This blog is to keep track of my writing (from Oct. '14 onward), saving tips and tricks I find, little rants or raves, and so on. If you don't like it, kindly leave. I am a fangirl and reviewer, so do tend to post on that note as well.
I
haven't been into my Korean culture lately, and though what I'm about
to discuss is something from 2013, it still piqued my interest. I was
looking through blog posts (half for research, half for my usual
curiosity), when I come across a post discussing names; it talked
about how to understand even the weirdest of Korean names. An example
is: A girl named “Mae-i-ra” which means “echo” in Hanja
form; Hanja form and meaning is very common for Koreans and sometimes
– like us Westerners – the Hanja is total bullshit. But that's
okay! This one wasn't, but the author gave it directly as an example
of “more than three syllable names”.
So,
after that, he discussed the romanization of Korean names. In Western
culture, we put the surname last, compared to Koreans. They discussed
two popular Korean actors over here: Yujin Kim and Daniel Dae Kim. Of
course, I understand how they might want to familiarize Korean names
to the Western society by placing their surnames first (we would call
them by their surnames otherwise... that's how dumb we can be without
proper knowledge).
But
upon reading romanization and whatnot, there was an interesting
director he talked about and showed a very intersting poster. Turns
out, it was from a film festival held in 2013. The topic? Something
so damn interesting that I had to research! How can you ignore it?
So,
here's what I found out after looking up everything revolving around
the topic given through the movie; Jeju Uprising/Jeju Massacre. This
was an uprising on the Jeju islands, off the coast of Korea. Now,
most people see Jeju Island as one of two things – a
resort/vacation spot, or the weird culture split from Korea. I only
say that because during my early studies of Korea, I saw a lot of
talk over how even Koreans say Jeju is very different on terms of
Korean stuff. The place has its specific language accent and are a
bit odd compared from mainlanders. Understandable. But I have always
found Jeju intriguing, despite the strange aura it radiates.
Back
to the Uprising; it was a rebellion in Jeju during 1948 up until May
of 1949. It had followed the elections that were held only in South
Korea, by national police employed by the US military. Between 14k
and 30k civilians were killed fighting between the factions; many
places were destroyed on the island as well. It also said that it
took nearly 60 years for the Korean government to verbalize an
apology in 2006, and, reparations were promised but still not given
as of the turn of 2010.
Japan
occupied Korea for 35 years and during the time between WWI and WWII,
Japan surrendered, moving out of Korea in '45; then Korea was divided
and still hasn't come back together, no matter the terms. That's a
brief history. Now, what happened was that in '47, Jeju Koreans went
against the election that was started by who was mainly in rule of
South Korea: my home of the US, but under the flag of the United
Nations. They wanted to separate a southern regime and to “employ
its first preseident Syngman Rhee”. Police fired and things started
up in an uprising. With the shooting that killed six Koreans, the
people of Jeju (calling themselves Jeju chapter of the
South Korean Labor Party)
attacked up to 12 police stations and things went to a chaotic state.
Now, one fact that stood out to me what the fact that after Syngman
Rhee declared martial law, an account was given from the time that
South Korean soldiers that were sent to fight back against their own
on Jeju Island had assaulted villages and took away young men and
girls (reminds me of the Holocaust – is that odd?). The young men
were executed and the girls were, too, after they had been
gangraped over two weeks. Now,
there were officially 39, 285 homes demolished and destroyed mainly
near Halla Mountains. Of the 400 villages, only 170 remain. People of
this time even hid, which spurred the movie and idea of “Jiseul”.
In
October of 2003, President Roh Moohyun apologized, stating, “Due to
wrongful decisions of the government, many innocent people of Jeju
suffered many casualties and destruction of their homes. To those
people who died innocently, I pay respect and pray for their souls.”
It was the first official apology since 1948 and for the 1948
massacre.
Fast
forward to the Korean War. After all that happened during this time,
there were thousands detained on Jeju, sadly enough. They were
separated and labeled from A to D, in groups. In 1950, a written
order by a senior intelligence officer in the South Korean Navy
instructed Jeju's police to “executre all those in groups C and D
by firing squad no later than September 6.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jiseul Jiseul was originally made in 2012 over this dramatic uprising
and what happened during this struggling time of the people on Jeju.
The director is a Jeju Island native, going by O Muel, which, in
Korean, is pronounced “Oh Myuhl”. Fun fact: the cast is actually
made up of local actors speaking in their native (and pretty
different) dialect. “Jiseul” means “potato” in Jeju dialect.
O Muel chose it because “potatoes are considered a staple food in
many countries, often symbolizing survival and hope.”
The
amazing thing about this movie is that this isn't over the entire
uprising, but over a forgotten tale of a group of villagers that hid
within a cave for 60 days to escape the military attacks. This movie
won 3 awards – CGV Movie Collage Award, the Director's Guild of
Korea Award for Best Director, and the NETPAC Jury Award. It also
won an outstanding World Cinema Dramatic Grand Jury Prize at the 2013
Sundance Film Festival.
I
haven't been into my Korean culture lately, and though what I'm about
to discuss is something from 2013, it still piqued my interest. I was
looking through blog posts (half for research, half for my usual
curiosity), when I come across a post discussing names; it talked
about how to understand even the weirdest of Korean names. An example
is: A girl named “Mae-i-ra” which means “echo” in Hanja
form; Hanja form and meaning is very common for Koreans and sometimes
– like us Westerners – the Hanja is total bullshit. But that's
okay! This one wasn't, but the author gave it directly as an example
of “more than three syllable names”.
