Post by TheBo on May 31, 2004 20:23:14 GMT -5
Here's the first thing:
'By the time of King Sejong (r. 1418-50), prostitution came to dominate the life of kisaeng.'
www.icasinc.org/s2000/s2000css.html
Hmmm. No so good.
Second:
'During the half millennium long rein of the Chosôn Dynasty in Korea (1392-1910), there was a cl-a-s-s of women whose fate was both appalling and seductive. The kisaeng, sometimes translated as "skilled women" were selected from early age for their beauty, given extensive education in poetry, music, the arts, and dance, trained in the skills of courtesanship, and then a-s-signed as professional entertainers to the court, the high government bureaucracy, and even distant military outposts. Social outcasts unacceptable to Confucian mores, the kisaeng were often little more than prostitutes, and never attained any semblance of status in society. Even the few hundred sijo (three-line poem) they authored were preserved in spite of them by admiring males. Destined forever to fall in love and never able to retain a lover, the kisaeng wrote some of the most exquisite, if simple, lines to convey their pain.'
www.gotterdammerung.org/books/reviews/s/songs-of-the-kisaeng.html
Hmmmmmm. No so good again.
'The female physicians who treated female patients (because male physicians were forbidden to examine them) constituted another important group of women. Sometimes they acted as spies or policewomen because they could get into the female quarters of a house. [NOTE-I just included that because it applies to JG - Bo] Still another group of women were the kisaeng. Some kisaeng, or entertainers, were merely prostitutes; but others, like their Japanese counterparts the geisha, were talented musicians, dancers, painters, and poets and interacted on nearly equal terms with their male patrons. The kisaeng tradition perpetuated one of the more dubious legacies of the Confucian past: an extreme double standard concerning the sexual behavior of married men and women that still persists.'
reference.allrefer.com/country-guide-study/south-korea/south-korea68.html
Better, definitely better...
I continue my studies.
Bo
'By the time of King Sejong (r. 1418-50), prostitution came to dominate the life of kisaeng.'
www.icasinc.org/s2000/s2000css.html
Hmmm. No so good.
Second:
'During the half millennium long rein of the Chosôn Dynasty in Korea (1392-1910), there was a cl-a-s-s of women whose fate was both appalling and seductive. The kisaeng, sometimes translated as "skilled women" were selected from early age for their beauty, given extensive education in poetry, music, the arts, and dance, trained in the skills of courtesanship, and then a-s-signed as professional entertainers to the court, the high government bureaucracy, and even distant military outposts. Social outcasts unacceptable to Confucian mores, the kisaeng were often little more than prostitutes, and never attained any semblance of status in society. Even the few hundred sijo (three-line poem) they authored were preserved in spite of them by admiring males. Destined forever to fall in love and never able to retain a lover, the kisaeng wrote some of the most exquisite, if simple, lines to convey their pain.'
www.gotterdammerung.org/books/reviews/s/songs-of-the-kisaeng.html
Hmmmmmm. No so good again.
'The female physicians who treated female patients (because male physicians were forbidden to examine them) constituted another important group of women. Sometimes they acted as spies or policewomen because they could get into the female quarters of a house. [NOTE-I just included that because it applies to JG - Bo] Still another group of women were the kisaeng. Some kisaeng, or entertainers, were merely prostitutes; but others, like their Japanese counterparts the geisha, were talented musicians, dancers, painters, and poets and interacted on nearly equal terms with their male patrons. The kisaeng tradition perpetuated one of the more dubious legacies of the Confucian past: an extreme double standard concerning the sexual behavior of married men and women that still persists.'
reference.allrefer.com/country-guide-study/south-korea/south-korea68.html
Better, definitely better...
I continue my studies.
Bo