List of RAS Korea Meetings (1958-2000)

1958- May 1959 Meetings

Meetings were resumed in September after the summer recess, the series beginning with the paper on “The American Role in Opening Korea to the West, 1850~1895,” by Mr. Donald S. MacDonald, which appears in this volume. In the absence of the author, who had already returned to the United States, his paper was read for him. This meeting was held in the Seoul Chamber of Commerce building.

In October Mr. Wever Gim spoke on “Some Aspects of the Prejudice Against Cholla People.” The November meeting heard a talk by Mrs. George Munson on Korean shells, during which she displayed examples from her collection.

In December Professor Rho Joon-hi, of Songgyun-gwan University, spoke on Korean trees; after this talk Mr. Lee Yong-no, of the College of Pharmacy, Ewha Womens’ University, showed his collections of slides of Korean trees and flora.

The first meeting of 1959 was on 7th January, at Korea House, and on this occasion Dr. Lee Young-ha, of Seoul National University, spoke on “The State of Korean Literature at the Present Time.”

In February Mr. Gregory Henderson presented his paper, printed in this volume, on “The History of the Chŏng Dong Area and the American Embassy Compound.” The interest of this paper was greatly enhanced by being read in the American Embassy residence itself, and the meeting attracted a record attendance of over two hundred.

The March meeting again reverted to Korea House, and heard two talks. First, Dr. and Mrs. Esson M. Gale spoke on “The early foreign community in Seoul, and their residences.” This was illustrated by original photograph projections. Mr. William E. Henthorn then read a paper on “The Rebellion of the Sam Pyŏl Cho,” an incident of the Koryo period at the time of the Mongol invasion.

In April, Mr. Wilbur D. Bacon, author of the paper on the Royal Tombs of the Yi Dynasty published in Volume XXXIII of the Transactions, read a paper on “Fortresses of Kyonggi Do.” This was illustrated by coloured slides.

The May meeting heard Mrs. Ellen Conant speak on “Modern Oriental Painting.” Her talk also was illustrated by excellent slides.

1960 Meetings

January 6: Dr Glenn Paiere, of USOM, Minnesota Group; “Oriental Studies in the Soviet Union”
February 3: Professor George Rainer, of Seoul National University: “The Chinese Book of Songs”
March 2: Mr Chester Fennell, of Civilian Personnel, 8th Army: “Korean Birds”
April 6: Associate Professor Kim Chin-man, Chairman of the English Depertment of the Songgyun-gwan University: “History of the Songgyungwan”
May 4: Dr Kim Che-won，Director of the National Museum: “Excavation on the Site of Kamunsa.” (感恩寺) This lecture was illustrated with coloured slides,
June 8: Mr Alan C. Hey man, an authority on Korean folk music, assisted by Professor Chi Yong-hi, Prof essor of the Korean Folk Music Arts School: “An Introduction to Korean Folk Music.” The lecture was followed by an excellent programme.
July 13: Dr John King Fairbanks Henry Lee Higginson Professor of History, Harvard: “An Historian Looks at Modern China.” A reception and dinner for Dr Fairbank preceded the lecture.
August 3: Dr Edward Wagner, of the Harvard-Yenching Institute: “The Political Structure of the Early Yi Dynasty”
September 7: Dr David Chung, member of the Faculty of Kon-guk University: “The Three Religions Are One Principle”
October 6: Dr Edwin Reischauer, Director of the Harvard Yenching Institute: “Korean History as Part of World History.” A reception and dinner preceded the lecture.
November 2nd Mr Han Kap-su, one of the Directors of the Han’gul Society: “The History of Han’gul and its Movement”
December 7th The Revd Edward Poitras, of the Methodist Mission: “Japanese Agricultural Policy in Korea During the Period of Annexation.”

1961 Meetings

January 18: Dr Fritz Vos, of the University of Leyden: “Some Aspects of the Yi (Dynasty) Novel.”
February 8: The Reverend Richard Rutt, of the Anglican Mission: “Kim Sakkat, the Itinerant Poet.”
March 8: Mr. Peter Smart, of the British Embassy, read a paper prepared by Miss Jean Gates entitled “Tangun.”
April 12: Dr. Kim Chong-hak, of Korea University: “The Excavation of a Shell Mound near Ungch’on (Kyong-sang Namdo,) illustrated with slides. After the lecture two short movies were shown, “Korean Homes,”and the OPI film of the April 1960 demonstrations.
May 3: Dr. Samuel Martin, Associate Professor of Far Eastern Linguistics at Yale University: “The Korean Language as I See It.” A reception and dinner preceded the lecture.
June 28: Dr. Kim Hon-gyu, Professor of Zoology at Ehwa Women’s University: “Korean Butterflies,” illustrated with slides. After this lecture the charming water color paintings of Korean costumes by Mrs. Florence Hedelston Crane were displayed.
July 27: Dr. Yu Hyong-jin, Dean of the Liberal Arts and Sciences College of Sungmyong Women’s University: “Women’s Education in the Later Yi Period.”
August 9: Dr. Cho Ka-gyong, Professor of Philosophy of the Liberal Arts and Sciences College, Seoul National University: “Modern Philosophical Trends in Korea.”
September 13: Mr. Carl Miller, of the Research Department, Bank of Korea: “Korean Given Names.” A reception and dinner preceded this lecture honoring Mr. Pak T’ae-yong, Secretary of the Society, on the publication of his “A Korean Decameron.”
October 4: Mrs. Inez Kong Pai delivered a lecture on Si jo. Her talk included her own translations of many of these Korean classical poems.
November 1: The Reverend O Mun-hwan read the diary of the Reverend Calvin Wilson Mateer written on board the American ship “Shenandoah” at the time of an expedition to Korea in 1868， and compared this account with Korean records of the same incident.
December 6: The Reverend Richard Rutt read a paper prepared by Professor Kim Tong-uk, of Chungang University, entitled “Personal Adornments of the Yi Dynasty.” This was also the annual meeting at which the election of officers for the coming year took place and the General Report of the Council for the year 1961 was read.

For the January, February, March and October regular meetings, the National Medical Center very kindly allowed us to use its auditorium. All of the other regular meetings were held in the charming and authentic atmosphere of Korea House. The Society is indebted to the management and the staff of Korea House for the many services courteously afforded the Society. The Diplomat Club has continued its fine service in providing refreshments at the regular meetings.

Besides the twelve regular meetings in 1961, there were the following special meetings:

January 11: Miss Elizabeth Lyons, a specialist on Far Eastern Art, addressed the society on the art of Thailand.
February 1: The members and guests of the Society heard Mrs. Kurt Mattusch speak on “The City of the Yi.” This talk was preceded by an informal reception and dinner to give everyone an opportunity to say goodbye to Mr. and Mrs. Mattusch.
October 12: Dr. Vadim Elisseeff, General Director of City of Paris Museum, lectured on Buddhist art discoveries in the caves at Tunghua in Chinese Turkestan, of which he showed splendid color slides. A reception followed the lecture,
October 13: Immediately following dinner in the Dynasty room of the Bando Hotel (the Twelfth Restaurant Tour), Mrs. Agnes Davis Kim, author of the book “I Married a Korean,” recounted her experiences in Korea in the 1930’s. Before the dinner, Mrs Kim was honored at a reception in the lounge of the Bando Hotel.
November 3: The members of the Society had the opportunity of hearing Dr. Frank W. Schofield tell some of his experiences and observations in Korea at the time of the Independence Movement in 1919. This talk was preceded by a dinner (the Thirteenth Restaurant Tour) at the Choson Hotel.
November 22: Dr. Belle Boone Beard, a Fulbright professor and gerontologist, spoke on “Longevity and Problems it Creates in Korea” following dinner at Arirang House (the Fourteenth Restaurant Tour). A reseption before the dinner afforded an opportunity to meet Dr. Beard.

1962 Meetings

January 17: Mr Gregory Henderson, of the American Embassy, spoke on “The Pottery of the Early Yi Dynasty (Part I)” at Korea House.
February 21: Mr Gregory Henderson, of the American Embassy, spoke on “The Pottery of the Early Yi Dynasty (Part II)” at Korea House. These two very scholarly and interestng lectures were illustrated by excellent slides and examples from Mr Henderson’s collection. They have been printed as an article in Volume XXXIX of the Transactions.
March 14: Dr Kim Che-won, Director of the National Museum, spoke on “Silla Tombs and Recent Excavations” at the National Classical Music Institute.
April 4: The Rev Richard Rutt spoke on “Plum Blossoms in Temple Gardens: Problems of Koreanology”, at the National Classical Music Institute.
May 2: Dr Lee Sun-keun spoke on “Some Lesserknown Facts about Taewongun and his Foreign Policy”, at the National Classical Music Institute. This paper is published in Volume XXXIX of the Transactions.
June 13: Dr E. Beuchelt spoke on “The Popular Religion of Cheju-do”, at the National Classical Music Institute.
July 11: Dr Yi Ki-yong’s paper on “Wonhyo, the Great Monk of Silla” was read by Mr Peter Smart, of the British Embassy, at the National Classical Music Institute.
July 12: Following a reception and dinner in his honor, Dr L. Carrington Goodrich, professor of Chinese History at Columbia University, spoke on “Foreign Influences on Chinese Culture”, illustrated by slides.
September 12: Dr Pak Tong-so’s paper, “A Study of the Bureaucratic Structure in Korea” was read by Mr Stephen Whitwell of the British Embassy, at the National Classical Music Institute After the paper Mr Whitwell spoke briefly on the British Occupation of Port Hamilton.
October 10: Reception at the Seoul Club for Mademoiselle Madeleine David, Deputy Curator of the Musee Cernuschi, Paris, who afterward spoke on “The Identification of Ceramics”.
November 14: Mr Stephen Whitwell, of the British Em-bassy, spoke on “Britons in Korea” at the National Classical Music Institute.
December 12: His Excellency Monsieur Roger Chambard, French Ambassador, President of the Branch, spoke on “Chinese and Korean Buddhist Pilgrims in India”, at the National Classical Music Institute.

