Date: Sat, 13 Apr 2002 07:17:32 -0700 (PDT) From: the_dojang-request@martialartsresource.net Subject: The_Dojang digest, Vol 9 #207 - 7 msgs X-Mailer: Mailman v2.0.8 MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain To: the_dojang@martialartsresource.net Sender: the_dojang-admin@martialartsresource.net Errors-To: the_dojang-admin@martialartsresource.net X-BeenThere: the_dojang@martialartsresource.net X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.8 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: the_dojang@martialartsresource.net X-Reply-To: the_dojang@martialartsresource.net List-Help: List-Post: X-Subscribed-Address: rterry@idiom.com List-Subscribe: List-Id: The Internet's premier discussion forum on Korean Martial Arts. List-Unsubscribe: Status: OR Send The_Dojang mailing list submissions to the_dojang@martialartsresource.net To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://martialartsresource.net/mailman/listinfo/the_dojang or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to the_dojang-request@martialartsresource.net You can reach the person managing the list at the_dojang-admin@martialartsresource.net When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of The_Dojang digest..." <<------------------ The_Dojang mailing list ------------------>> Serving the Internet since June 1994. Copyright 1994-2002: Ray Terry and Martial Arts Resource The Internet's premier discussion forum devoted to Korean Martial Arts. See the Korean Martial Arts (KMA) FAQ and the online search engine for back issues of The_Dojang at http://MartialArtsResource.com Pil Seung! Today's Topics: 1. O'Sensei (Rudy Timmerman) 2. RE: Lethal Weapons story to Master West (ericules) 3. guilty until proven innocent (Hapkido Self Defense Center) 4. Re: O'Sensei (Ray Terry) 5. Korean Education (Ray Terry) 6. Re: Self-defense in court (ABurrese@aol.com) 7. Photo Exhibition (Ray Terry) --__--__-- Message: 1 Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2002 20:02:15 -0400 From: "Rudy Timmerman" To: the_dojang@martialartsresource.net Subject: [The_Dojang] O'Sensei Reply-To: the_dojang@martialartsresource.net > I have some very old video footage of O'Sensei U. mixed in with some of him > as we typically see him, old, thin, white beard, etc. The older footage seems > to come from perhaps the late 1930s. I remember watching an old Ed Sullivan show, where O'Sensei did a demo. I wonder if anyone was ever fortunate enough to get a copy of that show. Jere, never mind the comments about my age I KNOW you are thinking of:) Rudy --__--__-- Message: 2 From: "ericules" To: Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2002 19:15:37 -0500 Subject: [The_Dojang] RE: Lethal Weapons story to Master West Reply-To: the_dojang@martialartsresource.net Hello Master West, I must say that although I mostly read DD I have to post on that last one of yours. That story was truly rich! I have heard stories about you from Master Toth over the last few years and visited your website from time to time, but I've come to appreciate your contribution to Hapkido through the internet....that really was a great tale, and the insight is right on in my opinion. I hope to get the chance to meet you and attend your seminar someday. Thanks. Eric Walker --__--__-- Message: 3 From: "Hapkido Self Defense Center" To: Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2002 20:20:38 -0400 Subject: [The_Dojang] guilty until proven innocent Reply-To: the_dojang@martialartsresource.net In my previous life (before teaching hapkido full time) I worked for insurance carriers and these types of lawsuits in the US are often defended by the homeowner's carrier. It is up to the judge to determine if the case will go to trial by accepting or dismissing the defendants 'motion to dismiss' (different from state to state). When they went to trial we would often counter sue for court costs and attorney fees. I remember one - he sued for 7 figures and even retired expecting a big cash award. The jury gave him nothing. He did not have representation on our counter suit and we won and he owed us 70k for our out of pocket expenses. He had no income so he had to get a job and we set up a payment system by contract for him to pay the award. So it does happen, more often than you think. I remember polling the jury and he was screaming at his attorney and his attorney just walked away saying that she would not get paid either and that she did not represent him on the counter suit so he was on his own. I do not think you are not going to see the kind of tort reform in the US that you are talking about with the plaintiffs bar being as powerful as they are. Just my opinion. Jere R. Hilland www.geocities.com/hapkiyukwonsul <<>> --__--__-- Message: 4 From: Ray Terry Subject: Re: [The_Dojang] O'Sensei To: the_dojang@martialartsresource.net Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2002 18:12:16 PDT Reply-To: the_dojang@martialartsresource.net i I remember watching an old Ed Sullivan show, where O'Sensei did a demo. I > wonder if anyone was ever fortunate enough to get a copy of that show. On this same tape I have is a TV show from 1959 or 1960, something like Adventure Travel. These guys travel around the world and film interesting things. They were in Tokyo to cover the opening of a new and very tall TV tower. Doesn't sound too interesting these days, but I guess it was back then. Anyway, they also filmed a visit to O'Sensei and his hombu dojo. They viewed a typical class and had one of the 'stars' do some rough-n-tumble with O'Sensei's son. Their comment was something like, 'ok this is interesting, but these fellows are just falling down on purpose, what would happen to them against some good old fashioned rough-n-tumble?'