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	Confucian Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		In the same year, the Confucian Association known as the Confucian Temple allocated funds to sponsor the school which came under the patronage of the Temple and the term “Confucian” became part of the name of the school.
		Notable elements of this art are calligraphy of Confucian writings and thoughts, often contained within Confucian temples and schools, as well as whiteware ceramics and pottery related to Confucian religious and scholarly practices.
		To the Confucians, marriage is of grave significance both in family and in society.
	www.hallencyclopedia.com /topic/Confucian.html (1463 words)

	Korean art - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		In the performing arts, Korean storytelling is done in both ritualistic shamanistic ways, in the songs of yangban scholars, and the cross-overs between the visual arts and the performing arts which are more intense and fluid than in the West.
		The Korean tea ceremony is held in a Korean tea house with characterstic architecture, often within Korean gardens and served in a way with ritualized conversation, formal poetry on wall-scrolls, and with Korean pottery and traditonal Korean costumes, the environment itself is a series of naturally flowing events that provide a cultural and artistic experience.
		Korean music in contemporary times is generally divided into the same audiences as the west: with the same kind of audiences for music based on age, and city (classical, pop, techno, house, hip-hop, jazz; traditional) and provincial divisions (folk, country, traditional, classical, rock).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Korean_art (3823 words)

	Welcome to the Korean Cultural Service
		The earliest known Korean paintings were murals painted on the walls of tombs of the Three Kingdoms period (53 B.C. The paintings of Goguryeo were generally dynamic and rhythmic, those of Baekje elegant and refined, and those of Silla somewhat speculative and meticulous.
		Some of the earliest extant Korean writings are poems, called hyangga, written during the Unified Silla period (A.D. 668-935) using Chinese characters phonetically to represent the sounds of the Korean language, which as yet lacked a native alphabet.
		During the Goryeo period and the later Joseon period, Korean literature of the upper class, mostly written in classical Chinese, was characterized by an emphasis on philosophic expositions on the Chinese classics, an art that was essential for government service, the only respectable avenue to success outside of teaching.
	www.koreanculture.org /06about_korea/culture_art.htm (1140 words)

	Beopjusa \| KoreanArts.org
		Korean court dances, called jeongjae, meaning literally "display of talent," were used to entertain for the royal family, court functionaries, and foreign envoys.
		Korean mask dances evolved from dances, music, and dramas performed during Palgwanhoe, the court ceremonies of the Goryeo dynasty, during Yeondeunghoe, a Buddhist ceremony held to pray for the nation's peace and the well-being of the people, and during Narye, the shaman rite held on the lunar New Year's Eve to ward off evils.
		Korean paintings of the 1980s were largely a reaction to the modernism of the 1970s.
	www.koreanarts.org (3987 words)

	Korean art - Art History Online Reference and Guide
		Korean art is art, whether modern or ancient, that originated in or is practised in Korea or by Korean artists or performers.
		Similarly in the performing arts, Korean storytelling is done in both ritualistic shamanistic ways, in the songs of yangban scholars, and the cross-overs between the visual arts and the performing arts which are more intense and fluid than in the west.
		Korean visual art is extensive and has had an exceptionally wide cultural influence on Japanese art that is still little known in the west.
	www.arthistoryclub.com /art_history/Korean_art (2769 words)

	Traditions of Change (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Korean and Korean-American painting, pottery, calligraphy, and even modern art often reflect this style or aesthetic of simplicity, naturalness, and directness.
		Some have also claimed that Korean art is simple when compared to Chinese art because of Korea’s pre-20th century history of isolation and relative poverty, as compared to China’s history of trade and wealth.
		The style of simplicity and naturalness lent itself to depicting the rugged life of the Korean countryside, and in the 17th century, genres of art began to develop that focused on the life of the peasant classes.
	www.arts.wa.gov /progFA/korean/Korean15.htm (685 words)

	Korean Confucian art - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Korean Confucian art took strong hold with the Yi generals who set in place the Joseon dynasty which distinguished itself in many ways by promoting Confucian thought as the basis for a new national vision.
		Differentiating itself by restraint, spartan choices of colour, and design, understatement, and great care and precision, the legacy of this art since the 13th century has been extensive throughout Asia.
		Korean flower arrangement is part of the Confucian tradition.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Korean_Confucian_art (118 words)

