session 9 readings - Korea

[cgao]

More readings attached.
edited by cgao on 5/8/2015

[Anonymous]

So I found that 4/9 readings are in a readable format so I will read the 4.
The other 5 readings are vertical not horizontal, I will not print them in order to save precious trees. Saving trees is as important as water conservation in the state of California given how much is wasted at my public school!
I will hopefully not be missing anything on Monday
edited by hhardwick on 5/10/2015

[Anonymous]

I would agree that some of these are very long and there is no necessity to kill that many trees between all of us printing all these documents.
However, you can also rotate the document by clicking on VIEW

[Anonymous]

In the World History books we use at our school, Korea pretty much pops into existence in discussion of imperialism. Students learn that at first Korea was under Chinese (Qing dynasty) control, then Japanese until 1945, then partition into two zones. How nice it would be to incorporate some history that shows that in the past Korea was a (unified) self governing entity.

[Anonymous]

After the presentation on Korea I started to really think about how little I know about Korea. The presentation was great, I really liked the beginning of the presentation with 10 (or 11) things you need to know about Korea. I thought that was really interesting, and got rid of many of the stereotypical knowledge that I had previously about both North and South Korea.

One thing that really surprised me about the presentation was the long list of leaders in Korean history. Our textbooks for an advanced class cover Korean history back to both the Kogoryo and Koryo Empires and barely mention the Silla. There are many references to Shamanism, and then basically the text implies that the Chinese take over from there influencing religion, culture, and government. Apparently that is not the case!!?? I wonder how much of this concept is about the "victors" writing history. No way can a world history course cover this much detail in a year for each empire, nor could the testing reflect all this detail. I think that would be far beyond reason, but it was an eye opener to the fact that there is so much history that goes untaught.

[Anonymous]

That is exactly why this class is extraordinary....we are learning facts which slipped through the cracks

[Anonymous]

I agree with the others that this past Monday's lecture was extremely informative on Korea by our guest lecturer. Prior to Monday's class, most of my knowledge on Korea was that of North Korea and the rigid government. I remember in my AP high school class, we focused focused more on N. Korea and just slightly on South Korea. We did not touch on culture, history, people, geography, etc. whatsoever. This lecture brought some really great facts to light, and I hope I can successfully and creatively incorporate aspects of Korea into my overall lesson plans for the course.

[Anonymous]

I read the story about the Tiger and the Bear prior to class last session. I will have to admit that I was really struggling to find the connections to a creation story and got stuck on the idea of comparing the Tiger and the Bear to Adam and Eve. Obviously these characters are very different with much different characteristics and goals. However, when it was brought up in class that the Native American stories of creationism are comparable, I actually remember how similar those stories are from a English course that I took my first year in college.

I think there are so many stories from one culture or region to another that depicts the story of creationism, the flood, or the "temptation" that really interest my students and get them to think critically about what group devised which story first. What is really interesting for some of my students is the stories of the "wilderness temptation" that parallel each other between the Buddha, Jesus Christ, and Muhammad. It leads to some great discussions about originality of the story, oral history, cultural connections between regions, and also challenge to religious text and primary sources. I think these stories are important for allowing students to think critically about the world, culture, and religion.

[Anonymous]

I was impress with the story of the founding of Korea. I kept thinking about Rome's founding story. Is fascinating how many of these stories involved human and animals. In the Korea's story the bear and the tiger, in Rome's story a set of twins Remus ans Romulus are rescued and raise by a she-wolf.

[Anonymous]

The first six pages of this reading there seems to be no real connections to Kitlong being "Robin Hood," but after hearing that was the point of the story in class I continued to read on, and I could clearly see the parallels. Kitlong announces his royal background to the community of people in the mountains, who were skeptical, and then he is put to the test with lifting the heavy rock. It was much like the Kevin Costner version (my favorite), when he comes up to the community in the forest, announces his royal background, and then battles "Little John" in a test of strength and prevails.

Curious if anyone else read the story and found any other fun parallels within the story.

[Anonymous]

I think the legend has its roots in ancient totemic beliefs. Many cultures have animals as cultural heroes(who teach them how to do something or how to cultivate a crop their livelihood depends on),and many creation myths have animals as mythical ancestors.The Koreans chose the tiger and the bear two strong animals they feared and revered the most.
edited by scarjan on 5/14/2015

[Anonymous]

It strengthens my belief that historiography is nothing but propaganda.After all Wang Kon was not so good and saintly, Kung Ye ,though ambitious, had to fight his lowly birth,and Kyon Hwon was not so bad given the complicated political situation.

[Anonymous]

There is so much wonderful information this class is teaching me. The good the bad and the ugly is just one example of the many things I enjoyed reading. Each ruler wanted to be known for doing a certain thing. But in the end all three were need to unify the country.

[Anonymous]

That time frame was 668-936. The good-Wang kon took over later koguryo in 918. The bad- later Paekche, founded in 892 yi kynonhwon and the ugly- later founded in 901 by kimKungye. One interesting thing one king did was marry every daughter in an important family-koryro.

[Anonymous]

I actually enjoyed the Kiltong Tale very much and while reading I was reminded how much the imaginative disguises and trickery and impossibly won battles were so similar to Chinese Ninja stories...I began to recall the special effects from the famous Ang Lee movie Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon.
I know 7th grade students would enjoy hearing this Korean Tale and I would read it to them over a month perhaps and have them keep an illustration journal, where after each reading they would create a drawing form the tale. Perhaps even some of the students could create a Manga Style Cartoon Book of the Kiltong Tale.

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