1964 Meetings

January 15: Mr. Robert A. Kinney gave “A Pictorial Journey Through Korea Prior to the Korean War.” His lecture was illustrated with slides taken during this period.
February 16: Mr. Michael Pike, British Embassy, read a paper entitled “Policy on Chinese Characters in Korea.” prepared by Professor Lee Eung- baek of the College of Education, Seoul National University.
March 14: Mr. John N. Somerville, Presbyterian minister, spoke on “The Hansong Sunbo: The First Chapter in the Development of Korean Press Freedom.”
April 15: Professor Hahm Pyong-choon of Yonsei University spoke on “The Legal Status of Concubines and Their Descendants during the Yi Dynasty.”
May 27: Mr. Yi Ku, son of the former Crown Prince of Korea, Yi Eun, spoke on “Korean Architecture.”
June 10: Dr. Paul Ryu, Dean of the Law School of Seoul National University, spoke on “Legal Education in Korea.”
July 8: Dr. Felix Moos, in Korea with the Department of Defense of the United States, spoke on “Acculturation in Korea Since 1945.”

September 16: Professer Han Pae-ho of Chungang Univ-ersity spoke on “A Study of Political Decision Making in Korea, with Special Reference to the Case of the Kyonghyang Shinmun.”
October 21: Mr. G.St. G. M. Gompertz, compiler of the Society’s Transactions, Volume 40, and noted author of several books on Korean ceramics, spoke on “Ceramic History of the Yi Period.”
November 18: Dr. Felix Moos again spoke to the Society, this time on “Elder Pak’s Church in Korea.”
December 16: For the final monthly meeting of 1964, Mr. Yun Tae-rim, Professor at Seoul National University, spoke on “Korean Character.” At this meeting, the election of officers for the coming year was held and the report of the treasurer was given.

1967 Meetings

The dates of 1967 meetings and special programs, the speakers, their subjects and places of meeting were as follows:

11 January (Wednesday): Annual RAS Meeting, Electionof 1967 officers. NMG
1 February (Wednesday): Panel Discussion(Dr. Chung Bom-mo, Prof. Hong Sung-chick, Prof. Kim Kyu-taik, David Steinberg) “Problems of Political Socialization in Korea.” NMC
22 February (Wednesday): Mr. Frank P. Baldwin “The Korean Independence Movement.”NMC
5 March (Wednesday): Dr. Han Tae-dong “The Diamond Sutra—A Search for Enlightenment.” NMC
29 March (Wednesday): Dr. Daniel Lee “Some Problems in the Economic Development of Korea.” NMC
19 April (Wednesday): Mr. Kevin O’Donnell “The Peace Corps in Korea.” NMC
3 May (Wednesday): Mr. Choo Yo-han “Korea’s Economic Strategy for the Next Two Decades.” NMC
17 May (Wednesday): Dr. David Chung “Matthew Ricci and His Influence on Korea.” YMCA
24 May (Wednesday): Prof. J. Chester Cheng “Communism and China.” NMC
24 June (Wednesday): Mr. Lane E. Holdcroft “Progress in Agricultural Development in Korea.” NMC
28 June (Wednesday): Dr. Donald Frantz, Jr. “Impressions of Korean Culture and the Korean People Through Poetry.” NMC
30 August (Wednesday): Mr. Boris Kazimiroff “A Visit to Ceylon.” NMC
6 Sept. (Wednesday): Mr. Vipin Chandra “Indian Industrial Development.” NMC
21 Sept. (Thursday): Dr. Robert A. Scalapino “North Korea Today and the Communist Revolution in Asia.” YWCA
4 Oct. (Wednesday): Dr. Kim Ok-gill “Korean Women.” NMC
25 Oct. (Wednesday): Dr. Kim Che-won “Treasure from the Sakyamuni Pagoda at Pulguk-sa, Kyongju.” NMC
8 Nov. (Wednesday): Dr. Sohn Pow-key “A Prehistoric Excavation in Korea.” NMC
22 Nov. (Wednesday): Bishop Richard Rutt “Poetry of Chong Chol.” NMC
6 Dec. (Wednesday): Mr. Arthur Kinsler “Korean Shamanism.” NMC
13 Dec. (Wednesday): Annual Meeting and Concert by Mr. Hwang Byung-ki. NMC

1968 Meetings

The dates of the meetings, the speakers, and their subjects were as follows:

February 21 — Mr. John Bannigan “Neutralism in Cambodia and Laos”
March 6— Mr. Melvin P. McGovern “Specimen Pages of Korean Movable Types”
March 20— Dr. Joseph S. Chung “North Korea”
April 3— Dr. Song Ki-song “The Computer in Korea Today”
April 17— Prof. Paek Nak-chung “Creative Writing and Criticism”
May 1 — Movie Showing “Six Daughters” (Paltogangsan) (National Film Production Center)
May 8— Movie Showing “Six Daughters”
May 14— Mr. Humphrey Leynse “Movie on the Life of a Korean Family”
June 5— Special Movie Showing “Six Daughters”
June 19— Dr. Edward Wagner “The Ladder of Success in Traditional Korea”
July 3- Dr. Spencer J. Palmer “Korean-American Relations”
July 24— Dr. Moon Seung-kyu “Decision Making in American and Korean Rural Families”
August 14— Dr. Gari Ledyard “Korea Meets the Dutch”
September 18— Dr. Koh Hae-sung “Problems in Korean Research in the United States”
October 2— Dr. Lee Hahn-bin “A Study of Korean Public Administration, 1945―1968”
October 30— Prof. Hahm Pyong-choon “The Korean Political Tradition and Law”
November 13― Dr. Martina Deuchler “The Opening of the Ports of Inchon”
November 27— Mrs. Bonnie Crown “The Korean Tradition” (Seoul Club)
December 11― Prof. Pi Chon-duck “The Romantic Tradition in Korean Poetry”

During the year 1970 the Society held 21 meetings, including 13 with regular speakers; four panel discussions

1971 Meetings

Date – Event – Attendance

January 13: Korean Studies in the Soviet Union 200 (Staffan Rosen)
January 27: Tradition Korean Short Story 95 (Marshall Pihl)
February 10: Atmosphere and Content: 28th International 34 – Congress of Orientalists (Panel Discussion)
March 10: Two Images of Korean History 105 (Hugh Kang)
March 24: With the Korean Envoy to Peking,1712 270 (Richard Rutt)
April 14: Film “Six Daughters” with English Subtitles 150
May 12: Korea’s International Children: A Study of Mixed-race Children,Adoptions Incountry and Abroad,and Institutional Services (Helen Miller) 96
May 26: Wildlife Conservation in Korea (Michael Gore) 120
June 9: Life in Urban Korea (Lee Hyo-jae) 55
June 23: The Peace Corps and Korea (Donald Hess) 90
July 21: Puppet Show 110
August 25: Film “Around the World” with English Subtitles 110
September 15: Origins of the Korean Language (Lee Ki-mun) 115
September 29: Introduction to Korean Music (Alan Heyman) 170
October 13: Flowers and Plants of Korea (Lee Yong-ro) 95
October 27: Glimpse at Contemporary Korean Poetry (Park Tu-jin and Edward Poitras) 70
November 8: Korean Patterns in Perspective (Paul Crane) 350
November 24: Shamanism and Korean Culture (Zozayong) 150
December 8: Annual General Meeting, Political Problems Confronting Korea (Hahm Pyong-Choon) 130

