From: the_dojang-owner@hpwsrt.cup.hp.com To: the_dojang-digest@hpwsrt.cup.hp.com Subject: The_Dojang-Digest V8 #211 Reply-To: the_dojang@hpwsrt.cup.hp.com Errors-To: the_dojang-owner@hpwsrt.cup.hp.com Precedence: The_Dojang-Digest Tues, 3 April 2001 Vol 08 : Num 211 In this issue: the_dojang: CHARTING FORMS/KATAS the_dojang: Dan Fees the_dojang: the_dojang's sport tkd calendar the_dojang: JR West seminar the_dojang: KSAA: Call for Papers the_dojang: Remembering the "Forgotten War" the_dojang: . ========================================================================= The_Dojang, serving the Internet since June 1994. ~1111 members strong! Copyright 1994-2001: Ray Terry and Martial Arts Resource The premier internet discussion forum devoted to the Korean Martial Arts. Replying to this message will NOT unsubscribe you. To unsubscribe, send "unsubscribe the_dojang-digest" (no quotes) in the body (top line, left justified) of a "plain text" e-mail addressed to majordomo@hpwsrt.cup.hp.com. To send e-mail to this list use the_dojang@hpwsrt.cup.hp.com See the Korean Martial Arts (KMA) FAQ and the online search engine for back issues of The_Dojang at http://www.MartialArtsResource.com Pil Seung! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Maureen" Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2001 18:37:20 -0400 Subject: the_dojang: CHARTING FORMS/KATAS Any hints on how to chart a form; kata or weapon? Sometimes (OK MOST) times memory just isn't enough to get through my practice when learning a new form. Hoping to video an advanced student with our teacher but notes would be a great plus. Thanks. ------------------------------ From: Harold Whalen Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2001 21:08:44 -0400 (EDT) Subject: the_dojang: Dan Fees Does anyone know the Dan fees of the Korea Hapkido Federation,The Kidohae,Or the World Hapkido Federation it would be nice to see how much and why certification has such a price. Hal - -------------------------------------------------------------- Get a free e-mail account from Verizon Online at http://www.verizon.net ------------------------------ From: Ray Terry Date: Mon, 02 Apr 2001 21:25:14 PDT Subject: the_dojang: the_dojang's sport tkd calendar The_Dojang's calendar of Sport Taekwondo Events April 3, 2001 http://www.martialartsresource.com Dates and locations subject to change. 2001 European Junior TKD Champs April 5-7 Pamplona, Spain Kansas City Classic April 6-7 Blue Springs, Missouri TriState Open April 7 Union Grove, Wisconsin California State Seniors April 7 Carson, California Indiana State TKD Champs April 7 Indianapolis, Indiana Montana TKD Champs April 7 Missoula, Montana AAU Region #1 TKD Champs April 7 Niskayuna, New York Virginia AAU TKD Champs April 7 Fort Belvoir, Virginia KATU Intivational April 7 Manchester, Connecticut Belgian Open Technical Champs April 7-8 Bilzen, Belgium Panama City Beach TKD April 14 Panama City Beach, Florida All Army TKD Champs April 14 Annville, Pennsylvania Oregon State Quals April 14 Portland, Oregon 22nd Belgian Open April 21-22 Belgium Western PA AAU Assoc Champs April 21 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Texas State Juniors April 21 Dallas, Texas Ozark Quals AAU April 21 Webester Groves, Missouri Arizona AAU Champs April 21 Guadalupe, Arizona New Jersey AAU TKD Champs April 22 ??, New Jersey Maestas ITF TKD Team Challenge April 22 Arvada, Colorado European ITF Champs April 26-29 Villajoyosa, Spain All Army Sports Invitational April 28 Annville, Pennsylvania Oklahoma State Qualifier April 28 Midwest City, Oklahoma Maryland Junior TKD Champs April 28 Baltimore, Maryland Washington AAU TKD Champs April 28 Spanaway, Washington AAU Region #9 Champs April 28 Houston, Texas AAU Southeastern Champs April 28 Nashville, Tennessee Louisiana State Champs April 28 Thibodaux, Louisiana Potomac Valley AAU TKD Champs April 29 Emmitsburg, Maryland N. Calif TKD Junior Olympics May 5 San Jose, California Middle Atlantic Assoc AAU TKD May 5 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania New England AAU Qualifier May 5 Lebanon, New Hampshire AAU Region #12 TKD Champs May 5 Yakima, Washington Big East 2001 TKD May 6 Rahway, New Jersey Florida AAU TKD Qualifier May 12 Kissimmee, Florida Luxembourg Technical Champs May 13 Steinfort, Luxembourg Michigan AAU Champs May 19 Mt. Pleasant, Michigan Georgia AAU Champs May 19 Marietta, Georgia 3rd East Asian Games May 19-27 Osaka, Japan AAU Region #2 TKD Champs May 20 Waldorf, Maryland USTU National TKD Champs May 24-27 Cleveland, Ohio World Cup TKD Champs May 25-27 HoChiMinh City, Vietnam S.Carolina AAU Champs May 26 Columbia, South Carolina Rocky Mountain AAU Champs May 