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CULTURE
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InterviewwithKangIn-hwang,presidentofYeesanPublishingCompany
OVER
VIEW
Ears & Eyes
HonestyMakesMountainofBooks
ShadowBehind
OutragesonJapan
W
hen the reporter first asked what
Whatmakesyouhavethisaim?
We,atYeesanfocusonrealeasing
motivates him to manage this small
Kang In-hwang: My passion for books
highlevelofculturalbooks.
publishingcompany,KangIn-hwangsimply
started from the self-satistsfaction firstly. I
answered“justtomakegoodbooks”.Kang
ran a social science bookstore “Al” in front
R: Yeesan is the publishing
N
In-hwang, the representative of Yeesan
of Yonsei University. My wife was a
companyspecializinginEastAsian
ewly-approvedJapanesehistorytextbooksarenowcreatingastiracrossKorea.
Publishing Company, is the publisher who
member of the editorial staff of Dolbaekae
books. Is there any reason you
The textbooks deny Asian aggression including the Nanjing massacre, and the
has attempted to change the publishing
Publishing Company. We met in the late
choseEastAsiaforyourspecialty?
manpowermobilizationforwar.Theydon’tcarryanyreferenceto“comfortwomen”,
world with the artisan spirit of merely,
80’s and agreed to start a publishing
K: I thought the familiar area
thatisKoreanwomenusedaswartimesexslavesforJapanesesoldiers.Besidesthey
cherishingbooks.
company.
would be good as a specialty. And
arguethatthepastuseofsovereignpoweroverKoreawaslegitimateandithelpedin
Againstthestreamofacapitalisticmarket,
Iwantthereaderstobuilduptheiridentity
my major, oriental history was
Korea’smodernization.
he manages a small business with three
through good books. That is related to the
importantinchoosingthis.
The Tokyo government announced on April 3 that all eight history textbooks
employees including his wife and himself.
reasonwhyYeesanattachestothemodernity
Yeesanespeciallyhasclungtothe
submittedforgovernmentscreening,includingoneauthoredbyagroupofright-wing
The area of their books also do not fit for
problemofEastAsia.
modernityproblemofEastAsiasince
scholars, had been approved for use in Japanese junior high schools beginning April
market. Yeesan has dealt with books
our first book was “Beyond
nextyear.
concerning East Asia, especially they have
R: Yeesan’s small-scale operation is
Orientalism”. Recently people have
TheSeoul-TokyoruckusoverJapan’shistorytextbookrevisionisnowspinningout
clungtothemodernityproblemofEastAsia.
well known to the publishing world.
developedinterestsinourtraditions.
ofcontrol.KoreangovernmentauthoritiesplantoformallyobjecttoJapan’srevisionon
Since the company has limited funds, they
Pleasetellusmoreaboutit.
Rather than seeking to find the
thepartsthathavebeendistorted,reducedoromitted.Koreancivilsocietieswillcensure
publishbooksbyofplanningthenextbook
K: What we do is really no different to
original charatersitics inside, it’s
JapanthroughvariousstrategiesincludingboycottingJapanesegoods.Koreanslivingin
accordingtotheformerbook’searnings.
otherpublishingcompanies.Justthescaleof
worthy to see widening views.
America also demonstrated in front of the Japanese Diet Building over this revision
When a book sells well, they sometimes
manpowerisdifferent.Intheplanningstage,
StudyingEastAsia,especiallyJapan
issue.KoreanshaveamplereasonstofeelangryaboutJapanesehistorydistortion.We
bring out a two series books changing their
we choose the right author for the chosen
and Chinese that have coexist with
wereenslaved,tortured,murderedandrapedbyJapaninthe20thcentury.AndJapan
original plans. Considering the above
subject.Normallythisismyjob.Theediting,
Koreaforalongtimewouldhelpusa
hasconstantlytriedtowhitewashitsuglypast.
features,thename“Yeesan”iswell-suitedto
including proofreading, revision and layout
lottounderstandourconditions.
