#20th Century Korea

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The 50th Anniversary of WHEN TAEKWONDO STRIKES

The 50th Anniversary of WHEN TAEKWONDO STRIKES @HiYAHTV #jhoonrhee

August 1, 2022 (NYC)- The 50th Anniversary of WHEN TAEKWONDO STRIKES The 50th Anniversary of WHEN TAEKWONDO STRIKES.  2023 marks the 50th Anniversary  Golden Harvest’s film, When Taekwondo Strikes. This Raymond Chow action movie was most notable because it was the only film of taekwondo Grandmaster Jhoon Rhee. While the project is a low budget, formula, action film in the Raymond Chow genre of…

[theglitterdome]

US Marine Sergeant Frank Praytor feeds a 2 week-old kitten named Miss Hap after her mother had been killed during a mortar attack in Korea - 1952

[stirringwinds]

sketched some casual modern nedpan and gardens, because the flower theme lends itself well to them both doesn't it? imo kiku's going to always keep short hair after the meiji era, but in the present day, i'm sure he still wears yukatas at home✌🏻

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Fav 2022 K-Dramas/Movies

1. My Liberation Notes

About: Three siblings, exhausted by the monotony of day to day adulthood, seek to find fulfillment and freedom from their unremarkable lives

Honestly, no one did it like My Liberation Notes. The way they captured the mundane lives of adults, the longing for happiness, freedom, and the loneliness of it all. The way they depicted all that through raw lines, monologues, and even silence that gave even deeper meanings. To say I love this show is an understatement 🥺

2. Extraordinary Attorney Woo

About: Woo Young Woo, a woman on the spectrum that tackles challenges as a newbie at a top law firm

This show is popular for a reason. It has everything you could ask for in a kdrama: feel good vibes, heartwarming stories, heart-fluttering love, found family, and interesting characters (with brilliant acting). Although we couldn't expect Woo Young Woo to be representative for all people with autism (since autism is considered as a spectrum), but I love the way her portrayal in this show was educative while also really fun to watch 🤍

3. Twenty Five Twenty One

About: In a time where dreams seem out of reach, a teen fencer pursues her ambitions and meets a hardworking young man who seeks to rebuilds his life.

Couldn't express how much it's comforting to watch the two main characters build connection in the pursuit of happiness. The fact that these two people share different perspectives in life (one was hopeful & optimistic, while the other one was realistic) was its charm. Not to mention the growing bond of the friendship between them and their friends. Together, they make every scene seemed refreshing and entertaining to watch. It was truly an uplifting youth show that brightened last year's atmosphere ✨

4. Alchemy of Souls

About: A powerful sorceress in a blind woman's body encounters a man from a prestigious family, who wants her help to change his destiny.

Love, love the world building of this one! Also, the gripping love stories that took "I'll love every version of you" seriously 🥺. It was captivating how observant every characters in this show were & the way they unfold the stories. Even the action scenes portrayed like an art. Therefore, even though it has many episodes with long duration, I wasn't bored at all.

5. Little Women

About: Three sisters become embroiled in a major incident and face off against the wealthiest family in the nation

The fact that two of my fave actresses (Nam jihyun & Kim goeun) casted in one kdrama was such a dream!! It's a women centric kdrama i could say, from the way the main characters, writer, & director are all women <3. I love that it has such morally grey characters and a story that's full of intriguing misteries. It kept me on the edge of my seat.

6. 20th Century Girl

About: A teen girl has her eyes set on a boy for her lovesick best friend. However, things become complicated when she falls in love and is forced to choose between love and friendship

A heartening youth stories that every fan of 2521 should watch! Again, the plot seemed cliche but it still managed to enthralled you with sweet & fun interactions between the main characters, their growing romance, and what comes for them in the future. It was a rollercoaster of emotion but I really enjoyed it to end <3

7. Business Proposal

About: Hari, a regular employee, shows up to a blind date in disguise of her rich friend to scare him away. Things go awry when he turns out to be her CEO and makes a proposal.

Normally, a kdrama with a cliche plot and some cringe lines wasn't my piece of cake. But Business Proposal is something else I guess. It managed to make even the cliche plot entertaining to watch, still. I didn't expect that I'd laugh this much while watching this show, but I did. Their actings were so fun to watch and it's such a light kdrama that i enjoyed to watch.