	KOREA AND THE KOREAN PEOPLE
		Buddhism has played a vital role in the development of art, architecture literature and the perforrning arts and remains an essential spiritual force in the lives of many Korean people Buddha's birthday is observed as a national holiday and Budandist temples are important centers of spiritual comfort in modern society.
		Confucianism was originaLly adopted as an educational system as well as a system of ceremony and civil administration as expressed in the writings of Confucius himself.
		Korean family life is close-knit, and the needs of the family are almost always put before those of the individuaL In fact, most people's lives center around the family-birthdays, weddings and engagements, funerals, and memorial services.
	www.indiana.edu /~easc/resources/korea_slides/korea_and_korean_people/1-3.htm (439 words)

	The Korean Community in Albuquerque, New Mexico
		Korean immigration to the US began when they were brought in to replace striking Chinese and Japanese laborers on sugar plantations in Hawaii, In the years 1903-1905, between seven and eight thousand Korean contract laborers, along with several wives an children, came to Hawaii.
		Koreans born in the United States tend to attend church less frequently, in part due to not speaking the language as fluently, and also due to their relative comfort in American culture.
		Confucianism, with its concentration on the five principal relationships – between king and subject, father and son, husband and wife, sisters and brothers, and between friends – continues to influence the social behavior of Korean immigrants.
	www.abqarts.org /cultural/survey/korean-cs.htm (5529 words)

	Korean Literature (Character of Korean Literature, Korean Classical Literature, Modern Literature of Korea)
		Korean literature is usually divided chronologically into a classical and a modern period.
		Korean modern literature was formed against the background of the crumbling feudalistic society of the Choson Dynasty, the importation of new ideas from the West, and the new political reality of rising Japanese imperial power in East Asia.
		Korean literature was largely unknown to the world until the 1980s, when translations of Korean literary works began to appear in foreign countries.
	www.asianinfo.org /asianinfo/korea/literature.htm (5596 words)

	chapter2
		Confucianism The relationship of Confucianism to intellectual development in East Asia is quite different from how those of Hellenism and Judaism are related to the issues of the rhetoric of Anglo-Europe and the Western hemisphere.
		Confucianism assumes that figuring out the middle is a matter of training the self and that it takes a long time to master it.
		Confucianism is basically opposed to the use of rhetoric in the Western sense, that is for the purpose of persuading an audience.
	faculty.fullerton.edu /jcho/chapter2.htm (13741 words)

	New Items
		Later, the Confucian scholars during the Chosun Dynasty embraced the tea ceremony both as a way to make offerings to the ancestors, but also as a formal rite to be used during meditation and to help them relax and focus the mind.
		In fact, the use of the tea ceremony was so prevalent among the literati or scholars of the time (who were frequently also government officials) that it became a common practice during meetings of government officials and became almost a part of the job.
		Korean green tea can be roughly classified into three categories based primarily on the time the tea leaves were picked.
	www.korean-arts.com /new_stuff.htm (779 words)

	Korean poetry Summary
		Korean traditional poetry on the whole can be characterized as being centered on the self, through which the reader can relate to his or her own experiences and proceed to discover their universality.
		Because of its Buddhist and Confucian underpinnings, Korean poetry tended to be transcendent, seeking the ultimate in freedom, liberation, and wisdom.
		Korean scholars were writing poetry in the classical Chinese style as early as the 4th century.
	www.bookrags.com /Korean_poetry (2342 words)

	History of Native Korean Martial Arts by In Sun Seo
		The reason is that martial arts started as natural outgrowth of techniques used from prehistoric times by primitive people to find food and to protect themselves and their families from wild animals Therefore, all areas of the world have indigenous kinds of combative arts used for developing mind and body, as well as for fighting.
		Over time, the martial arts techniques of the common people and of the regular military gradually disappeared as a result of the preferential treatment given civil officials, the general contempt for military officials, and a government leadership that was weakened by literary pursuits at the expense of martial arts development.
		The non-aggressive Confucianism was promulgated throughout the nation, with preferential treatment given to civil officials and contempt shown to military officials.
	www.usadojo.com /articles/history-korean-ma.htm (2925 words)