1972 Meetings

Date – Event – Attendance

January 12: Film selections 270, 26 Reminiscences of the Burma Campaign in World War II and China after the Japanese Surrender in 1945 (Lt. Gen. William R. Peers) 190
February 16: Philosophy & Techniques of Yoga (Kim Hyonsu) 65
March 8: Traditional Poetry Criticism (Richard Rutt) 240
March 22: Goethe & Asia (Michael R. Engelhand) 65
April 5: Excavation of Paekche King Munyong’s Tomb (Prof. Kim Wonyong)140
April 26: Urban Problems in Korea (Gregory Pai) 92
May 17: Special Program for Buddha’s Birthday (Mrs. Dallas Hunter & Dr Harold F. Cook) 130
May 5: Korean Poetry (Richard Rutt; in Taegu) 70
May 31: Rural Migrants to Seoul (Dr Vincent S. R. Brandt) 240
June 7: Geography of the Republic of Korea (Dr Patricia Bartz) 105
June 15: Introduction to Korean Music (Alan Hey man; in Taegu) 76
June 21: Study of Foreign Influence (Donald S. Macdonald) 85
July 12: Film selection 75
July 26: James Scarth Gale & His History of the Korean People (Richard Rutt) 225
August 9: Twenty Years of Negotiations at Panmunjom (Prof. Roy U. T. Kim) 140
August 23: Haein-sa (Mr & Mrs Charles Lauster) 120
September 6: Experiences & Impressions while doing Research in Korea (George Yuan, Alexander Townsend, & Peter Bartholomew) 115
September 13: Turn of the Tide: 1950 Inchon Landing (Alan M. MacDougall) 85
September 14: Masked Dance Drama (In Taegu) 175
September 27: Indian & Korean Folk Music: Observations & Contrasts (Dr Rosetta Renshaw) 95
September 29: Garden Party & Unveiling of Memorial Stone for Min Yonghwan at French Embassy 250
October 11: Western Artist’s Approach to Calligraphy (Prof. Margaret Rigg) 80
October 25: Korean Character (Dr Edward W. Poitars) 160
November 15: Masked Dance Drama 350
November 16: America Comes to Korea: The Early Contacts (Dr Harold F. Cook; in Taegu) 20
November 29: Korean Shamanism (Dr Yu Tongshik) 105
December 6: Annual General Meeting; presentation of slides of Korea taken around 1900 (Dr Horace G. Underwood) 135

1973 Meetings

Date – Event A- ttendance

January 17: Korea’s Secret Cultural Mountain: Kyongju Soutn Mountain (Dr. Rhi Ki Yong) 100
January 31: Takamatsu Tomb Wall Paintings (Dr. Kim Chae Won) 125
February 14: The Ch’ao-hsien Fu; Song of Korea (Rt. Rev. Richard Rutt) 270
February 22: Korean Temple Bells (Taegu RAS) (Dr. Samuel H. Moffett)
February 28: Walter D. Townsend: Pioneer American Businessman in Korea (Dr Harold F. Cook) 180
March 14: Buddhist Purification Ceremony (Mr. Lee Byung-won―narrator) 350
March 22: Turn of the Tide: The 1950 Inchon Landing (Taegu RAS) (Mr. Alan M. MacDougall)
March 28: Modern Korean Poetry (Mr. Kim U-chang) 95
April 11: Life and Mores of Late Yi Dynasty Yangban (Mr. Peter Bartholomew) 160
April 12: Korea’s Secret Cultural Mountain: Kyongju South Mountain (Dr. Rhi Ki Yong) (Taegu RAS)
April 25: Pongsan Mask Dance Performance (Pongsan Mask Dance Group) 500
May 6: Carpentier Slide Collection (Taegu RAS) (Dr. Horace H. Underwood)
May 16: Internationalization of Korea Literature (Panel: Prof. Song Yo-in, Dr. H. H. Underwood and Rt. Rev. Richard Rutt) 77
May 30: Film “Happiness from Heaven” 95
June 13: Religions of Old Korea (Dr. Samuel H. Moffett) 175
June 27: Research on Korea: Continuity and Change in a Korean Village (Mr. Charles Goldberg) A New Look at Traditional Korean Law (Mr. William Shaw) 165
August 8: New Religions of Korea (Dr. H. Byron Earhart) 135
August 22: Film “This is Korea” 360
September 5: The Folkism Movement in Korea (Mr. Zozayong) 170
September 19: Research on Korea: Aestheticism of Silla Ceramics (Mrs. Barbara Russ Cho) & Manchu-Korean Relations in Early 17th century (Mr. Jules Horvath) 135
October 3: But Is It Korean? (Dr. Pae Yang Soe) 85
October 17: Han-Mi Nongak Dance Performance (Korean Farmers’ Band) 250
October 30: Pirate Incursions on the Korean Coasts during the Medieval Period (Mr. Robert Chudy) (Taegu RAS) 40
November 14: Tumulus 155—The New Silla Discoveries (Dr. Kim Won-yong) 150
November 15: The Tokkebi: Korean Gargoyle (Mr. Zozayong) (Taegu RAS) 56
November 28: Pongsan Mask Dance Performance (Pongsan Mask Dance Group) 250
December 12: New Look at Korea’s Foreign Policy (H.E. Hahm Pyong-choon) 160

1974 Meetings

Date – Event – Attendance

January 9: Pirate Incursions on the Korean Coast during the Medieval Period (Mr. Robert Chudy) 100
January 10: Buddhist Art (Taegu RAS) (Mr. Lee Musselwhite & Miss Carol Beecher) 37
January 23 Mr. Carpentier—a French Mining Engineer in Korea 1899-1902 (Ambassador Pierre Landy) 110
February 6: Slide Evening-RAS Armchair Tour (Mr. Paul Van Weddingen) 200
February 14: Korean Pottery Old and New (Taegu RAS) (Mr. Ron duBois & Mr. Lee Musselwhite) 60
February 20: Korean Temple Bells (Dr. Samuel H. Moffett) 150
March 5: Early Stone Age Excavations in Korea (Dr. Sohn Pow-Key) 120
March 14: Curvillier Slide Collection (Taegu RAS) (Dr. Samuel H. Moffett) 57
March 20: Some Korean Painters and Their Paintings (Mr. Graham Weakley) 125
April 3: Yi Kyubo and his White Cloud Essays (Rt. Rev. Richard Rutt) 250
April 11: Korean Folk Dance in a Cultural Context (Taegu RAS) (Mr. Kim Se-chung) 42
April 17: An Introduction to the Kayagum and other Korean Instruments (Ms. Coralie Rockwell) 70
May 8: Research on Korea—U.N.C.U.R.K. ( Mr. Norman Thorpe) & Research on Korea—Urban Migration (Mr. John Sloboda) 65
May 16: Korean Traditional Weddings 60 (Taegu RAS)
May 22: Curvillier Slides (Dr. Horace G. Underwood) 300
June 12: Some Aspects of 16th Century Korean Landscape Paintings (Dr. Ahn Hee Jun) 121
June 13: Some Korean Painters and their Paintings (Taegu RAS) (Mr. Graham Weakley) 30
June 26: Changes in Korean Family Life (Dr. Herbert Barringer) 100
July 10: Korea from a Helicopter-slide Evening (Chaplain Louie Walter) 130
July 24: The Kayagum and other Korean Musical Instruments (Mrs. Coralie Rockwell) 150
September 11: Buddhist Ceremony 150
September 19: Little Known Places Within Taegu City (Taegu RAS) (Mr. James Grayson) 31
September 25: Modern Korean Poetry (Prof. Kim Hai-hiun) 80
August 22: Film Evening—The Legacy of Korea, Land of Contrasts 160
October 9: Korean Buddhist Sculpture (Dr. Lena Kim Lee) 100
October 23: Korea Before and During the Korean War (Mr. Robert A. Kinney) 310
October 26: Hahoe Mask Dance Group 110 (Taegu RAS)
November 6: Research on Korea – Chinese Music in Sacrificial Rites (Mr. Robert Provine) & Research on Korea – Traditional Background to Early Modern Korean Verse (Mr. David McCann) 68
November 20: Life in Seoul Half a Century Ago (Dr. J. Earnest Fisher) 130
December 4: Slides of Korea from the Pre-1900 Period (Dr. Samuel H. Moffett) 160
December 5: Korean National Personality (Taegu RAS) (Dr. Lee Shi-hyung) 35
December 18: Annual Meeting, An Introduction to the Korean Drum (Mr. Kim Byong-sup and Mr. Gary Rector) 100

1976 Meetings

Date – Event – Attendance

January 7: Korean Buddhist Painting (Mr. Carl Strom) 180
January 21: Film evening — Treasures of Haeinsa 320
February 4: Farmers Dance Programme (Mr. Gary Rector & Mr. Kim Byung Sup) 140
February 18: Let’s re-do Hangul (Prof. Pae Yang Seo) 40
March 10: Korea’s 1946 Semi-Election: Too Little and Too Soon (Mr. Donald S. Macdonald) 84
March 24: Cranes and Conservation in Korea (Korean Council for Crane Preservation) 176
April 7: Contemporary Korea in the Light of the Traditional Value System ana World View (Mr. Michael Kalton) 100
April 21: Blood and Stone; the story of the Yi dynasty’s Foundation (Mr. Donald N. Clark) 76
May 12: Christian Beginnings in Korea (Dr. Samuel H. Moffett) 300
May 26: World Perceptions of Korea (Dr. Shannon B. McCune) 97
June 2: New Religions of Korea after 1850 (Dr. Gernot Prunner) 98
June 23: The Effects and Implications of the Japanese Cadastral Survey 1910-1918 (Mr. Edward J. Baker) 52
July 21: Trends in Interpretation of Korean Confucianism (Dr. James Palais) 70
August 18: Film evening — Treasures of Haeinsa 250
September 1: Art of Korean Furniture (Dr. Pai Man-sill and Dr. Edward R. Wright) 170
September 22: Early Korean Magazines and the Research for National Identity: 1910-1930 (Mr. Michael Robinson) 48
October 6: Slavery in the Kory6 Dynasty (Ms. Ellen Unruh) 60
October 20: Some Little Known Korean Ornamental Trees (Mr. Carl Miller) 63
November 3: Journey to Ullong-do (Mr. Cornelius Choy) 65
November 17: Korean Celadon (Mr. G.M. Gompertz) 158
December 1: Confucian Thought Forms (Dr. Han Tae Dong) 105
December 15: Film evening — Korea: the Unexplored Orient 96

