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From Claw Crane to Toy Crane: Catching, Courting, and Gambling in South Korea Korean Studies Pub Date : 2022-11-17 Veli-Matti Karhulahti, Katriina Heljakka, Dongwon Jo
The claw crane—an arcade game that invites its players to remotely grab a prize with a “claw”—has undergone a long process of development from an eye-catching “steam shovel” to a calculated gambling machine across amusement arcades, train stations, and traveling carnivals. Recently, the claw crane has become a common transmedia object in various consumer outlets around the world, serving today’s “kidults”
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Riding the Wave to Ni-Chome: Tokyo's Korean Gay Bars in the 2000s Korean Studies Pub Date : 2022-11-17 Albert Graves
This article introduces Korean gay space, place, and identity in Japan, as revealed in Tokyo’s Korean gay bars that emerged at the start of Japan’s Korean Wave in the 2000s. It focuses on the intersections of race and sexuality in interactions among the actors that produce and consume these establishments, exposing racialized spaces of desire besides those limited to white Westernness. It presents
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Editor's Note Korean Studies Pub Date : 2022-08-03 Cheehyung Harrison Kim
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Editor's Note Cheehyung Harrison Kim In the aftermath of South Korea's recent presidential election, while the public, regardless of party alignment, was still reeling from Yun Sŏkyŏl's victory, there emerged a startling voting pattern. Almost sixty percent of men under the age of thirty had voted for the far right-wing candidate. This
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Introduction to the Special Section Music That Moves: Sonic Narratives in Modern Korea Korean Studies Pub Date : 2022-08-03 Dafna Zur, Susan Hwang
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Introduction to the Special Section Music That Moves:Sonic Narratives in Modern Korea Dafna Zur (bio) and Susan Hwang (bio) The starting place for the papers in this special section is music. Music is not bound to material forms as is painting and sculpture or to language like literature and poetry. It travels as waves with kinetic energy
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When Songs Don't Work: Western Tonalities and Korean Breath in Children's Songs of the Colonial Period Korean Studies Pub Date : 2022-08-03 Yoon Joo Hwang, Dafna Zur
Abstract: In the 1920s, colonial Korean children had different opportunities and materials to sing. Newly established missionary schools adapted hymns for children, and the colonial schools run by the Japanese regime considered song time to be essential to children's emotional and intellectual development. It is from this diverse ecology of musical offerings that original Korean sung poems, or tongyo
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From Waifs to Songbirds: The World Vision Korean Orphan Choir Korean Studies Pub Date : 2022-08-03 Katherine In-Young Lee
Abstract: Within Korean studies, there has been an exponential interest in studying sound and music in relation to contemporary Korean expressive culture. What may have been traditionally engaged by only music and performance studies specialists is now open to scholars from outside the music disciplines. In this expanding subfield of Korean studies, it is important to keep in mind that intentionally
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From McArthur's Landing to Trump's Fire and Fury: Sonic Depictions of Struggle and Sacrifice in a North Korean Short Story, Film, and Opera Korean Studies Pub Date : 2022-08-03 Alexandra Leonzini, Peter Moody
Abstract: Since its founding in 1948, the North Korean state has devoted considerable resources to the development of ideological and historical narratives across media to imbue its people with the ethos of collectivity through spectacle. Especially noteworthy is how sound has functioned to resuscitate the memory of the Korean War and in the process unify those of disparate generations and occupations
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Songs of the Multitude: The April Revolution, the 6.3 Uprising, and South Korea's Protest Music of the 1960s Korean Studies Pub Date : 2022-08-03 Pil Ho Kim
Abstract: The decade of the 1960s is remembered for worldwide political upheavals, with South Korea's April Revolution of 1960 being one early episode. Protesters of the April Revolution appropriated a variety of songs, including the national anthem, Korean War songs, school songs, and children's songs. But these appropriated protest songs have received scant scholarly attention. Four years later in
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From Victimhood to Martyrdom: "March for the Beloved" and the Cultural Politics of Resistance in 1980s' South Korea Korean Studies Pub Date : 2022-08-03 Susan Hwang
Abstract: In 1982, a group of activists gathered at a remote house in Kwangju. Evading the watchful eye of Chun Doo Hwan's military regime, the group clandestinely recorded "March for the Beloved" (Nim I wihan haengjin'gok), a song written to honor the "marriage-in-death" of two late activists Pak Ki-sun and Yun Sang-wŏn. Born in a city that witnessed a brutal massacre be transformed into the most