	Impact Of Confucian Concepts Of Feelings On Organizational Culture In Korean Higher Education
		Confucianism, one of the major historical factors leading East Asian people to the path of the spiritual world, contributed enormously to the development of Korean society and culture.
		First, the concepts of Confucian feelings will be discussed in terms of the theories of some representative Chinese and Korean Confucian thinkers, and the concepts of culture and values in organizations will be illustrated in several Western sociocultural aspects.
		In current Korean society, paternalism and favoritism based on Confucian principles and feelings may be viewed as stabilized cultural patterns by an individual or a group in the private or public affairs (Hangyeore, 2000; H. Lee, 1999; S. Lee, 2000).
	radicalpedagogy.icaap.org /content/issue3_1/06Lee.ixml (5688 words)

	Korea Sessions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Confucianism is paradoxically, critical to this aspect of his thought and this, in turn, has both political and literary implications for Korean literature as a whole.
		As a woman in a modernizing society with many Confucian traits, she found that there were limits to her feminism: she wanted to liberate women from the traditional yoke of domestic labor, yet at the same time she herself adhered to the traditional role of a good wife and wise mother.
		To do this, the writer distinguished Western and Korean conservatism into pristine and derivative conservatism by stressing that the modernization experience of Korea and the West were radically different in terms of the source, the agent and the nature of change, all of which were originally derived from their difference in historical timing of modernization.
	www.aasianst.org /absts/2002abst/Korea/sessions.htm (13312 words)

	Ceramics Art & Perception
		In The Art of the Potter, W. Honey writes: 'The forms of Koryo seem to be the quintessence of refined, courtly, even feminine elegance.' These were essentially aristocratic wares made for the enjoyment of the nobility at court, a court that reflected the taste of a dominating Song China.
		However, by the mid 15th century, Confucianism became the dominant force of the Yi dynasty and with it the craftsman reacted against tradition and the monopoly of court taste.
		The finely executed vessels chess pieces confront the conservatism of Korean art that is perpetuated in the traditional shapes of its vases and jars.
	www.ceramicart.com.au /articles/Won_Seok_Kim.htm (1949 words)

	Korean-Arts Korean Dolls & Figurines
		The Korean Turtle Ship is the first ironclad warship in the world shaped like a turtle that was invented and built by Admiral YI, SOON SHIN in 1592 (16C).
		During the IM JIN WAR (Korean and Japanese; 1592-1598), under Admiral YI's command, the turtle ships were engaged as the vanguard and brought the seas under their control to lead the country to victory.
		Therefore, the Korean people admire general YI as the most famous Admiral in Korean history, and an original form of the turtle ship was rebuilt and kept by the KOREAN NAVAL ACADEMY in JIN HAE.
	www.korean-arts.com /dolls_figurines/dolls_figurines.htm (1111 words)

	The Fragrance of Ink (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Organized jointly by the Korean Studies Institute and the Korea University Museum, the exhibition is being circulated in the United States by the Smart Museum of Art.
		As in China and Japan, Korean literati painting is closely aligned with the arts of writing and literature, both in materials used and in the choice of subjects.
		The exhibition encompasses such prominent stylistic developments as the reception and creative adaptation by Korean artists of painting traditions from China -- notably the Ming court style known as the Zhe School, which was associated with academic painters, and the so-called Southern School of the Qing dynasty, which was favored by amateur painters.
	chronicle.uchicago.edu /961107/koreart.shtml (509 words)

	Ahead of the Pack - Newsweek: International Editions - MSNBC.com
		On Aug. 31, Korean steelmaker Posco established a local subsidiary in the eastern Indian state of Orissa, paving the way for a controversial mill and mining complex that will cost the world's fifth largest steelmaker $12 billion and employ some 40,000 workers once it's fully operational in 2010.
		Korean businesses now pursue a two-pronged "China plus one," or "Chindia," strategy as a matter of course, partly to hedge against a currency shock, recession or political unrest in the Middle Kingdom.
		Korean brands want to be seen responding to the needs of Indians with a more humble attitude, so as not to offend national pride.
	www.msnbc.msn.com /id/9287443/site/newsweek (1811 words)