26 Colorado Springs, Colorado Austrian Open May 26-27 Vienna, Austria Stanford TKD Spring Open June 2 Palo Alto, California Kim's TKD Open June 2 San Mateo, California Texas Junior State Qualifier June 2 Dallas, Texas VSA ITF Open June 2-3 Malaysia Norway Open June 24 Olso, Norway 2nd Chunchon Open Intl TKD Champ June 27-July 1 Chunchon City, Korea 4th International Cheong Open July 3-8 Chung Ju, Korea ITF Senior World Champs July 3-8 Rimini, Italy AAU US National TKD Champs July 4-7 Detroit, Michigan 16th Maccabiah Games July 16-26 Israel USNTF TKD Champs July 27-29 St. Louis, Missouri AAU US Junior TKD Champs Aug 1-4 Hampton Roads, Virginia 13th World Military TKD Champs Aug 8-16 Hoogerheide, Netherlands AAU TKD Gold Medal Training Camp Aug 23-26 Orlando, Florida 21st Southeast Asian Games Sept 8-11 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Muhammad Ali Jinnah ITF Spet 21-23 Lahore, Pakistan EuroCup 2001 Sept 22-23 Helsinki, Finland WTF General Assembly & Executive Sept Council meeting Cheju City, Korea European Technical Champs Oct 6-7 Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany 21st Fort Worth TKD Champs Oct 20-21 Fort Worth, Texas 15th World TKD Champs & 8th Women's World TKD Champs Nov 1-7 Cheju City, Korea AAU TKD US National Champs Nov 1-4 Orlando, Florida ITF TKD Impact Open Nov 10-11 West Sussex, England 7th Central American Games Nov 30-Dec 3 Guatemala City, Guatemala 2002 ITF Black Eagle Winternational March 16-17 Tampere, Finland 15th Asian TKD Champ April Amman, Jordan 7th South American Games April 4-14 Cordoba, Argentina EuroCup for teams May Spain 14th European Senior TKD Champs May 2-5 Ankara, Turkey 7th World Univ TKD Champs June 12-15 Berkeley, California 14th Asian Games Sept 29-Oct 4 Pusan, Korea 19th Central American Games Nov San Salvador, El Salvador 13th Pan American TKD Champ Nov Ecuador 2003 World TKD Champs Perth, Australia 11th Pan Arab Games Algeria 3rd World Military Games USA European Junior TKD Champs May Athens, Greece 14th Pan American Games Santo Domingo, Dominican Rep 22nd Southeast Asian Games Oct HoChiMinh City, Vietnam 2004 European Senior TKD Champs May 4-9 Lillehammer, Norway Olympic Games Sept Athens, Greece Ray Terry raymail@hpwsrt.cup.hp.com ------------------------------ From: Ray Terry Date: Mon, 02 Apr 2001 21:57:12 PDT Subject: the_dojang: JR West seminar Martial Arts Seminar Hapkido with Grandmaster JR West Mosinee, Wisconsin Mosinee High School Gym April 21 11AM - 7PM $60 if registered by April 10 $80 at the door For more information contact Dave Pryga at 715-693-3913 or cwmai@aol.com Ray Terry raymail@hpwsrt.cup.hp.com ------------------------------ From: Ray Terry Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2001 22:00:21 -0700 (PDT) Subject: the_dojang: KSAA: Call for Papers Forwarded. CALL FOR PAPERS KOREAN STUDIES ASSOCIATION OF AUSTRALASIA The second biennial conference of the KSAA will be held at Monash University in Melbourne, 24-25 September 2001. Academics and researchers from any field related to Korean Studies are encouraged to participate and share their experiences, knowledge and research findings. We hope to run panels that treat anthropology, economics, history, applied linguistics and linguistics, literature, politics, religion and sociology. Additionally we will have sessions that focus specifically on North Korea, library resources, and issues related to business. Papers on other topics are also welcome; additional sessions may be formed depending on papers received. KSAA is hoping to provide financial assistance toward travel expenses for those who will present at the conference. Details of financial assistance will be determined later based on the number of papers received and available funding. Papers will be selected through a double blind refereeing process. The abstract should be not longer than 300 words, and should have a separate title page and a bibliography. Only the name, affiliation of the presenter and the abstract should appear on the title page. Both on the title page and in the abstract, the author should specify the session in which the paper should be placed. All abstracts for the second biennial conference of the KSAA should be sent to the following address by hard copy or email. Dr Young-A Cho Korean Studies School of Asian Languages & Studies P.O. Box 11A Monash University Victoria 3800, Australia Email: Korean.Studies@arts.monash.edu.au Deadline for receipt of abstracts: 30 April 2001 Selected papers notified: 31 May 2001 Organising Committee: Professor John McKay, Dr Kenneth Wells, Dr Stephen Epstein, Dr Young-A Cho, Dr Alison Tokita, Ms Sasha Hampson. For more information, see http://www.arts.monash.edu.au/korean/ksaa/. ------------------------------ From: Ray Terry Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2001 22:02:10 -0700 (PDT) Subject: the_dojang: Remembering the "Forgotten War" Forwarded. Philip West and Suh Ji-moon, edd., _Remembering the "Forgotten War": The Korean War through Literature and Art_. Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 2000. xxiii, 225 pages. $24.95 (paper) ISBN: 0-7656-0697-6; $65.00 (cloth) ISBN: 0-7656-0696-8. Reviewed by David R. McCann Harvard University The Korean War continues-- literally, in the on-again off-again, Two and Three and Four-Party negotiations; and in the volumes of interpretive works about it. M. E. Sharpe adds the present volume to an earlier one, _America's Wars in Asia: A Cultural Approach to History and Memory_, also the result of a conference at the Mansfield Center, University of Montana. The new book is informative, provides views from Korean and Chinese as well as American perspectives, and delivers on the promise of its subtitle by offering information not only on literature, film, photography, and the visual arts, but also memoirs by Chinese prisoners of war, and historiography. The present volume begins with reflections by Steven Levine on some of the issues that framed a conference on the Korean War at the Maureen and Mike Mansfield Center, and then the book. He adds more personal comments on a significant parallel history, the suppression of the left in the United States that coincided with the years of the war. The second chapter, by Suh Ji-moon, introduces a number of Korean poems about the Korean War, a good sampling, with helpful comments about recurrent themes and images. The poems seem, in the main, to deploy imagery of a broken land, and of the war as an out-of-nowhere catastrophe that fell upon the peninsula in June of 1950. They do not reflect the struggle between left and right in the period prior to the outbreak of the war, intimate, fierce, and devastating as it was. The one major exception to the genre-scene structure of many of the poems is a series by Yu Ch'un-do, a nurse with the North Koreans, whose "guileless verses" actually seem more authentic in tone and focus than the productions of those professional poets who had been assigned to record the war for the south. Missing, though, are songs and poems from Korea prior to 1950, which could have added not only more of the disparate voices and views, but also an alternative to the implicit assumption that the Korean War was something that began in 1950 without antecedents. William Erhart spends the first several pages of his comments on American poetry on the war musing about why there isn't more of it, a theme which recurs throughout the book, returning in various guises. The American poems are startlingly different from the Korean: more given to the vivid image, as when "... A soldier/ fished a bent brown stick from a puddle. It was/ the arm of someone's child." The vignette is powerfully moving because of its careful construction, which deflects and delays the reader's apprehension of what the object is. The chapter on the visual arts, by Roe Jae-ryung, is a splendid addition to the materials available in English. The author asks why there is so "little evidence of the war in the visual arts," then proceeds to explain that absence in terms of the general suppression of the artistic left both during and after the war, which had the effect of pushing artistic expression into abstraction as a dominant mode. She observes that when literary artists did begin to explore the war more broadly, expression was still limited by the anti-communist political culture of the post-war years; and finally she notes that Korean artists lacked a "working visual vocabulary" for the war. This last point is especially interesting in looking back at the chapter on Korean poets and their poetry, who seem to have suffered from a similar lack, but it also has relevance to Erhart's question. The Korean War may have failed to find expression in American literature for all the reasons that he adduces, political and otherwise; but also because the rhetoric for war had been exhausted by the experience of it in World Wars I and II, a point that Wilfred Owen engaged in his poem "Dulce Et Decorum Est." Max Desfor describes his work as an Associated Press photographer, and along the way, provides a number of telling verbal snapshots of the war as well. One of the most interesting is of his role in arranging to obtain photographs of American prisoners of war from North Korea. Several of the Korean and the one American writer, Richard Kim, attending the conference add their responses to a series of questions