tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12946845.post2946416595672495759..comments2024-02-23T23:53:54.842+09:00Comments on Gusts Of Popular Feeling: A new way to protest redevelopmentmatthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10296009437690229938noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12946845.post-55815009177543170372007-03-07T16:50:00.000+09:002007-03-07T16:50:00.000+09:00I'm not sure of course, but it would appear as if ...I'm not sure of course, but it would appear as if "ant village" was first used of a ragpicker's neighborhood.<BR/><BR/>Doesn't the analogy to ants make good sense? For humans, ants seem to be ceaselessly going around, gathering stuff like pine needles and bringing them back to the nest; similarly, ragpickers gathered all kinds of reusable things, brought them to their living quarters, sorted it out and sold further.<BR/><BR/>(Jo described in the novel how ragpickers also took care of circulating cow bones from slaughterhouses and butcher's shops to whatever was made of them.)<BR/><BR/><A HREF="http://www.hani.co.kr/section-005100007/2005/02/005100007200502141820174.html" REL="nofollow">Here's a Hankyoreh article</A> on ragpickers in Nanjido, where the Seoul dump used to be. The interviewee says he made as much as 1.5-2 million won (!) a month in the 1980s by gathering, sorting, and selling garbage. There's no word of "ant village", but he tells having worked "diligently like an ant."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12946845.post-22481104041347536222007-03-06T22:03:00.000+09:002007-03-06T22:03:00.000+09:00So in other words the meaning of the word has shif...So in other words the meaning of the word has shifted over time? Interesting stuff. And thanks for the link to Nardoldol's site - there are some great photos there.matthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10296009437690229938noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12946845.post-56819491773082521762007-03-05T18:26:00.000+09:002007-03-05T18:26:00.000+09:00Naver:개미 마을 a colony of ragpickersRather than a "t...Naver:<BR/><B>개미 마을 a colony of ragpickers</B><BR/>Rather than a "translation", this would suggest that the word "ant neighborhood" would have originally been used of ragpickers' settlements, and some quick browsing would suggest that it's been the case. (<A HREF="http://www.hani.co.kr/section-003000000/2004/06/003000000200406061629425.html" REL="nofollow">A Hankyoreh article</A> on Kim Hye-gyeong of DLP, who "first participated in urban poverty movements in 1967 in the ragpickers' settlement Ant Village."<BR/><BR/>In Jo Jung-rae's <I>Han'gang</I>, the younger of the main protagonist brothers lives for a long period as a ragpicker, who in the novel lived in a settlement on the southern side of Namsan, but I can't recall any ants in the name of their neighborhood.<BR/><BR/>About Changshin-dong, the Korean blogger (painter, university teacher, urban phoographer) Nardoldol has a <A HREF="http://nardoldol.egloos.com/photo/35860" REL="nofollow">bunch of pics</A> taken in the area. You've perhaps seen me referring to his blog, but let me recommend his place (<A HREF="http://nardoldol.egloos.com/" REL="nofollow">http://nardoldol.egloos.com/</A>), especially as you also pay a lot of attention to the urban change.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com