Addition: Fav K-Drama (Not Released in 2022) that I've Watched Last Year

Prison Playbook

About: a legendary Korean baseball player whose life change after he chases a man who harasses his sister and finds himself spending a year in prison.

This is such a gem for a slice of life genre! From the director of Hospital Playlist & Reply series, you could expect some heartwarming feels coming from every characters' background stories. Despite the serious & harsh life we could thought of from prison life, this kdrama have many comical scenes, a series of roommates bickering, & such a moving found family. I wish the director would make more of these 🥺🤍

K-Drama Recommendations: 8/?

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YA Pacific WW2 Books

Today marks the 78th anniversary of the bombing of Nagasaki, 3 days after the bombing of Hiroshima.

I've had a list of WW2 books in a file for a while. I noticed the Pacific side of the war is much less represented in fiction, but there are still many promising-looking books out there. These range from stories in Japan-occupied territories, to Jews in Shanghai, bombs in Australia, and stories of the atomic bombs in Japan and internment of Japanese-Americans.

Let me know if you've read any of these!

When My Name Was Keoko by Linda Sue Park (Korea) The Hundred Choices Department Store by Ginger Park (Korea) The Songbird and the Rambutan Tree by Lucille Abendanon (Indonesia) [releases in 2024] Anya's War by Andrea Alban Gosline (China) Little Paradise by Gabrielle Wang (Australia - China) The Forgotten Pearl by Belinda Murrell (Australia) The Sky We Shared by Shirley Reva Vernick (Japan - United States) Barefoot Gen by Keiji Nakazawa (Japan) [manga] The Girl with the White Flag Tomiko Higa, Dorothy Britton (Japan) The Last Cherry Blossom by Kathleen Burkinshaw (Japan) Hunt for the Bamboo Rat by Graham Salisbury (United States - Philippines) [more in the series] Beneath the Wide Silk Sky by Emily Inouye Huey (Japanese-American) They Called Us Enemy by George Takei (Japanese-American) [graphic novel] Weedflower by Cynthia Kadohata (Japanese-American) We Are Not Free - Traci Chee (Japanese-American) Climbing the Stairs by Padma Venkatraman (India)

🕊️🕊️ Prayers for peace. 🕊️🕊️

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Soviet propaganda photograph of deported Koreans in 1937.

Nearly 172 000 ethnic Koreans were forcibly deported under Stalin's and Molotov's orders, for "frontier cleansing" and "russification", and were sent to the Kazakh SSR and the Uzbek SSR.

The mortality estimate of the Korean population from the deportations is anywhere from 10-25%.

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20세기 소녀 / 20th Century Girl Woo-ri Bang. 2022

Amusement Park Seoul Land, 181 Gwangmyeong-ro, Gwacheon-si, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea See in map

See in imdb

[army-in-the-stars]

I just watched 20th Century Girl..

So sad, but also so special.

Beautiful.

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Oh my heart 💔

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The Power of the 20th Century Girl

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20TH CENTURY GIRL OFFICIAL TRAILER

[diggingforitalianroots]

Welcome!

Recently, the wonderful (and dedicated) Becks Kobel from Washington State, a death positive genealogist (and historian), asked Italian genealogists to name their surnames, noting that she was working "on an Italian line." Many people, whether family historians like Chris Russo, Josh, Wendy L. Callahan, Renee Pizzo, Ina Neugebauer, Zoe Krainik, Ashley Senske, and Chris Ferraiolo, professional genealogists like Derk Doran Wood, and other individuals (Olivia Meikile, "Ms Redacted," and Florian Straub) shared their surnames. But, for me, the idea to create this blog was born, along with the sharing of various resources on immigration in the 20th century (see here, here, and here), writing that "I've been thinking abt a new genealogy blog that focuses on my dad's side of the family, including one on my Italian ancestors." This is that blog! I've already briefly mentioned this before on Twitter, noting how "my great-grandfather worked on the S.S. Grand View Point Hotel (otherwise known as the Ship Hotel) with an Emilio Rosso," adding that "it's so important there us [sic] even a Wikipedia page on it (which I made extensive edits too, of course)." I've also tweeted a photograph of my ancestor, Annetta Rose "Nita" (or "Anita") Baccarini, who was born December 20, 1909 in Kiskiminetas Township, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, and went to college. However, her life was short-lived as she died on August 31, 1932 in Avonmore, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, of pneumonia, after she had graduated, at the age of 22! Here's the photograph:

Originally posted on Jun. 16, 2019 on the WordPress version of this blog.

I then shared a photo of my grandmother, Lena Adelaide (Franci) Hermann (1922-2005), who was 100% Italian, considered "second-generation" (I'll talk about that in a later post) and sent the following photo to my grandfather when he was building bridges in the Republic of Korea (ROK) in 1946-7:

And with that, the blog is off!

-Burkely

© 2019-2023 Burkely Hermann. All rights reserved.

[stirringwinds]

just pondering how old nations deal with the tumult of change; and i personally think that yao might’ve been the last to cut his hair short, after kiku and yong-soo. imo kiku did it first with the onset of the meiji era in 1867, followed by yong-soo during the gwangmu reforms launched by emperor gojong in the 1880-90s; the monarch is in western dress and short hair—and so is the nation. for yao, it’s not that he’s oblivious to how things are falling apart and the urgent need for reform. but he is the oldest of the three of them; he has kept long hair for thousands of years. it’s not that he hasn’t ever experienced defeat and changes at the hands of another nation—but as controversial as the manchu-style braid imposed by the qing dynasty rulers on the whole male population of china was, i think there was still that underlying sense of continuity with long hair for him; wearing his hair long became the one constant in his identity amidst all the drastic changes he’s weathered through the millennia.

and so in the wake of the opium wars, i think it fits if yao’s the one now left behind, watching his sort-of protégés turn away from his worldview symbolically. from being seen as the civilisation to emulate, by both tributaries and even enemies, to being defeated by the very same gunpowder technology invented during one of his golden ages. and kiku and yong-soo see what’s happened; the summer palace is burned to the ground, and yao is no longer the one at the centre of “all under heaven”. they followed yao’s clothing styles, philosophies, religion and kept their hair long like he did—but no longer, after this. he’s staring at the backs of their heads this time, and the only path seems to be to join them. because when it comes down to it, imo, yao won’t die on the sword of tradition for its own sake—he’s survived by being willing to change shape and form throughout history. it takes some time for him to work up to it this time, but he does, in the end— short hair and western dress it is, by the time of the xinhai revolution in 1911: ‘i have been called many names throughout many lifetimes. the empire is dead, long live the republic.’

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Tudum Korea: A Netflix Global Fan Event [ENG SUB]

Tudum Korea: A Netflix Global Fan Event [ENG SUB]

⚠️ Attention ⚠️ Do you hear the iconic sound of “Tudum”? Netflix unveils its remaining 2022 lineup Including never-before-seen clips! Get a sneak peek at much anticipated Korean and other international films and series 🤩 The wait is over for the latest scoop Check out Tudum now #Tudum is Netflix’s home for fandom! Watch your favorite stars and creators from around the world on the virtual stage…

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Found these really cool images of Noa and Mae from 20th Century Studios Korea (Community) on YouTube, im so excited for this movie 😁 (idk what they say, can someone translate if possible?)

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OPPRESSORS TURN PEOPLE OF COLOUR AGAINST EACH OTHER

For centuries, imperialists have sought ways of turning oppressed people against each other. This not only makes the oppressed forget who the actual enemy is, but it also turns us into cannon folder during wars of imperialist aggression.

In this 1993 clip, renowned singer and actress Eartha Kitt (1927-2008) explained how the US military-industrial complex fomented hatred between US-based African communities and other Global South people to attract Black people into the US military to fight wars in countries such as Iraq, Vietnam and Korea.

Kitt highlights how, after our people returned to the US, they were provided with no financial support, while forced to live under discriminatory Jim Crow laws that prevailed up until the mid-20th century.

This makes it clear why the likes of legendary boxer Muhammad Ali refused to be drafted to fight in Vietnam. When questioned, Ali famously declared, ‘I ain’t got no quarrel with them Vietcong. No Vietcong ever called me nigger.’ He added, ‘No. I’m not going 10,000 miles from home to help murder and burn another poor nation simply to continue the domination of white slave masters of the darker people the world over.’ Over five decades later, his words ring true, as some African people continue to see each other and other people of colour as the ‘enemy,’ perpetuating oppressive structures that only benefit the ruling class.

Video credit: @whoopigoldberg