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What's for Sale? Selling Songs and K-pop Idols in Korean Commercials Korean Studies Pub Date : 2022-08-03 Roald Maliangkay
Abstract: Music has the potential to stir feelings on both conscious and subconscious levels. Because audiences learn how to interpret musical clues, it does not matter whether the original intent of a piece of music bears any relation to the medium or narrative in which it is newly embedded. When it is used in a movie viewed by people other than the intended audience, however, music can disrupt the
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Monopolizing Authority: The Construction of Presidential Power in South Korea Korean Studies Pub Date : 2022-08-03 Hyang-Joo Lee
Abstract: The power of the president is a concept which is largely cultural and historically constructed. Although the prominent scholar Richard Neustadt claims that "presidential power is no more than the power to persuade," in South Korea, it has become far greater through the country's peculiar blend of history and culture. The Korean War and the influence of the Cold War, the prevalent authoritarianism
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The Discourse on Multi-Child Families in South Korea's Media and Popular Culture Korean Studies Pub Date : 2022-08-03 Irene Yung Park
Abstract: In the last 60 years the typical Korean family has dramatically changed its size due to a drastic drop in the national fertility rates, which plummeted from 6.2 in 1960 to 0.98 in 2018. This transformation was actively supported by population policies that promoted not only a change in behavior but also in values and cultural perceptions on childrearing and family size, mobilizing all sorts
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The Paradox of Genealogy: Family Politics and the Publishing Surge of Chokpo in Colonial Korea Korean Studies Pub Date : 2022-08-03 Yang-Hee Hong
Abstract: In 1920s and 1930s colonial Korea, the practice of purchasing and publishing chokpo, the genealogical record of family lieange, became widespread. This trend was considered a strange phenomenon to reform-minded Korean intellectuals, since chokpo was seen as a symbol of past morality—a product of obsolete familism that contributed to Chosŏn Korea's collapse. Korea's familism, symbolized by
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The Power of the Brush: Epistolary Practices in Chosŏn Korea by Hwisang Cho (review) Korean Studies Pub Date : 2022-08-03 Owen Stampton
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: The Power of the Brush: Epistolary Practices in Chosŏn Korea by Hwisang Cho Owen Stampton The Power of the Brush: Epistolary Practices in Choson Korea, by Hwisang Cho. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2020. 290 pages. Hwisang Cho's work in recent years has contributed significantly to scholarship on Chosŏn Korea, with
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Introduction to the Special Section Music That Moves: Sonic Narratives in Modern Korea Korean Studies Pub Date : 2022-08-03 Dafna Zur, Susan Hwang
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Introduction to the Special Section Music That Moves:Sonic Narratives in Modern Korea Dafna Zur (bio) and Susan Hwang (bio) The starting place for the papers in this special section is music. Music is not bound to material forms as is painting and sculpture or to language like literature and poetry. It travels as waves with kinetic energy
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When Songs Don't Work: Western Tonalities and Korean Breath in Children's Songs of the Colonial Period Korean Studies Pub Date : 2022-08-03 Yoon Joo Hwang, Dafna Zur
Abstract: In the 1920s, colonial Korean children had different opportunities and materials to sing. Newly established missionary schools adapted hymns for children, and the colonial schools run by the Japanese regime considered song time to be essential to children's emotional and intellectual development. It is from this diverse ecology of musical offerings that original Korean sung poems, or tongyo
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From Waifs to Songbirds: The World Vision Korean Orphan Choir Korean Studies Pub Date : 2022-08-03 Katherine In-Young Lee
Abstract: Within Korean studies, there has been an exponential interest in studying sound and music in relation to contemporary Korean expressive culture. What may have been traditionally engaged by only music and performance studies specialists is now open to scholars from outside the music disciplines. In this expanding subfield of Korean studies, it is important to keep in mind that intentionally
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From McArthur's Landing to Trump's Fire and Fury: Sonic Depictions of Struggle and Sacrifice in a North Korean Short Story, Film, and Opera Korean Studies Pub Date : 2022-08-03 Alexandra Leonzini, Peter Moody
Abstract: Since its founding in 1948, the North Korean state has devoted considerable resources to the development of ideological and historical narratives across media to imbue its people with the ethos of collectivity through spectacle. Especially noteworthy is how sound has functioned to resuscitate the memory of the Korean War and in the process unify those of disparate generations and occupations
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Songs of the Multitude: The April Revolution, the 6.3 Uprising, and South Korea's Protest Music of the 1960s Korean Studies Pub Date : 2022-08-03 Pil Ho Kim
