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

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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Performative Re-mediations of Tradition: Korean Singing-Storytelling Pansori in the Movie Seopyeonje and its Stage Adaptations (#CLAM2021 Online Conference Paper)

This has been some time in the making: In the following you find some resources – basic infos, videos, literature, and other links – for my presentation on Seopyeonje, a movie about pansori, and related stage adaptations, to be presented … Continue reading

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Things I learned at #AAS 2017, part3 (Saturday, 18 March + Sunday, 19 March)

This year’s conference of the Association for Asian Studies (AAS) in Toronto (March 16–19), the first one I ever attended, was enormous. Still overwhelmed by the experience, I publish some of my notes on the various panels I attended and … Continue reading

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Ten Years Hamlet the Musical

Today, on Buddha’s Birthday, I walked past some posters for this year’s revival, the 10th anniversary of the Korean production (see here for details), nonetheless, in a tunnel in Yeonnam-dong, a gentrifying neighborhood known for its increasing density of artistic … Continue reading

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Sängerkrieg in Seoul

When I grabbed the free paper “City” on my way down to the subway, I did not expect more than a bit of distraction. Instead I ran across two pieces on upcoming musicals that seem to be worth a watch: … Continue reading

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