Seo Young Park
- Published in print:
- 2021
- Published Online:
- January 2022
- ISBN:
- 9781501754265
- eISBN:
- 9781501754272
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Cornell University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7591/cornell/9781501754265.001.0001
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Asian Studies
This book reveals the intense speed of garment production and everyday life in Dongdaemun, a lively market in Seoul, South Korea. Once the site of uprisings against oppressive working conditions in ...
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This book reveals the intense speed of garment production and everyday life in Dongdaemun, a lively market in Seoul, South Korea. Once the site of uprisings against oppressive working conditions in the 1970s and 1980s, Dongdaemun has now become iconic for its creative economy, nightlife, fast-fashion factories, and shopping plazas. The book follows the work of people who witnessed and experienced the rapidly changing marketplace from the inside. Through this approach, it examines the meanings and politics of work in one of the world's most vibrant and dynamic global urban marketplaces. In doing so, it brings readers into close contact with the garment designers, workers, and traders who sustain the extraordinary speed of fast-fashion production and circulation, as well as the labor activists who challenge it. Attending to their narratives and practices of work, the book argues that speed, rather than being a singular drive of acceleration, is an entanglement of uneven paces of life, labor, the market, and the city itself. The book exposes the under-studied experiences with Dongdaemun fast fashion, peeling back layers of temporal politics of labor and urban space to record the human source of the speed that characterizes the never-ending movement of the 24-hour city.Less
This book reveals the intense speed of garment production and everyday life in Dongdaemun, a lively market in Seoul, South Korea. Once the site of uprisings against oppressive working conditions in the 1970s and 1980s, Dongdaemun has now become iconic for its creative economy, nightlife, fast-fashion factories, and shopping plazas. The book follows the work of people who witnessed and experienced the rapidly changing marketplace from the inside. Through this approach, it examines the meanings and politics of work in one of the world's most vibrant and dynamic global urban marketplaces. In doing so, it brings readers into close contact with the garment designers, workers, and traders who sustain the extraordinary speed of fast-fashion production and circulation, as well as the labor activists who challenge it. Attending to their narratives and practices of work, the book argues that speed, rather than being a singular drive of acceleration, is an entanglement of uneven paces of life, labor, the market, and the city itself. The book exposes the under-studied experiences with Dongdaemun fast fashion, peeling back layers of temporal politics of labor and urban space to record the human source of the speed that characterizes the never-ending movement of the 24-hour city.
Young Ick Lew
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- November 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780824831684
- eISBN:
- 9780824871000
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of Hawai'i Press
- DOI:
- 10.21313/hawaii/9780824831684.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, Asian History
The only full-scale history of Syngman Rhee’s (1875–1965) early career in English was published nearly six decades ago. Now, this book uncovers little-known aspects of Rhee’s leadership roles prior ...
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The only full-scale history of Syngman Rhee’s (1875–1965) early career in English was published nearly six decades ago. Now, this book uncovers little-known aspects of Rhee’s leadership roles prior to 1948, when he became the Republic of Korea’s first president. It delves into Rhee’s background, investigates his abortive diplomatic missions, and explains how and why he was impeached as the head of the Korean Provisional Government in 1925. The book analyzes the numerous personal conflicts between Rhee and other prominent Korean leaders, including some close friends and supporters who eventually denounced him as an autocrat. Rhee is portrayed as a fallible yet charismatic leader who spent his life fighting in the diplomatic and propaganda arena for the independence of his beleaguered nation—a struggle that would have consumed and defeated lesser men. The book lays out the key developments of Rhee’s pre-presidential career, including his early schooling in Korea, involvement in the reform movement against the Taehan (“Great Korean”) Empire, and his six-year incarceration in Seoul Prison for a coup attempt on Emperor Kojong. Rhee’s life in the United States is also examined in detail. The book concludes that, despite the manifold shortcomings in Rhee’s authoritarian leadership, he was undoubtedly best prepared to assume the presidency of South Korea after the onset of the Cold War in the Korean Peninsula.Less
The only full-scale history of Syngman Rhee’s (1875–1965) early career in English was published nearly six decades ago. Now, this book uncovers little-known aspects of Rhee’s leadership roles prior to 1948, when he became the Republic of Korea’s first president. It delves into Rhee’s background, investigates his abortive diplomatic missions, and explains how and why he was impeached as the head of the Korean Provisional Government in 1925. The book analyzes the numerous personal conflicts between Rhee and other prominent Korean leaders, including some close friends and supporters who eventually denounced him as an autocrat. Rhee is portrayed as a fallible yet charismatic leader who spent his life fighting in the diplomatic and propaganda arena for the independence of his beleaguered nation—a struggle that would have consumed and defeated lesser men. The book lays out the key developments of Rhee’s pre-presidential career, including his early schooling in Korea, involvement in the reform movement against the Taehan (“Great Korean”) Empire, and his six-year incarceration in Seoul Prison for a coup attempt on Emperor Kojong. Rhee’s life in the United States is also examined in detail. The book concludes that, despite the manifold shortcomings in Rhee’s authoritarian leadership, he was undoubtedly best prepared to assume the presidency of South Korea after the onset of the Cold War in the Korean Peninsula.
