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5. Mark Peterson

Korean textbook improvements

Last week I wrote about some of the work I've done over the last 24 years to try to improve American textbooks - specifically, on how they cover Korea. I think I will spend the next 24 years trying to improve Korean textbooks on how they cover - not America - but Korea.

Do Je-hae2018-12-31 17:54

Textbook checkers

I returned recently from Korea where I attended a conference sponsored by the Academy of Korean Studies. The purpose of the conference was to celebrate the 15th year of the “understanding Korea project” - the title of the program aimed at correcting mistakes in foreign textbooks in their coverage of Korea.

2018-12-26 17:12

Sijo conferences

In the last month I've been invited to two, count them! two!, conferences on sijo. The first was in Korea, in the tiny town of Cheongdo, south of Daegu, where a prominent sijo poet and even-more prominent artist, Min Byoung-do, has a studio. He put together an international conference on sijo. And two weeks after that, I spoke at a conference on teaching sijo for secondary school teachers held in Chicago sponsored by the Sejong Cultural Society, based in Chicago.

2018-12-17 17:14

In recent weeks, I have documented the birth of sijo in English in America. And I've contrasted the rise of sijo in English with the death of sijo in Korean. Today, I am proposing a way to revive sijo in Korean.

2018-12-03 17:38

More American sijo

Last week, I wrote about high school students in America writing sijo in English - and I gave several examples. That point was that sijo, basically a dead form in Korea, is alive and well in America.

2018-11-25 17:07

Whereas many Koreans consider sijo a dead art form, the poetic genre is starting to catch on in America.

2018-11-19 17:50

Sijo, Korea's contribution to world

Sijo, the famous Korean, three-line, short poetic form, should be understood in a cross-cultural perspective. As the frog outside the well - that is as a non-Korean Koreanologist - I see sijo differently than most Koreans, and the view I have is that sijo is one of Korea's best contributions to world literature.

2018-11-09 17:40

Haiku, a classic short-form style of poetry from Japan, is not well-known in Korea and is not taught in Korean schools. On the other hand, every American student in the last 20 or 30 years has studied haiku. By study, I mean they have learned the classic forms in translation, they have learned the form is three lines, with syllable counts of five, seven and five per line, and they have been assigned to write their own haiku. Haiku has become a part of American culture.

2018-11-05 17:27

Hanok village today

My recent visit to Sacheon village in Uiseong County of North Gyeongsang Province left me thinking about the traditional Korean village today. I wrote last time about Sacheon throwing all its efforts into becoming internationally known as a “storyteller's” village as a way to both promote storytelling as an art form and revive a dying village in the process.

2018-11-02 17:23

Death of Korea's villages

On a recent trip to Korea (I've been visiting Korea several times a year on lecture tours as well as attending conferences and seminars), I had the chance to attend a storytellers' meeting in Uiseong, between Daegu and Andong in North Gyeongsang Province. I came away with renewed fears for the future of the Korean rural village.

2018-10-26 19:09

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