Sorry to post this so late, but there were technical blocks all weekend… There will be a Memorial Ceremony Dr. Zo Za-yong, the great champion of Korean folkways & folk-art, with meeting of his friends, his students and those who admire and continue his legacy, at the Gahoe Folk-Art Museum in northern downtown Seoul (Bukchon area, north of Anguk Metro Station Exit #2). Commemorating the 7th anniversary of his passing on, it will start about 7pm tonight (Tuesday 1/30) and include some food for dinner, some rice-wine-drinking. 2 photos from the 2003 event are here. Everyone who appreciates Korea’s folk-traditions is welcome to join; I’d be happy to see more international faces there, it’d be appropriate for what he represented.
Memorial Service / Meeting for Zo Za-yong Tuesday Eve
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Well, this turned out to be pretty good, a strong crowd of Dr. Zo’s friends and followers, including a few big names like the famous Shamaness Manshin Kim Keum-hwa. I did turn out to be the only non-Korean there, however, as none of my ‘usual suspects’ foreign friends could make it. Much good talking, eating and drinking ensued for hours, after the ritual-bowing-at-altar was finished.
Money is still being collected to put up a statue of Zo, a standing-steering-committee of this group was set up for more efficient operation, and folks are contributing in many ways. My own project of collecting the most important of Zo’s publications and getting them scanned and up on the Internet as a permanent international legacy-resource is moving slowly forward; i have started re-doing the format of my webpages on Zo as they are now too-out-of-date. I was asked to speak to the gathering, as usual, and in addition to my usual rap of how we need to get this stuff out to the international audience and not only Koreans, i added a rant on how we need to bring it to the new young generation of Koreans, who are largely utterly ignorant of the good parts of their own traditional culture… that got a big round of applause.
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