Nicholas Harkness
- Published in print:
- 2021
- Published Online:
- January 2022
- ISBN:
- 9780226749389
- eISBN:
- 9780226749556
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226749556.003.0005
- Subject:
- Anthropology, Asian Cultural Anthropology
Chapter 4 demonstrates how the logic of glossolalia is present in the Korean Christian emphasis on evangelism and revivalism. I analyze the final sermon of the American Evangelist Billy Graham’s 1973 ...
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Chapter 4 demonstrates how the logic of glossolalia is present in the Korean Christian emphasis on evangelism and revivalism. I analyze the final sermon of the American Evangelist Billy Graham’s 1973 “crusade” in Seoul, South Korea, when he preached to a crowd estimated to have exceeded one million, the largest crowd ever amassed for a Graham event. Next to Graham at the pulpit was Jang Hwan “Billy” Kim, a Korean Baptist preacher who, in his capacity as interpreter, translated (and matched) Graham’s sermon verbally and peri-verbally—utterance by utterance, tone by tone, gesture by gesture—for the Korean-speaking audience. For observers of this legendary event, one Christian’s voice seemed to be filled with the speech of another, and both voices seemed to be fused together by the work of the Holy Spirit. The analysis reveals the dynamic pragmatics by which a verbal copy across linguistic codes became an evangelical conduit between Cold War polities, paving the way for the movement of the Word—and the Holy Spirit—from speaker to speaker, from code to code, from country to country, from heaven to earth. Their collaborative manipulations of utterance and agency provide important clues for understanding the semiotic force of glossolalia in South Korea.Less
Chapter 4 demonstrates how the logic of glossolalia is present in the Korean Christian emphasis on evangelism and revivalism. I analyze the final sermon of the American Evangelist Billy Graham’s 1973 “crusade” in Seoul, South Korea, when he preached to a crowd estimated to have exceeded one million, the largest crowd ever amassed for a Graham event. Next to Graham at the pulpit was Jang Hwan “Billy” Kim, a Korean Baptist preacher who, in his capacity as interpreter, translated (and matched) Graham’s sermon verbally and peri-verbally—utterance by utterance, tone by tone, gesture by gesture—for the Korean-speaking audience. For observers of this legendary event, one Christian’s voice seemed to be filled with the speech of another, and both voices seemed to be fused together by the work of the Holy Spirit. The analysis reveals the dynamic pragmatics by which a verbal copy across linguistic codes became an evangelical conduit between Cold War polities, paving the way for the movement of the Word—and the Holy Spirit—from speaker to speaker, from code to code, from country to country, from heaven to earth. Their collaborative manipulations of utterance and agency provide important clues for understanding the semiotic force of glossolalia in South Korea.
Hun Joon Kim
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- August 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780801452390
- eISBN:
- 9780801470677
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Cornell University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7591/cornell/9780801452390.003.0003
- Subject:
- Political Science, Asian Politics
This chapter discusses how the period between 1954 and 1987 had come to represent the first phase of the movement to find truth and restore justice. After a series of coups and regime changes ...
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This chapter discusses how the period between 1954 and 1987 had come to represent the first phase of the movement to find truth and restore justice. After a series of coups and regime changes occurred, a brief moment of democratization came around in 1979—the Seoul Spring. However, another anti-Communist regime came to power, following the successful coup led by General Chun Doo-hwan. Throughout these years, the victims' calls for truth and justice had been systematically suppressed. At the same time, the general public accepted the government's official narrative, perceiving the Jeju 4.3 events as a Communist rebellion and the victims as Communists and their supporters. Nevertheless, it was impossible for the government to cover up all traces of the atrocities. Pursuing the ideals of truth and justice, university students, journalists, and writers were particularly significant in the early advocacy process.Less
This chapter discusses how the period between 1954 and 1987 had come to represent the first phase of the movement to find truth and restore justice. After a series of coups and regime changes occurred, a brief moment of democratization came around in 1979—the Seoul Spring. However, another anti-Communist regime came to power, following the successful coup led by General Chun Doo-hwan. Throughout these years, the victims' calls for truth and justice had been systematically suppressed. At the same time, the general public accepted the government's official narrative, perceiving the Jeju 4.3 events as a Communist rebellion and the victims as Communists and their supporters. Nevertheless, it was impossible for the government to cover up all traces of the atrocities. Pursuing the ideals of truth and justice, university students, journalists, and writers were particularly significant in the early advocacy process.
