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능동적으로 국제 정세를 헤쳐 나갔던 고려를 기억할 때
Goryeo's Approach Toward International Circumstances The year of 2018 marks 1,100 years since the ancient Korean kingdom Goryeo’s foundation as well as 1,000 years since Goryeo’s great victory against the Khitan at Gwiju. Hence, to gain further insight about circumstances in Northeast Asia and which direction the Northeast Asian History Foundation should head toward, this month’s interview turns to Professor Emeritus Ahn Byung-woo who serves as chairman of the Northeast Asian History Foundation’s advisory committee and has long been studying Goryeo history in the context of historical issues in East Asia.
Lee Chang-wook (Director, Department of Exchange and Public Relations)
일본군‘위안부’ 문제, 두 번째 국제 학술회의를 통해 다음 단계의 도약을 기대하다
Toward the Next Stage of the Japanese Military Comfort Women Issue On December 15, 2017, the Northeast Asian History Foundation's Institute of Japanese Studies hosted the second international academic conference on findings and remaining challenges from research on the Japanese military comfort women issue. Although officially deemed the second conference, the Foundation has so far hosted academic conferences in one form or the other every year to discuss the issue with Chinese and Japanese participants. Only at the conference in 2016 was it announced that an academic conference shall be regularly held each year to examine research progress and remaining challenges in comfort women studies. The conference in 2016 provided an occasion to share progress made in Korea, China, and Japan on studying the Japanese military comfort women issue and uncovering research material related to the issue. The conference in 2017 made a slight variation by also sharing victim testimonies and progress made through relevant campaigns.
Park Jeong-ae (Research professor, Korean Institute of Foreign Relations at Dongguk University)
당 현종 시기의 고구려 유민 왕모중(王毛仲)
The Koguryo Migrant Wang Maozhong In a poem by the great Chinese poet Du Fu (杜甫, 712–770) about a drawing of horses raised at the emperor's stable appears a line saying "the slaves' leader Danu (大奴) was made to care for the emperor's horses." Danu refers to the Koguryo migrant Wang Maozhong (王毛仲) who was also mentioned in the Tang scholar Zheng Chuhai's anthology Minghuang zalu (明皇雜錄). This collection of miscellaneous records about the Tang Emperor Xuanzong includes a writing titled "Wang Maozhong's Arrogance Costs Him the Emperor's Favor," which suggests how Wang Maozhong was viewed in the eyes of Tang people.
Woo Sung-min (Research fellow, NAHF Research Institute of Korea-China Relations)
동아시아 문화 허브, 발해 염주성 이야기
Tales of Yeomju Castle, an East Asian Cultural Hub Balhae flourished into a prosperous country in the east after its tenth ruler King Seon (宣王) rose to the throne in 818. Yeomju Castle was the eastern exit of Balhae leading to Silla and Japan, which made it natural for diverse East Asian cultures to converge at the castle and help Balhae develop into a dynamic country. This is why the past, present, and future of the Korean nation seems to loom before me whenever I visit the castle site. A site that has now become a fragile cradle of the dispersed Korean diaspora. Hundreds of years after the fall of Balhae, the kingdom’s remains are now being managed across the territories of China, Russia, and North Korea. Because records directly left by the people of Balhae have not yet emerged, studies about the kingdom must rely on excavating remains. However, Primorsky Krai of Russia is the only place where South Koreans are allowed to directly engage in excavations, which makes projects at the Yeomju Castle site a treasure trove for studying the history of Balhae.
Kim Eun-kuk (Research fellow, NAHF Research Institute of Korea-China Relations)
메이지유신의 기억, 가고시마
Memories of the Meiji Restoration at Kagoshima On January 7, 2018, NHK began to air a new historical drama titled Segodon (西郷どん). The drama features Saigo Takamori (西郷隆盛), one of the three most well-known samurais of the Meiji Restoration. Preparations for this series began in September 2016 so as to air it in 2018, the 150th anniversary of the Meiji Restoration. The series is based on a novel of the same title by Hayashi Mariko (林真理子). Historical dramas by NHK are known for accentuating the personal appeal of historical figures rather than adhering to general views of them established through historical studies, thereby producing cultural content for a new historical character just the way KBS does through its historical dramas in Korea.
Park Sam-hun (Professor, Department of Japanese Language Education at Konkuk University)
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