1977 Meetings

Date – Event – Attendance

January 12: Kayagum Demonstration Lecture (Miss Cathy Shaffer) 150
January 26: Shamanism and Ecstasy (Dr. Arthur Kinsler) 100
February 9: Slide Lecture: “From Hongkong to Bonn by Train” (Dr. Karl Leuteritz) 400
February 23: Yuan Shih-k’ai (Dr. Arthur McTaggart) 66
March 9: Film Evening: “Anapchi Pond” and “Kimchi” 180
March 23: Slide Lecture: “Korean Wild Flowers” (Mrs. Jean Macdonald) 100
April 6: Slide Lecture: “Korean Funerals” (Mr. Norman Sibley) 340
April 20: Slide Lecture: “Korean Superstition and Remarkable Number Three” (Mr. John Hughston) 180
May 4: Korean Royal Symbols and Chinese Traditional Philosophy (Dr. Kim Yong-won) 186
May 18: Mask Dance Presentation: “Yangju P’yol Sandai Nori” (Miss Laurel Kendall) 286
June 8: Reflections on Traditional Korean Dance or Dionysus in Seoul (Miss Eleanor King) 180
June 22: The Influence of Religion on Oriental Art (Mr. John Gould) 86
July 20: Film Evening: “The Legacy” and “Koryo Ceramics” 160
August 17: Film Evening: “Gift of our Forefathers” and “Korean Genre Painter: Shin Yun Bok” 280
September 7: Slide Lecture: “Caught Between Ancestors & Spirit: A Korean Shaman’s Healing Kut” (Miss Laurel Kendall) 120
September 21: The Sonless Dilemma: An Inquiry into Adoption, Divorce & Concubinage Practices in Yi Dynasty Korea (Mr. Mark Peterson) 100
October 5: Zen and the Enlightenment Experience: An Intellectual Approach (Dr. Lee Chung-yong) 80
October 19: Traditional Korean Medicine and Modern Health Practices (Dr. Dorothea Sich) 200
November 2: Slide Lecture: “Traditional and Modern Forms of Cooperation in Rice Farming” (Mr. Edward Reed) 100
November 16: Political Implications of the “Songs of the Dragons” (Dr. James Hoyt) 60
November 30: Family Organization in Rural Korea (Mr. Ted Sorensen) 65
December 14: Slide Lecture: “Pictoral Journey Through Old Korea” (Mr. Robert A. Kinney)

1978 Meetings

Date – Event – Attendance

January 4: Film Evening: “Religions of Korea” and “Korean Dance” 30
January 18: Early Germans and Early Britons in Korea (Dr. H.J. Zaborowski & Mr. W. Morris) 75
February 1: Korean Birds inDanger (Dr. George Archibald) 65
February 15: The Buddhist Rag and His Art (Mr. Zozayong & Chung Kwang, “The Rag”) 200
March 8: Chinoui-kut: Shaman Death Ceremonies (Fr. Daniel Kister S. J.) 160
March 22: Korean Drum Rhythms (Mr. Gary Rector) 85
April 12: The Sinan Treasure (Dr. Kim Won Young) 110
April 26: The History and Practice of Acupuncture (Dr. Kang Sung-keel) 100
May 10: An Introduction to the Yangju Mask Dance (Dr. Lee Du-hyun) 120
May 24: The Land of the Rainbow: Color in Korea (Mr. Thomas B. Kass) 120
June 7: Kayagum Demonstration (Prof. Hwang Byung-ki) 120
June 21: Films by Humphrey Leynse: “The Legacy” and “Out There: A Lone Island” 130
August 23: Film Evening: “5000 Years of Korean Art” and “The Kayagum” 100
September 6: Jack London in Korea (Mr. James Wade) 70
September 20: Pictorial Journey Through Old Korea (Mr. Robert A. Kinney) 250
October 11: Neo-Confucianism: The Impulse for Social Action in Early Yi Dynasty Korea (Dr. Martina Deuchler) 90
October 25: Kinship System in Korea (Dr. Lee Kwang-kyoo) 70
November 8: Women in Korean Literature (Ms. Bonnie Crown) 95
November 22: Korean Art Treasures Taken by Hideyoshi to Japanese Soil (Dr. Jon Covell) 130
December 13: Korea’s Troubled Alliance with the Chinese During the Japanese Invasions of the 1590’s (Dr. Gari Ledyard) 85

1979 Seoul Meetings

Date – Event – Attendance

January 10: “Han Jung Nok, Princess Hong Hye-kyong’s Autobiography” (Mr. Bruce K, Grant) 70
January 24: Evil in Korean Folktales (Dr. Rhi Bou-young) 55
February 7: The Good and Bad and the Ugly: Personalities in the Founding of the Koryo Dynasty (Dr. G. Cameron Hurst, III) 70
February 21: The Korean Economy at a Cross-roads (Dr. Ung-suh “Kenneth” Park) 45
March 7: Antique Korean Embroidery (Mr. Huh Dong-wha, translated by Mr. Gary Rector) 60
March 21: The Korean Minority in Japan: A Sociological Analysis (Dr. Hong Sung-chick) 40
April 11: The Flora of Cheju-do (Mr. Carl F. Miller) 60
April 25: Korean and Japanese Ceramics (Dr. Hiroko Nishida) 60
May 9: Poems by Korean Children of City and Country (Miss Helen Tieszen, Mrs. Barbara Mintz, Dr. Kim Ho-soon and Mr. Gary Rector) 40
May 23: Korean Shamanism (Mr. Brian Wilson) 130
June 6: On the Making of a Gentleman: The Uses and Significance of Korean Lineage Organization (Mr. Fred Carrier) 35
June 20: Hachiju-hakka-sho, 88 temple Pilgrimage in Shikoku (William and Dorothy Middleton) 50
August 29: Highlights of the Korean War (Dr. Horace G. Underwood) 150
September 12: Pioneers of Korean-German Partnership (Dr. Karl Leuteritz) 60
September 26: Genealogy and Society in the Early Yi Dynasty (Dr. Edward Wagner) 70
October 10: Korean House and Shrine (Mr. Norman Sibley) 90
October 24: Kkok Tu Gak Si; Puppet show (Namsadang troup, introduced by Mrs. Margaret Moore) 140
November 7: The Killing of Paul Yuri: Western Religion and Eastern Ritual in 18th Century Korea (Mr. Donald Baker) 45
November 21: Won Hyo’s Theory of One Mind and Karl Jaspers’s Concept of God (Dr. Shin Ok-ki) 25
December 5: Western Reactions to the March 1 Movement of 1919 (Dr. Samuel H. Moffett) 90
December 19: Little Known Relics of the Yi Dynasty in Seoul (Mr. Peter Bartholomew) 80

1979 Taegu Meetings

February 21: Koreans I have Known (Dr. Father Egon Berger) 80
March 21: Art Treasures Taken to Japanese Soil by Hideyoshi (Dr. Jon C. Covell) 60
April 18: A Pictorial Journey Through Old Korea (Mr. Robert A. Kinney) 70
May 16: Zen Buddhism in Korea (Mr. Lynn Olson) 50
June 20: Lady Hong and the Story of the Coffin King (Mr. Bruce K. Grant) 60
September 19: House and Shrine (Mr. Norman Sibley) 60
October 18: Acupuncture Demonstration at Jae-Saeng Oriental Hospital (Dr. Byun Jung-hwan) 30
November 21: Reminiscent of the Korean War & the Armistice (Dr. Horace G. Underwood) 55
December 19: Archabbot Weber’ s 1925 Film of Korea (Dr. Father Egon Berger) 45

1980 Seoul Meetings

Date – Event – Attendance

January 9: Discovering the Art of Korea (Film) 160
January 23: A Motion Picture from the 1920’ (Fr. Egon Berger) 120
February 13: Preservation of Birds in the PRC and the USSR (Dr. George Archibald) 110
February 27: The Confucianization of the Korean Social Order: a look at 17th Century Korea (Mr. Mark Peterson) 130
March 12: History of Korean Typography before the time of Gutenberg (Dr. Canolyn K. Koh (Choo) 90
March 26: SOKJON-JAE, Confucian Ceremony at the Sung Kyun Kwan University (Ms. Barbara Mintz) 95
April 9: Yi Dynasty Court Costumes (Mrs, Audrey Grant) 75
April 23: The Life and Thought of Won Hyo (Dr. Shin Ok-Ki) 65
May 14: Equalization Society of of the 1920’s: Hyong-pyong-sa (Dr. William Shaw) 50
May 38: Cuvellier Collection Slides: Korea 1900-1905 (Dr. Horace G. Underwood) 80
June 11: Visual Impressions of Tan/Chong (Red/Blue) Painting (Mr. Thomas B. Kass) 95
June 25: Korea’s Cultural Roots (Dr. Jon C. Covell) 105
August 27: Kangnyong Mask Dance Drama (Performance) 400
September 10: Characteristics of Shamanism in Korea (Prof. Taegon Kim) 110
September 24: Korea’s Modern Art Song (Prof. Dorothy Underwood) 65
October 8: Early Korean Writing Systems (Mr. Adrian Buzo) 80
October 22: America Comes to Korea: The Early Contacts (Dr. Harold F. Cook) 105
November 12: King Sejong’s Life of the Buddha (Mr. Allard M. Olof) 60
November 26: Introduction to Buddhist Iconography (Ms. Greta Sibley) 75
December 10: A Survey of Korean Prehistoric Archaeology (Dr. Peter Kunkel) 85