Before relying on short-lived emotion, however, Koreans need to examine their
ChoHongJoo-hee/TheArgus
them. “Yeesan” comes from the Chinease
are done by my wife. Since our aim is to
environment carefully. While reflecting these simultaneous events with textbook
old saying “WookongYeesan” that means a
make good books, the process is very
R: What about the readers’
problem,theymightbecomeawareofthetruenatureofanti-Japanesesentiment.
mannamedWoogongmovesthemountain.
detailed and it takes three months to one
reponses concerning the recently-
www.yeesan.co.kr. We started it quite early
Immediately after the hot potato textbook issue, suggestive head lines concerning
This means that only unceasing effort will
book.
published books, “Emperor of China :
comparingtothescaleofcompany.Entering
Japanappearedinsportingnewspapersdayafterday.Thatiskindof“JapaneseSecret
attainagoaleventhoughitseemssilly.Itis
K’ang-hsi”and“YongzhengEmperor”?
our homepage, you see the activated free
Camera Infringes upon Korean Women’s Rights” or “Releasing Book ‘Decadent
equall to the English proverb, “Honesty is
R:Youhaveanystandardforchoosing
K: The response is pretty good, beyond
board or review columns. We send e-mail
Korea’inJapanCausesSensation”.Andinfrontofthem,briefeditor’snotethatstarts
thebestpolicy.”
theauthororsubject?
our expectations, in fact. In the case of
our members regularly and introduce our
with“Whilerisingtheanti-Japaneseemotionconcerningthetextbookissue...”isnever
Yeesan now attempts to move the
K:Untilnow,booksconcerningJapanor
“EmperorofChina:K’ang-hsi”,ithassold
newbooks.Wesellthebooksatadiscount
missed.Ifyouhavesecondthoughts,you’llfindthewrongpointofthisnews.Thefirst
mountain with a slow but prudent manner.
Chinease are large in terms of quantity but
in big figures, taking the record among our
of50%.
clipofnewsdealtwithJapanesesecretcameraproblemsinInternet,yetweknowthat
They dream of someday their books filling
not quality. They are contrastly devided in
books.Theunusualformofbiographicallife
Japanese women also have suffered from Korean secret cameras. It is just a kind of
up the bookshelves and making a ‘book
two,theoreticalbooksorlightessays.
storymightappealtothereaders.
commercialismusingpeople’semotionoverJapan.
mountain’.
Youmightknowthebook“Japandoes’nt
Inadditiontothesportingnewsclips,amusingthingshavehappened.Afterescalating
exist”or“Japanexists”.Inmypointofview,
R: Please tell us about your way of
thetextbookstir,membersoftheinpartyandtheoutpartygaveupvisitingJapan,who
ByChoHongJoo-hee
Reporter: You said you would like to
itcannotplanttherightconsciousnessinthe
communicatingwiththereaders.
weresupposedtoseetheKoreancreateopera“HwangJin-yee”firststagedonApril16
EditorofCultureSection
make good books throughout your life.
readers’mindsinceitisveryemotional.
K: Yeesan has a homepage at
in commemoration of 2002 Korea-Japan world cup. Famous singer Kim Sung Jip
insertedthesceneburningupthenationalflagofJapaninhismusicvideo.
ThesephenomenasuggestthatKoreans’anti-Japanesefeelingsaredeeplyrootedin
Reviewingfilms:Girlfightvs.BillyElliot
hatredandemotionalraterthanrational.Asthebeeradsays,“InevermissKorea-Japan
footballmatch”,Koreans’emotionoverJapanisquiteinteresting.Koreanshavemany
imagesonJapan.Forinstance,it’saverycommonthoughtthatthereasonforJapanese
OpenMindBreakdownFixedGenderRole
kindnessisbecauseoftheirshrewdness.Moststereotypicalideasabputthejapaneseare
madeandreinforcedbyimagesthroughanti-Japaneseeducationorvariousmedia.And
someofthesearehighlyirrational.
It’stimethatKoreansshedtheiroldhabitsofrespondingwithunreasonableemotion.
I.Sameanswerliesintwomovies.
in boxing. With the support of her brother,
Surely Japan’s way of glorifying its military past is irrational. At the same time,
S
tarting from April 15th till 22nd, The
lover and trainer, she becomes the gym’s
however,Koreanswhoarewildlyexcitedatthethird-ratenovelsaying“nuclearbomb
Third Women’s Film Festival in Seoul
first female champion. Billy also comes to
totheJapanland!”areneversaidtoberational.Overcomingtheseemotionalaspects
held. During the festival, many women’s
foster her ability with his father’s active
towardsJapanwouldconsequentlybethebestpolicyforJapan’sfalsehood.
films,whichdealtwithvariousaspectsoflife
support after his father happens to see his
through women’s eyes, were screened.
dancing. From then, they rush into their
Especially attention-grabbing this year were
goals at an exhilarating speed with their
ByChoHongJoo-hee
films that portrayed women that challenged
supporters.
