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Article: Tea Talks With Foreign Wives; Poetry Rendition Helps Understand Korean Sentiments.
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- Korea Times (Seoul, Korea)
- Article date:
- March 13, 2000
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After five year's stay in Korea, Mrs. Ruth Arazi, wife of the Israeli Ambassador to Korea Ariel Arazi, is confident of her understanding about the Korean people.
``Until you read the literature, you cannot see the inner side of Koreans. Now I can feel the emotions of Koreans and their historical sufferings through my exposure to Korean poetry.''
``Korean shamanism, Buddhism and personal existence in nature comes into full expression in the nation's lyric poems,'' the author and teacher said.
Through her efforts, a book of 60 Korean poems translated into Hebrew will be published in her native country this summer. The Korea-Israeli Women's ...