December 2010
Greetings from one of our
KMLA 4th-Wave-Ivy Alumni
Lee Sorim (Columbia)
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Ms Park Hye Seon, Teacher, Shares with us a message she received
from 4th-Wave Ivy Alumna, Lee So-Rim :
Sunflowers – by Lee So-Rim
from Violent Delights to Violent Ends > A Study in Movement
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ma in text and performance blog — So-Rim Lee is studying on the MA in Text and Performance course run by Birkbeck and RADA.
Published Wednesday 01/12/10
Violent delights to violent ends. The line has quite overwhelmingly and consistently been the theme throughout my first term in M.A. Text and Performance. Not only as a newcomer to RADA but also as one of the first generation of students in the course newly refurbished, being jointly held with Birkbeck College starting this year, I am enjoying the cream-of-the-crop succulence both schools have to offer; attending classes at Virginia Woolf’s former residence (without being aware of the fact for the first full month), running around in studios with archaic pianos and walls haunted with memories, and consuming food on the corridors pregnant with voices trailing out from RADA choir practice already preparing for a grand Bacchic celebration of Christmas looming ahead…
Continue reading –> http://www.rada.ac.uk/watch-read-listen/blogs/ma-text-performance-blog
4기 이소림 양에게 기쁜 소식이 와서
이메일 중 일부 내용을 추려서 드립니다^^*
소림이는 미국 콜롬비아 대학교를 졸업하고
2010년 영국 Royal Academy of Dramatic Art 에 진학했습니다.
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전 RADA에서 월요일부터 토요일까지 하루에 5시간씩 연극 리허설을 하고 3시간씩 수업을 듣고, 밤에는 런던의 공연들을 보러 다닌지 이제 석달이 되었네요.
오늘 이른 오후에는 합창단 공연이 있어서 노래연습도 많이 했습니다.
이곳에 와서 한 개의 discipline에 치우치지 않고 이런저런 분야를 탐구할 수 있어서 참 좋아요.
한 예로, 제가 Royal Academy of Dramatic Art의 홈페이지에 공부하는 코스에 대한 블로그를 연재하게 되었습니다.
어제 (12월 1일 런던시각) 올라온 블로그의 주소를 첨부합니다:
RADA So-Rim Lee blog:
http://www.rada.ac.uk/watch-read-listen/blogs/ma-text-performance-blog
그리고, RADA의 마케팅 본부를 위해 사진을 찍게 되었습니다.
평소 사진에 관심이 많고 제 개인 웹사이트 또한 글과 사진의 포트폴리오인 만큼, 전속 사진사(?)가 되어 제 이름을 걸고 사진을 출판할 수 있게 되어 참 기쁩니다.
RADA의 다양한 모습들과 리허설 장면들 등의 사진을 실은 링크 또한 첨부합니다:
http://www.so-rimlee.com/rada-fall2010
또
1. 제가 2005년에 썼던 시 “Human Solstice”가 San Francisco-based literary magazine인Conceit Magazine의 AMULET이라는 호에 실리게 되었습니다.
아주 작은 publication이긴 하지만 Quarterly magazine이라서 내년 1월에 실리게 되면 그 때 링크를 보내드리겠습니다.
2. 제가 찍은 여섯 장의 사진들이 New York City-based art magazine인 Brink Magazine에도 실리게 되었습니다.
역시 Quarterly magazine이라서 내년 1월호에 실리게 됩니다. 그 때 또 링크를 보내드리겠습니다.http://www.brinklit.com
바쁘지만 참으로 소중한 시간을 보내고 있습니다.
오늘, 지도교수님께서 Ph.D.를 할 의향이 있냐고 제게 물어보셨어요.
그러고보니 벌써 가을학기가 2주 남짓 남았다는 생각에 오싹했습니다.
저는 현재 Ph.D.를 Research Program으로 offer하는
Royal College of Art – Ph.D. in PhotographyCentral School of Speech and Drama – Ph.D. in Site Specific Theatre또는 Columbia University의 저널리즘 스쿨에 관심을 갖고 있습니다.
