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University Daily Kansan
Friday. Nov. 22, 1963
Korean Journalist Attributes U.S. Unity to Common Language
A visiting Korean representative said last night that he sees the United States as a vast country composed of many different kinds of people and amazingly united by a common language.
Kang Hwa Young, an information specialist with the U.S. Information Agency (USIA) in Seoul, Korea, said he believed that a single language used in the United States is a great advantage which the country has over other large countries of the world.
KANG IS A PRESS liaison representative with the USIA. He works to promote a better understanding between the United States and Korea through the Korean press. Each year, the USIA chooses certain employees to send to the United States to obtain a firsthand view of this country. Kang is one of 12 representatives chosen this year to represent the Far East. He will be at KU through Monday.
Kang said he found the United States to be a land of almost unbelievable abundance.
"It is impossible to visualize America," Kang said. "One must see it for himself to understand it."
KANG SAID THAT his profession, journalism, is in an embryonic stage of development. He said newspapers in Korea were so expensive to publish they usually had to be published by a big corporation as a sideline.
He said the papers are advertising instruments for the parent company and their content is, of course, regulated to some degree by the corporation.
"One of the biggest reasons for the high cost of newspaper printing in Korea," Kang said, "is that the language used in the papers does not permit the use of the Linotype or other typesetting device. The language used in the newspaper includes both Chinese and Korean characters and the Chinese characters must set by hand. This means the newspaper must keep huge selections of type on hand and this makes the costs of publishing very high."
KANG SAID ONLY two schools
of journalism exist in Korea and these schools are not yet completely accepted by Korean professional journalists.
Kang visited the Haskell Indian Institute yesterday. He said he found he had a lot to learn about the American Indian. He said all of he knew about Indians was what he had seen in American western motion pictures.
"American pictures," Kang said, "give a distorted view of life in America."
BEFORE COMING to Lawrence,
Kang visited Washington, D.C.; New
York City; several cities in the South
Focus on Keats At Poetry Hour
Proof that a person can achieve his greatest success in early life was illustrated by the poetry of John Keats yesterday at the Poetry Hours in the Kansas Union.
Natalie Calderwood, associate professor of English, read poems by Keats.
The poet, she said, was born in 1795, and died at the age of 25, in 1821. His major works were written in 1819, when he was 23.
In the period when Keats wrote most of his poems, he was known for his skill at producing convincing images and strong sensory impressions. Today he is considered a poet of intellect, as well.
Keats should be appealing to people of college age because he was a successful poet at such an early age, and students tend to identify with him, Mrs. Calderwood said. The poet died of consumption after nursing his brother Tom through the same illness.
Hhis poetry does not show the desire for pitty, but often tends to be melancholy.
Mrs. Calderwood described his poetry as a young man's search for something worthwhile in life, a search which could be called a search for truth.
and an agricultural area in Minnesota.
Kang said he thought the KU campus was attractive and had excellent facilities. He remarked, however, that students must have some difficulty in climbing the hill to get to classes.
After leaving KU, Kang will spend several days observing activities in the office of the Lawrence Daily Journal-World. He will then resume his tour of the United States.
Official Bulletin
Jewish Community Center Services,
715 p.m. 917 Highland Drive.
Refreshments
Foreign students sign up for Topeak College. Dean Conn's office, 228 Strong.
Catholic Mass, 5 p.m. St. Lawrence Chapel, 1910 Stratford Road.
TODAY
Dave Schichtle is better known on the KU campus as a varsity basketball player, but the Coffeville junior recently won the intramurals badminton singles title.
Basketball Player Likes Badminton, Too
IVCF "squash", 7:30 p.m., 1213 Kentucky. "Was Jesus Christ a Failure?" Episcopal Evening Prayer, 9:30 p.m. Danforth.
Schichtls, representing Sigma Nu, defeated Darry Wade, an independent, 15-5 and 15-7 for the championship.
Other winners in fall individual intramural sports competition:
People-to-People — International Club Bristol, 8 p.m. National Guard Armory
TOMORROW
Catholic Masses, 6:45 a.m. 5 p.m.
Lincoln Chapel, 1910 Stratford Road.
Confederate Memorial.
SUNDAY
Catholic Masses 8 a.m. 8 a.m. Lawrence
Catholic Church 8 a.m. Road. 9:30 and
11 a.m. Fraser Theater.
Oread Friends Meeting, 10:30 a.m.
Doralhill, for this Quaker meeting, for worship.
SUA Chess Club, 2 p.m., Kansas Union.
Badminton doubles—Ludy Harmon and Mike Hits, Sigma Alpha Epsilon; golf—Harry Corbin, Delta Upson; handball—Kenneth Shumate, Romans; handball doubles—Charles Killian and Clark Halderman, Phi Psi; tennis—Bill Terry, Phi Psi; tennis doubles—Charles Killian and Bill Terry, Phi Psi.
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