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North Korea issued a lengthy rebuttal on Tuesday of the report of an international investigation that concluded that it had torpedoed a South Korean warship, the Cheonan, in March, in an attack that killed 46 sailors. The National Defense Commission published a statement accusing the international investigation, which South Korea led and the United States [...]
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October 22nd Adult Gathering

As many of you know, PBS’s P.O.V. has been airing and streaming for free on their website some remarkable documentaries on adoption.

Two of these documentaries are by filmmaker and Korean adoptee, Deann Borshay Liem. Please join us for a group viewing of her first documentary, “First Person Plural,” an intensely personal and moving film that chronicles Borshay’s efforts to reconcile her life as the adopted daughter of a loving American family with her previously unknown life in Korea. After the film, we will have a group discussion.

When: Friday, Oct. 22, 2010 starting at 6:30 p.m.
Where: Amy Kasper’s, 2106 Sheridan Dr., Madison

Appetizers, soda, beer, wine and other beverages will be served.

To RSVP, please go to:

http://ftkamadison.wufoo.com/forms/ftka-showing-of-first-person-plural-and-discussion/

If you can’t make it, please note that “First Person Plural”, which first debuted on P.O.V. in 2000, is available for free online until Nov. 20, 2010 at:

http://www.pbs.org/pov/firstpersonplural/watch.php

Borshay’s second documentary, “In the Matter of Cha Jung Hee” is also available online, but ONLY until Oct. 15, 2010 at:

http://www.pbs.org/pov/chajunghee/watch.php

Also, a few reminders:

Last Friday of the Month Noodles – 9/24

Our September “Friday at Noodles” will be at the University Avenue Noodles on September 24th. We will be meeting in the side room at Noodles on University Ave at around 11:15 am. Please join us with or without kids.

Dad’s Night Out – 9/28

The next Dad’s night out gathering is on Tuesday, Sept. 28 at 7 pm at the Vintage Brewery on Whitney Way. The Vintage is in the space where the old JT Whitney’s was located at the corner of Whitney Way and Odana Rd. If you can make it, please reply to John at sirren@tds.net so he has a rough idea of who all is able to come. However, if things free up for you at the last minute please come on down. We are hopeful to get as many Dad’s involved as possible.

Chusok – 10/16

Please RSVP for Chusok at:

http://ftkamadison.wufoo.com/forms/ftka-madison-chusok-celebration/

Families Through Korean Adoption (Madison)

Congratulations to user khimhongki for correctly guessing the previous Voice Snippets game with Fahrenheit’s Wu Chun. Voice Snippets is a blog game in which you listen to a voice snippet and post your guess of who the voice belongs to. The first person to guess correctly will receive 100 EXP …
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Today allkpop offered a couple of posts of particular interest.

First up, Vanilla Lucy taking on 에구구구, the main track off Yozoh‘s Traveler album: Vanilla Lucy teases cover of Yozoh’s “Ehgoogoogoo”

allkpop also found the tracklist for rapper Outsider‘s upcoming album: Outsider releases impressive tracklist for 3rd album.

Among the many tracks one can find Go Go Sing featuring Whale and 롤러코스터 featuring PIA‘s Yohan. The album title is 주인공 and it’ll be out on October 14.

Indieful ROK

The match ended with Korea winning 5-4 on a penalty shoot out after the game ended 3-3 in regular time. It’s the first world championship for any Korean soccer team ever!

(be patient for the clips to load…there are advertisements first)

Related news articles:

http://www.koreaherald.com/sports/Detail.jsp?newsMLId=20100926000334
http://english.yonhapnews.co.kr/culturesports/2010/09/26/56/0702000000AEN20100926001200315F.HTML

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Korea’s remake of John Woo‘s quintessential gangster drama ‘A Better Tomorow’ has been invited for a special out-of-competition screening at the 2010 Venice Film Festival. Directed by SONG Hae-sung (Failan, Maundy Thursday) and starring four major male stars, the film will be released in Korea on September 16.

The original 1986 production set the bench mark for Hong Kong noir style films and helped break Hong Kong films into the international arena. In addition, Hong Kong films are thought to have directly inspired Korean films such as Shiri (1999) the North Korean spy gangster thriller which itself spawned a whole succession of films. Remaking A Better Tomorow then takes the Korean film industry in a full circle. There is so much confidence in the project that even the director of the original Hong Kong film, John Woo, is a producer on the Korean remake.

It has been said of the original A Better Tomorow that it changed the Hong Kong film industry forever. Part of the reason for this may have been the casting of iconic Hong Kong actors Leslie Cheung and Chow Yun Fat. Taking the lead roles in the Korean production are (Ha Ha Ha 2010, Marine Boy 2009), KIM Kang-wooJOO Jin-mo (A Frozen Flower 2008, 200 Pounds Beauty 2006), JO Han-seon (Attack the Gas Station 2 2009, Cruel Winter Blues 2006) and SONG Seung-heon (Fate 2008). The film has secured a coup in casting these four ‘it’ actors already creating a substantial buzz around the production of the remake. JOO plays the boss of the gang involved in shady deals who has lost contact with his young brother Cheol, played by KIM who has now become a police officer. Cheol of course thinking he was originally abandoned by his brother is out for blood, which all leads to the familiar themes of betrayal and honor, and a tragic climax.

source: KOFIC

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Born in 1900, Lee’s aristocratic Christian family fled Korea in 1905, fearful of the plight of their famiy with Japan’s growing political influence and imminent colonial takeover. Her family were among the earliest emigres to California and her father was reduced to an agricultural laborer. They faced harsh living conditions and always mistaken for Japanese or Chinese because of U.S. ignorance
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Reason # 5 — ULSSU

We are so excited about our upcoming Chusok celebration on Saturday, Oct. 16 from 4:00 p.m. – 6:30 p.m., and are planning lots of wonderful activities for it.  This year we are honored that the UW Korean Drumming Group Ulssu will be back to perform for us.



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We left Gatlinburg and drove the three and half hours to Duluth, GA.  Duluth is about fifty miles outside of Atlanta.  We had heard good things about the H-Mart there and we were not disappointed.  We spent an hour walking the aisles and were impressed with the selection of great Korean products!  We spent way more than we needed but did end up picking up a new portable grill and a few other home-ware items.

Ahhhhh Kimchi~!

We spent a lot of time here~!

Both images above via H Mart’s website

We bought a couple of buckets of kimchi and enough Korean cabbage for JJ to make her own as well. If you live in the South and have ever asked yourself “Where do I buy kimchi?”, then this is the place for you.  We bought 부추김치(leek),전라도식 포기김치(Jolado style),오이김치(Cucumber),포기김치(regular kimchi).  We also bought a few packages of Samgyeopsal (pork belly), a bunch of ramyeon, and even a couple bottles of makoli.

We got home around 8P.M. but still wanted to test our new grill!

Nothing like pork belly! Too bad I ran out of soju.

JJ got to work soon after dinner and made a batch of 겉절이  kimchi.  After tasting hers and the store made kimchi, I wish that we would have bought more cabbage so that she could have made more.

Washing and salting the cabbage

I am sure that it won’t take too long for us to be ready for a trip back to Duluth. Next time I want to spend the night in the area and hit up a tuna sushi restaurant and a singing room.

Mississippi to Korea

The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) will have a lot to gain if it joins the international community, South Korean President said Wednesday, urging changes in the country. “North Korea (DPRK) is practically a poor country, and it’ll get help if it joins the international community,” President Lee Myung-bak told reporters in a press [...]
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