1981 Seoul Meetings

Date – Event – Attendance

January 14: China: The Way We Saw It (Panel Discussion) (Ms. Mary Alice Ball, Mr. Ben Kremenak, Mr. John Lee & Mrs. Barbara Mintz) 210
January 28: The Socialization of a Monk (Mr. Bill Brehm) 140
February 11: The Validity of Korean Mask Dance Drama as Theatre of Participation (Dr. Kim Ho-Soon) 100
February 25: Blindness in Korea (Dr. Edwin R. Lewinson) 80
March 11: Local Gentlemen in Yi Dynasty Korea (Dr. Fujiya Kawashima) 100
March 25: An Introduction to Chu-yok (Mr. Gary Rector) 135
April 8: Lao Tzu and Nietzsche: Wanderer and Superman (Dr. Park Ynhui) 80
April 22: Korean Postage Stamps (Dr. Lyman Hale) 80
May 13: South Korea’s Changing Financial Sector (Mr. Norman Thorpe) 120
May 27: North Korea: Yesterday and Today 220 (Mr. Adrian Buzo) 220
June 10: Strong Men and Virtuous Women: Changing Sex Roles in Korea (Dr. Jack Balswick) 140
June 24: Indo-Korean Relations (Dr. Alka Gupta) 45
August 26: Mangu Taetak Kut/ So-No-Ri Kut (Shaman Ritual) (from Hwanghaedo Province) 350
September 9: Walter D. Townsend: Pioneer American Businessman in Korea (Dr. Harold F. Cook) 80
September 23: Legal Aid Center and the Korean Family Law (Mrs. Sonia Strawn) 80
October 14: Korean Attitudes toward Heterodox Confucianism (Dr. Martina Deuchler) 80
October 18: The Mudang Kut as Drama (Father Daniel Kister) 90
November 11: Neo-Confucian Revolution of Values in the Early Yi Dynasty—the Implications for Legal Thought (Dr. William Shaw) 80
November 25: Romanization of Korean: Do Armchair Linguists have the Answer? (Dr. Edward F. Klein) 180
December 9: Elements of Korean Dance (Mrs. Judy Van Zile) 100

1982 Seoul Meetings

Date – Event – Attendance

January 13: The Korea of 1900 (Dr. Horace G. Underwood) 200
January 27: Fact into Fiction: How One Writer Does It (Mr. Richard E. Kim) 170
February 10: Tibet: 1981 (Ms. Lori Clause) 180
February 24: The Hyun Chong Non: A Buddhist Response to Neo-Confucian Critiques (Mr. John Goulde) 70
Marh 10: Mu-ka: The Ritual Songs of the Korean Shamans (Mr. Alan Heyman) 90
March 24: Paul-Georg Moellendorf: Scholar and Statesman (Mr. Walter Leifer) 80
April 14: Development of Korean Advertising over the Past 100 Years (Mr. Shin In-sup) 90
April 28: Changing Patterns in American Diplomacy: Implications for Korean-American Relations (Amb. Richard L. Walker) 320
May 12: Korean Perception of America (Dr. Hahm Pyong-Choon) 90
May 26: Underwater Sojourn—A Fleeting Look (Capt. A. G. Sandy Amacher) 80
June 9: Aspects of Korean Folk Art: Based on the Collection of the Smithsonian Institution (Dr. Evelyn McCune) 100
June 23: A Naturalist in India (Mr. Terry Mills) 90
July 28: Film Showing of “The Story of the Double Red Gates” (Korea Motion Picture Promotion Corp.) 40
August 25: Traditional Royal Court Dance 200
September 8: Traditional Economy Under Pressure: The Late Yi Dynasty Economy and the Opening of Overseas Trade (Dr. Tony Michell) 80
September 22: Power from Our Afflictions: Korean Women and Infertility (Dr. Soon Young Yoon) 100
October 6: Film Showing of “The Story of a Shaman” (Korea Motion Picture Promotion Corp.) 50
October 13: Premiere Showing of Dr. Ryland Hill’s Two Films on Korea (16 mm) A) Village & Farm (45 min.), B) Palace & Pageant (45 min.) 15
October 27: American Missionaries and 100 Years of Korean Protestatism (Dr. David Kwang-sun Suh) 80
November 10: Squaring the Circle: Confessions of a Translator (Dr. Edward W. Poitras) 90
November 24: Psychiatric Treatment in Korean Culture (Dr. Sang-chan Paek, MD, Ph.D.) 85
December 8: A Western Painter Meets Korean Painting: The Spoken and the Unspoken in Pictures (Mr. William Simpson) 100

1983 Seoul Meetings

Date – Topic – Attendance

January 12: The Kims of Puan: A Case Study in the Disinheritance of Daughters (Mr. Mark Peterson) 150
January 26: Foot-mask Drama (Mr. Lee Dong-An) 180
February 9: The Life of the Foreign Community in the Treaty Ports in Japan in the Nineteenth Century, with a Look at Korea (Dr. James E. Hoare) 80
February 23: New Intructional Media in Korean Studies (Prof. Edward J. Shultz) 120
March 9: The Origins of Some Distortions in Modern Korean History (Dr. Kenneth C. Quinones) 90
March 23: A Photo journal of Favorite R.A.S. Places in 1982 (Mr. Roger C. Mathus) 200
April 13 Metalcraft and Metal Art in Korea (Ms. Komelia Okim and Mr. Jack Silva) 60
April 27 On the Abolition of Discrimination Between Legitimate and Illegitimate Descendants (Mr. Key P. Yang) 70
May 11 Tradition Versus Modernity in Korea Villages (Prof. Jae-Poong Ryu) 150
May 25 Korean Oriental Medicine (Dr. Kang Sung-gil) 120
June 8 The Extraordinary Life of Isabella Bird Bishop (Rev. Dr. James Huntley Grayson) 50
June 22 I-Ching: The Book of Changes (Prof. Han Tae-dong) 150
August 24 Pukch’ong Lion Dance (Dr. Kim Ho-soon) 200
September 14 The Influence of Chinese Politics on the Fall of Koryo and the Founding of the Yi Dynasty (Dr. Donald Clark) 80
September 28 Trip to Paektu Mountain, 1931 (Dr. Horace G. Underwood) 100
October 12 Women in Urban Poor Families (Prof. Cho Ok-rha) 80
October 26 The Dead Must Eat: Ancestor Worship in Korea (Dr. Roger L. Janelli) 60
November 9 100 Years of the British in Korea (Dr. James E. Hoare) 30
November 23 Korean-American Cultural Ties through Shamanism (Dr. Zozayong) 80
December 15 Kaya, the Legends and the Learning: Excavations of the Kaya Tombs (Ms. Maggie Dodds) 40

1984 Meetings

Data Topic Attendance

January 11 A Review of the Evidence for a Genetic Affiliation Between the Korean and Japanese Languages (Prof. John Whitman) 50
January 25 In Work, Play and Death: The Music of Chindo (Mr. Keith Howard) 80
February 8 Sailing the Seas Without the Helmsman: A Look at China after Mao (Ms. Brenda Sansom) 120
February 22 Trekking to the Base Camp at Mt. Everest (Ms. Lori Claus) 150
March 14 Tourists, Traders and Diplomats: 19th Century British Visitors to Korea (Dr. Tony Michell) 90
March 28 Chon Bong-jun and the Tonghak Rebellion (Dr. Young I. Lew) 50
April 11 A Railroad Retrospective on Seoul and Korea (Mr. Richard Dickie) 70
April 25 Korea after the March First Movement (Dr. Ku Dae-yeol) 50
May 9 The Manchurian Connection: The Life and Work of the Rev. John Ross (Dr. James Grayson) 50
May 23 History, Nationalism, and Textbooks in Japan and Korea (Dr. G. Cameron Hurst, III) 80
June 13 ddle Korean Poetry (Prof. Robert D. Kirk) 40
June 27 Yanghwajin and Other Cemeteries: An Informal History of the Foreign Community in Seoul (Dr. Donald Clark) 60
August 22 Special Performance of the Kangnyong Mask Dance (Introduced by Ms. Suzanna M. Samstag) 250
September 12 Territorial Disputes over Uninhabited Islands (Dr. Park Choon-ho) 40
September 26 Chinese Medicine and Acupuncture (Dr. Sunu Ki, O.M.D.) 50
October 11 Entry Sequence to Korean Temples (Prof. Kyun Kim) 70
October 24 Search for Nirvana: Korean Monks’ Life (Lee Kwan-jo Sunim) 80
November 14 Traditional Susok (Rock) Gardens of Korea — From Shilla to Choson (Dr. Min Kyung-hyun) 45
November 28 The Amerasian Immigration Law: A Reflection on 200 Years of East Asian Immigration to the U.S.A. (Mr. Donald Haffner) 30
December 12 The Korean Family System (Dr. Lee Kwang-gyu) 100