John Lie
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- May 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780520098633
- eISBN:
- 9780520916197
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520098633.003.0009
- Subject:
- Anthropology, Asian Cultural Anthropology
Sixty years on since the Korean residences first settled in post-colonial Japan, the contemporary Japanese perspective eventually seems to be accounting for the Koreans in a different light. A short ...
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Sixty years on since the Korean residences first settled in post-colonial Japan, the contemporary Japanese perspective eventually seems to be accounting for the Koreans in a different light. A short appraisal of the present situation would infer that it would do considerable injustice to reality to insist on the relentless and recalcitrant nature of the Japanese dislike of Korea and Koreans. While the current indicators of social acceptance are derived from the substantial sway of Zainichi elements over the mainstream reel culture of Japan, the initial stages of Japanese exposure to Korean culture came by the way of interbreeding—the Japanese tourism boom to Korea in the 1960s was much characterized by sex-tourism—and via the culinary route. While the elders still consider the Korean nation as developing/poor, Japanese youths are more likely to evoke the manifest wealth of Seoul and the dynamic nature of Samsung.Less
Sixty years on since the Korean residences first settled in post-colonial Japan, the contemporary Japanese perspective eventually seems to be accounting for the Koreans in a different light. A short appraisal of the present situation would infer that it would do considerable injustice to reality to insist on the relentless and recalcitrant nature of the Japanese dislike of Korea and Koreans. While the current indicators of social acceptance are derived from the substantial sway of Zainichi elements over the mainstream reel culture of Japan, the initial stages of Japanese exposure to Korean culture came by the way of interbreeding—the Japanese tourism boom to Korea in the 1960s was much characterized by sex-tourism—and via the culinary route. While the elders still consider the Korean nation as developing/poor, Japanese youths are more likely to evoke the manifest wealth of Seoul and the dynamic nature of Samsung.
Jonghee Lee-Caldararo
- Published in print:
- 2021
- Published Online:
- January 2022
- ISBN:
- 9781447352891
- eISBN:
- 9781447352914
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- DOI:
- 10.1332/policypress/9781447352891.003.0004
- Subject:
- Sociology, Comparative and Historical Sociology
In this chapter, Jonghee Lee-Caldararo explores shows how transformational impacts of neoliberalisations, austerities and economic crises are felt at intimate, bodily scales. Through research with ...
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In this chapter, Jonghee Lee-Caldararo explores shows how transformational impacts of neoliberalisations, austerities and economic crises are felt at intimate, bodily scales. Through research with young people at a selection of Seoul’s ‘24hr cafés’, the chapter argues that a highly competitive neoliberalised education system in South Korea, coupled with anxieties about post-recessionary unemployment and job insecurity, have led to ‘laziness’ being stigmatised. In this context, the chapter shows how sleeplessness, chronic fatigue, anxiety and stress have come to be normalised bodily conditions for many young people. This is evidenced by the preponderance of ‘24hr cafés’ in Seoul, where many young people regularly study, work and doze through the night, in lieu of going to bed. This haunting chapter, vividly evokes the way in which neoliberalisations, austerities and economic crises are lived and deeply -felt as personal, corporeal conditions, every day and every-night.Less
In this chapter, Jonghee Lee-Caldararo explores shows how transformational impacts of neoliberalisations, austerities and economic crises are felt at intimate, bodily scales. Through research with young people at a selection of Seoul’s ‘24hr cafés’, the chapter argues that a highly competitive neoliberalised education system in South Korea, coupled with anxieties about post-recessionary unemployment and job insecurity, have led to ‘laziness’ being stigmatised. In this context, the chapter shows how sleeplessness, chronic fatigue, anxiety and stress have come to be normalised bodily conditions for many young people. This is evidenced by the preponderance of ‘24hr cafés’ in Seoul, where many young people regularly study, work and doze through the night, in lieu of going to bed. This haunting chapter, vividly evokes the way in which neoliberalisations, austerities and economic crises are lived and deeply -felt as personal, corporeal conditions, every day and every-night.