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		Confucian ideals were then and still are exceptionally important in Korean society.
		The four Confucian principles represented on this screen are, left to rig...
		Signed and sealed by Korean painter Lo Cok, this large early 20th century brush painting of three fishermen returning home with the day's catch is done in bold strokes of grey and fl ink on paper.
	www.fareastasianart.com /directory/Korean110.html (567 words)

	ART HISTORY RESOURCES ON THE WEB: Asian Art
		Asian Art in the collection of the Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas
		Korean Art (in the collection of The Asian Art Museum, San Francisco)
		Art of Newar Buddhism, Nepal (through The John C. and Susan L. Huntington Archive of Buddhist and Related Art)
	witcombe.sbc.edu /ARTHLinks3.html (796 words)

	Korean War Educator: Brief Facts - Gen MacArthur's Address to Congress
		The standard of living is so low and the capital accumulation has been so thoroughly dissipated by war that the masses are desperate and eager to follow any leadership which seems to promise the alleviation of woeful stringencies.
		This created a new war and an entirely new situation, a situation not contemplated when our forces were committed against the North Korean invaders; a situation which called for new decisions in the diplomatic sphere to permit the realistic adjustment of military strategy.
		The problem basically is theological and involves a spiritual recrudescence, and improvement of human character that will synchronize with our almost matchless advances in science, art, literature and all the material and cultural developments of the past 2,000 years.
	www.koreanwar-educator.org /topics/brief/p_macarthur_speech.htm (2592 words)

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		To achieve this goal, first and second year students are required to take courses mostly on liberal education and elementary oriental painting techniques, and in their third and fourth years, they are allowed to take up their major field of study and advanced techniques.
		Finally, students of history of art and architecture are encouraged to take full advantage of the University's course offerings in the humanities and social sciences and the rich intellectual and cultural life of the campus at large.
		From May 18 to June 2, 1999, she attended a conference on "Rethinking Confucianism at the End of the Twentieth Century" organized by the Center for Chinese Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles.
	www.lycos.com /info/korean-art--students.html (587 words)

	Images of Dissent: Transformations in Korean Minjung Art
		While the North is usually cast in Minjung art as a romanticized, beloved brother, the US is held responsible for the country's unfortunate division, the Kwangju Massacre, and the existence of the subsequent Southern regimes to which it had provided aid.
		While populist simplifications may be inevitable in political art, they are naturally more appealing in a climate of severe political or sociopolitical repression than in a pluralist society with far fewer direct forms of repression, a more complex power structure, and increasingly less obvious solutions to sociopolitical problems.
		Recent trends in art and music suggest that Koreans have finally begun to revise their sense of Korea's geopolitical situation and of the relationship between the countryside and the capital.
	koreaweb.ws /minjungart (2943 words)

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		Korean art has been mainly investigated in terms of its stylistic evolution.
		These includes issues that are not discussed in modern "martial arts" circles, but are very much a part of what the military and nations have to consider when wrestling with the subject.
		The Korean Art of Self-Defence, Hapkido, is considered a "soft" style of Martial Art, in contrast to the "hard" styles that practice the use of brute force-against-force, resulting in size and strength domination.
	lycos.cs.cmu.edu /info/korean-art--paintings.html (498 words)

	Harvard University Press \| Anthropology and Archaeology
		This is the story of this momentous period--one in which a seemingly minor alteration in temperature could presage anything from the spread of lush woodland to the coming of apocalyptic floods--and one in which we find the origins of civilization itself.
		Collectively, the volume counters the static view of the Korean Confucian state and elucidates its relationship to the wider Confucian community and religious groups.
		The result is an elegant assimilation of vast historical detail and a fully illustrated tour of the art and artifacts, the grand palaces and tombs, the mythical heroes, and the Trojan treasures that form at least one cradle of our own civilization.
	www.hup.harvard.edu /books/anthropology.html (6445 words)

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