. Ueshiba's son did just fine, even tho he was out-weighed by 50 or 75 lbs. Ray Terry raymail@hpwsrt.cup.hp.com --__--__-- Message: 5 From: Ray Terry To: the_dojang@martialartsresource.net Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2002 21:23:08 PDT Subject: [The_Dojang] Korean Education Reply-To: the_dojang@martialartsresource.net Forwarded message: _Modern Education, Textbooks and the Image of the Nation: Politics of Modernization and Nationalism in Korean Education, 1880-1910_, by Yoonmi Lee. New York: Garland Publishing, Inc. 2000. 160 pages. ISBN: 0-8153-3874-0. Reviewed by Hyung-chan Kim Western Washington University [This review first appeared in _Acta Koreana_, 5.1 (2002): 100-02. _Acta Koreana_ is published by Academia Koreana of Keimyung University.] Few books on Korean education in English are available for the English reader who may desire to know about educational ideas and institutions that have shaped the present educational system either in South or North Korea. Still fewer books have been made available in English to inform the reader, be they native or foreign, of the complex relationships between Korea's modern education and the Korean process of modernization/ Westernization. The present volume, originally written as a doctoral dissertation at the University of Wisconsin-Madison under the able guidance of Michael Apple, affords those of us interested in the social, cultural, and political foundations of education an opportunity to read about a variety of theoretical considerations concerning modernization as they relate to education. Furthermore, this book will also draw particular attention from the reader who is interested in examining the interlocking relationships between how ideas are constructed in education to promote certain political interests and ideologies and how they are put into textbooks for public consumption for students in school. The book is unique in its treatment of topics dealing with the way in which modernization in Korea has been intertwined with nationalism during the three decades when Korean independence was besieged by its neighboring powers, namely Japan, China, and Russia. The book is divided into seven chapters. Chapter One, an introduction to the book, entitled "Problems, Issues, and Method," lays the groundwork for a variety of theoretical explanations with regard to the concept of modernization. The author's attempt to differentiate between Western modernization and non-Western modernization deserves attention from those of us who are interested in examining how non-Western countries such as China and Korea failed to modernize, while Japan, another non-Western nation, successfully modernized itself. Some scholars have argued that Japan was successful in bringing about modernization due to its late entry into the world system of capitalism, while others have suggested that China failed in its modernization effort due to the Western capitalist intrusion that not only constrained but also distorted its socioeconomic and political advancement. Insofar as Korea's failure to modernize itself is concerned, according to the author, this so-called dependency theory is unable to account for the Korean case of modernization, because Korea entered into the world capitalist system even later than Japan did. The author challenges the "failure thesis," to borrow from her own words, and attempts to explain Korea's modernization as a complex process of building or constructing Korea's nationalism or national identity. To the extent that Korean nationalism emerged in this process of modernization, Korea was successful in its efforts to bring about modernization. What is missing from the author's analysis of the modernization/Westernization on of Korea, or of any country or people for that matter, is a deep understanding of what modernization entails. Certainly, we know that modernization is not synonymous with modernity. The author seems to have developed the notion that nationalism in Korea was a positive outcome of modernization by means of modern education, but it is difficult to claim that the individual's freedom, autonomy, and rationality, the three pillars of modernity, have been enhanced by modern education in general. On the contrary, personal freedom and autonomy have been oppressed in many countries around the