The TV series Daejanggeum is based on the true story of Jang-geum, an apprentice cook that became the first female royal physician of the Joseon Dynasty. Inspired by this heroine, Soohee Kim tells us her own story of perseverance and talks about the changes experienced by South Korea in the last 40 years.

1. #WMLABTALKS
Inspirational
thought provoking
lectures

2. Soohee Kim
Daejanggeum and the
impossible country
We listen to
“Walk In A Dreamy Road. DONG YI OST- by Jang Nara”
Found on alamodejournals.com

4. Why Daejanggeum? Jewel in the Palace.

5. Onara, the theme song
Found on: Freecodesource.com .

6. The country girl revolted
Photo credit: Vogue Korea, Pinterest

7. Hahoe, the wandering river village
Photo credit: http://www.blukotour.com/whatsinkorea/9144

8. Bongsan Mask Dance Drama

9. and Gyeongbuk, sister provinces
Castilla y Leon
Photo credit: CC BY-SA 3.0

10. Why “the impossible country”?
Daniel Tudor (Photo credit: Park Hae-mook/The Korea Herald)

11. Old Korea
A sentimental journey
We listen to
“Korean Lyric Song - Longing for Mt. Keumgang”

12. The Joseon Dynasty
Found on metmuseum.org

13. Daehan Jeguk, Korean Empire
Photo credit: blog.daum.net
Queen Min-bi of Korea, Empress Myeongseong (1851-
1895), was the first official wife of King Gojong, the 26th
king of the Joseon dynasty of Korea.

14. Old S(e)oul
Found on http://blog.naver.com/richchoi1000/20092649570

15. Old S(e)oul
Found on http://blog.naver.com/richchoi1000/20092649570

16. Women’s body
Korean street wear, 1906Found on digitalgallery.nypl.org

17. Women’s body
Korean women under Joseon
Dinasty.
Photo credit: Eurodollers on Flickr

18. Nostalgic S(e)oul
Geumgwangdang Photo Studio (Seoul), Choi
Seunghui (Dancer),
Gelatin Silver print, 12.5x9.6cm, 1930s.
Found on photomuseum.or.kr

19. The Korean
War
Rising from the Ashes

20. The Fratricide War
“On Veterans Day 2013, LIFE
commemorates the Korean War
with a selection of pictures -- many
of which never ran in LIFE -- by
three of the era's finest
photographers: Margaret Bourke -
White, Carl Mydans and Michael
Rougier”.
Found on life.time.com

21. The American Friend
June 25, 1950: The Korean War breaks out as
North Korea invades South Korea.
Picture: the beach at Inchon, South Korea, after
the American landing.
Photo credit: Bert Hardy on Getty Images

22. Women’s body
Village of Yon Sul Gol, 1961
Photo credit: René Barri

23. “Deathly silence”
December 4, 1950.
Thousands of refugees struggling to cross the
bridge over the Taedong River near
Pyongyang, North Korea at once.
Photo credit: Max Desfor . Found on toptenz.net

24. the Hungnam Evacuation:
“Ode to my father”

25. Korean War Victims
Korean War - HD-SN-99-03144 by
Morning Calm News.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/imcomkorea/2919551783/

26. Korean War Victims
Korean children in a war-ravaged area, Seoul,
South Korea.
Found on legrandcirque.tumblr.com

27. Marilyn, Korea, 1954
Found on tumblr.com
Found on robotcosmonaut.tumblr.com

28. Women’s body
Found on tumblr.com
Found on robotcosmonaut.tumblr.com

30. Nostalgic
S(e)oul
Just people
We listen to
Bally Rice Fields (Korean Lyric Song)

31. Nostalgic S(e)oul
1958, Seoul.
The Seoul business district, Myeong-Dong, is
lined with dry goods stalls.
Found on cksdigital.manoa.hawaii.edu
Marshall R. Pihl Collection. Center for Korean Studies Digital Archive, Manoa,
Hawaii.

32. Nostalgic S(e)oul
Seoul, late 1966 | Photo by Stephen Dreher.
Found on flickr.com

33. Nostalgic S(e)oul
Found on flickriver.com

34. Nostalgic S(e)oul
Bucheon, South Korea, 1976 by Kim Ki-Chan
Found on tumblr.com

35. Nostalgic S(e)oul
Friendship. Seoul, South Korea | Kim Ki Chan -
Photography
Found on tumblr.com

36. 70th Korea Liberation Day, 08/15,2015

37. Blade Runner
-
Photo credit:Martin Stavars

38. Soohee Kim
A heart to heart talk

39. Where do Korean Women belong?
Found on buzzfeed.com

40. The female equilibrist
Vogue Korea August 2012.
Photo credit: Kang Hyea Found on meinradyoung.com

41. HeforShe
Beijing. A woman carried away
by three men who look like Mao
Zedong.
Beijing authorities banned an art
exhibition about feminism and
domestic violence just before it
was set to open.
angjia)
Photo credit: Gao Brothers. Found on

42. Work All Day, stay out All Night
Click on: https://www.pinterest.com/pin/305259680964361456/

43. The “evil” mother -in-law:
welcome to in-law Hell?
Found on realsimple.com

44. “Tiger moms”, “Edutopia”: queuing for "the
place that even God does not know".
https://vimeo.com/ondemand/educationfever

45. How do you understand 정 (jeong)?
Photo credit: http://seoulistic.com/korean-culture/a-special-kind-of-korean-love-jeong-%EC%A0%95/

46. "We Koreans were born from the womb of
Han and brought up in the womb of Han." Poet
Ko Eun.
Photo credit: Suno Korea. DMac 5D Mark II's photos on Flickriver

47. How does Kibun mean for life and
work in Korea?
Photo credit: Janetspeier: Zasu, by Jung Man Kim on Pinterest.

48. Chemyon-Oriented Behaviors and
the idea of “face consumption.”
Louis-Vuitton-Kimono-Tote-Bag-Red. Found on bragmybag.com

49. 우리 (us) and 남 (them)

50. How do you see Korea changing
over the next 20 years?
Photo credit: Saatchi Art. "Drawing 1940," original expressionist portrait by artist Kim Byungkwan (South Korea).

51. Soohee Kim

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