about the war and memories of it. Pak Wan-s™ observes the war's devastation not only in physical terms, but also for the way it allowed pent-up hostilities from centuries under an oppressive social system to explode. The chapter is an unusual opportunity, to listen to Korean writers talking about how they perceive and write about the war, and for whom. Lary May's chapter on the Korean War in American film is a splendid counterpart to the description of Korean visual arts and the war. May again raises the question of why the Korean War was forgotten, but then pursues it through a description of the American film industry's efforts to build a cold war consensus through manipulation of images of the war. Despite the best combined efforts of the film and Washington establishments, the American public simply did not go for the tale being presented, as the images and the rhetoric in American films did not measure up to the public's sense of what the war had actually accomplished, or failed to. The following chapter on Korean films on the Korean War, by Suh Ji-moon, is descriptive rather than analytical, and while it provides a nuanced precis of each of the three films it considers, seems to miss something in stating that the (south) Korean public is now "ready to see (the tragedy of the war) ... played out on the screen." Right-wing opposition to the production and circulation of the film "The Taebaek Mountains," for one thing, was fierce, even if, in the end, it enhanced the film's box-office appeal. The reflections on Chinese POW stories, written by Philip West with Li Zhihua, and based on a 1987 book by Jin Daiying, adds poignant information about the fate of the Chinese POW's upon repatriation, and quite fascinating materials about life in the Koje Island prisoner of war camp, with its forced tattooings, kidnapping of an American army officer, and other events. William Stueck's chapter on Labeling the Korean War explores the realm of American and British historiography, and the various takes on what kind of a war it was, expressed in the titles and arguments of several books published over the years. Stueck describes changes in the American sense of national self and purpose in the world at large, from the definition of the war at a time when little information was available from sources other than American ones, to the work of Bruce Cumings and others on the indigenous roots of the war, to more recent still, the studies of the Korean War based on materials in the archives of the Peoples Republic of China and the Soviet Union. It would have been interesting, though, to have seen some reference to Korean histories of the war, and what their titles and arguments might suggest about Korean views on the matter. The author does seem to become a bit carried away by his own labeling project where he engages the work of Bruce Cumings. He writes that "Cumings is so intent on promoting a national guilt trip that he glosses over or denies the international aspects of the Korean conflict for the purposes of highlighting the internal, socioeconomic dimension, especially the problem of land distribution." Stueck appears to argue that Cumings was motivated to write a history of the war's origins only to make a stick for himself with which to beat up on Americans for interfering. Stueck's own book, The Korean War: An International History, focuses solely upon the international dimensions of the war , as its title promises, which may help to explain why he seems so intent upon skirmishing with Cumings on this point. The final chapter of the book presents a series of responses to counter-factual questions about the war's course, causes, and outcomes. Most interesting among these for its contemporary resonance is Donald Oberdorfer's pithy observation that if "Truman had decided that Korea was an area of important interest to the United States and clearly communicated this to Moscow, there would have been no Korean War..." Such a clear sign of interest was one of the things that seemed sorely absent during President Kim Dae Jung's recent visit to Washington. Citation: McCann, David R. 2001 Review of Philip West and Suh Ji-moon, edd., _Remembering the "Forgotten War": The Korean War through Literature and Art_,(2000) _Korean Studies Review_ 2001, no. 04 Electronic file: http://www.iic.edu/thelist/review/ksr01-04.htm (forthcoming) ------------------------------ From: Ray Terry Date: Mon, 02 Apr 2001 22:34:08 PDT Subject: the_dojang: . ------------------------------ End of The_Dojang-Digest V8 #211 ******************************** It's a great day for Taekwondo! Support the USTU by joining today. 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