Abstract: The decade of the 1960s is remembered for worldwide political upheavals, with South Korea's April Revolution of 1960 being one early episode. Protesters of the April Revolution appropriated a variety of songs, including the national anthem, Korean War songs, school songs, and children's songs. But these appropriated protest songs have received scant scholarly attention. Four years later in
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From Victimhood to Martyrdom: "March for the Beloved" and the Cultural Politics of Resistance in 1980s' South Korea Korean Studies Pub Date : 2022-08-03 Susan Hwang
Abstract: In 1982, a group of activists gathered at a remote house in Kwangju. Evading the watchful eye of Chun Doo Hwan's military regime, the group clandestinely recorded "March for the Beloved" (Nim I wihan haengjin'gok), a song written to honor the "marriage-in-death" of two late activists Pak Ki-sun and Yun Sang-wŏn. Born in a city that witnessed a brutal massacre be transformed into the most
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What's for Sale? Selling Songs and K-pop Idols in Korean Commercials Korean Studies Pub Date : 2022-08-03 Roald Maliangkay
Abstract: Music has the potential to stir feelings on both conscious and subconscious levels. Because audiences learn how to interpret musical clues, it does not matter whether the original intent of a piece of music bears any relation to the medium or narrative in which it is newly embedded. When it is used in a movie viewed by people other than the intended audience, however, music can disrupt the
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Monopolizing Authority: The Construction of Presidential Power in South Korea Korean Studies Pub Date : 2022-08-03 Hyang-Joo Lee
Abstract: The power of the president is a concept which is largely cultural and historically constructed. Although the prominent scholar Richard Neustadt claims that "presidential power is no more than the power to persuade," in South Korea, it has become far greater through the country's peculiar blend of history and culture. The Korean War and the influence of the Cold War, the prevalent authoritarianism
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The Discourse on Multi-Child Families in South Korea's Media and Popular Culture Korean Studies Pub Date : 2022-08-03 Irene Yung Park
Abstract: In the last 60 years the typical Korean family has dramatically changed its size due to a drastic drop in the national fertility rates, which plummeted from 6.2 in 1960 to 0.98 in 2018. This transformation was actively supported by population policies that promoted not only a change in behavior but also in values and cultural perceptions on childrearing and family size, mobilizing all sorts
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The Paradox of Genealogy: Family Politics and the Publishing Surge of Chokpo in Colonial Korea Korean Studies Pub Date : 2022-08-03 Yang-Hee Hong
Abstract: In 1920s and 1930s colonial Korea, the practice of purchasing and publishing chokpo, the genealogical record of family lieange, became widespread. This trend was considered a strange phenomenon to reform-minded Korean intellectuals, since chokpo was seen as a symbol of past morality—a product of obsolete familism that contributed to Chosŏn Korea's collapse. Korea's familism, symbolized by
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The Power of the Brush: Epistolary Practices in Chosŏn Korea by Hwisang Cho (review) Korean Studies Pub Date : 2022-08-03 Owen Stampton
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: The Power of the Brush: Epistolary Practices in Chosŏn Korea by Hwisang Cho Owen Stampton The Power of the Brush: Epistolary Practices in Choson Korea, by Hwisang Cho. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2020. 290 pages. Hwisang Cho's work in recent years has contributed significantly to scholarship on Chosŏn Korea, with
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The Paradox of Genealogy: Family Politics and the Publishing Surge of Chokpo in Colonial Korea Korean Studies Pub Date : 2022-03-18 Yang-Hee Hong
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: The Paradox of Genealogy: Family Politics and the Publishing Surge of Chokpo in Colonial Korea Yang-Hee Hong In 1920s and 1930s colonial Korea, the practice of purchasing and publishing chokpo, the genealogical record of family lieange, became widespread. This trend was considered a strange phenomenon to reform-minded Korean intellectuals
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From McArthur's Landing to Trump's Fire and Fury: Sonic Depictions of Struggle and Sacrifice in a North Korean Short Story, Film, and Opera Korean Studies Pub Date : 2022-03-18 Alexandra Leonzini, Peter Moody
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: From McArthur’s Landing to Trump’s Fire and Fury: Sonic Depictions of Struggle and Sacrifice in a North Korean Short Story, Film, and Opera Alexandra Leonzini and Peter Moody Since its founding in 1948, the North Korean state has devoted considerable resources to the development of ideological and historical narratives across media to imbue
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What's for Sale? Selling Songs and K-pop Idols in Korean Commercials Korean Studies Pub Date : 2022-03-18 Roald Maliangkay
