Famous Quotes
"We must become human. We must become women, too, but first we must become human"
Bak Yeong-chae (heroine of Mujeong)
This hobby was extremely popular among Korean school girls, both with boys and with other girls.
writing letters or love letters
This young woman's life was the basic model for the main character in "Gyeongheui"
Na Hye-seok
Hye-seok's family was wealthy enough to send Hye-seok here to study Western-style painting.
Tokyo (사립여자미술학교)
This is the translation of the French word "fauve"
wild
" ...I was your little skylark, your doll, ... Torvald--...it dawned upon me that for eight years I had been living here with a strange man, and had borne him three children. .. As I am now, I am no wife for you."
Nora (in Ibsen's A Doll's House)
During the 1920s, this group copied the girls students' school uniforms and fashions, causing a social panic because in apperancethe two groups were becoming indistinguishable
gisaeng
Gyeong-heui reflects this ideology almost universally popular in Korea in the 1910s.
Enlightenment (계몽주의)
Hye-seok painted some figure paintings, but mostly painted this kind of composition.
landscapes
Katyuschya, the heroine of this Russian play based on Tolstoy's hugely popular novel, was first played in Japan by the same actress who first played the part of Nora, the heroine of "The Doll's House", in that country.
Resurrection
Hye-seok called this a "hobby"
female chastity
This musical behavior by Korean girl students was considered "disgusting" by many Koreans during the 1920s
singing popular songs in public
Gyeongheui quotes Chinese philosopher Yen Hui, who said "one can find happiness in a small amount of water in a guord" and a handful of this.
rice
This modern painting style, characterized in stark red, blue and green colors, influenced Hye-seok's painting style during her period of study in Paris.
Fauvism/ the Fauves
In the English translation of "Gyeong-hui", representing "nyang" for 량, 냥 , is an example of this translation technique
borrowing
This feminist famously proclaimed "Woman is the sun!"
Hiratsuka Riuchou
This magazine was the most popular girl's magazine under Cultural Policy, to which many men also contributed articles.
New Woman (Sin yeosong)
This word describes Lady Kim's attitude to Gyeongheui's desire to further her education and postpone marriage to Sunam.
ambivalence
Hye-seok studied at this artist's atelier in Montparnasse in Paris
Roger Bissiere
In the English translation of "Gyeong-heui", representing "white rice cake" and "bean-jam rice cake" for 흰떡 and 개피떡 is an example of this translation technique.
adaptation
"If we live only for food, we are dumb animals, not human beings"
Gyeong-heui
Among 10,000, 50,000 and 100,000, the number of girl students in the 1920s attending modern schools, out of a total female population of 8,600,000 in Korea.
50,000
= .6% of female population in Korea
The short story "Gyeong-heui" was first published in this magazine in 1918, whose now-missing first issue of probably contained Gim Myeong-sun's first short story.
Woman's World (Yeoja-gye)
In 1922, Na Hye-seok was one of only three Korean oil painters, including Go Heui-dong, who contributed to this event, held for the first time that year. There was no prize.
Korea Art Exhibition (조선미술전람회, 선전)
the name for a painter (artist)'s workroom, borrowed from French
atelier