So,
after that, he discussed the romanization of Korean names. In Western
culture, we put the surname last, compared to Koreans. They discussed
two popular Korean actors over here: Yujin Kim and Daniel Dae Kim. Of
course, I understand how they might want to familiarize Korean names
to the Western society by placing their surnames first (we would call
them by their surnames otherwise... that's how dumb we can be without
proper knowledge).
But
upon reading romanization and whatnot, there was an interesting
director he talked about and showed a very intersting poster. Turns
out, it was from a film festival held in 2013. The topic? Something
so damn interesting that I had to research! How can you ignore it?
So,
here's what I found out after looking up everything revolving around
the topic given through the movie; Jeju Uprising/Jeju Massacre. This
was an uprising on the Jeju islands, off the coast of Korea. Now,
most people see Jeju Island as one of two things – a
resort/vacation spot, or the weird culture split from Korea. I only
say that because during my early studies of Korea, I saw a lot of
talk over how even Koreans say Jeju is very different on terms of
Korean stuff. The place has its specific language accent and are a
bit odd compared from mainlanders. Understandable. But I have always
found Jeju intriguing, despite the strange aura it radiates.
Back
to the Uprising; it was a rebellion in Jeju during 1948 up until May
of 1949. It had followed the elections that were held only in South
Korea, by national police employed by the US military. Between 14k
and 30k civilians were killed fighting between the factions; many
places were destroyed on the island as well. It also said that it
took nearly 60 years for the Korean government to verbalize an
apology in 2006, and, reparations were promised but still not given
as of the turn of 2010.
Japan
occupied Korea for 35 years and during the time between WWI and WWII,
Japan surrendered, moving out of Korea in '45; then Korea was divided
and still hasn't come back together, no matter the terms. That's a
brief history. Now, what happened was that in '47, Jeju Koreans went
against the election that was started by who was mainly in rule of
South Korea: my home of the US, but under the flag of the United
Nations. They wanted to separate a southern regime and to “employ
its first preseident Syngman Rhee”. Police fired and things started
up in an uprising. With the shooting that killed six Koreans, the
people of Jeju (calling themselves Jeju chapter of the
South Korean Labor Party)
attacked up to 12 police stations and things went to a chaotic state.
Now, one fact that stood out to me what the fact that after Syngman
Rhee declared martial law, an account was given from the time that
South Korean soldiers that were sent to fight back against their own
on Jeju Island had assaulted villages and took away young men and
girls (reminds me of the Holocaust – is that odd?). The young men
were executed and the girls were, too, after they had been
gangraped over two weeks. Now,
there were officially 39, 285 homes demolished and destroyed mainly
near Halla Mountains. Of the 400 villages, only 170 remain. People of
this time even hid, which spurred the movie and idea of “Jiseul”.
In
October of 2003, President Roh Moohyun apologized, stating, “Due to
wrongful decisions of the government, many innocent people of Jeju
suffered many casualties and destruction of their homes. To those
people who died innocently, I pay respect and pray for their souls.”
It was the first official apology since 1948 and for the 1948
massacre.
Fast
forward to the Korean War. After all that happened during this time,
there were thousands detained on Jeju, sadly enough. They were
separated and labeled from A to D, in groups. In 1950, a written
order by a senior intelligence officer in the South Korean Navy
instructed Jeju's police to “executre all those in groups C and D
by firing squad no later than September 6.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jiseul Jiseul was originally made in 2012 over this dramatic uprising
and what happened during this struggling time of the people on Jeju.
The director is a Jeju Island native, going by O Muel, which, in
Korean, is pronounced “Oh Myuhl”. Fun fact: the cast is actually
made up of local actors speaking in their native (and pretty
different) dialect. “Jiseul” means “potato” in Jeju dialect.
O Muel chose it because “potatoes are considered a staple food in
many countries, often symbolizing survival and hope.”
The
amazing thing about this movie is that this isn't over the entire
uprising, but over a forgotten tale of a group of villagers that hid
within a cave for 60 days to escape the military attacks. This movie
won 3 awards – CGV Movie Collage Award, the Director's Guild of
Korea Award for Best Director, and the NETPAC Jury Award. It also
won an outstanding World Cinema Dramatic Grand Jury Prize at the 2013
Sundance Film Festival.
Name: Zoe Patterson
Known as: Cat Lady - jk! KissDromeda, KissDromedaGirl, Juliane (rp), Hyunchul 현철(rp), Sohee/소희.
Age: Nearly two decades old!
Lives at: Tumblr, AFF, blogspot, Twitter, and currently Evexia.
Country: USA
Favorite Colors: Pastels, Lilac, lavender, any shade of purple basically, white, silver, black, any shade of gray (however, Christian Grey isn't one), clear, any shade of blue, teal, coral, salmon.
Language: English (native), Korean (good enough), Spanish (good enough), intros in Italian, Japanese, Greek, and tagalog.
Hobbies: Writing (ofc), browsing the web, taking care of my cats, drawing, thinking up ideas, playing either Sims or Star Wars, reading, reviewing, dancing, singing, composing.
Favorite Quote: "If you believe in yourself, you're unstoppable."
Likes:
♥ Cats [this is a cat basecode so ofc this is here]
♥ Anything artistic
♥ Korean stuff, and many more cultures, too. I wanted to be an Egyptologist.
♥ Rapping and dancing; composing or choreographing
♥ Tumblr, Twitter, ifunny, etc.
Dislikes:
✖ Haters and fakers
✖ anxiety and depression [suffering from both]
✖ dealing with a lot of stress
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