a lot of the information I'd read online from fan comments on forums and news blogs, but it was also pretty depressing. When you hear about your idols getting only 2-3 hours sleep at night, even taking into consideration that they're only barely past their teenage years, that's a pretty tough life for anyone to lead. When your company is about to go bankrupt and you have to promote yourself without help of managers or promoters, like the situation Child of Empire are in right now, it's got to be a living hell. Not to mention that even from their trainee days, some companies keep a very tight rein on their artists.
In a reply regarding what the U-Kiss members would like to do after their idol days, Alexander had the following to say:
“I’d like to continue my education. Seriously, it’s true that entertainers have to learn everything. You can’t only sing and dance, you have to act and MC [as well] because Korea’s so competitive. But I don’t think this can go long term.”
This touched a nerve with me because personally I value education very much. Japanese entertainers, especially idols, don't often continue their education past high school. I was very surprised when I first learnt that many members of SNSD were still going to school in the middle of their album promotions and other activities. Just recently SeoHyun and Yuri auditioned for enrollment at the same university that SooYoung attends. Without higher education, it's really hard to get a decent job. It worried me a lot as I watched my favorite members of Morning Musume graduate, especially if they weren't very popular with the fans. They really have few choices outside of the entertainment industry. With luck, some are able to carve a niche for themselves, like Yoshizawa Hitomi and the Gatas Brillhantes idol futsal team.
KPOP in comparison to JPOP is so much more fast-paced. Idol groups rise and fall so fast, with many groups debuting at the same time, sometimes there's not enough time in the day to get to know who's who. It's probably due to the Korean music industry being smaller than the Japanese music industry, but there's still a lot of similarities to be drawn between the two.
I might continue this in the future with a second post with more insights between KPOP and JPOP. I have more to say, but this post will never end if I keep writing. lol