world in the name of modern education that is designed to teach school children to be patriotic and to follow the dictates of their leaders. In reality, modernization has misrepresented and misappropriated the principles of modernity. In Chapter Two, entitled "Theories: Modern Mass Education and the Construction of National Identity," the author suggests that modern mass education is mainly responsible for instilling in the minds of a people a sense of cultural homogeneity and of identity within the nation-state. This national identity, which is actually a myth, is constructed for transmission in schools, as the author writes in this chapter. There is very little argument against this claim. But one has to question the statement made by the author to the effect that "school knowledge is neither a reality imposed by dominant social groups, nor the product of a social consensus, but the result of a contest." A fundamental assumption behind this statement is that dominated groups may construct school knowledge, not the dominant groups. But if school knowledge is a result of a contest between groups, and one group defeats another group in the contest, it is logically correct to state that the winner gets to construct school knowledge. In other words, the dominant group has the opportunity to construct what is known as school knowledge. In Chapter Three, entitled "The Emergence of Modernizers and Their Ideology," the author makes a significant contribution to our understanding of Korean modernizers' understanding of Darwinism then popular in the West, within the context of their desire to modernize Korean society in order to make it "fit" to survive in the world where only the fit survive. According to the author, Korean modernizers interpreted this notion of "survival of the fittest" in terms of social and political rather than biological survival. In connection with Darwinism, there developed two rather opposing ideas of nationalism and Asianism. The ideology of Asianism, originally developed in Japan by those who feared the invasion of the East by the West, was embraced by Korean modernizers who believed that Asians were not inferior to Westerners; they fell behind the West mainly due to the lack of certain characteristics that could help them win in the struggle for survival. The ideologues of Asianism were believers in Asian solidarity against Western aggression. With the Japanese colonization of Korea, this ideology was met with strong resistance coming from Korean nationalists. In Chapter Four, entitled "The Politics of State Formation, Nation Building and Modern Education," the author seems somewhat confused over the concept of tradition and that of traditionalism. On page 63, the author uses "Traditionalism versus Modernization" as a subtitle, implying that the politics of modernization was between those who supported traditionalism and those who desired modernization. But on the following page the author states that Confucianists' ideology was "pro-tradition and elitist." This use of the term "tradition" is rather confusing. Tradition has to be clearly differentiated from traditionalism. The former points to particular socio-cultural practices that have endured through time sufficiently to be still functioning effectively in the lives of people, while the latter suggests a strong proclivity on the part of those who support anything that is embedded in tradition, be it functional or not. There is a minor error on page 68. China was not defeated in Korea as a result of the Shimonoseki Treaty, as the author claims; rather, the Shimonoseki Treaty was concluded as a result of China's defeat in Korea. In Chapters Five and Six, the author makes a thorough analysis of textbooks published between 1894 and 1910. The author classifies and analyzes the political and ideological messages of textbooks in order to find how Korea's nation-state as well as ethnic identity were constructed by the textbook writers for transmission to children in school. In Chapter Six, the author states, "it is important to note how they [Korean modernizers] perceived the Western modernity." But the author has not elaborated on how they actually perceived modernity as understood and practiced in the West. In the concluding chapter, the author suggests that today the two Koreas might have to redefine or re-imagine through negotiation the common elements of the nation in order to bring about unification of the divided people. The author is right in suggesting that North and South Korea have to redefine what common cultural elements would bind Koreans together in a modern nation-state, if they are going to achieve a peaceful unification. They may also determine that there are no major common cultural elements that can hold them together in a nation-state, thus deciding to maintain two separate nations. Either way, what Koreans in both south and north should avoid is the ideological insistence that there are common cultural elements holding them together, thus justifying the concept of unification at