Peace Corps Volunteers And The Making Of Korean Studies In The United States

Author : Seung-Kyung Kim,Michael Edson Robinson
Publisher : Center for Korea Studies Publications
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Korea (South)
ISBN : 0295748125

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Peace Corps Volunteers and the Making of Korean Studies in the United States by Seung-Kyung Kim,Michael Edson Robinson Pdf

"Among the scholars who have built the field of Korean studies are former Peace Corps volunteers who served in South Korea in the 1960s and 1970s before pursuing advanced degrees in anthropology, history, and literature. These scholars, who formed the core of the second generation of Korean Studies scholars in the US, reflect in this volume on their personal experience of serving during Korea's period of military dictatorship, on issues of gender and the Peace Corps experience, and on how random assignment to Korea sparked fascination and led to lifelong professional involvement with the country. Two chapters by Korean studies scholars who were not Peace Corps volunteers (one American and one Korean) assess how Peace Corps volunteers have influenced development of the field"--

Author : Joanne Miyang Cho,Lee M. Roberts,Sang Hwan Seong
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2023-11-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781003803409

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Transnationalism and Migration in Global Korea by Joanne Miyang Cho,Lee M. Roberts,Sang Hwan Seong Pdf

Contrary to the image of Korea as a largely self-contained country until its economy became global during the 1990s, this book shows that transnationalism has firmly been part of modern Korea’s national experience throughout its existence. The volume portrays Korea’s frequent transnational entanglements with other nations in East Asia and the West from the start of its annexation into the Empire of Japan in 1910 to the present day. It explores how modern Korea negotiated its complicated colonial relations with imperial Japan and its political and economic relations with the West in meeting the challenges of the globalized world. Early chapters cover the origins of Korea’s democratic republicanism among Korean immigrants in the United States, the Royal-Dutch oil industry in Korea, military hygiene and sex workers, and prisons in the Japanese empire. From the latter half of the twentieth century to the present, the book probes Cold War politics between Korea and Europe, transnational Korean communities in China, Japan, the Russian Far East, and the West, and ethnic Korean returnees from the Russian Far East. With contributions from leading international scholars, this collection’s attention to modern Korean history, economy, gender studies, and migration is ideal for upper-level undergraduates and postgraduates.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781496236043

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The Korean War Remembered by Anonim Pdf

Author : United States. Department of State
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 760 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Diplomatic and consular service, American
ISBN : OSU:32435066729906

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Department of State News Letter by United States. Department of State Pdf

Author : United States. Dept. of State
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 764 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Diplomatic and consular service, American
ISBN : UOM:39015047661072

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News Letter by United States. Dept. of State Pdf

Author : United States. Department of State
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Diplomatic and consular service, American
ISBN : MINN:30000011074196

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Newsletter by United States. Department of State Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 756 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Diplomatic and consular service, American
ISBN : STANFORD:36105009854071

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Newsletter by Anonim Pdf

Author : William Shurtleff; Akiko Aoyagi
Publisher : Soyinfo Center
Page : 1399 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2021-10-06
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781948436533

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History of Soybeans and Soyfoods in Indiana (1856-2021) by William Shurtleff; Akiko Aoyagi Pdf

The world's most comprehensive, well documented, and well illustrated book on this subject. With extensive subject and geographic index. 268 photographs and illustrations - mostly color. Free of charge in digital PDF format.

Author : William Shurtleff; Akiko Aoyagi
Publisher : Soyinfo Center
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2021-12-19
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781948436632

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History of Soybeans and Soyfoods in the Middle East (1889-2021) by William Shurtleff; Akiko Aoyagi Pdf

The world's most comprehensive, well documented, and well illustrated book on this subject. With extensive subject and geographic index. 47 photographs and illustrations - mostly color. Free of charge in digital PDF format.

Author : Charles A. Hobbie
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Korea (South)
ISBN : 1462034934

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The Time of the Monkey, Rooster, and Dog by Charles A. Hobbie Pdf

The year 1969 was a time of war in Vietnam; it was a time of peace in Korea, however, as an armistice held on the Korean peninsula, two thousand miles north of Saigon. Almost three hundred Peace Corps volunteers were serving in Korea then as teachers and health workers. In The Time of the Monkey, Rooster, and Dog, author Charles A. Hobbie details his service in Korea as a Peace Corps volunteer teaching English. It was a time of awakening for both Korea and for Hobbie. Filled with insights into the times and the people both in Korea and the Peace Corps, this memoir captures the essence of a rapidly changing nation. Hobbie narrates the experiences of his three unforgettable, challenging years in Korea from 1968 to 1971. He describes the people, streets, and markets of Daegu, the friendships and fellowship of students and fellow teachers, the rugged mountain ranges, the exuberance of Korean drumming and dancing, and the laughter and kindness of Korean families. Told through the eyes of a young Peace Corps volunteer, this firsthand account provides a look at the early years of Korea's transformation while telling Hobbie's own life-changing story.

