forgotten dialect

mostly nostalgia for korea

[4gottendialect]

lil animation of my blunders in korea as a kid

[frankocean]

-5

[4gottendialect]

박하사탕 / Peppermint Candy (1999)

[kansassire]

Hwanyeo (1970) aka Woman of Fire, Ki-young Kim

[4gottendialect]

너무 아픈 사랑은 사랑이 아니었음을

[korean-art]

Daeryunseon (big, wheel-shaped fan)

19th century

Joseon dynasty

From the Peabody-Essex Museum.

[korean-art]

Jangdo Norigae, Silver Knife Pendant with Longevity Designs

Joseon dynasty

Knives are of two types: those for practical use and decorate accessories. Knives with chopsticks are called cheomsado, which were practical and decorative. Silver chopsticks were used to check for poison in food.

From the Sookmyung Women’s University Museum.

[4gottendialect]

WANT.

[pickypicnic]

nobody knows (2004), dir. hirokazu koreeda

[archatlas]

Moments of Life Captured on the Bus

Zhang Jia Wu captures his images almost exclusively on the bus as people let their minds and expressions wander. What makes Zhang’s photos so compelling is that each seems to show a moment rife with emotion. It’s not a snapshot, not a frame, and not an exposure… it’s a moment.

Images and adapted text via

[undr]

Henri Cartier-Bresson

Japan, Kyoto. 1965

[tenkaichibudokai]

[korean-art]

Story 6

Shin Sun Mi

2014

From Sun Contemporary.

[cinemaforester]

[actuallygrimes]

so beautiful it hurts

[andreii-tarkovsky]

Amen (2011)

Dir. Kim Ki-Duk

[erikapurringtnn]

오발탄 stray bullet (1960), yu hyun-mok

[cinexistenz]

Sympathy for Lady Vengeance - Park Chan-wook