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: What’s for Sale? Selling Songs and K-pop Idols in Korean Commercials Roald Maliangkay Music has the potential to stir feelings on both conscious and subconscious levels. Because audiences learn how to interpret musical clues, it does not matter whether the original intent of a piece of music bears any relation to the medium or narrative
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Monopolizing Authority: The Construction of Presidential Power in South Korea Korean Studies Pub Date : 2022-02-16 Hyangjoo Lee
The power of the president is a concept which is largely cultural and historically constructed. Although the prominent scholar Richard Neustadt claims that “presidential power is no more than the power to persuade,” in South Korea, it has become far greater through the country’s peculiar blend of history and culture. The Korean War and the influence of the Cold War, the prevalent authoritarianism,
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Cultivating Freedom in South Korea: Media Discourse on Chayu during the Early Park Chung-hee Period Korean Studies Pub Date : 2022-01-01 Jungyoung Kim
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What’s for Sale? Selling Songs and K-pop Idols in Korean Commercials Korean Studies Pub Date : 2022-01-01 Roald Maliangkay
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From McArthur’s Landing to Trump’s Fire and Fury: Sonic Depictions of Struggle and Sacrifice in a North Korean Short Story, Film, and Opera Korean Studies Pub Date : 2022-01-01 Alexandra Leonzini,Peter Moody
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The Paradox of Genealogy: Family Politics and the Publishing Surge of Chokpo in Colonial Korea Korean Studies Pub Date : 2022-01-01 Yang-Hee Hong
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Dual Homeland: Cho Myŏng-hŭi and the Origins of Koryŏ Saram Literature Korean Studies Pub Date : 2022-01-01 Susanna Lim
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Monopolizing Authority: The Construction of Presidential Power in South Korea Korean Studies Pub Date : 2022-01-01 Hyangjoo Lee
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The Discourse on Multi-Child Families in South Korea's Media and Popular Culture Korean Studies Pub Date : 2021-08-02 Irene Yung Park
In the last 60 years the typical Korean family has dramatically changed its size due to a drastic drop in the national fertility rates, which plummeted from 6.2 in 1960 to 0.98 in 2018. This transformation was actively supported by population policies that promoted not only a change in behavior but also in values and cultural perceptions on childrearing and family size, mobilizing all sorts of communication
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The Discourse on Multi-Child Families in South Korea’s Media and Popular Culture Korean Studies Pub Date : 2021-01-01 Irene Park
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Postcolonial Grief: The Afterlives of the Pacific Wars in the Americas by Jinah Kim Korean Studies Pub Date : 2021-01-01 Jed Lea-Henry
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The Foresight of Dark Knowing: Chŏnggamnok and Insurrectionary Prognostication in Pre-modern Korea by John Jorgensen Korean Studies Pub Date : 2021-01-01 Richard D. McBride
John Jorgensen’s scholarly introduction to and annotated translation of the Chŏnggamnok represents a monumental piece of scholarship that makes accessible for the first time in English a body of material describing the hopes of aspirations of non-educated and disempowered Koreans stretching back to the Chosŏn period (1392–1910) and beyond. The Foresight of Dark Knowing is essentially two books bound
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From Korea to Japan: A Transnational Perspective on South Korea's Important Intangible Cultural Properties and Zainichi Korean Artists Korean Studies Pub Date : 2021-01-01 Sunhee Koo
Abstract:In 1962, the South Korean government promulgated the Cultural Property Protection Law (CPPL, Munhwajae pohopŏp) in order to preserve Korean heritage cultures that were at risk of disappearance in the postcolonial and post-Korean War social milieu. The CPPL was modeled after a similar law in Japan, Bunkazai hogoho, enacted in 1950. With this legal stipulation, numerous Korean musics and dances
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Dying for Rights: Putting North Korea's Human Rights Abuses on the Record by Sandra Fahy Korean Studies Pub Date : 2021-01-01 Sung-Yoon Lee
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Vicious Circuits: Korea's IMF Cinema and the End of the American Century by Joseph Jonghyun Jeon Korean Studies Pub Date : 2021-01-01 S.Y. Kim
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Performing Death and Memory: Ancestral Rites of North Koreans in Exile Korean Studies Pub Date : 2021-01-01 Markus Bell
Abstract:While there is an increasing interest in the economic and political relationships of North Koreans in exile to the homeland, little has been said on the significance of North Koreans' everyday cultural practices in the places they resettle. Based on a year of interviews and participant observation, this article examines an often-overlooked aspect of North Korean spiritual life: the performance
