http://www.rjkoehler.com/2003/12/27/seb-on-habermas-song-du-yul/ Korea... in Blog Format Fri, 5 Sep 2008 11:13:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 http://www.rjkoehler.com/2003/12/27/seb-on-habermas-song-du-yul/#comment-1239 Antti Mon, 29 Dec 2003 02:17:50 +0000 http://rjkoehler.com/?p=414#comment-1239 Dda, note that the writer (Ruediger Frank) doesn't mean the "good old days" of East Berlin or East Germany, but "when there was a Korea Institute there", (at least that's how I read it, knowing that Dr. Frank is not yearning back to a divided Germany). As far as I know, Song Du-yul has not been teaching in pre-unification East Germany, only meeting his NK contacts and leaving for his NK trips. Dda, note that the writer (Ruediger Frank) doesn’t mean the “good old days” of East Berlin or East Germany, but “when there was a Korea Institute there”, (at least that’s how I read it, knowing that Dr. Frank is not yearning back to a divided Germany).
As far as I know, Song Du-yul has not been teaching in pre-unification East Germany, only meeting his NK contacts and leaving for his NK trips.

]]> http://www.rjkoehler.com/2003/12/27/seb-on-habermas-song-du-yul/#comment-1238 dda Sun, 28 Dec 2003 10:49:14 +0000 http://rjkoehler.com/?p=414#comment-1238 Check out this thread the Korea Studies web list: <a href="http://koreaweb.ws/pipermail/koreanstudies_koreaweb.ws/2003-November/003964.html" rel="nofollow">http://koreaweb.ws/pipermail/koreanstudies_koreaweb.ws/2003-November/003964.html</a> When people start sentences with "I know Prof. Song a bit, since he spent some time as a visiting professor at Humboldt University, back in the good old days". Yeah right. Humboldt. Not Humboldt State in Arcata, CA. That Humbolt Universit?짚t zu Berlin. East Berlin. Back when I was active in Korean Studies, I discovered that there were two kind of European scholars: the hard-ass commies, and the others. There were a few "interesting" blokes there, and meeting them in Warsaw, of all places, in 1989? 1990? was all the more entertaining... It's funny how many of these commies, who live now away from home, still pine for the old days... Check out this thread the Korea Studies web list:
http://koreaweb.ws/pipermail/k.....03964.html
When people start sentences with “I know Prof. Song a bit, since he spent some time as a visiting
professor at Humboldt University, back in the good old days”. Yeah right. Humboldt. Not Humboldt State in Arcata, CA. That Humbolt Universit?짚t zu Berlin. East Berlin.
Back when I was active in Korean Studies, I discovered that there were two kind of European scholars: the hard-ass commies, and the others. There were a few “interesting” blokes there, and meeting them in Warsaw, of all places, in 1989? 1990? was all the more entertaining… It’s funny how many of these commies, who live now away from home, still pine for the old days…

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