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Korean History Dilemma

This may be an interesting link for korean cinema:

A Short History of Korean Film

A Short History of Korean Film

by Darcy Paquet

1903 -- First public screening of a film in Korea (the exact year is debated).
1910 -- Korea is formally annexed by Japan, after years of effective colonization.
1919 -- First Korean film, a kinodrama (play with motion picture inserts) named Uirijeok Gutu.
1923 -- First silent film, Plighted Love Under the Moon directed by Yun Baek-nam.
1926 -- Arirang by Na Un-kyu.
1935 -- First sound film, Chunhyang-jeon directed by Lee Myung-woo.
1937 -- Japan invades China; the Korean film industry comes under increasing pressure to produce pro-Japanese films.
1945 -- Japan surrenders to the Allied Forces; Korea regains independence, but is soon divided in two.
1949 -- Korea's first color film, The Women's Diary by Hong Seong-gi.
1950 -- War starts on the Korean Peninsula.
1953 -- Cease-fire agreement signed at Panmunjeom.
1958 -- Flower in Hell, directed by Shin Sang-ok.
1960 -- The Housemaid, directed by Kim Ki-young.
1961 -- Obaltan, (pictured right) directed by Yu Hyun-mok.
1961 -- Military coup leads to consolidation of film industry.
1973 -- Establishment of Korean Motion Picture Promotion Corporation (KMPPC).
1974 -- Establishment of Korean Film Archive.
1979 -- President Park Chung-Hee is assassinated.
1980 -- Gwangju Uprising.
1981 -- Mandala, directed by Im Kwon-taek.
1988 -- Hollywood studios open first branch offices in Korea, led by UIP.
1992 -- Marriage Story is the first film financed by a member of the chaebol (Samsung).
1993 -- Democratization spreads in Korea under new president Kim Young-sam.
1993 -- Sopyonje, directed by Im Kwon-taek.
1997 -- Opening of Namyangju Cinema Complex outside of Seoul.
1999 -- Shiri, directed by Kang Jae-gyu, kicks off commercial boom.
2001 -- Local market share tops 50%, boom in overseas sales.
2004 -- Silmido and Tae Guk Gi become the first films to sell 10 million tickets.

and much more details on the page

another interesting page:

http://www.koreanculture.org/board/board_view.php?key=new&keyfield=subject&number=60&page=1

If you come across Lee Chang-Ho, you come across one friend of mine (of more), who also was a friend of many japanese filmers (for example Ogawa Shinsuke), that were good(!) friends etc.
Just as an example.

And please, DO go to the About Korea pages there, dear reader!. . .

Which dilemma, please?. . .there is NONE
 
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National Museum of Korea, please:

http://www.museum.go.kr/eng/collection/sub_01.jsp

Its a pity, that I can't read Japanese very well. . .
The first link from you, Caster, also shows some old Korean films, as we also had them here and now in our Kinematheque archive. Thanks for the link, because of the fotos of some films, that were here just recently. (Its a pity, that I cannot read the text without difficulties).
They also say a lot about the Japanese/Korean relations at different times. Very well also critical ones about their own species.
We had contacts with films and filmers in the 70ties already, short after the beginning contacts with japanese filmers, and they were always shown side by side with other asian films. We are very informed on a wide range, since both, the Koreans and Japanese were very helpfull at the start. So were the Chinese (I have friends there too).

Any posters from Japanese from the "annexe" times, sent by Japanese on the other hand, are generally met with suspicion herabout. It would be interesting, to hear the Korean opinions about them, to balance the informations.

There are also several publications about Korean film here, also about Japanese, and they both have their own uniqueness and are both very appreciated here.
In fact, the interest in asian films in general rises steadily here. This also means, that many people herabout are well informed, once more particularly because of the high percentage of asian films in the Berlinale. We also have an additional asian film festival here (I may cope on art level, talks on the way), plus an asian women festival (to which I was called to just recently, by the Korean organisers, who invented it).

And who sees films from one asian country hereabout, also soon watches those from other asian countries, and therefore can make an own mind about the different views. Not to mention the gorgeous University's bibliotheques plus those of the according friendship societies here.
No asian country is superior for us in general, apart from personal preferences.

And to make one point clear, NO one here and on many other places ever speaks about Korea having been Japan at certain times, nor ever will, nor do we say so about the Chinese invader's times. Forever forget it.
We don't say North Korea is China either, as an example. Its still Korea, as much as the DDR has been Germany for us, and always will be.

And the Koreans know this very well.
 
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1926 -- Arirang by Na Un-kyu.
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movie wings ad.1928


sun rise 1928


1937,an engel of homeless . korean language only


1937, journey ,korean language only
 
National Museum of Korea, please:
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The point I came to notice was that English and Japanese explanation was a bit different there. It seems to me the English one tells you more cruelty of Japan and Japanese.
The most interesting thing was the exhibition, something like "Hangul, our great language all over the world!!!", though it was only in Korean and I don't understand the language.
 
