My Korea by O'Rourke, Kevin -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Half Title Title Copyright Dedication Contents Aknowledgements Introduction

Dolmens – Sŏ Chŏngju Manil-sa Loss

1. Korea in the 1960s

Two Ascetics Meet on Sosŭl Mountain – Sŏ Chŏngju

2. The Columbans

Salute The Men of Old Sanctity Spring Scents Wisdom Smart Bird Painting the Great Worship Hall in Naeso-sa – Sŏ Chŏngju

3. Learning the Ropes

Evening on the Mountain: Song to the Moon in the Well – Yi Kyubo Good Times in Koryŏ – Sŏ Chŏngju In the Blood

4. Cultural Adaptation

Directions Hŏsaeng’s Tale – Pak Chiwŏn

5. In at the Deep End

The Yangban’s Tale – Pak Chiwŏn Ramifications of the Yangban’s Tale Conclusions from the Study of the Yangban Concept New Year’s Day: Year of the Dog

6. The Cultural Experience: Where to Begin

The Tan’gun Myth – Sŏ Chŏngju Figure in the Distance – Chŏng Chak

7. The Confucian Monolith

Song in Praise of Spring – Chŏng Kŭgin Three Anecdotes The mountain may be high – Yang Saŏn Two Bulls Pear Painting – Yi Tal She’s Right, You’re Right – Sŏ Chŏngju Spring Day – Sŏ Kŏjŏng Yulgok and T’oegye Even ignorant men seek perfection – Yi Hwang Songgang Chŏng Ch’ŏl Autumn Night – Chŏng Ch’ŏl Yulgok and Songgang – Sŏ Chŏngju Hunmin ka, Puŭi moja – Chŏng Ch’ŏl Kosan Yun Sŏndo Lazy I am – Yun Sŏndo Has the worst of winter passed? – Yun Sŏndo Ŏbu sashi sa (The Fisherman’s Calendar) – Yun Sŏndo Strutting Their Stuff I’ll never forget the boy – Yi Chŏngbo Look at that girl in blouse and patterned skirt – Kim Sujang Of flying birds and beasts that crawl – Anonymous It is the third watch – Anonymous Song of Right and Wrong – Kim Sakkat The Marok Biographies: Ma Chun’s Tale – Sŏ Kiwŏn I’m building a straw hut beneath a rock – Yun Sŏndo Confucius Goes Modern The tree is diseased – Chŏng Ch’ŏl Inculturation at the End of Chosŏn The Swinging Twenties Café France – Chŏng Chiyong The Marok Biographies: Ma Yŏng’s Tale – Sŏ Kiwŏn Impromptu Song – Sŏ Kŏjŏng The Honourable Forsythia Confucianism Today Playing Alone – Ku Sang It Faired and Rained Again – Kim Shisŭp The Three Pines Crane Painting – Yi Tal The Widow Kim Plum – Sŏ Kŏjŏng Ch’usa Kim Chŏnghŭi – Sŏ Chŏngju

8. The Chosŏn Bureaucracy 9. The Buddhist Ingredient

In Chamshil – Kim Shisŭp Jubilee Temple – Paek Kwanghun Tiny Room in Flower Sage Temple – Chŏng Chisang Dialogue – Cho Byunghwa Wŏlmyŏng the Monk – Sŏ Chŏngju Song of Three Dreams – Sŏsan taesa The Diplomatic Corps Goes Buddhist Lodging in the Head Monk’s Quarters Hae-u-so Shilla Future Expertise – Sŏ Chŏngju Blue Deer – Pak Mog’wŏl Written on the Monk’s Scroll in Pong’ŭn-sa Temple – Ch’oe Kyŏngch’ang Kamno-sa Temple – Kim Pushik Visit to the Hermitage of Master Ka – Yi Kyubo A shadow is reflected in the water – Chŏng Chŏl Old Temple – Cho Chihun A Fateful Blow The Nun’s Dance – Cho Chihun The Making of the Great Buddha Image at Hwangnyong-sa Temple – Sŏ Chŏngju The Way – Hyegŭn Paekp’a and Ch’usa – Sŏ Chŏngju Epiphany – Anonymous Rip your black robe asunder – Anonymous Destination – Cho Byunghwa Ritual Service for a Dead Sister – Wŏlmyŏng Death Song – Ch’ungji Like the Wind Leaving the Lotus – Sŏ Chŏngju

10. Exclusivity Myths

Universality of Han Tanjong’s Han The cuckoo calls; the moon is low on the mountain – Tanjong Cho Kwangjo’s Han Hŭng Hŭng in Poetry I nodded off: I lost my fishing pole – Anonymous Big Spring – Ko Un Kim Inhu’s Perverted Hŭng Universality of Hŭng Mŏt Mŏt and the Beautiful Mŏt and P’ungnyu Azaleas and Mŏt Exponents of P’ungnyu-Mŏt Universality of Mŏt

11. Chilmajae Songs – Sŏ Chŏngju

Tidal Wave The Singer Exceptional Pressure in the Urinary Pump of the Esteemed Wife of Squire Yi Horse Blood Kite Contest The Bride Adultery and the Well Chaegon the Immortal Gourd Flower Time Honey Bucket Mrs. Greatwater: The Sighs of a Childless Woman The Women Under the Zelkova