EditorofCultureSection
testosterone-filled realm of sports. Among
them, Karyn Kusama’s film “Girlfight”
IV. Are you sure you have no
prejudices?
showed a high school girl’s story which
came to find the new world of her life by
When last year “Girfight” released in
comingincontactwithboxing.
USA, it is said to that Karyn Kusama, a
A female boxer is a stranger to general
director of “Girlfight” got angry more after
people with one-sided stereotypes. Most of
releasing the film. Because the press
people think that boxing is an only men’s
evaluated the film as a movie, which dealt
KamEun-jin/TheArgus
sports.SowerepeoplearoundthegirlDiana,
withjustaromancebetweenawomananda
including her father and her brother, her
man, though she focused on a woman who
trainerandetc.Despiteherstrongwilltobe
expresses her suppressed desire through
aboxer,sheoftenrunupagainstdifficulties,
boxing.
however, she realizes her desire in the end.
Dianainthismovie,notonlyrealizesher
Thenwhatledhertosuccess?
sports,boxing.
hisfatherandbrother,hestickstohisbelief.
own dream of boxer but also shows that
Hereisanothermoviethathavethesame
Billy Elliot, a boy eager for ballet in
Billy’sfatherthinksthatonlywomendance
boxingisnotagenderspecificthingifthere
answertothatquestion-“BillyElliot”.This
contrarytoDiana,islivinginacoaltownin
balletandmenwhodanceballetareallgays.
areastrongwillandanenoughability.Also
A
team
of
is a story about a poor miner’s son, Billy
England with a father, a brother and a
Charmed with their new world, the boxing
Billy’s dancing scene shows the powerful
Cosplayers is
Elliotwhocomestorealizehisdreamtobea
grandmother. In the town, there are
and the ballet, Diana and Billy choose
beauty of man’s ballet forming a contrast
playing a scene
ballerino, with a coal town in England as a
continuallyfiercedemonstrationsofstriking
readily the thorny way to break down the
withthesceneofthecoinworker’sstruggles.
of a Japanese
setting.Billyalsoexperiencesdifficultiestill
coal miners. Parents in that town let boys
wall between gender specific things. The
This seems to present a breaking of
animation.
becomingaballerinoduetotheprejudiceof
learn boxing, girls learn a ballet. Despite a
reasonisthattheyreallywanttodothem.
traditional man’s ideal for which the
society. By the same virtue with that of
serious poverty, Billy’s father also sends
industrialsocietyhasrequiredtolaborers.
KamEun-jin/TheArgus
III.Affectionatesupportscheerthem.
“Girlfight”, however, Billy was able to
Billy to a boxing gym. Though the
Thesetwomoviestellsussuccessfulstory
appear on the screen as mature ballerino in
surroundings are different from that of
Thoughtheymadegreateffortstorealize
ofovercomingprejudiceongenderrole.One
thefinalsceneofthemovie.
“Girlfight”, both Billy’s father and Diana’s
their dreams, it would have been hard to
of the most important elements was their
father have a similar stereotyped idea on
achive their goals without affectionate
strongwilltorealizetheirowndreams.But
II.Hardwaystorealizetheirunusual
gender role in the fact that Diana’s father
supports of those around them. Enduring
thereasonwhytheycouldovercomesucha
dreams
also put his son to boxing gym despite
hard trainings, Diana is accepted her
stereotype lies in people who helped and
A girl glares at the audience with hot
poverty.
possibility by her trainer. Her trainer who
cheered them. Without those affectionate
angry eyes. She seems to be filled with
Both Diana and Billy come to know
said that boxing is a men’s sports changes
supports, they maybe cannot achieve their
discontentaboutsociety.Takingnonoticeof
boxingorballetbychance.Diana,whohad
his utterance and said to her, “Women can
goals no matter how their abilities are
A boy in girl’s
her, people inside screen passes by her. As
gonetoboxinggymtopayforherbrother’s
also do boxing well.” Besides, she falls in
excellent.Perhaps,theremaybepeoplelike
costume
is
her face becomes more zoomed in on, the
trainingfee,decidestobeaboxer.However,
love with a boxer in the same gym and
Diana and Billy around us. Which one will
dancing before
fiercer her eyes come out. This is the first
peopleincludingherfatherwouldnotaccept
receives many help from him. Billy also
you give them between the affectionate
audience.
sceneof“Girlfight”.Inthismovie,aheroine
her determination. Even a trainer in gym
comestolearntheballetforfreebyaballet
supportandtheprejudicedeye?
