My Korea :40 Years Without a Horsehair Hat ( 1 )

Publication subTitle :40 Years Without a Horsehair Hat

Publication series :1

Author: O'Rourke   Kevin  

Publisher: Renaissance Books‎

Publication year: 2013

E-ISBN: 9781898823346

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9781898823094

P-ISBN(Hardback):  9781898823094

Subject: K81 Biography;K82 China

Keyword: 传记

Language: ENG

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Description

My Korea: Forty Years Without a Horsehair Hat is a cultural introduction to Korea, part memoir and part miscellany, which introduces traditional and contemporary culture through a series of essays, stories, anecdotes and poems. The book seeks to tell the reader all that he or she needs to know for a full and rewarding life in Korea or as a visitor passing through.

Chapter

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

Conclusions from the Study of the Yangban Concept

Ramifications of the Yangban’s Tale

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

The Swinging Twenties

Inculturation at the End of Chosŏn

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’oeKyŏngch’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-saTemple – 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 EsteemedWife 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 Offin 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’uso˘ k 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 Ponggŏn

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)

A Cold Eye (In Memory of Aidan Murray)

Granite Man (In Memory of Tommy Comerford)

Death Song (Grieving for Noel Ryan)

Farewell to Jack Roche

February 2008 (In Memory of Wally Nugent)

Purest Celadon (In Memory of Hub Hayward)

Good Friday: After a Poem by an Old Master (In Memory ofPhil Crosbie)

Mystery

16. Seeking The Way

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 Thanimmortal 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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