Film Discovery
The oldest surviving Korean movie discovered yet was found recently in a Chinese archive:It was filmed, of course, during the Japanese colonial period. The film has something to say to those interested in modernization's obliteration of the traditional, according to Yi Hyo-in, director of the Korean Film Archive:
The oldest surviving Korean movie discovered yet was found recently in a Chinese archive:It was filmed, of course, during the Japanese colonial period. The film has something to say to those interested in modernization's obliteration of the traditional, according to Yi Hyo-in, director of the Korean Film Archive:
- 'Mimong' is a metaphor that suggests how Koreans accepted 'forced modernization'....
Japan completely obliterated artists' resistance from the early 1930s on, and Korean movies lapsed into love stories. This movie is riding on such a tide, but alongside the cultural suppression, it deeply absorbed modern thinking.
Redeemed by Our Savior, I work out my salvation with fear and trembling in Pohang, South Korea, where I live with my wife, daughter, and son and teach English at a science and technology university. Baptized a Methodist and raised a Missouri Synod Lutheran in Buffalo, NY, I spent six years as a guest of the Anglican Communion before being received by the Grace of God into the One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church on the Feast of Saint Andrew, my patron, anno domini 2002.
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