Dianawithafierytempercannotbebeyond
refuses her, saying “Boxing is a men’s
teacherwhorecognizeshisgiftandadesire
her control. At school, she often strikes
sports”.InthecaseofBilly,asaballetclass
fortheballet.
BeingLeaguedWithinComics
someone without repressing her anger and
cometoliebesidehisboxinggym,hecannot
As such their efforts bear fruit, even
wasbrandedaproblemchild.Oneday,such
help falling into a ballet according to his
people who opposed their determinations
ByKamEun-jin
a rough girl gains acquaintance with the
latent ability inherited from his late mother.
begintosupportthem.Diana’sbrothergives
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O
world of a boxing and falls into the macho
Thoughheiscaughttakingaballetlessonby
histrainingfeetoDianaforheisnointerest
n the afternoon of April 8th, young people in extraordinary clothes were seen
aroundYouidostation.Therewereagirlwearingalouddressandalsoaboyin
an armor and etc. Some passersby could not take their eyes off them with curiosity.
ExpressingTrueMeaningofFeministicValuesThroughFilms
Keepingupwiththem,tremendouscrowdsofpeoplewhoarewearingtheclothesof
charactersinthecomicswerefillingthefrontofSeoulYouidoExhibition.Justthatday,
TheSecondACAComicFairwastakingplaceatSeoulYouidoExhibition.
T
he opening ceremony of the 3rd
they have reached beyond Asia. The films
with the recent films, there was “A Special
“Koryu; Southern Women, South Korea”
ACA(AmateurComicsAssociation)iscomposedofamateurcomicscirclesoverthe
Women’s Film Festival In Seoul
being introduced come from 15 different
Exhibition of Agnes Varda” containing the
whichlastedfor75minutes.Asthisfilmwas
countryandtheyholdACAComicFairwhichpublicizethemandselltheirbulletins
(WFFIS)washeldonApril15thattheDong
countriesinCentralandSouthAmericaand
filmsoftheleadingseniordirectorofFrance.
madedigitally,itoffersnotonlyanexample
andfancygoodstwiceayear.Thiseventswereheldfrom7thtill8thfortwodays.
-soong Art Center. Organized by the
Asia in addition to those from the US and
Then, “Exhibition of contemporary
of technical experimentation but also an
Theinsideoftheeventhallwasalsobustledwithspectatorsandeachcomiccircle’s
FeministsArtistsNetworkandsponsoredby
Europe.
Taiwanese women directors”, “polemics
alternative for the expansion of women’s
booth. The highlights of this festival were a “Cosplay (Costume play)” competition.
the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, the
Beforethemainceremonywasheld,there
section on the subject of women under
films.
Cosplayers who mainly assume the costume of a Japanese animation, “X”, “Tokyo
CityofSeoul,KoreanFilmCommissionand
was a performance on “Women’s Dream”,
gunfire”, “Korean cinema Retrospective”,
Not only these, the WFFIS has organised
Babylon”andetc.appearedonthestageanddisplayedtheirability.Theydidnotonly
KBS, the Women’s Film Festival screened
showing true beauty with the formality and
proposing alternatives for feminist activism
other events such as the “International
dressastheirowncharactersinthecomicsbutalsoplaythepartofthem.
67filmsfromApril15thto22nd.
artificiality removed “Whisper” revealing
the “Feminist Film and Video Activism
Forum for Women Filmmakers in Asia”
During the performance, spectators sometimes laughed and sometimes send up
Thisyear’sfestivalwassignificantinthat
power and delicacy. Then the films which
Communities” and “Asia Short Film and
providing an opportunity for women
rousing cheers, comparing the performance with the original. This ACA Comic Fair
ByKamEun-jin/TheArgus
it was funded also by the government and
weredividedinto7sectionswasintroduced.
VideoCompetition”followed.
filmmakerstomeetandnetwork.
wasindeedthefestivalofamateursofcomics.
ByKimNa-hyun/TheArgus
along with the increased number of films,
Starting with “New Currents” organized
The opening ended with the film called

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