1985 Meetings

Date Lectures Attendance

January 11 Panmunjom in Retrospect (Dr. Horace G. Underwood) 100
January 23 Themes and Motifs in Korean Folk Tales (Mr. Heinz J. Fenkl) 80
February 13 It’aewon: The Gentrification of a Boomtown (Dr. G. Cameron Hurst, III) 65
February 27 Characteristics of Korean Music (Mr. Hwang, Byong-ki) 75
March 13 Chinese Influence on Korean Painting (Prof. Yi, Song-mi) 90
March 27 Operation Transfer (Mr. Ray Ueno) 80
April 10 Henry G. Appenzeller: Apostle to Korea (Mr. Daniel Davies) 50
April 24 The Korean and British Village: A Comparative Study (Prof. Philwah Chang-Michell) 70
May 8 The First Korean Immigrants to America (Dr. Wayne Patterson) 70
May 22 Graven Images and Cosmic Landscape on Cheju Island (Dr. David Nemeth) 65
June 12 Confucianism and the Humanities (Dr. Paul Desjardins) 85
June 26 Korean Slavery: Glimpses of Slavery in the Yi Dynasty (Mr. Mark Peterson) 75
August 28 Kkokttukaksi Norum (Folk Puppet Play) 100
September 11 Conversations with Golden Fish: The Masters of Tanch’ong (Mr. Thomas B. Kass) 85
September 25 Why Study Korean Periodic Markets? (Mr. Joseph Nowakowski) 65
October 9 Yi Cheyon’s Korea: Some Preliminary Observations (Dr. Michael Rogers) 80
October 23 The Benevolent King Sutra (Ms. Rebecca Bernen) 95
November 13 Wives, Lesser Wives, and Ghosts: Supernatural Conflict in a Korean Village (Dr. Laurel Kendall) 120
November 27 Korean Furniture (Dr. Edward R. Wright) 40
December 11 Early Korean Genealogies and the Korea of 500 Years Ago (Dr. Edward Wagner) 70

1986 Meetings

1987 Meetings

Date Lectures Attendance

January 14 Korean Mathematics (Prof. Kim, Yong-Woon) 50
January 27 Young Tanizaki (Prof. Paul MaCarthy) 35
February 11 The Fish of Korea (Prof. Choe, Ki-Chol) 25
February 25 An Analytic Interpretation on the Religious Plurality of Present-day Korea (Sister Kim, Sung-Hae) 110
March 11 Acupuncture and Moxibustion (Dr. Kang, Sung-Keel) 110
March 25 Traditional Korean Music: The Instruments (Mr. Alan Heyman) 105
April 8 A Look at Inter-racial Marriages (Dr. Richard W. Wilson) 100
April 22 A Comparative Look at Parenthood in Literature (Dr. Suh, Ji-Moon) 40
May 13 The Family Law Revision: What and Why (Dr. Kim, Yung-Chung) 90
May 27 The American Military in Korea in the Nineteenth Century: Imperialism and Gunboat Diplomacy Examined (Mr. Donald Bishop) 80
June 24 Volatility of Korean Workers Versus Quiescence of Taiwanese Workers: A Sociological Explanation (Dr. Koo, Ha-Gen) 50
August 26 Kkoktugaksi Norum-Folk Puppet Drama (Namsadang Folk Troupe) 100
September 9 Korean Traditional Flower Arrangement (Mrs. Koh, Sook-Wan (Koh, Ha Soo)) 70
September 23 The Mudang Kut (Dr. Daniel A. Kister) 95
October 14 A Few Aspects of Buddhism (Vn. Mujin) 50
November 11 Early Korean Entrepreneurs (Prof. Dennis L. McNamara) 50
November 25 Traditional Korean Furniture (Dr. Man, Sill Pai) 90
December 9 Korean Embroidery (Mr. Huh, Dong-Hwa) 60

1988 Meetings

Seoul Branch

Date Lecture Title and Lecturer

January 13 Nature Poets: Kim Sowol and Robert Frost (Dr. Daniel Kister)
January 27 Korean Roof Tiles (Prof. Lee, Eun-chang)
February 10 Buddhism: A Southeast Asian Perspective (Amb. Chithambaranathan Mahendran)
February 24 A Visit to Manchuria and Paektu-san (Rev. Don C. Jones)
March 9 Confucianism: The Tradition and Modern Transformations (Prof. Chung, Chai-sik)
March 23 Korean Newspapers in China (Dr. Chang, Won-ho)
April 13 Early Korean Typography (Dr. Sohn, Pow-key)
April 27 Benevolent Dragons: Beneficent Rain (Mrs. Dorothy Middleton)
May 11 The Naturally Empty Mind: Personal Experiences in Christianity and in Buddhism (Yen. Do Gong)
May 25 Confucians, Wise and Otherwise (Dr. Michael Kalton)
June 8 New Year’s by the Sea: The Ritual Landscape of a Cheju Island Village (Mr. Timothy Tangherlini)
June 22 Near Ink One is Stained Black: Factors in the Identity of Korean Folk Musicians ( Dr. Keith Howard)
August 24 Korean Traditional Classical Music: Kayagum Performance (Ms. Yang, Sung-hee)
September 14 Korea, Old and New: A Multi-media Presentation (Mr. Michael O’Brien)
October 12 East Meets West: The Encounter of Confucianism and Christianity (Fr. Christopher Spalatin, S.J)
October 26 Tilting the Jar, Spilling the Moon (Fr. Kevin O’Rourke)
November 9 Mass Media and the Seoul Olympics (Prof- Lee, Jae-won)
November 23 The Saga of Ginseng in the Eighteenth Century (Prof. A. Owen Aldridge)
December 14 Unique Aspects of the Korean Mother-Infant Interaction (Dr. Elizabeth Choi)

Taegu Chapter

April 20 O My Prophetic Seoul, My Uncle: Uncle-Nephew Conflicts in History and Literature (Dr. John L, Leland)
May 18 The Fourteenth Century Chinese Treasure Boat Excavated at Sinan, Korea (Dr. Kim, Wondong)
October 20 Literary Reflections on Korean Industrial Workers (Dr. Yom, Syung-sop)
November 17 Assessment of President Roh’s Detente Policy (Dr. Dan Sanford)

1989 Meetings

Seoul Branch

January 13 Korean Traditional Classical Music: Kayagum Performance (Ms. Yang, Sung-Hee)
January 25 The Poetry of Ku Sang (Brother Anthony)
February 8 Attribute of Asexuality in Korean Kinship and Sundered Korean Families during the Korean War (Prof. Kim, Choong-Soon)
February 22 Progress and Problems in the Status of Korean Women Today (Dr. Lee, Tai-Young)
March 8 Buddhism and Christianity: Two Different Religions or One and the Same? (Dr. Rhi, Ki-Yong)
March 22 Yi Dynasty Seoul Today: Yi Dynasty Seoul as a Cohesive Governmental, Cultural, and Social Centre Seen Through its Buildings—and What Remains Today (Mr. Peter Bartholomew)
April 26 North Korean Leadership (Dr. Suh,Dae-Sook)
May 10, 1989 The Chinese in Korea during the Japanese Occupation (Professor Song,June-Ho)
May 24 Search for Historical Treasure: The Excavation of the 14th Century Chinese Treasure Boat at Sinan, Korea: Tracing a Wealth of History Through Treasure (Dr. Kim, Won-Dong)
June 14 Encounter of a Special Kind: The Life and Times of Tasan (Ms. Hahn, Moo-Sook)
June 28 A Study of Kogoishi (Mountain Walls) in Ancient Japan with Reference to Mountain Fortresses in Korea (Professor Lee, Chung-Myun)
August 23 Korean Drumming (Mr. Gary Rector)
September 13 The Shaman’s Journey: Real and Ideal in a Living Folk Tradition (Dr. Laurel Kendall)
September 27 History in a Jar (Dr. Robert Sayers)
October 11 You are Dead, the Square is Dead: The 1989 Chinese Pro-Democracy Movement (Ms. Karen Eggleston)
October 25 The Korean Judge as Mediator (Dr. Linda S. Lewis)
November 8 Abstract Geology of Korea (Dr. Kim, Jeong- Hwan)
November 22 Yonbyon (Yanbian) as Seen Through Its Literature (Dr. Mark Peterson)
December 13 The Korea of 1900 (Dr. Horace G. Underwood)

1990 Meetings

January 10 A Trip to North Korea (Mr. Michael Breen)
February 14 Traditional Korean Law and Its Modernization (Dr. Choi, Chongko)
February 28 Temporary Residents: The Western Community in Korea on the Eve of World War II. (Dr. Donald N. Clark)
March 14 A Sign for the Times-A look at Puchok (Shaman amulet card) Mr. Kim, Jong-Dae
March 28 Dr. William Frank Schofield and the March 1st Movement (Dr. Choi, Jin Young)
March 11 Paintings of the Choson Dynasty (Mr. Lee Won-Bok)
April 25 Examining prospects for Local Autonomy: Agricultural Cooperative Reforms in Korea (Dr. Larry L. Burmeister)
May 9 Seas of Discovery, Seas of Learning: The Sailors of Portugal and Their Knowledge of Korea in the 16th Century (Prof. Jaime Ramalhete Neves)
May 23 Print Capitalism and Popular Culture In Colonial Korea (Dr. Mike Robinson)
June 13 Korea’s New Look Toward the “Northern Countries” (Dr. Lee, Hahn-Been)
June 27 Life Between Two Cultures: A Confucian Boy Goes to America (Mr. Chung,Kisuk)
August 22 Korean Traditional Classical Music: Kayagum Performance (Mr. Hwang, Byong-Ki)
September 12 ‘Mot’ as a unique Korean Taste or Value (Prof. Kim, Chi- Gyu)
September 26 Pavilions for Everyone (Ms. Maggie Dodds)
October 10 Samshin—The Lost Goddess of Old Korea (Dr. Horay Zozayong)
October 24 Commissioner Chang Pogo and the Shilla People in Tang China: In Search of Their Excellency (Prof. Kim, Sung-Hoon)
November 14 An Introduction to the Rhythm and Spirit of Korea Through the Changgo (Ms. Suzanna M. Samstag)
November 28 What’s Wrong With the Korean Securities-Stock Exchange? (Dr. Kim, Byong-Kuk)
December 12 Traditional Korean Costume (Dr. Suk, Joo-Sun)

