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Love Everywhere? A Short Talk about “Chunhyang on Page, Stage, and Screen”

Posted on 31 May 2022 by Jan Creutzenberg

I was invited to talk a bit about the story of Chunhyang (춘향 春香, meaning “scent of spring”), a well-known Korean folk tale about a girl and her love to a boy, against social expectations. Sometimes called the Korean version … Continue reading →

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Playing Pansori Post-Corona: Two Old Stories Told in New, Traditional Ways

Posted on 31 May 2021 by Jan Creutzenberg

During the long last months, I’ve seen some online #Coronastreams of pansori. Interesting new stories, good music, inspired performances and visual experiments. Here are some screenshots: But what can I say? It’s just not the same… To me, these videos, … Continue reading →

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Drama, Theatre, and the Korean Shakespeare

Posted on 26 January 2014 by Jan Creutzenberg

Last Christmas, Charles Montgomery of the blog “Korean Literature in Translation” wrote a short but thought-provoking post on the role of drama (i.e. dramatic literature) in Korea. Referencing a paper by Chan E. Park (EDIT: titled “Korean Drama in Search … Continue reading →

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Mother Courage and Her Scholars, part2

Posted on 30 October 2010 by Jan Creutzenberg

I had bought two second hand books on Brecht a while ago. Rhie Won-Yang’s Studies on Brecht (1984), discussed last time, is a mass-produced paperback (as far as academic literature is mass-produced), designed for students all around the country, and … Continue reading →

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Mother Courage and Her Scholars: A Chronicle from the Cold War

Posted on 10 October 2010 by Jan Creutzenberg

When passing a second hand bookshop in Hongdae, I could not resist. The owner told me that books on theatre were scarce, still I made a bargain: For the price of a large blueberry yoghurt flatccino I got two volumes … Continue reading →

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A Hundred Days of Solitude

Posted on 6 October 2010 by Jan Creutzenberg

It was at night time in the courtyard of my home, when I noticed it. The blissful crying of the maemi (매미) had been replaced by the more snarly cirping of their grasshopper cousins. Sunny days and sultry nights are … Continue reading →

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