Studies On Korea

Author : Seung-Kyung Kim,Michael Edson Robinson
Publisher : Center for Korea Studies Publications
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,6 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 : Gregg A. Brazinsky
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2019-04-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781498591133

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Korea and the World by Gregg A. Brazinsky Pdf

This edited volume brings together a set of essays exploring the global dimensions of Korea’s recent history and politics by a group of the most talented young scholars. Essays in the volume seek to answer two interrelated questions: How have international developments impacted Korea? And how has Korea in turn influenced world events and trends? The volume demonstrates that the most important issues in Korea’s post World War II history—division, war, economic development, and inter-Korean rivalry—cannot be understood without reference to the country’s global interactions. Essays in the volume cover a range of topics including: U.S.-South Korean relations, North Korean foreign policy, immigration, and democratization. The essays included in the volume push the boundaries of several different subfields. Historical essays break new ground by introducing new archival materials and revealing important details about the past diplomacy of the two Korea’s. Others consider aspects of American influence on Korea that have previously been ignored such as the U.S. impact on urban development and food consumption. Essays on contemporary Korean politics and society make sense of most recent developments in North and South Korea while presenting intriguing new interpretive frameworks. By bringing new voices in Korean Studies to the forefront, this volume changes how we understand and reconceptualize Korea’s role in the world.

Author : Jesook Song,Laam Hae
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2019-11-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781487517779

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On the Margins of Urban South Korea by Jesook Song,Laam Hae Pdf

This book provides a rich and illuminating account of the peripheries of urban, regional, and transnational development in South Korea. Engaging with the ideas of "core location," a term coined by Baik Young-seo, and "Asia as method," a concept with a century-old intellectual lineage in East Asia, each chapter in the volume discusses the ways in which a place can be studied in an increasingly globalized world. Examining cases set in the Jeju English Education City, anti-poverty and community activist sites, rural areas home to large numbers of migrant women, and Korea’s Chinatowns, greenbelts, and textile factories, the collection develops a relational understanding of a place as a constellation of local and global forces and processes that interact and contradict in particular ways. Each chapter also explores multiple modes of urban marginality and discusses how understanding them shapes the methods of academic praxis for social justice causes and decolonialized scholarship. This book is the outcome of several years of interdisciplinary collaborations and dialogues among scholars based in geography, architecture, anthropology, and urban politics.

Author : Kenneth M. Wells
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1995-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780824864392

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South Korea's Minjung Movement by Kenneth M. Wells Pdf

The minjung (people's) movement stood at the forefront of the June 1987 nationwide tide that swept away the military in South Korea and opened up space for relatively democratic politics, a more responsible economy, and new directions in culture. This volume is the first in English to grapple specifically with the nature of a national development that lies at the center of the last three decades of tumult and change in South Korea.

Author : Timothy R. Tangherlini,Sallie Yea
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2007-12-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780824831387

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Sitings by Timothy R. Tangherlini,Sallie Yea Pdf

Arranged around a set of provocative themes, the essays in this volume engage in the discussion from various critical perspectives on Korean geography. Part One, "Geographies of the (Colonial) City," focuses on Seoul during the Japanese colonial occupation from 1910–1945 and the lasting impact of that period on the construction of specific places in Seoul. In Part Two, "Geographies of the (Imagined) Village," the authors delve into the implications for the conceptions of the village of recent economic and industrial development. In this context, they examine both constructed space, such as the Korean Folk Village, and rural villages that were physically transformed through the processes of rapid modernization. The essays in "Geographies of Religion" (Part Three) reveal how religious sites are historically and environmentally contested as well as the high degree of mobility exhibited by sites themselves. Similarly, places that exist at the margins are powerful loci for the negotiation of identity and aspects of cultural ideology. The final section, "Geographies of the Margin," focuses on places that exist at the margins of Korean society. Contributors: Todd A. Henry, Jong-Heon Jin, Laurel Kendall, David J. Nemeth, Robert Oppenheim, Michael J. Pettid, Je-Hun Ryu, Jesook Song,Timothy R. Tangherlini, Sallie Yea.

Author : Sojin Lim,Niki J.P. Alsford
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2021-08-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000421538

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Routledge Handbook of Contemporary South Korea by Sojin Lim,Niki J.P. Alsford Pdf

The Routledge Handbook of Contemporary South Korea offers a ground-breaking study of the socio-political development of the Korean peninsula in the contemporary period. Written by an international team of scholars and experts, contributions to this book address key intellectual questions in the development of Korean studies, projecting new ways of thinking about how international systems can be organised and how local societies adapt to global challenges. Academically rigorous, each chapter defines current research and lends the reader greater understanding of the social, cultural, economic, and political developments of South Korea, ranging from chapters on the Korean Wave to relations with North Korea and the Korean language overseas. The volume is divided into eight sections, each representing a focused area of inquiry: socio-political history contemporary politics political economy and development society culture international relations security and diplomacy South Korea in international education This handbook provides an interdisciplinary and comprehensive account of contemporary South Korea. It will be of great interest to students and scholars of Korean history, politics and international relations, culture and society, and will also appeal to policy makers interested in the Indo-Asia Pacific region.