Any posters from Japanese from the "annexe" times, sent by Japanese on the other hand, are generally met with suspicion herabout. It would be interesting, to hear the Korean opinions about them, to balance the informations
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you should ask old korean guy personally by off-the-record
they might tell a truth
however, they can not tell you the truth because of a traitor

if he was an honest man, he would add to tell like this
http://www.kqed.org/w/baywindow/taiwan/japan.html
 
caster51 said:
you should ask old korean guy personally by off-the-record
thet might tell a truth
if he was a honest man, ho woulf tell like this
http://www.kqed.org/w/baywindow/taiwan/japan.html
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We have met many old korean guys (and halmonis=grannies!) in Korea as well as here, privately too. What they said, was always the same, indepently from each other. And so it was also reported on many films. We do know the truth, be sure. They never said anything of the above, particularly none found it "funny". In contrary. Everyone was glad, that its over. And no one ever had any reason to lie to us, never, thus they for sure all were honest to us Germans. . .

Its mostly the younger generation, basically of artists, that tried to cope with Japanese again, with those Japanese, who had no racist prejudices or "being superior" thinkings, by the way. (And there you also find me being invited)

Or business people for known reasons.
 
What they said, was always the same, indepently from each other. And so it was also reported on many films. We do know the truth, be sure. They never said anything of the above, particularly none found it "funny". In contrary
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you should read her book.
shie is a traitor now.
then she was refused to enter korea...that is korea
there is no free speech in korea

呉善花 - Wikipedia
or O sonfa
O Seonhwa - Google 検索
o sonfa - Google 検索
If it is a professor at the university, the employment is lost.
The remark of the pro-Japanese is not permitted in public
 
I can't care less just about one woman. And that does not say at all, that "that is Korea". What a wild generalisation and prejudice. . .
And if you post links, try to find an english version, please.

By the way, if someone was refused to enter Korea, because of lies, that does not speak against Korea.

There is no free speech in Japan either BTW, I know enough japanese journalists. . .and we also just got a fine example about this during the Berlinale.
 
caster51 said:
oops there are some person has not been brainwashed in korea.
http://aog.2y.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=1558&st=0
even the Japanese children during ww2 never draw like that
Is this a child in a normal country?
I dont think so
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Funny, during WW2 it was another time, thus probably no child was even allowed to draw what they want in Japan, the mindcrime issue is more than wellknown.

Have you seen Japanese drawings of schoolchildren since then? Probably not.

And what that has to do with my former post, is unclear to me, please explain
 
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By the way, if someone was refused to enter Korea, because of lies, that does not speak against Korea
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??
I cant bilieve it in Japan
never happend such things in japan
 
caster51 said:
??
I cant bilieve it in Japan
never happend such things in japan
are you a korean?
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I have strongest doubts.
And you know very well, that I am German. Culture manager and member of the German Japanese society, in close contact with the Japanese embassy and their helps, by the way.
(also with the Korean one, amongst others)
With many project to introduce Japan positively and for long already, so far.
But I have to correct myself a bit now. . .
 
caster51 said:
what a poor Culture manager. btw.
who cant enter Japan as an anti-Japan?
日韓「禁断の歴史」 | 金 完燮, 完燮, 金 |本 | 通販 | Amazon
even he can not go home
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You must be joking, I was invited to Japan many times!
I am not at all anti Japan (and they all know this very well), only because I do not share your kind of view. Even our society would not share it.

And we were the main organisers of Japan in Germany and Germany in Japan last years. Any questions? You can google these events.

The one who would loose a job in there, would be you, sorry to say.
 
You must be joking, I was invited to Japan many times
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it is a waste of money.

And we were the main organisers of Japan in Germany and Germany in Japan last years. Any questions?
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it has nothing to do with korea

please explain the German plan of invasion of Hokkaido before ww1
 
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it is a waste of money.
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they say exactly the opposite. . .
I was even in big Japanese magazines with my artwork, and many things are in several public places in Japan, incl. Nagasaki, via the Nagasaki mayor, who was here in Berlin, actually.

it has nothing to do with korea
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Right, so why do you come to this?

please explain the German plan of invasion of Hokkaido before ww1
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Why should I? I am not from the army, nor did I live then.
And what does THAT have to do with Korea and its culture??
Off topic.
 
And what does THAT have to do with Korea and its culture??
Off topic.
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what is the korean culture that you think at that time?
I mean before annexation
what is the Han(恨）？evil practice ？
Han (cultural) - Wikipedia

please explain about korean Mini-sinocentrism in korean subconsciousness

what was the yangban's role?
what did yangban do?
 
Sorry, I might not be the person to be asked such questions, nor do I really have the unpaid time to do so. If I find some time, I may nevertheless read and answer to it.
But thanks for the link. I am always interested in more than only one side of any story. . .
Good bye, it was nevertheless interesting to talk to you
 
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Astroboy said:
Under the Japanese rule, Koreans lost their pride or wounded because they believed it was superior to Japan, while it was not.
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The truth is,Korea was on China's coattail as merely a transporter of sophisticated Chinese cultures to Japan.
 
Truth is:

they were bridges, and known for this, but also had their own culture. Everyone takes from and gives to other cultures. Thats the way it is. No beginning, no end. (Renga, with other words)
No need to scapegoat them for that. Thanks would be better.
Also with Japan, which did not even need Korea in between (being as much a chinese coattail itself for long in cultural sense, even a korean), but very well for many things.
This is common knowledge outside Japan.

I have come via China>Korea>Japan and done a lot of research and documentaries in this way.

And as for lost pride etc., thats exactly what fits the Japanese now. . .and many others.
 
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