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From Ethnic to Class: The Evolution of Korean Entrepreneurship in Argentina Korean Studies Pub Date : 2021-01-01 Jihye Kim
Abstract:Since the beginning of Korean migration to Argentina in the 1960s, ethnic Koreans in Argentina have been intensively involved in the garment industry. Based on archival and documentary research, along with ethnographic research conducted in Argentina, this study examines what kinds of resources Korean immigrants have relied upon to start up and expand their businesses and how these resources
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Samaritans from the East: Emotion and Korean Nurses in Germany Korean Studies Pub Date : 2021-01-01 Yonson Ahn
Abstract:In line with the increasing significance of the role of transnational migration in healthcare provision—especially in the West—slightly over 11,000 nurses and nurse assistants from South Korea moved as "guest workers" (Gastarbeiter) to the former West Germany mainly between the 1960s and the 1970s. This study explores the role of emotions in the professional practice of nursing care. Particular
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Japanese Imperialism and the Investigation of Stone Age in Colonial Joseon Korean Studies Pub Date : 2021-01-01 Kisung Yi
Abstract:The study of the Stone Age on the Korean peninsular began with Japanese researchers. Torii Ryuzo was the first archaeologist to take charge of and shape archaeological investigations of the Stone Age. However, the research results were used to defend the logic of imperialism rather than the academic domain. Torii used the past relationship between the Korean peninsula and Japan to locate the
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Who Are the Doctors of Korean Medicine? Exploring the Identity of a Medical Profession Korean Studies Pub Date : 2021-01-01 Seonsam Na
Abstract:This paper explores the characteristics of the professional identity of the Doctors of Korean Medicine (KMD), a medical profession in South Korea practicing traditional East Asian medicine. They play a primary care role in healthcare, notwithstanding the legally limited purview of their clinical and public health roles. This mainstream position came their way through biomedicalization that
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The Quest for Authenticity and Innovation: Diasporic Korean Drumming in the United States Korean Studies Pub Date : 2021-01-01 Soojin Kim
Abstract:Korean drumming is a significant performance type that demonstrates a variety of Korean American identities. Korean drumming is a synthetized concept that includes p'ungmul, a traditional percussion genre, and its newly modified and invented form, samullori (also known as samulnori). Korean percussion ensembles in the United States are shaped by cultural policy in South Korea and by professional
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International Perspectives on Translation, Education and Innovation in Japanese and Korean Societies ed. by David G. Hebert Korean Studies Pub Date : 2020-01-01 Hansol Woo,Gerald LeTendre
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Broken Voices: Postcolonial Entanglements and the Preservation of Korea’s Central Folksong Traditions by Roald Maliangkay Korean Studies Pub Date : 2020-01-01 Anna Yates-Lu
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How Did Buddhists Venerate the Avataṃsaka-sūtra in Late Premodern Korea? Insights from Two Manuscript Ritual Texts Korean Studies Pub Date : 2020-01-01 Richard D. McBride
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From Miracle to Mirage: The Making and Unmaking of the Korean Middle Class, 1960–2015 by Myungji Yang Korean Studies Pub Date : 2020-01-01 Ji Youn Kim
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Homing: An Affective Topography of Ethnic Korean Return Migration by Ji-Yeon O. Jo Korean Studies Pub Date : 2020-01-01 Hee Eun Kwon
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Mobile North Korean Women and Long-Distance Motherhood: The (Re)Construction of Intimacy and the Ambivalence of Family Korean Studies Pub Date : 2020-01-01 Sung Kyung Kim
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From Catch-up to Convergence? Re-casting the Trajectory of Capitalism in South Korea Korean Studies Pub Date : 2020-01-01 Keun Lee,Ho-Chul Shin,Jongho Lee
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K-pop Live: Fans, Idols, and Multimedia Performance by Suk-Young Kim Korean Studies Pub Date : 2020-01-01 Kyung Hyun Kim
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North Korean Migrants in South Korea: “Multicultural” or “Global” Citizens? Korean Studies Pub Date : 2020-01-01 Young-a Park
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A Population Genetic Perspective on Korean Prehistory Korean Studies Pub Date : 2020-01-01 Choongwon Jeong
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Postcolonial Grief: The Afterlives of the Pacific Wars in the Americas by Jinah Kim (review) Korean Studies Pub Date : 2019-11-16 Jed Lea-Henry
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Book Review Postcolonial Grief: The Afterlives of the Pacific Wars in the Americas, Jinah Kim. Duke University Press, 2019. 185 pages. ISBN: 9781478002796. US$23.95. With her sights narrowed onto a complex target, Jinah Kim in Postcolonial Grief: The Afterlives of the Pacific Wars in the Americas tries to do something special. Tracing the