XXX Международный конгресс ИИСАА. 19–21 июня 2019 г. Т. 2

Секция XVII 184 XXX Международный Конгресс по источниковедению и историографии стран Азии и Африки Sonja Haeussler (Stockholm University, Sweden) Nature, the individual and the nation in Im Kwon-Taek’s Beyond the years The proposed paper will analyse the film Beyond the years (Korean: Ch’ŏnny- ŏnhak , “Thousand year old crane”) produced by the famous Korean director Im Kwon-Taek in 2006. The film is one of ImKwon-Taek’s adaptations fromYi Chǒng- jun’s short story cycle Sŏp’yŏnje written in the 1970s. Beyond the years is mainly based on the story “Wanderer to the Village of the Immortal Crane” ( Sǒnhakdong nagǔnae ), but also draws on several episodes of the other works. Stemming from the far southern tip of the Korean peninsula, the film director Im Kwon-Taek had the same regional background as the writer Yi Chǒng-jun and shared with him an interest in the cultural traditions of their homeland. Being close friends, they collaborated in a number of artistic projects dealing, among others, with the specific south-western style of P’ansori storytelling, Sŏp’yŏnje . Whereas Im Kwon-Taek’s first film adaptation fromYi’s story cycle titled Sŏp’yŏnje and pro- duced in 1993) enjoyed overwhelming positive reaction and praise by the national and international audience and film critiques and was extensively discussed in many research works, Beyond the years has not received equally great attention. There might be assumed several reasons for this lower grade of popularity, such as less attractiveness because of the recurring subject, main characters and parts of the plot. But as Beyond the years is Im Kwon-Taek’s hundredth film, it is worth to take a deeper look into the film and to study how the central veteran filmmaker in Korean cinema today marked the significant jubilee in his career. Comparing Beyond the years with other films as well as the literary source, the paper will examine how the film director creatively used references to address old and new questions in regards to the complicated history of the Korean nation and the fate of individuals on the backdrop of human’s attitude to nature. Kyung Hee Rho (University of Ulsan, Republic of Korea) The Sociocultural Meaning of Private Metal-Type Books in Early-modern Korea In this presentation, I will explore the sociocultural meaning of certain private moveable metal type publications in Chosŏn, early modern Korea. Although moveable metal type printing, in principle, was reserved for official publishing only, some high officials and literati in this period used government-owned metal type systems to print books they desired to possess and distribute. The publication of these books, driven by individual taste and demand, is meaningful, considering that printing in Chosŏn had been mostly limited to official