1991 Meetings

January 9 On Tour With The R.A.S. (Mr. Robert Hogarth)
January 23 The Study of Korea in the United States. (Dr. Donald S. Macdonald)
February 13 Kim Kwang-Kyu: A Contemporary Poet In Search of Hope (Brother Anthony Teague)
February 27 The Korean Educational System (Dr. Horace H. Underwood)
March 13 Kim Chun-Hung: Portrait of a Performing Artist (Prof. Judy Van Zile)
March 27 The Influence of Christianity on the Life and Thought of Chong Yak Yong (Mr. William Kester)
April 10 Travel to China (Dr. Donald Stauffer)
April 24 The Korean Press: Past and Present (Mr. Lee Kyo-Hyun)
May 8 Whatever Happened to the Big Village They Called Seoul? (Mr. David E. Halvorsen)
May 22 A View of Books (Katrina L. Middleton)
June 12 The First Western Inquiry on Korea, Luis de Frois SJ., 1598 (Amb. Luis Soares de Oliveira)
June 26 The Right War: The Korean Conflict and U.S. Defense Policy, 1945-1955 (Dr. Alan R. Millett)
August 28 Dance Performance (Mr. Bae Jung-Hye)
September 11 “Dutch in China, Japan and Korea in the 17th Century (Mr. Johannes Huber)
September 25 The Differences in Culture in Japan and Korea (Prof. Kim Yong-Woon)
October 9 Korean Contemporary Poets (Brother Anthony Teague)
October 23 Prospects of Korean Economics (Dr. Kim Duk-Choong)
November 13 Korean Values and Communication Patterns From a Cross-Cultural Perspective (Prof. Sohn Ho-Min)
November 27 Arab-Korean Relationship From the Historical Point of View (Prof. Raslan A. Bani-Yasin)
December 11 Yi Dynasty Seoul Today: Yi Dynasty Seoul as a Cohesive Governmental, Cultural and Social Centre Seen Through Its Buildings and What Remains Today. (Mr. Peter Bartholomew)

1992 Meetings

January 8 Sea Power and Diplomacy In the Far East (Amb. David J- Wright)
January 22 Kosan Yun Sonada: His Life and Garden on Pogil-do (Prof- Y.D. Kim and Mrs. M. Dodds)
February 12 Trip to Paek-tu Mountain (Dr. Horace G- Underwood)
February 26 Religious and Ideological Background of the Unification War (400-676 A.D.) (Dr. Kim Chong-Sun)
March 11 Primitive Rebels? Popular Resistance in North Korean Historiography (Mr. Charles Armstrong)
March 25 South Korean Japanese Relations from 1969 to 1979: Emotionalism or Realpolitik? (Mr. Victor Cha)
April 8 The Centennial of the Inauguration of the Tonghak Rebellion (1892-1992) (Dr. Daniel Davies)
April 22 Korea’s Link With China’s Ming Dynasty: the Sam Hwangjae Paehyang (Sacrifical Ceremony for Three Emperors) (Prof. David A. Mason)
May 13 Korean Buddhist Ritual Dance and Music (Mr. Alan Heyman)
May 27 Initiating Performance: A ritual For a Young Korean Shaman (Dr. Laurel Kendall)
June 10 Women’s Political Participation in Korea (Dr. Bong-Scuk Sohn)
June 24 From Pottery to Politics: The Koreanization of Korean Catholicism (Prof. Don Baker)
August 26 Korean Traditional Folk Dance (Prof. Chong-nyo Kim)
September 9 Landscapes of Fortune: Looking for wind and Water (P’ungsu) in Modern Korean Architecture (Prof. Thomas B. Kass)
September 23 Guilds, Chambers, and Brokers: The Port of Inch’on at the Turn of the Century (Mr. Dennis McNamara)
October 12 From End to End-Photographs of Korea (Mr. Michael F. O’brien)
October 28 Ming and Ch’ing Paintings from the Forbidden City: A Guide to the Exhibition at the Hoam Art Gallery (Dr.Yi Song-Mi)
November 11 Roots of Experimentation: Studies in Korean Music (Mr. Joseph Celli)
November 25 An American Correspondent in Korea (Mr. Bradley K. Martin)
December 9 Kim Il-Sung 1941-1948: The Creation of a Legend; The Creation of a Regime (Mr. Sidney A. Seiler)

1993 Meetings

Seoul Branch

January 13 Marketing in Korea: Notes from an Academic (Prof. Chang, Dae-ryung)
January 27 Legal Education in Korea: Post-Confucian Magistrates at the Boundary Between the State and Civil Society (Dr. James West)
February 10 Smuggling in the New in the Guise of the Old: Chong Ya-gong’s Political Thought (Dr. Mark Setton)
February 24 Five Days in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (Mrs. Beverly Smith)
March 24 Lantern Festival in China (Mr. Marnix Wells)
April 14 Self-portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Mr. Ahn,Jung-hyo)
April 28 Wild Flowers of Korea (Dr. Lee, Young-no)
May 12 A View of North Korea (Major General Bernard A. Sandoz)
May 26 Looking Anew at the First Western Manuscript About Korea (Br. Jean-Paul Buys)
June 9 Korean Shamanist Dramatic Ritual (Dr. Daniel A. Kister)
June 23 Seoul: Founding of the New Capital (Dr. Kwon,Yon-ung)
August 25 A Presentation of Korean Classical Music (Ms. Yang, Seung-hee and Performers of the Korea Kayagum Institute)
September 8 Why Do Korean Buddhists Do What They Do? (Mr. Frank M. Tedesco)
September 22 A Reading From Land of Exile: Contemporary Korean Fiction (Mr. Bruce Fulton)
October 13 Introduction to Ancient Egyptian Tombs and Temples (Mrs. Maissa Cholkamy)
October 27 Women in Korean Politics (Dr. Chunghee Sarah Soh)
November 10 The Legend of Madam Pak (Dr. Mark Peterson)
November 24 Korea in the 1950s (Mr. John Seel)
December 8 On the Road: China’s Silk Road (Mr. Michael F. O’Brien)

1994 Meetings

Seoul Branch

January 12 Taoist Hagiography in Mid-Choson Korea (Dr. John Goulde)
January 26 The Cultural Dimension of International Business/Industrial Operations (Mr. Kim, Choong-soon)
February 23 An Evening of Music Performed on the Okryugum (Miss Park, Mee-hwa)
March 9 Urban Planning and Neighborhood Preservation in Seoul (Mr. Josh Moreinis)
March 23 Korean Shamanism and Cultural Nationalism (Ms. Hyun-key Kim Hogarth)
April 13 Alpine Flowers of Paiktu Mountain and Koguryo Remains of the Region (Dr. Kim, Young-duk and Prof. Kil, B.S.)
April 27 Han as Aesthetic Principle in the Poetry of Kim Sowol (Ms. Ann Choi)
May 11 Video Presentation of Koguryo Remains in Northeastern China (Prof. Shin, Hyong-sik)
May 25 Historical Material on Seoul Located Overseas (Prof. Ahn, Too-soon)
June 8 Tonghak: Its Origins, Development, Denouement and Its Affects on Korean and Asian History (Dr. Paul Berne)
June 22 Social Development Trends in Asia,1970-1994, with Special Reference to South Korea and Other East Asian Tigers’ (Dr. Richard J. Estes)
August 24 Korean Landscapes and Country Scenes (Mr. Cha,Jung-whan)
September 14 Slides of Old Seoul (Mr. Sam Kidder)
September 28 The Social Meaning of Residence and Housing in Present-Day Seoul (Prof. Park, Mun-su)
October 12 Tradition and Economic Development in Asia (Dr. Cho Soon)
October 26 The Traditional Korean Garden in Yokohama, Japan (Prof. Min, Kyung-hyun and Dr. Kim, Young-duk)
November 9 Hamel’s Journal (Br. Jean-Paul Buys)
November 23 The British Museum’s Korean Collection (Ms. Jane Portal)
December 14 Remembering the Forgotten War: Research in America on the Korean War (Dr. Allan Millett )

