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...Han Ma-Eum was founded in 1990 and has participated in Arts First every year since. Its name means “One Heart,” though Jennifer J. Ahn ’04, one of the three co-leaders of the troupe, remarks that “Han” has a double meaning, denoting “Korean” more generally...
...pieces have been modernized for today’s audiences, both by the troupe and by a developing Korea. At each of the troupe’s performances, Han Ma-Eum will select one or two pieces from its standard repertoire, which includes such traditional and modern works as “Young mam” (originally a celebration of the harvest, Ahn says), “Yong ho” and “Utdari”—rhythmic music...
Dance has no place in Han Ma-Eum’s repertoire, as the dance that accompanies Korean drums is usually traditional. Although the troupe practices weekly, each of its rehearsed compositions includes room for improvisation—mostly on the kwaenggari and the janggo—and so no two performances are alike...
...mainland China except for Guangdong, Beijing's latest directives, including one stipulating that all needy SARS victims receive subsidized medical care, have yet to make a difference. In the sooty provincial capital of Taiyuan, where the average monthly income is just $60, the family of an infected student surnamed Han has had to fork over $240 in medical fees for four days' care. "The government has underinvested in health in the last 20 years, leaving it to individuals to pay the bills," says Bekedam...
...into this sorry isolation ward that 20-year-old Shanxi student Han was admitted last week, accompanied by his sister and her boyfriend, who came to take care of him. The boyfriend, surnamed Liang, remembers asking a nurse for a mask to wear around the crowded ward, but he was curtly told to go out and buy his own because the hospital had no money to provide extras. More worrisome, Liang had dozed overnight in a chair next to five relatives of a man who was dying of SARS. By last Wednesday, all five family members had come down with...