{"title":"Strategies, Struggles, and Sites of Transformation in Korean Political Economy","authors":"Jamie Doucette","doi":"10.1215/21581665-7258107","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1215/21581665-7258107","url":null,"abstract":"Korean political economy as a field of study is interdisciplinary in nature, comprising research by scholars within development studies, heterodox economics, politics, geography, sociology, anthropology, and beyond. By extension, its boundaries are often disjointed, fuzzy, and overlapping. This situation raises challenges for tracking progress and taking stock of the field in a manner that renders this material coherent for area studies in general and Korean studies in particular. Nonetheless, four recent books provide the rare opportunity to raise a number of salient issues regarding the orientation of this inchoate field for a Korean studies","PeriodicalId":43322,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Korean Studies","volume":"24 1","pages":"173 - 181"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2019-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45515358","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Story of the Eastern Chamber: Dilemmas of Vernacular Language and Political Authority in Eighteenth-Century Chosŏn","authors":"Sixiang Wang","doi":"10.1215/21581665-7258042","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1215/21581665-7258042","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:The earliest extant playscript in Korea stands as an enigma. It is an anonymous work written to celebrate a wedding arranged by King Chŏngjo. Called Story of the Eastern Chamber, the play evokes not only the Chinese Story of the Western Chamber through titular reference but also the Chinese vernacular tradition as a whole. Written entirely in Chinese characters, the text weaves vernacular Korean words into the syntax of Chinese baihua vernacular, an unusual form which upsets the conventional diglossic binary of literary Chinese (hanmun) and vernacular Korean (hangŭl). This essay situates the text in a late Chosŏn discourse of linguistic difference marked by pronounced anxieties about the temporal and spatial contingency of language. Some late Chosŏn writers, including the text's putative author, Yi Ok, embraced difference to carve out a localized literary space in Chosŏn Korea. For King Chŏngjo, it threatened the textual foundation of royal authority. Eastern Chamber spoke to these dilemmas by imagining a linguistic space where vernacular Korean usage could be represented as a literary language in the Chinese script, reconciling kingly authority with local specificity.","PeriodicalId":43322,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Korean Studies","volume":"24 1","pages":"29 - 62"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2019-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45370645","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Singing Katiusha: Tolstoy's Resurrection in 1910s Korea","authors":"S. Lim","doi":"10.1215/21581665-7258068","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1215/21581665-7258068","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article examines the remarkable success of the Russian writer Leo Tolstoy's last novel, Resurrection (1899), in early colonial Korea of the 1910s. In answering the main question of the significance of Resurrection in Korea's colonial modernity, I argue that it is necessary to consider the interplay of the elite and popular receptions of Tolstoy's novel, as well as to place the various Korean versions of Resurrection within the broader context of early colonial rule, the development of modern colonial media and mass culture, the specificities of the cultural terrain of the 1910s, and intellectuals' search for a modern national literature. Resurrection was introduced in Korea at a critical early period when various narrative forms and cultural media coexisted and vied with each other for influence, and when—prior to the appearance of Yi Kwangsu's Mujŏng—literature was far from enjoying a privileged place in modern Korean culture. As such, an examination of its reception can provide important insights into the dynamics governing the emergence of the modern novel at the dawn of the colonial period in its interaction with popular culture and modern media.","PeriodicalId":43322,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Korean Studies","volume":"24 1","pages":"125 - 97"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2019-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46734727","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"North Korea's Marxism-Leninism: Fraternal Criticisms and the Development of North Korean Ideology in the 1960s","authors":"T. Stock","doi":"10.1215/21581665-7258081","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1215/21581665-7258081","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:During the 1960s, as the Sino-Soviet conflict raged on, North Korea, for the first time in its history, officially began to reject the USSR's ideological leadership and instead tread its own path under the slogan of self-reliance. As a result, those forces aligned with the Soviet Union, especially East Germany, heavily criticized North Korea's new ideological path. Drawing on the East German archives, this study seeks to understand the nature of fraternal criticisms and their implications for the development of North Korean ideology in the 1960s. Scholars typically stress North Korean ideology's departure from Marxism-Leninism, sometimes suggesting a departure as early as the 1950s. The present study, based on a thorough reading of archival documents and North Korean materials, challenges such portrayals, arguing that North Korea remained in the Marxist-Leninist tradition even while contesting Soviet orthodoxy. Developments in North Korean ideology were far more gradual than is usually assumed, building on what came before. These developments were by no means revolutionary or removed from the global intellectual environment. The Soviets and East Germans could understand North Korean heterodoxy and engage with it in Marxist-Leninist terms, just as North Korea did with Soviet Marxism-Leninism—there was no fundamental ideological split.","PeriodicalId":43322,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Korean Studies","volume":"24 1","pages":"127 - 147"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2019-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47377586","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Are North Korean Compatriots \"Korean\"? The Trifurcation of Ethnic Nationalism in South Korea during the Syngman Rhee Era (1948–60)","authors":"Bumsoo Kim","doi":"10.1215/21581665-7258094","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1215/21581665-7258094","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Focusing on the question of whether South Koreans' notion