1995 Meeting

Seoul Branch

January 11 The Buddhist Transformation of Shilla (Dr. N.M. Pankaj)
January 24 Views of Chosun Dynasty Seoul Seen Through Buildings and Gardens of the Period (Mr. Peter Bartholomew)
February 14 Ko Un’s Hwaom-Kyong: A Modern Korean Pilgrim’s Progress (Br. Anthony of Taize (An, Son-jae))
February 29 Syngman Rhee and the March First Movement (Dr. Lew, Young-Ik)
March 13 The Myth of Tan’gun: Is It Really Unique (Dr. James Grayson)
March 28 Korean Envoys to Tokugawa Japan: Diplomacy and Cultural Exchange in Traditional East Asia (Dr. Yoon, Byung-nam)
April 10 Native Plants of Korea (Dr. Bang, Kwang-ja)
April 24 Introduction to Oriental Medicine in Korea (Dr. Kang, Sung-keel)
May 8 Queen Min of Korea: Coming to Power (Ms. Tatyana M. Simbirtseva)
May 22 Choson Ceramics of the 15th-16th Centuries (Dr. Kim, Young-won)
June 12 Taoism in Korea (Mr. Steven D. Jenks)
June 26 Post-Occupation and Post-War Writing by Korean Women (Ms. Jean Jin-sun Kim)
August 28 Takion: Korean Traditional Martial Art (Mr. Do, Ki-hyun)
September 11 The Seven Secrets of King Muryong (Dr. Kim, Young-duk )
September 25 An Anthropologist’s Kwangju Notebook: May 1980 and Sixteen Years Later (Dr. Linda Lewis)
October 9 The Public and Private Life of the Kisaeng in the Choson Period (Prof. Vincenza D’Urso)
October 23 Dialogue Between Shamanism and Buddhism in Early Korea (Prof. N.M. Pankaj)
November 9 Seal Engraving (Mr. Koh, Jae-sik)
November 27 Buddhist Architecture of Korea (Prof. Valeri D. Tian)
December 11 The Secrets of the Twenty-two Tamno of the Paekche Kingdom (Prof. Kim, Young-duk)

1997 R.A.S. Lectures

Seoul Branch

January 8 Korean Shaman Possession Dance and the Shaman Cosmology (Dr. Theresa Ki-Ja Kim)
January 29 Nationalism and State-Building During the First Republic of Korea (Mr. William G. Bradshaw)
February 12 Concert of Traditional Music (Michuhol Korean Music Orchestra)
February 26 Searching for The Imperial Dragon Temple (Dr. Kim Young-duk)
March 11 Korea Myths and Legends (Ms. Robin Rhee)
March 25 The Korean Telecommunications Revolution (Dr. James F. Larson)
April 9 Korea Old and New (Mr. Michael F. O’Brien)
April 23 Concepts of Evil: East and West (Prof. C.F. Alford)
May 13 Dramatic Social Change in Cholla-nam-do, Korea (Dr. Terry Stocker)
May 28 Confucian Education During the Choson Dynasty (Prof. Chung Soon Woo)
June 11 Traditional Korean Birth Dreams (Dr. Fred Jeremy Seligson J.D.)
June 25 Conservation of Biodiversity in Korea: Past, Present, and Future (Dr. Sooil Kim, Ph.D.)
August 27 An Introduction to Tea (Brother Anthony of Taize (An Sonjae))
September 9 Impressions from North Korea (Mr. Jan Bosma)
September 23 Portrayal of North Korea in Hwang Sun-Won’s The Descendants of Cain (Dr. Suh, Ji-Moon)
October 8 Zen Dance (Son Mu Ga) (Ms. Sun Ock Lee)
October 22 Poisoned Prosperity: Development and Environment in South Korea (Ms. Phillippa Walsh and Lee Taehwa)
November 12 The Korean Writing System: A Unique Invention (Prof. Young-Key Kim-Renaud)
November 26 Korea Through the Years: Personal Stories (Dr. Robert F. Roth M.D.)
December 10 The Great Tumulus of Whangnam (Dr. Kim, Young-Duk)

1998 R.A.S. Lectures

January 15 Therevada Buddhism (Dr. Frank Tedesco)
February 11 A “Radical” Approach to Learning Chinese Characters (James C. Whitlock, Jr.)
February 25 Nationalism and Democratic Thought in Modern Korean Historiography (Professor Henry H. Em)
March 11 The Doomed Empire: Japan in Colonial Korea (Professor Ma-ji Rhee)
March 25 On Korean Traditional Liquor (Mr. Bae Young-ho)
April 8 Rationality, Practicality, and Modernity: Buddhism, Korean Shamanism and Christianity in Contemporary Korean Society (Dr. Hyun-key Kim Hogarth)
April 22 Kyungahn Swamp and Its Birds (Dr. Young-duk Kim)
May 27 Mongolian Security in the 21st Century (Dr. Alvin Magid)
June 10 A Neo-Confucian Model of a Civilized Society: Sejong’s Theory and Practice (Dr. Young-key Kim-Renaud)
June 24 My Recollections of the War with North Korea: Some Thoughts on Korea-U.S. Relations (Ambassador Ha-Jong Yoon)
August 26 The Artistic World of Won Jang Hyun (Mr. Won Jang Hyun)
September 10 Korean Hand Acupuncture (Dr. Claudia Simms)
September 22 Ritual on the Peak (David A. Mason)
October 15 History of the Kaya States (Dr. Vladimir Tikhonov)
October 28 In Search of Japan’s Origin (Dr. Kim Young-duk)
November 11 South Korea’s Coastal Wetlands: The Asian Amazon (Mr. Niall Moores)
November 25 Chang Moo Geuk: Kwang Gae Tho, the Great (Professor Hyeon- joo Oh)
December 9 Korean Traditional Architecture (Mr. Shin Young-hoon)

1999 R.A.S. Lectures

January 13 A Performance of Korean Wind Instruments (Mr. Saeng-Kang Lee)
January 27 What Have I Done for this Country (Dr. Kwak Young-Hoon)
February 10 Reception of Modern Korean Art in Germany (Dr. Hans-Georg Knopp)
February 24 The Creation and Derivation of Han-gul (Dr. Han Tae-Dong)
March 10 Form and Meaning: Blending Architecture and Culture David-Pierre Jalicon March 24 Paper Magic (Professor Myun W. Lee)
April 14 The Secret of Sueki (Dr. Young-Duk Kim and Scott Talkington)
April 28 The Flower as a symbol in Korean Culture and Literature (Mr. Lee Sang-Hee)
May 12 Farmers Dance: Lecture on a collection of poems by Shin Kyong-Nim (Br. Anthony of Taize)
May 26 Private Memories and public History: The Memoirs of Lady Hyegyong and Testimonial Literature in Korea (Dr. Ja-Hyun Kim Haboosh)
June 9 A Path to Maturation and Fulfillment: Yi I (Yulgok) 1536-1584, Poetry, Philosophy, and Wisdom (Dr. Philippe Thiebault)
June 23 Shamanism, Music and the Seoul Train (Dr. Keith Howard)
September 8 Korean Influences in Two Japanese Gardens of the Nara Period (Mr. Todd Stewart)
September 29 My Trip to North Korea (Mrs. Angela Reinhardt)
October 13 I-du: A System of Transcribing Korean with Chinese Characters (Dr. Young-Duk Kim)
October 27 Inner Views: Role and Imagery of Women in Korean Art (Ms. Jiyoung Koo)
November 10 Paekche Paintings: Evidence of Amicable Korean-Japanese Relationship (Ms. Virginia Moon)
November 24 Confucian Political Philosophy of China (Dr. Rhee Tong-Chin)
December 9 Korean Traditional Architecture (Mr. Shin Young-Hoon)

2000 RAS-KB Lectures

January 12 An Introduction to Pansori (Mr. Alan Heyman)
January 26 Issues Affecting the Translation of Literary Works (Dr. Chong-Hiok Yoon)
February 9 On the Art of Ornamental Knots (Ms. Eun Young Kim)
February 23 The Majon-ri Settlement (Bronze Age), Nonsan City (Prof. Hong-jong Lee)
March 8 A Survey of Korean Cultural History (James Hoyt, Ph. D.)
March 22 Historical Implications of Bronze Mirrors (Yongduk Kim, Ph. D.)
April 12 Spirit of the Mountains: Korea’s SanShin and it’s Function in Buddhist Temples (Mr. David A. Mason)
April 26 Korean Wetlands and Water Birds: From Destruction to Conservation (Mr. Nial Moores)
May 10 Shamanistic Songs Revisited (Dr. Michael J. Pettid)
May 24 Taoism (Prof. Emeritus Han Tae-Dong)
June 14 The Origin of the Japanese Language (Mr. Byung-shik Park)
June 28 Modernity and Modern Art in Korea (Dr. Jae Ryung Roe)
August 23 The Komungo – The King of all Korean Traditional Musical Instruments (Mr. Alan Heyman)
September 21 A Changing Korea: A look at Korea since the economic crisis and the reconciliation with North Korea (Mr. Michael Breen)
October 12 Taoism in Korean History (Dr. Jae-Ryong Shim)
October 25 Korea Yesterday (Dr. Horace G. Underwood)
November 8 Korea and Manchuria: “The Historical Links Between Korea and the Ancestors of the Modern Manchus” (Dr. Johannes Reckel)
November 22 Korea’s Third Ceramic Tradition-from Earthenware to Onggi (Dr. (Professor) Hongnam Kim)
December 13 The Tong-gang River, Korea’s Gift to the World, Saved by Popular Movement Against Dam Project (Mr. Sang-hee Cho)