any cost. Such a stringent ideological position might well lead to another cultural and perhaps even military conflict. Citation: Kim, Hyung-chan 2002 Review of _Modern Education, Textbooks and the Image of the Nation: Politics of Modernization and Nationalism in Korean Education, 1880-1910_, by Yoonmi Lee (2000) Korean Studies Review_ 2002, no. 5 Electronic file: http://www.koreaweb.ws/ks/ksr/ksr02-05.htm --__--__-- Message: 6 From: ABurrese@aol.com Date: Sat, 13 Apr 2002 09:22:07 EDT To: the_dojang@martialartsresource.net Subject: [The_Dojang] Re: Self-defense in court Reply-To: the_dojang@martialartsresource.net Hey all, Interesting reading for sure. I'll share a story from a year ago when I was prosecuting for the City Attorney's Office here in Missoula. (It was my third year clinical for credit, and I prosecuted misdemeanors for the city) I had an assault case one day. Two college age guys, outside the bars on a Saturday night. The one had plead not guilty because of self-defense to the misdemeanor assault that was given to him by the officer. The fact were shaky as to how it actually started. Both sides had a different story. They were probably both in the wrong, acting tough and such, just like guys that age often do. I was one of them once. Anyway, here is a fact I had. When the officer arrived, he saw the defendant standing and the "victim" on the ground. The officer saw the defendant kick the guy on the ground a couple times aiming for the head. Then he ran. When the officer caught him, the guy made the remark that he kicked the guy on the ground because he had to at least get one lick in. The guy on the ground was bigger. The guy on the ground may have started it, he says he didn't, but.... The guy on the ground did have a broken ankle. He twisted it on the curb, and went down with it broken, during the scuffle between the two. During the trial, officer told what he saw, what the guy said when he was arrested. Both parties told how it was really the other guy who started it. Defendant admitted to getting in a lick when the guy was down, since the other guy started it and had been hitting him. But since the other guy started it, it was self-defense. My closing argument: It did not matter who started the fight. The only facts we were sure of is that at the time the "victim" was on the ground he had a broken ankle and that the defendant kicked him a couple times. This is what the officer saw, and what the defendant admitted to. Therefore, it WAS NOT self-defense. I don't have the statute in front of me as I did in the court room, but while the defendant was kicking the guy, he was not in danger, not being threatened, etc. The victim was no longer in a position to hurt the defendant. (he was on the ground with a broken ankle) So, while anything done before the one guy was on the ground with the broken ankle may have been self-defense, once he was down there, the kicks thrown in for extra measure or just to get a lick in, were no longer self-defense and thus he should be found guilty for misdemeanor assault under the Montana statutes. Ruling: The defendant was convicted of misdemeanor assault, and both parties (defendant and "victim") were told to stay out of bar fights. As people are bringing up, there are many things to consider. That's what makes awareness and avoidance so important! Yours in Training, Alain Burrese www.burrese.com --__--__-- Message: 7 From: Ray Terry To: the_dojang@martialartsresource.net Date: Sat, 13 Apr 2002 7:53:29 PDT Subject: [The_Dojang] Photo Exhibition Reply-To: the_dojang@martialartsresource.net Korea-Japan Photo Exhibition at Folk Museum April 12, 2002 National Folk Museum The National Folk Museum of Korea and the Japan Foundation are co-hosting a photo exhibition at the folk museum in central Seoul. The event is part of a celebration of the 2002 World Cup and the "Year of Korea-Japan Exchange," the museum said Thursday (April 11). Dubbed the "Korea-Japan Photographs of World Heritage Sites," the show features some 30 photographs of cultural assets in Korea and Japan that have been given World Cultural Heritage status by UNESCO. Some Korean items and places included are the Changdeukgung Palace, the Haeinsa Temple where the Tripitaka Koreana movable type blocks are preserved, and the Hwasung Fortress in Suwon. From Japan, photographs of its cherished temples and shrines in Kyoto and Nara are on display. The event runs from April 10 to April 29. --__--__-- _______________________________________________ The_Dojang mailing list The_Dojang@martialartsresource.net http://martialartsresource.net/mailman/listinfo/the_dojang http://the-dojang.net It's a great day for Taekwondo! Support the USTU by joining today. US Taekwondo Union, 1 Olympic Plaza, Ste 104C, Colorado Spgs, CO 80909 719-578-4632 FAX 719-578-4642 ustutkd1@aol.com http://www.ustu.org Old digest issues are available via ftp://ftp.martialartsresource.com. Copyright 1994-2002: Ray Terry and Martial Arts Resource Standard disclaimers apply. Remember 9-11! End of The_Dojang Digest