{"title":"Editorial Remarks (Vol. 2, No. 2)","authors":"J. Lie, I. Oh, Wonho Jang","doi":"10.32860/26356619/2019/2.2.0001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.32860/26356619/2019/2.2.0001","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":222854,"journal":{"name":"Culture and Empathy: International Journal of Sociology, Psychology, and Cultural Studies","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130449792","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Internal Diaspora: Kang Hang’s Japan Experience and Intellectual Isolation in Joseon","authors":"I. Oh","doi":"10.32860/26356619/2019/2.1.0003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.32860/26356619/2019/2.1.0003","url":null,"abstract":"This paper examines the life of Kang Hang (1567–1618), a wartime prisoner who was taken to Japan during the second invasion of the Hideyoshi army in Korea. Contrary to popular belief, Kang was a Confucian hero who taught the Japanese neo-Confucianism and escaped to his homeland to prove his patriotism, I find that Kang had been surrounded by transnational diasporic groups of Koreans, Chinese, Westerners, and cosmopolitan Japanese. While neglecting Korean diasporic networks in Japan, especially a large number of Korean women who had been brought to Japan either as slaves or wives of noble Japanese men, Kang socialized with Japanese intellectuals, including Fujiwara Seika and Akamatsu Hiromitsu in order to gain financial and political support for his return to his imaginary homeland, where he thought he would be welcomed by his friends and king. Yet, after his return to Korea, he faced severe discrimination from his fellow Korean intellectuals who were suspicious of his life spent in the enemy country. ARTICLE HISTORY Received 5 January 2019 Revised 20 February 2019 Accepted 05 March 2019","PeriodicalId":222854,"journal":{"name":"Culture and Empathy: International Journal of Sociology, Psychology, and Cultural Studies","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125321260","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Changing Tides, Turbulent Times: The Discursive Practices of Feminism in South Korean Media and Society","authors":"R. Tan","doi":"10.32860/26356619/2019/2.1.0004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.32860/26356619/2019/2.1.0004","url":null,"abstract":"The concept of social empathy is a useful tool for teaching society the art of understanding one another. This paper looks to several popular media content such as web-series and TV series as formats of narratives that effectively serves the purpose of teaching social empathy. Relevant to this analysis are the issues of political correctness, especially in the feminist political movement that is seen as highly controversial in South Korea. Through social empathy, political correctness can be viewed in a positive light, in contrast to the negative connotation it carries in the current political climate. ARTICLE HISTORY Received 10 January 2019 Revised 25 February 2019 Accepted 5 March 2019","PeriodicalId":222854,"journal":{"name":"Culture and Empathy: International Journal of Sociology, Psychology, and Cultural Studies","volume":"69 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132982284","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Editorial Remarks (Vol. 2, No. 1)","authors":"Wonho Jang","doi":"10.32860/26356619/2019/2.1.0001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.32860/26356619/2019/2.1.0001","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":222854,"journal":{"name":"Culture and Empathy: International Journal of Sociology, Psychology, and Cultural Studies","volume":"42 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125414622","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Affect","authors":"Mark J. Lovas","doi":"10.32860/26356619/2019/2.1.0006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.32860/26356619/2019/2.1.0006","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":222854,"journal":{"name":"Culture and Empathy: International Journal of Sociology, Psychology, and Cultural Studies","volume":"62 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126191241","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Popular Music and Political Economy : South Korea and Japan in the 2010s, or Girls’ Generation and AKB48","authors":"J. Lie","doi":"10.32860/26356619/2019/2.1.0002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.32860/26356619/2019/2.1.0002","url":null,"abstract":"Popular music may be ephemeral and superficial but its almost essential transience and insignificance serve as useful barometers of the here and the now, or knowledge of the present. The reviled reflection thesis – that popular-cultural products “reflect” larger society – has cast a long shadow on the social study of the arts and culture. However much social scientists seek to show the salience of production or the relative autonomy of art worlds, the causal primacy of the social or political economy remains robust. I suggest reversing the received perspective and procedure. ARTICLE HISTORY Received 10 February 2019 Revised 3 March 2019 Accepted 10 March 2019","PeriodicalId":222854,"journal":{"name":"Culture and Empathy: International Journal of Sociology, Psychology, and Cultural Studies","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126409808","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Red Ink","authors":"Ingyu Oh","doi":"10.1038/scientificamerican05111850-265g","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/scientificamerican05111850-265g","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":222854,"journal":{"name":"Culture and Empathy: International Journal of Sociology, Psychology, and Cultural Studies","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132529153","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Straitjacket of Patrimonialism: Critical Notes on South Korea","authors":"Ricardo Pagliuso Regatieri","doi":"10.32860/26356619/2019/2.1.0005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.32860/26356619/2019/2.1.0005","url":null,"abstract":"The inception and development of the Social Sciences cannot be taken out of the context of European – and later also American – colonialism. This field of knowledge, with its assumptions, representations, concepts and analyses, has proceeded hand-in-hand with the consolidation of the capitalist world system. The latter has been marked by a separation between its core and the vast postcolonial areas of the globe. In the early 20 th century, Max Weber, one of the founding fathers of Sociology, devoted a great amount of his extensive work to comparative research between different societies and historical periods, aiming at explaining the so-called uniqueness of the West. In general, his results point to cultural and economic deficiencies and absences of the non-Western world vis-à-vis the West. In this paper, I explore Weber’s concept of patrimonialism and its usages to analyze South Korea. In addressing the latter along with more recent critiques, the paper argues that representations of South Korean society as patrimonial are ultimately hostages of euro-centered representations about the ‘rest’ of the world, that they operate on the basis of problematic historical premises, and that they obscure rather than help to explain the distinct contemporary configurations of capitalism and their specific forms of social domination in South Korea.","PeriodicalId":222854,"journal":{"name":"Culture and Empathy: International Journal of Sociology, Psychology, and Cultural Studies","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134369752","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Hallyu as Sports Diplomacy and Prestige Building","authors":"Jonson N. Porteux, K. Choi","doi":"10.32860/26356619/2018/1.1234.0006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.32860/26356619/2018/1.1234.0006","url":null,"abstract":"If one looks up “sports diplomacy” and Korea, the immediate results returned are overwhelmingly about T’aegwŏndo and interKorean relations. What is more difficult to find however, despite being demonstrably more politically consequential, is Korea`s strategic utilization and spread of Korean or Koreanesque martial arts such as T’aegwŏndo, hapkido, and kumdo, in targeted countries beyond the East Asian region. Similar to the diffusion of Japanese martial arts to the West, Korean martial arts from the 1960s and 70s have acted as a cultural ambassador from Eurasia to the Americas and elsewhere. In particular, with the advent of T’aegwŏndo as a demonstration sport in the 1988 Olympics, and as an official event since the Sydney Olympiad in 2000, the sport`s popularity has expanded. This study argues and provides evidence to the fact, that the spread of specifically T’aegwŏndo has been carried out as part of a larger government sponsored soft-power program and has proven especially politically profitable in terms of increasing the profile of the Republic of Korea. ARTICLE HISTORY Received 10 August 2018 Revised 24 September 2018 Accepted 30 September 2018","PeriodicalId":222854,"journal":{"name":"Culture and Empathy: International Journal of Sociology, Psychology, and Cultural Studies","volume":"240 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123259829","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Who are the Swedish K-pop Fans? Revisiting the Reception and Consumption of Hallyu in Post- Gangnam Style Sweden with an Emphasis on K-pop","authors":"Tobias H�binette","doi":"10.32860/26356619/2018/1.1234.0004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.32860/26356619/2018/1.1234.0004","url":null,"abstract":"Who are the Swedish K-pop Fans? : Revisiting the Reception and Consumption of Hallyu in Post-Gangnam Style Sweden with an Emphasis on K-pop","PeriodicalId":222854,"journal":{"name":"Culture and Empathy: International Journal of Sociology, Psychology, and Cultural Studies","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123702327","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}