I don’t know how much it would cost to do stuff like that through the professionals. Hopefully not too much, because it really shouldn’t. Like I wrote about, it doesn’t take much to do a C-Span type deal. They just stick a professional camera and audio equipment up and press record. Editing takes nothing more than putting on a few titles to show the date the shooting took place and who the speakers are.

She seemed very concerned that this historical revisionism and its associated attitudes are leading the ROK to disaster, ruining the military alliance with the USA and assisting the Pyeongyang regime which still intends to conquer the South by any means possible or necessary. She regards the sunshine policy as a necessary and reasonable thing to try in the mid-1990s, but by now quite obviously mostly a failure, and the fault for that is up North. So far, nothing that the good posters on this blog have not been vociferously saying and fulsomely agreeing with for years.

However, she ended with a plea to the foreign community concerned with Korea, to understand the origins of the reasons for the revisionism and the associated anti-Americanism, and to be patient with Koreans about this. She knows that American feelings are hurt by what has been said and done, but she asks that we not react emotionally, that we maintain understanding and long-range wisdom. She asks that we keep in mind that most Koreans are still quite pro-American, with reasonable and balanced opinions; and although they do not yet stand up publicly against the revisionists and punish the worst of them, they will achieve a better balance of public opinion and government behavior in the future. She hopes that we Westerners will have the patience to see this process through.

Her speech was less than it could’ve been, as she spent the first half of it on a review of Korean-American history, covering events that everyone who’s been paying attention already knows by heart. She warmed to her actual subject in the second half, explaining the origins and progress of the revisionist history movement. As promised, she explained how it can be seen as “an unavoidable consequence of” and even “a healthy reaction to” the extreme, brutal and “obscurantist manner in which anti-Communist education was conducted in [South] Korea in earlier decades.”

Professor Lee was given the contract tonight, but asked for time to review it before accepting or declining. If her talk is eventually posted i will certainly inform the Marmot’s Hole…

Apologies for the mistaken statement above. We are less far behind the technological curve than i had realized…

This is a critical component of her main idea, namely that Korean society is due for a “mini cultural revolution” in its approach to America and the North. And yet this idea, as far as I could tell, was based only on her belief that a) infiltrating the ROK’s education system would be simple; b) Kim Jong-Il knows this; thus c) Kim Jong-Il has done it. I don’t doubt that he’s tried, but again, is there any concrete evidence of the extent to which he’s succeeded? This kind of spy stuff is, by definition, hush-hush. But have any professors or teachers been caught red-handed? Or do free speech protections make this kind of ideological infiltration unstoppable?

As for this “cultural revolution,” color me a skeptic. Prof. Lee sees the MacArthur incident as a turning point, a kind of wake up call to wider Korean society about the virulence and extremism of the left. Even if a mildly more hard-line government takes the stage in ‘07, however, I don’t see a major reversal in anti-American trends on the peninsula. Those sentiments are simply too deeply entrenched.

http://www.m-audio.com/product.....-main.html

Here is the main index page:

http://www.usinkorea.org/North.....onference/

Keep in mind, this was all put together on the fly a few days before the conference starting with comments on this blog and a couple of others and eventually by two people (one in Korea and me in the US) who had never met or emailed before.

If Brendan had had a tripod, it would have been better, but it is still the best (read “only”) coverage of the conference like this I’ve seen on the internet.

Which is a shame…

Here is a link to the webpage I made with the video embed of Amb Lefkowitz’s speech.

http://www.usinkorea.org/North.....lefkowitz/

Here is a direct link to the video which is also embedded in the webpage:

http://www.usinkorea.org/North.....l_2005.wmv

I am a novice video editor and webpage maker, but you don’t have to be a professional to get something useful up on the internet to cover this kind of event — or even the tours.

If anybody has any problems navagating the site, email me.

usinkorea@hotmail.com

because I haven’t finished checking yet if all the conference material was restored properly or not.

I did something with the human rights conference early this year I hoped would be an example and inspiration to different groups. I wanted to show them how easy it is.

It doesn’t take much to get a C-Span like set of videos on a website.

I took the North Korea Human Rights Conference stuff down recently to reorganize my website.

I’ll put some of it back up so you can have an example of what I can do if you have someone on the Korean-end to just shoot the video.

my email is usinkorea@hotmail.com

I would personally just like to see the presentations the RAS-KB has.

I think it would also be nice to get some video from the tours I think you organize. That would take a little more effort on the part of the guy/girl with the camcorder and more effort editing it , but I would be willing to do it.

I can’t make “kick ass” webpages — professional quality.

But, I can edit the videos and make pages good enough to present the speechs. C-Span doesn’t wow people with its video camera and editing skills. People watch C-Span for what the people are saying.

I’ll let you know when I have some of the North Korea Human Rights Conference pages back up to see as an example….