12. Korea’s Greatest Asset

Woman – Kang Ŭng’gyo Going to the Bank Woman – Cho Byunghwa Interacting Woman in Crisis – Ko Chŏnghŭi Non Person Saddles His Horse and Rides Off in All Directions Grass – Namgung Pyŏk Intrepidity Gets It Wrong Love and Marriage Old Flame – Ch’oe Yŏngmi The Sin of a Smile – Kim Tonghwan Kashiri – Koryŏ kayo It Goes Without Saying – Han Yong’un The Light of Heaven The Sun – Sŏ Chŏngju Korean Women in History Song of the Orioles – pre-Shilla song Paekche P’iri Pipe – Sŏ Chŏngju Love in Shilla Girl Getting Married – Sŏ Chŏngju Ch’ŏyong’s Song – hyangga Getting Pregnant and Having Babies – Sŏ Chŏngju At the Rising of the Ch’usŏk Moon – Sŏ Chŏngju Love in Koryŏ Spring Pervades the Pavilion – Koryŏ kayo Chŏngŭp sa – Koryŏ kayo Song of P’yŏngyang – Koryŏ kayo Love in Chosŏn Hwang Chini I’ll cut a piece from the waist – Hwang Chini Hwang Chini – Sŏ Chŏngju Shinsaimdang Thoughts of My Mother – Shinsaimdang Hŏ Nansŏrhŏn To My Lord Reading in His Study – Hŏ Nansŏrhŏn Picking Lotus Seeds – Hŏ Nansŏrhŏn Yi Okpong The Heart of a Lonely Woman – Yi Okpong The Sorrow of Parting – Yi Okpong Yi Maech’ang Autumn Thoughts – Yi Maech’ang Rhododendron – Sŏ Chŏngju Ch’ae Chegong’s Mother The Music of What Happens Lady Immortal Strikes Out Boldly: The Year of the Rat For an Unidentified You – Ch’oe Sŭngja Kim Tallae from Taegu Love – Chŏn Pong-gŏn On the Subway Passing Map’o Market Years from Now – Kim Sowŏl

13. Tales of the Immortals

Among the Immortals What’s in a Name? – Sŏ Chŏngju The King’s Pride – based on a Sŏ Chŏngju poem Kwŏn Kim – based on a Sŏ Chŏngju poem How Chŏng Mongju Died What about living this way – Yi Pangwŏn Tanshim ka – Chŏng Mongju Yi Sŏnggye’s Heaven – Sŏ Chŏngju Dogs Fighting in Muddy Fields – Chŏng Tojŏn Sejong and His Two Brothers – Sŏ Chŏngju The Naming of Shiksadong Smile of the Ever-ready – Sŏ Chŏngju Dead as Living – Sŏ Chŏngju The moon is bright tonight. I sit alone The Colour White – Sŏ Chŏngju The Toe of the Pŏsŏn and Komushin – Sŏ Chŏngju The Forgotten Immortal, James Scarth Gale Fiddling Immortal Strikes a Magic Note Plum Blossom – Kang Hŭian Immortal Comes to Dublin Resting at Shihu Inn – Yi Kyubo The Immortal Ku Sang Shame – Ku Sang The Immortal Cardinal Kim Suhwan Gentle into that Good Night – for Sr. Zita

14. At the Cultural Coalface: Immersion, Submersion? – Take Your Pick

Let There Be Light This old sick heart – Kim Sujang The Circus Comes to Town Decade-in-the-Orient Men A Word for the Wise Episcopal Clout Outside the Confessional Greetings The Fortune Teller Episcopal Solicitude Ch’usŏk: The Harvest Moon Festival The One True Church Written on the Upper Storey of Yusŏng Post House – Yi Kyubo The Pain of it All At the Bishop’s Table Association of Images The Parish Priest Bamboozles the Local Gendarmerie Seoul Cabby Objects Lady of Perpetual Succour Marriage Tribunal Poshint’ang Poem of Flower Stone Pavilion – Yi Yulgok No Bones Early Morning Aggravation Priests Not Quite Forever Invitation

15. Nine Priest Immortals

Burying Mike Bransfield Passing (In Memory of Sean Quinn) Mystery Good Friday: After a Poem by an Old Master (In Memory of Phil Crosbie) Purest Celadon (In Memory of Hub Hayward) February 2008 (In Memory of Wally Nugent) Farewell to Jack Roche 266 Death Song (Grieving for Noel Ryan) Granite Man (In Memory of Tommy Comerford) A Cold Eye (In Memory of Aidan Murray)

16. Seeking the Way 270

Looking for the Cow – Han Yong’un All My Life Kyeshim-sa – Open the Heart Temple Savouring the Moment Chang’andong Chest Evening: Self Portrait – Cho Byunghwa Summer Clouds – Chŏng Chisang Night Rain on the Xiaoxiang – Yi Illo Antidote to Avarice Is a Little Learning a Dangerous Thing?

17. For Those of us with Less Than Immortal Status

Spring Rain Silence Speaking My Mind in Sickness – Kim Shisŭp Ruffled Feathers Autumn night falls on the river – Prince Wŏlsan Ilsan Yangban Fails the Immortals’ Exam A night of wind and snow At the Closing of Kwandaeri Belch and a Half No Immortals in Pusan Sunrise Riyakha My Kingdom for a Phone Things Are Not Like They Used To Be Spring Reading the Paper What a Man! Moving House Rosslare Birds

18. Learning Korean Afterword

Kŭmgang San: The Diamond Mountains

Bibliography Index Back cover

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