tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12946845.post115723298360692732..comments2024-02-23T23:53:54.842+09:00Comments on Gusts Of Popular Feeling: Alien Visitors upon Chosun's Shoresmatthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10296009437690229938noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12946845.post-2125919455582031182013-01-29T11:42:12.697+09:002013-01-29T11:42:12.697+09:00Excellent, wonderful, thank you.Excellent, wonderful, thank you.Sublunarihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01459014862752371943noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12946845.post-83162484294523019272010-04-07T19:09:53.388+09:002010-04-07T19:09:53.388+09:00Thanks! It was fun researching and writing it. If ...Thanks! It was fun researching and writing it. If you liked these posts, I'd recommend reading <em>Korea Through Western Eyes</em>, by Robert Neff (who left a comment above). There are lots of interesting stories about Korea (and the foreigners who lived there) in the two decades after it opened to the west.matthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10296009437690229938noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12946845.post-1802694404794212532010-04-05T21:55:05.363+09:002010-04-05T21:55:05.363+09:00Bless you. Seriously. This is...this is just what ...Bless you. Seriously. This is...this is just what I've needed. So much of Korean history is wrapped in bravura, dipped in honey and rolled in a crunchy coating of nationalistic bravado that it's sometimes hard to take. <br /><br />Seeing Korea through (probably) the first western eyes...it gives a bit of balance. Thank you SO much for taking the time to write this all out. I realize it was a while ago. Still great.Geoffwahhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06304620601677558576noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12946845.post-1159397764465441582006-09-28T07:56:00.000+09:002006-09-28T07:56:00.000+09:00Matt:Interesting observations, regarding the delet...Matt:<BR/><BR/>Interesting observations, regarding the deleterious effect literacy might have on some aspects of speech. Perhaps it's somewhat like memory, which is supposed to be stronger in oral societies, since people there are not in the habit of writing things down for posterity.Stefan Ewinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05530690016594029847noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12946845.post-1159028931025216022006-09-24T01:28:00.000+09:002006-09-24T01:28:00.000+09:00Thanks for the kind words Robert. I obviously mad...Thanks for the kind words Robert. I obviously made references to your Korea Times articles more than once, and enjoyed them a lot. I look forward to the book!matthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10296009437690229938noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12946845.post-1159011361329853712006-09-23T20:36:00.000+09:002006-09-23T20:36:00.000+09:00A very good site - really enjoyed your articles on...A very good site - really enjoyed your articles on the earlier Westerners/Aliens - You really went to a lot of work in making it and it was very well researched. Excellent - one of the best sites I have seen.<BR/><BR/>My book that is supposed to be published some day soon (publisher is slower at publishing it than I was at writing it) goes into a lot of detail of the early Italians, British, Americans and Germans that visited Korea prior to its opening. I think that you will like it.<BR/><BR/>Robert Neff<BR/><BR/>RobertAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12946845.post-1158680234194223252006-09-20T00:37:00.000+09:002006-09-20T00:37:00.000+09:00I hadn't thought of that, though it does make me w...I hadn't thought of that, though it does make me wonder about the description of the islanders' 'perfect' pronunciation. I tend to figure one reason so many of my students intone english words incorrectly is due to the way Hangeul structures written Korean. I wonder if one reason likely illiterate islanders were able to pronounce English words so well would be due to the fact that they were illiterate and therefore Hangeul didn't have a grip on their concept of pronunciation. Which then raises questions of how Korean (or any language, for that matter) was spoken before literacy became widespread.matthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10296009437690229938noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12946845.post-1158100916037133362006-09-13T07:41:00.000+09:002006-09-13T07:41:00.000+09:00Wow, this is a very long and interesting-looking a...Wow, this is a very long and interesting-looking article which I fully intend to read...in the meantime, one trivial detail which caught my attention:<BR/><BR/>I looked at Hall's list of Korean words, and what jumped out at me was "Good...Hota [sic]." I didn't know that the modern "basic form" (기본형) of verbs and adjectives (ending in -다) dated as far back as the early 19th century...somehow I fancied it might have been a product of the promotion of mass Hangeul literacy in the late 19th/early 20th century (and presumably the creation of the first modern Koprean dictionaries, though I don't know much of the history of Korean lexicography except for Choe Se-jin's efforts several centuries previous).Stefan Ewinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05530690016594029847noreply@blogger.com