of \"we, the people of Korea\" (uri taehan kungmin) included North Korean compatriots or not, this study examines the trifurcation of ethnic nationalism in South Korea during the Syngman Rhee era (1948–1960). Specifically, by analyzing columns and editorials of three Korean newspapers, Chosŏn ilbo, Tonga ilbo, and Kyŏnghyang sinmun, this study reveals that, following the division of Korea (1948), Korean nationalism trifurcated, at least in South Korea, into three different but closely related versions, each of which did not deny that historically all Koreans belonged to the same nation, but defined \"we, the people of Korea\" differently: (1) tanil minjok (one nation) nationalism, which included not only South Koreans but also North Korean compatriots in \"we, the people of Korea\"; (2) anticommunist nationalism, which included South Koreans and \"patriotic compatriots\" of North Korea in \"we, the people of Korea\" while excluding North Korean \"commies\"; and (3) Taehan Min'guk (the great ROK) nationalism, which identified only South Koreans as \"we, the people of Korea.\" In doing so, this study suggests that, as the division of Korea solidified after the Korean War, South Koreans began to \"imagine\" themselves as a different national community, separated from North Korean compatriots.","PeriodicalId":43322,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Korean Studies","volume":"24 1","pages":"149 - 171"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2019-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46914964","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"South Korea at the Crossroads: Autonomy and Alliance in an Era of Rival Powers by Scott A. Snyder (review)","authors":"Stephen E. Noerper","doi":"10.1215/21581665-7258199","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1215/21581665-7258199","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43322,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Korean Studies","volume":"24 1","pages":"183 - 187"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2019-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44802406","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Korean American Pioneer Aviators: The Willows Airmen by Edward T. Chang and Woo Sung Han (review)","authors":"Jang Wook Huh","doi":"10.1215/21581665-6973453","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1215/21581665-6973453","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43322,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Korean Studies","volume":"23 1","pages":"449 - 452"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2018-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42910606","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Curative Violence: Rehabilitating Disability, Gender, and Sexuality in Modern Korea by Eunjung Kim (review)","authors":"Jesook Song","doi":"10.1215/21581665-6973432","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1215/21581665-6973432","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43322,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Korean Studies","volume":"23 1","pages":"447 - 449"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2018-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47191900","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Monstrous Science: The Great Monster Yonggari (1967) and Cold War Science in 1960s South Korea","authors":"Chung-kang Kim","doi":"10.1215/21581665-6973383","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1215/21581665-6973383","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This essay explores the cinematic Cold War in 1960s South Korea, focusing on a popular film, The Great Monster Yonggari (Taegoesu Yonggari, 1967), and its transnational production, circulation, and responses. Initially produced as a children's movie by Korean film director Kim Kidŏk, Yonggari had great success at the box office in South Korea. Later, with cooperation and international marketing by the Japanese company Toei, this film was introduced by American International Pictures television in the United States in 1969 with the title Yongary, Monster from the Deep. The transnational cultural nexus in the production and distribution of The Great Monster Yonggari obviously reflects the global Cold War politics among the nations in the \"free world.\" While paying attention to this ideological aspect of the film and the centrality of science as a national developmental agenda in South Korea, the essay also looks closely at the anxieties behind the Cold War science within Yonggari, as the \"silenced\" nuclear disaster of Japan started to be publicly spoken in South Korean media in the mid-1960s. The film reminded Koreans of the victims in Hiroshima and Nagasaki and of East Asian \"Hot Wars\" that were hidden behind monstrous Cold War science.","PeriodicalId":43322,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Korean Studies","volume":"23 1","pages":"397 - 421"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2018-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48632524","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Fantasy, the Final Frontier: Making Science Moral in Postwar North Korean Youth Culture","authors":"Dafna Zur","doi":"10.1215/21581665-6973308","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1215/21581665-6973308","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:The atomic bombing marked an end to World War II and triggered the evacuation of the Japanese from the Korean peninsula. In its wake came parallel occupations by the USSR and the US, under which North and South Korea dedicated themselves to rebuilding from postwar destruction. Science and technology had a central role to play as the means through which to meet economic goals and achieve military, political, and social ideals. In North Korea, the investment in science and technology revealed itself in young reader magazines, where scientific content made banal the exceptional power of nuclear energy and made the natural world knowable through formulas and data. At the same time, science and fiction took an interest in the relationships between the self and the collective and between humans and nature and reconfigured these relationships in moral terms. This article argues that scientific knowledge had to be framed by, and injected with, strong moral guidance to assure accurate and appropriate applications of the technical and scientific. Moral restructuring was the ground zero of social and economic reform, and the narrative form was recognized as the best way to shape the most elusive frontier of all: the fantasy of the young.","PeriodicalId":43322,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Korean Studies","volume":"23 1","pages":"275 - 298"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2018-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49076474","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}