Author : Molly Geidel
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2015-09-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781452945262

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Peace Corps Fantasies by Molly Geidel Pdf

To tens of thousands of volunteers in its first decade, the Peace Corps was “the toughest job you’ll ever love.” In the United States’ popular imagination to this day, it is a symbol of selfless altruism and the most successful program of John F. Kennedy’s presidency. But in her provocative new cultural history of the 1960s Peace Corps, Molly Geidel argues that the agency’s representative development ventures also legitimated the violent exercise of American power around the world and the destruction of indigenous ways of life. In the 1960s, the practice of development work, embodied by iconic Peace Corps volunteers, allowed U.S. policy makers to manage global inequality while assuaging their own gendered anxieties about postwar affluence. Geidel traces how modernization theorists used the Peace Corps to craft the archetype of the heroic development worker: a ruggedly masculine figure who would inspire individuals and communities to abandon traditional lifestyles and seek integration into the global capitalist system. Drawing on original archival and ethnographic research, Geidel analyzes how Peace Corps volunteers struggled to apply these ideals. The book focuses on the case of Bolivia, where indigenous nationalist movements dramatically expelled the Peace Corps in 1971. She also shows how Peace Corps development ideology shaped domestic and transnational social protest, including U.S. civil rights, black nationalist, and antiwar movements.

Author : William Shurtleff; Akiko Aoyagi
Publisher : Soyinfo Center
Page : 978 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2021-05-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781948436397

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History of Soybeans and Soyfoods in Korea (544 CE to 2021) by William Shurtleff; Akiko Aoyagi Pdf

The world's most comprehensive, well documented, and well illustrated book on this subject. With extensive subject and geographic index. 144 photographs and illustrations. Free of charge in digital PDF format.

Author : William Shurtleff,Akiko Aoyagi
Publisher : Soyinfo Center
Page : 4016 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2013-05
Category : Soyfoods
ISBN : 9781928914556

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History of Tofu and Tofu Products (965 CE to 2013) by William Shurtleff,Akiko Aoyagi Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 642 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015015464715

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Peace Corps--1961-1981 by Anonim Pdf

Author : Steven Gallon
Publisher : Peace Corps Writers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2022-09-20
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1950444430

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Finding Our Way by Steven Gallon Pdf

In the summer of 1967 a young couple departed home and family in Southern California to embark on a grand adventure. Finding Our Way chronicles two years of their life together as Peace Corps Volunteers in South Korea. Living with a host Korean family, they discovered the patterns and rhythms of everyday life in a country whose culture and customs were unfamiliar. Stationed in Taegu, Korea's third largest city, they introduced spoken English to Korean middle school students. As guests in a foreign land they faced cultural dilemmas, embraced adventures of discovery, experienced trying times and built lifelong friendships. Korea in the late 1960s was emerging from decades of Japanese occupation, and a devastating war with cultural neighbors and political enemies in the North. It was a time of economic hardship for much of the population as the country worked to establish itself in a competitive world. As the author was introduced to local traditions, the couple developed insights into their own lives. When troubling events occurred back home, they grappled with their own emotions and struggled to answer difficult questions. And when they encountered puzzling events they learned to accept and understand contrasting values. Adventure was a constant in their odyssey of discovery. Camping in the mountainous countryside, a summer time trek along the peninsula's east coast, visits to friends in rural villages, and teaching seventh-graders create a mosaic of life as members of the Peace Corps. So much was new: the diet, local markets, family relationships, public transportation, and communal baths. All were part of the experience. The story that unfolds in this memoir is unique, as is that of every Peace Corps Volunteer, no matter where they serve. Historic events of the late 1960s, in both Korea and the United States, are woven into a story that illustrates the impact of Peace Corps service. The experiences described by the author-some humorous, some joyful, some troubling, and others mysterious-are the stuff of lifetime memories.