{
  "id": 9641043,
  "title": "Joseon court dancer crossed to Paris; Pansori singer brings her home",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/24/joseon-court-dancer-crossed-to-paris-pansori-singer-brings-her-home-9641043",
  "topic": "culture",
  "section": "Culture",
  "published": "2026-09-24T22:42:04.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Korea Times",
    "slug": "the-korea-times-koreatimes",
    "url": "https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/lifestyle/arts-theater/20260925/joseon-court-dancer-crossed-to-paris-pansori-singer-brings-her-home"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Lee Jin, known as Li-Tsin in French records, was a dancer in the final years of the Joseon Dynasty (1392-1910). According to a 1904 memoir by Hippolyte Frandin, the second minister to Korea, she traveled to Paris in the 1890s with a French diplomat as her lover. However, scholars have questioned the accuracy of Frandin's account. Shin Jin-won, a pansori singer, began her own story about Li-Tsin based on this limited source. She found inspiration and support in director Lee Wang-soo, who expanded her world beyond her initial imagination. On September 12, Shin performed \"Li-Tsin: A Woman Without a Name,\" a tribute to the woman with almost no historical record.",
  "summary": "Almost nothing survives of Lee Jin, the woman a French memoir records as \"Li-Tsin.\" A court dancer in the final years of the 1392-1910 Joseon Dynasty, she is said to have sailed to Paris in the 1890s with her lover, a French diplomat, then returned to a country that no longer had a place for her. The record rests almost entirely on a single source: \"En Coree\" a memoir published in 1904 by…",
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      {
        "outlet": "The Korea Times",
        "title": "Joseon court dancer crossed to Paris; Pansori singer brings her home",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/24/joseon-court-dancer-crossed-to-paris-pansori-singer-brings-her-home",
        "published": "2026-09-24T22:22:03.000Z"
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}