Recently added articles from Korean Studies:
Between defector and migrant: identities and strategies of North Koreans in South Korea.(Essay)
Jan 01, 2008; ... A boy from Wonsan, North Korea, died in Cheju Island, South Korea. His name was Chul and he was nineteen. It was at midnight on a quiet six-lane street. A broken mountain-bike-style motorcycle smashed against an electric pole revealed a terrible accident. He died exactly one and a half ...
Will South Korea follow the German experience? Democracy, the migratory process, and the prospects for permanent immigration in Korea.(Essay)
Jan 01, 2008; ... Introduction Human migration is a global phenomenon. It affects all parts of the world, often in profound ways. This has certainly been true from a historical perspective, but it is no less true today. Indeed, over the past sixty years, the movement of people across borders has ...
Mixed race peoples in the Korean national imaginary and family.(Essay)
Jan 01, 2008; ... The Hines Ward Symptom and National Overcoming In 2006, Super Bowl most valuable player Hines Ward was elevated to the status of a national superstar in Korea. The media seemed to be at the forefront of this publicity campaign, focusing on Ward's success as a U.S. athlete ...
The gay rights movement in democratizing Korea.(Essay)
Jan 01, 2008; ... Introduction The transition to democracy and the experience of globalization since the 1980s brought South Korea as a nation to self-appraisals and new interpretations of the ways its national identity is defined. Korea's self-identification as an advanced country, a democracy, ...
Emperor and Emissary: the Hongwu Emperor, Kwon Kun, and the poetry of late fourteenth century diplomacy.(Critical essay)
Jan 01, 2008; ... Introduction Twice in 1396 and once in 1397 relations between Ming China and Choson soured over what is now known as the "p'yojon problem" in Korean. (1) Pyojon is an abbreviation of two types of diplomatic communication: pyo [TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII], which are ...
On the semantic derogation of terms for women in Korean, with parallel developments in Chinese and Japanese.(Essay)
Jan 01, 2008; ... Introduction Since the enthusiastic mid-1970s burgeoning of studies on language and gender, a number of studies have confirmed that gender is an important variable in our everyday use of language. With respect to the role of gender in semantic change, Muriel Schulz's famous ...
Korea's Twentieth-Century Odyssey: A Short History.(Book review)
Jan 01, 2008; ... Korea's Twentieth-Century Odyssey: A Short History, by Michael E. Robinson. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2007. 232 pp., illus., notes, bibliography, index. $19.00 paper. Reliable yet readable introductory books on modern Korean history are not all that numerous. For ...
Domesticating the Dharma: Buddhist Cults and the Hwaom Synthesis in Silla Korea.(Book review)
Jan 01, 2008; ... Domesticating the Dharma: Buddhist Cults and the Hwaom Synthesis in Silla Korea, by Richard D. McBride, II. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2007. 241 pp. $52.00 cloth. In this book, Richard McBride details two major cults in Korean Buddhism involving Maitreya and ...
Korean Spirituality.(Book review)
Jan 01, 2008; ... Korean Spirituality, by Don Baker. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2008. 184 pp., illus., index. $45.00 cloth; $15.00 paper. In this useful book, Professor Don Baker provokes some good questions about Korean spirituality (and religions) and advances a thesis that is both ...
The Imjin War: Japan's Sixteenth-Century Invasion of Korea and Attempt to Conquer China.(Book review)
Jan 01, 2008; ... The Imjin War: Japan's Sixteenth-Century Invasion of Korea and Attempt to Conquer China, by Samuel Hawley. Seoul: Royal Asiatic Society, Korea Branch, Publications and Berkeley: Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California, 2005. xvi, 664 pp., illus. $45.00 cloth. ...
The Korean Presidents: Leadership for Nation Building.(Book review)
Jan 01, 2008; ... The Korean Presidents: Leadership for Nation Building, by Choong-Nam Kim. Norwalk, Conn: EastBridge, 2007. xiv, 424 pp., tables, figures, bibliography. $29.95 paper. When the Korean peninsula emerged from the clutches of the Japanese Empire in 1945, partitioned on the 38th ...
China Rising: Peace, Power, and Order in East Asia.(Book review)
Jan 01, 2008; ... China Rising: Peace, Power, and Order in East Asia, by David C. Kang. New York: Columbia University Press, 2008. xiii, 274 pp. $24.95 cloth. Recently, China's ascent has drawn the attention of many scholars and policy-makers in East Asia and the United States. Current and ...
Divided Korea: Toward a Culture of Reconciliation.(Book review)
Jan 01, 2008; ... Divided Korea: Toward a Culture of Reconciliation, by Roland Bleiker. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. 240 pp., notes, index. $27.95 cloth; $22.50 paper. Foreign policy studies, typically aligned along the axis of "realism" (balance-of-power realpolitik) versus ...
Rethinking Historical Injustice and Reconciliation in Northeast Asia: The Korean Experience.(Book review)
Jan 01, 2008; ... Rethinking Historical Injustice and Reconciliation in Northeast Asia: The Korean Experience, edited by Gi-Wook Shin, Soon-Won Park, and Daqing Yang. London: Routledge, 2007. 266 pp. $160.00 cloth; $40.00 paper. Truth and reconciliation processes to settle and overcome colonial ...
Strategic Thinking about the Korean Nuclear Crisis: Four Parties Caught between North Korea and the United States.(Book review)
Jan 01, 2008; ... Strategic Thinking about the Korean Nuclear Crisis: Four Parties Caught between North Korea and the United States, by Gilbert Rozman. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. ix, 264 pp., notes, index. $56.20 cloth. On October 9, 2006, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North ...
The Making of Minjung: Democracy and the Politics of Representation in South Korea.(Book review)
Jan 01, 2008; ... The Making of Minjung: Democracy and the Politics of Representation in South Korea, by Namhee Lee. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2007. xii, 349 pp. $39.95 cloth. This book is the best, and virtually the only, political ethnography of South Korean antigovernment ...
Modern Korean Society: Its Development and Prospect.(Book review)
Jan 01, 2008; ... Modern Korean Society: Its Development and Prospect, edited by Hyuk-Rae Kim and Bok Song. Korea Research Monograph 30. Berkeley: Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California, 2007. 257 pp. $20.00 paper. This book is an introductory survey textbook on modern Korean ...
Seoul Searching: Culture and Identity in Contemporary Korean Cinema.(Book review)
Jan 01, 2008; ... Seoul Searching: Culture and Identity in Contemporary Korean Cinema, edited by Frances Gateward. Albany, N.Y.: SUNY Press, 2007. 314 pp., index, illus. $89.50 cloth; $29.95 paper. Seoul Searching. Culture and Identity in Contemporary Korean Cinema explores dynamically changing ...
Korean Kayagum Sanjo: A Traditional Instrumental Genre.(Book review)
Jan 01, 2008; ... Korean Kayagum Sanjo: A Traditional Instrumental Genre, by Keith Howard, Chaesuk Lee, and Nicholas Casswell. SOAS Musicology Series. Aldershot, England: Ashgate, 2008. xii, 160 pp., black and white photographs, figures, musical examples, bibliography, discography, index, compact discs ....
Zainichi Korean Identity and Ethnicity.(Book review)
Jan 01, 2008; ... Zainichi Korean Identity and Ethnicity, by David Chapman. London: Routledge, 2007. 192 pp. $160.00 cloth. The thought-provoking panel "Almost Korean? (Re)membering Differences and Inequalities in South Korea" was held at the 106th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological ...