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Marc-Antoine Charpentier's Missa Assumpta Est Maria, Performed by Le Concert des Nations, Directed by Jordi Savall 15 Aug 2011 | 03:01 am
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The KBS Symphony Orchestra Performs Arirang and Aegukga, Directed by Jang Yun-Sung and Ham Shin-Ik, Respectively 15 Aug 2011 | 03:00 am
Today's Feast of the Assumption (Marymass) coincides with Korea's Gwangbokjeol, as it does every year. Subscribe in a reader
Pak Sohye's Toraji Arirang Performed by Cho Hyeryŏng and the KBS Symphony Orchestra 10 Aug 2011 | 11:30 pm
For this blog's penultimate post, a pops rendition of one of the many versions of the "unofficial national anthem" of Korea, a country that has been my home for the past fourteen years, more than a th...
An Inculturated Church in Rural Korea 10 Aug 2011 | 11:29 pm
GI Korea posts the aobe image as part of his latest travelogue — Hiking In Korea: Yeoninsan Mountain (연인산). I do not know whether the church is Catholic, Protestant, or Anglican, but I do know that if...
A Bit of Imperial China in Pre-Revolutionary France 10 Aug 2011 | 11:28 pm
Elena Maria Vidal introduces us to the above — Marie-Antoinette's Chinese Pavilion. Subscribe in a reader
Flash Mob, U.S.A. 10 Aug 2011 | 11:27 pm
"Richard Spencer has compiled a useful list of flash mob violence," says Foseti in linking to the former's suggestion that "it's getting worser, a littler worser, all the time..." — The Flash Mob Phen...
Physicist Father Stanley Jaki and the Limits of the Scientific Method 10 Aug 2011 | 11:26 pm
Casa Santa Lidia links to an article delineating how "[l]a importancia de reconocer los límites del método científico, que impide a la ciencia experimental tratar realidades no cuantificables, ha sido...
Gloria Steinem Right About Korea's "Island of Women" 10 Aug 2011 | 11:25 pm
Asia Times Online's John Eperjesi hails Paul Yoon's Once the Shore "fictionalized version of Jeju Island [that] deals with the devastating impact of militarism, colonialism, and the cold war on a rugg...
The Maryknoll Fathers and Brothers on Women's "Ordination" 10 Aug 2011 | 11:24 pm
The missionary society that planted the seeds of Catholicism both in me (through Orbis Books) and throughout much of Asia, has ruled — Maryknoll order to dismiss priest who advocates women’s ordinatio...
Korean Ladies' Fashion, Then and Now 10 Aug 2011 | 11:23 pm
In the top photo, "Shin Se-kyung poses on the set of her new TV drama at Gyeongbok Palace in Seoul on Tuesday" — Today's Photo: August 10, 2011. The bottom photo also pictures Miss Shin. Things sure ...
