Conveners
Session 2: 08. Media (1)
- Haiqing Li (Curtin University)
Session 2: 12. Art
- Keith Howard (SOAS, University of London)
Session 2: 07. Literature (2)
- Ikcheol Shin (ํ๊ตญํ์ค์์ฐ๊ตฌ์)
Session 2: 09. Education (1)
- Youngsoon Kim (์ธํ๋ํ๊ต)
Session 2: 10. History (2)
- Changzoo Song (University of Auckland)
Session 2: 11. Anthropology, Sociology (2)
- Sungkyu Son (์์ธ๋ํ๊ต)
North Korea has come a long way of transformation, and it has not always been the way it has become nowadays. There were several distinct periods in its early history, when it had comparative freedom. In 1945 โ 1948 the North has made its first steps to the path of socialist construction and on September 9, 1948, the North has proclaimed establishing of the DPRK.
All this time (1945 โ 1950)...
The phenomenon of North Korean defections and migration is one of the most recent historical events to emerge from the North Korean famine of the mid-1990s. Following economic failures and the loss of Soviet support due to the collapse of the Eastern Bloc and the death of Kim Il-sung (1912-1994), between 240,000 and 3,500,000 North Koreans died of starvation or starvation-related diseases in...
This article contributes to musicology, cultural studies, and inter-Korean scholarship, within the global Korean Studies community. The soundscapes of place in the Republic of Korea (South Korea) and the Democratic Peopleโs Republic of Korea (North Korea) are constructions (Howard 2020, after Handler and Linnekin 1984). What we hear and see today is the legacy of a divided peninsula, as two...
This paper shares insights from an ongoing exploration of the genesis of [South] Korean yumeo (โhumorโ), that is: canned jokes. Canned jokes boomed in Korea over the last two decades of the past century, circulating orally as well as printed. In the 1990s, they flourished thanks to Koreaโs speedy digitalization, breeding the PC tongsin yumeo (โpersonal computer communication humorโ) through...
This article contributes to musicology, history, and inter-Korean scholarship within the global Korean Studies community. In 2014, the Democratic Peopleโs Republic of Korea (DPRK) inscribed the iconic and treasured vocal music tradition of โArirangโ on UNESCOโs Representative List of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity, not as a single folksong but as an entire โpopular lyrical singing...
This article contributes to musicology and inter-Korean scholarship within the global Korean Studies community. During the Cold War, a vast array of cultural resources, from propaganda posters and radio broadcasts to jazz bands, symphony orchestras, and ballet troupes, was mobilized to propagate the competing ideologies of the East and West. Frances Saunders (2000) termed this the โCultural...
This research aims to analyze the formation of the โChina Threatโ discourse in YouTube journalism by applying the concept of digital nationalism. For this analysis, it examines the characteristics of news video content produced and distributed by South Korean broadcast news media on the new digital platform of YouTube, with a focus on China-related news cases.
YouTube already holds a central...
This paper aims to present a theoretical and conceptual framework for investigating the translocal phenomena surrounding the Pโyลnghwaลญi Sonyลsang (hereafter Sonyลsang) using the examples of Seoul, Kyoto, and Berlin. Since the first Sonyลsang, also known as the โStatue of a Girl for Peaceโ, was installed in front of the Japanese Embassy in Seoul, South Korea, identical or similar replicas have...
Among diasporic Koreans in Japan (Zainichi), two prominent political groups support the respective regimes of South and North Korea. This paper engages with Kooโs argument regarding Zainichi musicians in the North Korean performance troupe in Japan, specifically addressing the idea that their political/social affiliations are transcended by their artistic practices (2019). Through an exemplary...
๊ฒฐํผ์ด์ฃผ์ฌ์ฑ์ ํ๊ตญ์ ๊ฑฐ์ฃผํ๋ ๋ํ์ ์ธ ์ ์ฃผ ์ธ๊ตญ์ธ ์ง๋จ์ผ๋ก, ์ด๋ค์ด ํ๊ตญ์์ ์ ์ด์๊ฐ๊ธฐ ์ํด์๋ ํ๊ตญ์ด๋ฟ๋ง ์๋๋ผ, ์ ์ ํ ํ๊ตญ๋ฌธํ๊ต์ก์ด ์ด๋ฃจ์ด์ง ํ์๊ฐ ์๋ค. ๊ทธ๋ฌ๋ ๊ฒฐํผ์ด์ฃผ์ฌ์ฑ์ ํ๊ตญ๋ฌธํ๊ต์ก์ ์ผ๋ฐฉ์ ์ธ ์ ๋ฌ ์ค์ฌ์ ๊ต์ก์ด๋ ๋ํ์ฃผ์์ ๊ด์ ์ ์น์ค๋์ด ์๋ค๋ ๋ฌธ์ ๊ฐ ์ ๊ธฐ๋๊ณ ์๋ค. ๋ฌธํ๋ ์ผ์์ ์ธ ์ถ ์์์ ํ์ตํ๋ ๊ฒ์ด๋ผ๋ ์ ์ ๊ณ ๋ คํ๋ค๋ฉด, ํ๊ตญ๋ฌธํ๊ต์ก์์ ๋ค์ํ ํ์ต ์ฅ๋ฉด์ ๊ณ ๋ คํ๋ ์ํธ๋ฌธํ์ ์ ๊ทผ์ด ์๊ตฌ๋๋ ์ํฉ์ด๋ค. ๋ฐ๋ผ์ ์ด ์ฐ๊ตฌ๋ ๊ฒฐํผ์ด์ฃผ์ฌ์ฑ์ ์์กฐ๋ชจ์์ ํ์ฉํ ํ๊ตญ๋ฌธํํ์ต ๋ชจํ์ ์ ์ํจ์ผ๋ก์จ, ์ํธ๋ฌธํ์ฃผ์์ ์ด์ฃผ๋ฏผ ํ์ต์ ๋ฐฉํฅ์ฑ์ ํ๊ตฌํ๊ณ ์ ํ๋ค.
๊ฒฐํผ์ด์ฃผ์ฌ์ฑ์ ๊ณต๋์ฒด๋ก์ ์์กฐ๋ชจ์์ ํฌ๊ฒ ๋ค๋ฌธํ๊ฐ์กฑ์ง์์ผํฐ ์์ฐ์ ๊ธฐ๋ฐํ ์ฌํ์ ์์กฐ๋ชจ์๊ณผ ์์ฒด ์์ฐ์ผ๋ก ์ด์๋๋ ๊ฐ๋ณ์ ์์กฐ๋ชจ์์ผ๋ก...