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  • June 30, 2007 at 7:01 am #5461
    Rob_Hugo@PortNW
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    I was looking for information on Korean history and found this excellent website: http://www.stockton.edu/~gilmorew/consorti/1deasia.htm

    It has a good, concise overview of the different dynasties/kingdoms, as well as excellent maps and a great listing of Korean music, poetry, drama, painting, dance, and architecture, not to mention religions, folk medicine, traditional beliefs, cuisine - the works!

    I found it as I was looking for information to put together a unit on Korean history and culture, as this is rather passed over in the standards but would be of great interest to the significant number of Korean-American students in our school popualtion - especially in seventh grade honors.

    If you're at all interested in learning about Korean history and traditions, and the growth of the Korean-American community here in the U.S. of A., you have to check out the workshop that's held in August at the Korean Cultural Center on Wilshire Boulevard - it's excellent and fills up fast! I can't recommend this week's worth of seminars enough (same, I know, goes for my colleague, Mimy Mac - we met up there last summer - I see that she's also been putting the good word out). You'll come away with lots of great teaching materials and, like the UTLA/USC series, the caliber of speaker is absolutely first class!

    Give 'em a call (tell Mary Connor I sent ya) and check out this great website

    Ray

    July 17, 2007 at 1:49 pm #32776
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    As a teacher I believe in opening the world to my students, and exposing them to different cultures as well as teaching them the importance of respect, humility and hard work.
    While looking through the foreign film section of the public library, I came across a video entitled "The Way Home". This film was done beautifully and opened discussion for my students to think about ones interaction with their own grandparent.

    Below is brief detail of the film:

    'Dedicated to grandmothers everywhere', "The Way Home (Jibeuro)" could easily be called the best Korean film of 2002. Detailing the travails of a spoiled 7-year old boy who is left in the care of his 77-year old grandmother in the countryside, "The Way Home" is writer/director Lee Jung-hyang's simple yet touching follow-up to "Art Museum by the Zoo (Misulgwan yup dongmulwon)". Made on a paltry budget of $1.2 million US, this quiet drama was a welcome antidote to the high-profile blockbuster flops that littered the Korean moviegoing landscape that year.

    The film begins with Sang-woo (Yu Seung-ho) being dropped off at the rural hovel of his deaf-and-mute grandmother (Kim Eul-bun) so that his mother (Dong Hyo-heui) can go job-hunting unfettered in Seoul. Unfortunately, Sang-woo does not adapt well to his new surroundings. His grandmother is unable to speak and has diminished mental faculties, making communication difficult. Furthermore, the country lifestyle, without the modern conveniences of television or running water, comes as a bit of shock to the videogame-playing Sang-woo. Frustrated by his new home, Sang-woo begins to lash out, which includes calling his grandmother a 'retard'.

    But despite her grandson's bratty and disrespectful behavior, the grandmother displays the patience of a saint as she quietly goes about her business of cooking his meals, washing his clothes, and gathering his drinking water from the local well. Over time, her persistence eventually pays off, as a maturing Sang-woo slowly comes to appreciate the sacrifices that have been made to give him a home.

    With "The Way Home", director Lee skilfully mines the dramatic potential between her two main characters. Most of the film's emotional pull comes from Sang-woo.

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