An Affair with Korea: Memories of South Korea in the 1960s

List of Illustrations

Illustrations Maps Map 1.1 Map of South Korea 10 Map 1.2 Map of Sŏkp’o 12 Figures Figure 2.1 The men repairing irrigation dikes. Makkŏlli will follow. (April 26, 1966) 25 Figure 4.1 Roof ceremony. Learning to enjoy ceremonial drinking. (1966) 68 Figure 4.2 My first ethnological experience of village-wide cooperation— house building. (1966) 68 Figure 4.3 My $300 house. A neighbor is harvesting soybeans. My thin straw roof is an indication of the newness of the house. (1966) 70 Figure 4.4 Looking northwest, threshing rice on an unirrigated rice field. (1966) 70 Figure 5.1 Mun lineage women returning from the well. Adolescent girl wears Western-style clothes. (1966) 79 Figure 6.1 A member of the Yi lineage singing (chanting) sijo into the tape recorder. (1966) 88 Figure 7.1 Making a new sail on my veranda; cheap family labor. (Kim and Richie, 1966) 104 Figure 7.2 One of the village’s “weighty” men. (1966) 113 Figure 8.1 Women in white; Death anniversary of parent. Afterwards there will be feasting and drinking and sometimes dancing. (1966) 123 Figure 8.2 Pirate engaged in ceremonial activity. (1966) 123 Figure 8.3 I was kept busy supplying formal photographs of aging couples and individuals to serve as focal points at ceremonies after their death. (1966) 124 Figure 8.4 “Breakfast” after midnight ancestor ceremony. Village head (drinking) and fellow Yi lineage members at an ancestor worship ceremony. (1966) 124 Figure 9.1 Boat “play” (paennori); author at the helm. (1966) 145 Figure 9.2 Boat “play”; mixing it up. (1966) 145 Figure 11.1 Looking south across the salt pans down the coast from my house; Yellow Sea on the right. (1966) 175 Figure 11.2 Photo of the passengers on the Samhae Ho. This is the boat that we took to Inch’ŏn. (1966) 178 Figure 12.1 Low tide showing mud as far as one can see. (1966) 194 Figure 12.2 The roof was damaged in a southwest storm, and the men are hurrying to complete repairs before bad weather returns. (November, 1966) 203 Figure 12.3 Stone commemoration of author’s time in Korea, photo taken in 1966. On my return to Sŏkp’o twenty-five years later in 1992, the stele was still upright but badly overgrown. 206 Figure 13.1 Looking east over the Big Hamlet. My house is in the clump of trees in the middle of the photo. (1966) 209 Figure 14.1 These are oyster racks, the source of contemporary prosperity. (1992) 219 Figure 14.2 Sŏkp’o’s motorized fleet twenty-five years later. (1992) 225 Figure 14.3 Rice harvester/combine. (1992) 233 Figure 14.4 One of Sŏkp’o’s “rich” men. He sent his son to college in Seoul. (1992) 233 Figure 14.5 Impromptu makkŏlli party on path between Fourth and Fifth hamlets. This one ended up with solo dancing by the woman at extreme left. (1992) 235 ...