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For more on, about, around, inside, through Ms Lee So-Rim, hit the following links
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October 2010
Greetings from one of our first KMLA-Ivy Alumni
Jeong JuHyun (Stanford)
McKinsey could not hold him.
Dear Mr. Johnson,
Hope this finds you well. Thank you for including me in some of your recent emails. I was happy to find out that you have returned to KMLA as it is difficult for me, and I’m sure for many others as well, to imagine a KMLA without a Mr. Johnson.
I have to give you a bit of an update as I realize my emails to you are not as frequent as I would want them to be.
I moved to Phnom Penh, Cambodia a bit over half a year ago as my new job with the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) posted me here. It is a two-year post, so I will be here for another 1.5 years. I am quite enjoying my work as it is closer to what I am more interested and passionate about, in comparison to my previous job at McKinsey. You probably know, but WFP is a humanitarian organization that focuses on “food assistance”. I am in the food security analysis unit, meaning that I have to find out about the hunger situation in Cambodia: where are the hungry, how many, who, why, and how can we alleviate some of the “food insecurity”. This feeds into the programme unit, which designs and implements food aid programs.
Anyway, that was my attempt at briefly describing my new job. The main news I wanted to share with you is that I am getting married at the end of this year! I proposed to my girlfriend (now fiancee) several months ago and we recently set a date for our wedding. We would be most honored to have you at the wedding, if you will be in Seoul on the evening of December 28. I am hoping that many KMLA family from my time will be there so that it will be something of a reunion as well.
I have yet to travel to KMLA with Collette (my fiancee — her Korean name is Youjung) but hope to make the journey in the near future. I have many stories to share with you and, as always, look forward to your stories from the past couple of years. I realize it’s been three or four years since Mr. Yuk and I made the journey to Gapyung.
I hope the transition back to Sosa has been smooth for you and your family.
Much love and respect,
Juhyun
PS — [In the photo] Collette and myself taken earlier this year in New York.
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(Johnson)
Wow, Congratulations!
If I am still in Korea around Wedding time, I certainly hope to make my way to that great event. You are truly an inspiration to me, as ever you were. I do remember your expressing a need to move on from the McKinsey experience… I think the last exchange we had was on the situation in Darfur. I sure do look forward to hearing more about what has been happening in your life since last we met.
In the meantime, I wonder if you would mind my posting the gist of your message in this previous email on a blog I have set up for my current KMLA classes. Even so brief a testimony from one of the 1st “Ivy” students–to Stanford, Military, McKinsey, to Phnom Penh–would rock some fresh-sprouting worlds, here. If you do mind, I will not post. Otherwise, I would like to share with my students this beautiful picture and the wonderful straight-forward remarks that frame it.
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(Jeong JuHyun)
Great to hear from you Mr. Johnson!
Of course I don’t mind! Am thinking to myself… would have been pretty cool when I was in high school to hear about some of the things alumni were doing. Yes, I actually did apply to be posted in Darfur, but my application was rejected because security costs were too high and exceeded my program’s budget. I’m actually very glad that Darfur did not work out because then I would not be inviting you to my wedding.
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So wonderful to hear from Juhyun! I have only (very) good memories of him, and am proud that he seems to have focused on the turn that twists the rock that feeds into the mountain that moves him to roll the world over…or so it rocks from afar!
I wonder if I too can make the trip to Seoul that December 28 day…
Mr Moon
Actually, I had a chance to meet him during last year’s vacation!
He was one of my advisor(Ms. Jung, French teacher)’s best students.
Anyway, my advisor arranged a meeting with him. Eun-gee and I (we were both Ms.Jung’s Advisees) could meet him at one cafe in Seoul.
He answered to all of our questions very kindly, not showing any sign of distraction or annoyance.
I was very grateful that our school had a great alumni like him
I also hope to become a respectful senior to all the juniors of KMLA in the future!