Author : Hyŏn-hŭi Yi,Sŏng-su Pak,Nae-hyŏn Yun
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 688 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015070791572

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New History of Korea by Hyŏn-hŭi Yi,Sŏng-su Pak,Nae-hyŏn Yun Pdf

Author : Han-Kyo Kim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:164798013

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Studies on Korea by Han-Kyo Kim Pdf

Author : David Richard McCann,David R. McCann,John Middleton,Edward J. Shultz
Publisher : Center for Korean Studies University of Hawaii
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Korea
ISBN : UCSD:31822018849349

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Studies on Korea in Transition by David Richard McCann,David R. McCann,John Middleton,Edward J. Shultz Pdf

Author : Sonja M. Kim
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2019-01-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9780824855482

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Imperatives of Care by Sonja M. Kim Pdf

In late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Korea, public health priorities in maternal and infant welfare privileged the new nation’s reproductive health and women’s responsibility for care work to produce novel organization of services in hospitals and practices in the home. The first monograph on this topic, Imperatives of Care places women and gender at the center of modern medical transformations in Korea. It outlines the professionalization of medicine, nursing, and midwifery, tracing their evolution from new legal and institutional infrastructures in public health and education, and investigates women’s experiences as health practitioners and patients, medical activities directed at women’s bodies, and the related knowledge and goods produced for and consumed by women. Sonja M. Kim draws on archival sources, some not previously explored, to foreground the ways individual women met challenges posed by uneven developments in medicine, intervened in practices aimed at them, andseized the evolving options that became available to promote their personal, familial, and professional interests. She demonstrates how medicine produced, and in turn was produced by, gendered expectations caught between the Korean reformist agenda, the American Protestant missionary enterprise, and Japanese imperialism.

Author : Adrienne Lo,Nancy Abelmann,Soo Ah Kwon,Sumie Okazaki
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2015-07-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780295806525

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South Korea's Education Exodus by Adrienne Lo,Nancy Abelmann,Soo Ah Kwon,Sumie Okazaki Pdf

South Korea's Education Exodus analyzes Early Study Abroad in relation to the neoliberalization of South Korean education and labor. With chapters based on demographic and survey data, discourse analysis, and ethnography in destinations such as Canada, New Zealand, Singapore, and the United States, the book considers the complex motivations that spur families of pre-college youth to embark on often arduous and expensive journeys. In addition to examining various forms and locations of study abroad, South Korea's Education Exodus discusses how students and families manage living and studying abroad in relation to global citizenship, language ideologies, social class, and race.

Author : Hyŏng-nae Kim,Pok Song
Publisher : Center for Korean Studies Institute of East Asian Studies Un
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Korea (South)
ISBN : UCSC:32106017736262

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Modern Korean Society by Hyŏng-nae Kim,Pok Song Pdf

Author : Youna Kim
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2012-07-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134224661

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Women, Television and Everyday Life in Korea by Youna Kim Pdf

Fusing audience research and ethnography, the book presents a compelling account of women’s changing lives and identities in relation to the impact of the most popular media culture in everyday life: television. Within the historically-specific social conditions of Korean modernity, Youna Kim analyzes how Korean women of varying age and class group cope with the new environment of changing economical structure and social relations. The book argues that television is an important resource for women, stimulating them to research their own lives and identities. Youna Kim reveals Korean women as creative, energetic and critical audiences in their responses to evolving modernity and the impact of the West. Based on original empirical research, the book explores the hopes, aspirations, frustrations and dilemmas of Korean women as they try to cope with life beyond traditional grounds. Going beyond the traditional Anglo-American view of media and culture, this text will appeal to students and scholars of both Korean area studies and media and communications studies.

Author : Seung-hun Chun
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2018-01-29
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781351215725

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The Economic Development of South Korea by Seung-hun Chun Pdf

How did a country with a dearth of natural resources, a sprawling population congested in a limited arable land transform itself to a modern industrial state within a generation? How could these have been achieved given the lingering geopolitical threats to its very survival as a state, as evidenced by the Korean War and the internecine aggressive posturing of its neighbor from the north? This book looks at strategies, institutional arrangement, role of entrepreneurs and workers in this odyssey, and on how those factors have worked together through effective leadership to transform South Korea’s economic fortunes.

Author : Hyunjoon Shin,Seung-Ah Lee
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2016-09-13
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781317645740

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Made in Korea by Hyunjoon Shin,Seung-Ah Lee Pdf

Made in Korea: Studies in Popular Music serves as a comprehensive and thorough introduction to the history, sociology, and musicology of contemporary Korean popular music. Each essay covers the major figures, styles, and social contexts of pop music in Korea, first presenting a general description of the history and background of popular music in Korea, followed by essays, written by leading scholars of Korean music, that are organized into thematic sections: History, Institution, Ideology; Genres and Styles; Artists; and Issues.