Mike Douglass, Orathai Ard-Am, and Ik Ki Kim
- Published in print:
- 2002
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780520230248
- eISBN:
- 9780520935976
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520230248.003.0002
- Subject:
- Sociology, Urban and Rural Studies
This chapter contrasts the strategies used to improve environmental conditions in two low-income communities in two different urban contexts: the Wolgoksa-dong squatter community in Seoul, Korea, and ...
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This chapter contrasts the strategies used to improve environmental conditions in two low-income communities in two different urban contexts: the Wolgoksa-dong squatter community in Seoul, Korea, and the Wat Chonglom slum community in Bangkok, Thailand. In each case, the analysis moves from the level of the household and gender relations, through the level of community organization and leadership, to the linkages and conflicts that each community has to translocal organizations and the state. The comparisons suggest that the Wat Chonglom community was much better positioned than Wolgoksa-dong — and the vast majority of other slum communities in Bangkok — to expand its social capital and use it in the pursuit of livability. Both communities have shown, over the past decades, an admirable vitality and resilience in the face of highly adverse political and economic forces.Less
This chapter contrasts the strategies used to improve environmental conditions in two low-income communities in two different urban contexts: the Wolgoksa-dong squatter community in Seoul, Korea, and the Wat Chonglom slum community in Bangkok, Thailand. In each case, the analysis moves from the level of the household and gender relations, through the level of community organization and leadership, to the linkages and conflicts that each community has to translocal organizations and the state. The comparisons suggest that the Wat Chonglom community was much better positioned than Wolgoksa-dong — and the vast majority of other slum communities in Bangkok — to expand its social capital and use it in the pursuit of livability. Both communities have shown, over the past decades, an admirable vitality and resilience in the face of highly adverse political and economic forces.
William T. Bowers (ed.)
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- September 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780813125084
- eISBN:
- 9780813135144
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Kentucky
- DOI:
- 10.5810/kentucky/9780813125084.003.0002
- Subject:
- History, Military History
As the U.S. I and IX Corps were sent to the south of the Han River as a result of the Chinese New Year's Offensive which led to the abandonment of Seoul, North Korean forces attacked the II and III ...
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As the U.S. I and IX Corps were sent to the south of the Han River as a result of the Chinese New Year's Offensive which led to the abandonment of Seoul, North Korean forces attacked the II and III Corps of the ROK. Since General Ridgway expressed his belief that giving way to the center would entail danger for the American forces in the west and for their logistical base at Pusan, the 2d Infantry division—which was still recovering from its previous losses in its North Korean encounter in November—proved to be the only available backup forces. The December 1950 Command Report of the 2d Infantry Division illustrated how these forces were able to regain strength, train replacements, and reinforce the ROK forces as well as protect the Eighth Army.Less
As the U.S. I and IX Corps were sent to the south of the Han River as a result of the Chinese New Year's Offensive which led to the abandonment of Seoul, North Korean forces attacked the II and III Corps of the ROK. Since General Ridgway expressed his belief that giving way to the center would entail danger for the American forces in the west and for their logistical base at Pusan, the 2d Infantry division—which was still recovering from its previous losses in its North Korean encounter in November—proved to be the only available backup forces. The December 1950 Command Report of the 2d Infantry Division illustrated how these forces were able to regain strength, train replacements, and reinforce the ROK forces as well as protect the Eighth Army.
Duncan McLaren and Julian Agyeman
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- September 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780262029728
- eISBN:
- 9780262329705
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- The MIT Press
- DOI:
- 10.7551/mitpress/9780262029728.003.0009
- Subject:
- Environmental Science, Environmental Studies
Chapter 1 examines the contemporary revival of sharing as collaborative consumption in mediated and particularly commercial forms, with examples from food sharing in particular. It reports surveys of ...
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Chapter 1 examines the contemporary revival of sharing as collaborative consumption in mediated and particularly commercial forms, with examples from food sharing in particular. It reports surveys of sharing behaviors, highlighting the role of the Millennial demographic in the growth of the sharing economy. It examines the technical, environmental, economic and cultural drivers of the sharing revival, especially the transfer of norms from sharing on the internet to the real world. It explores the economic logics and disruption of sharing, outlines how incumbent businesses are responding to the sharing paradigm and begins to examine the risks and benefits of an intrusion of commercial sharing into the social realm.Less
Chapter 1 examines the contemporary revival of sharing as collaborative consumption in mediated and particularly commercial forms, with examples from food sharing in particular. It reports surveys of sharing behaviors, highlighting the role of the Millennial demographic in the growth of the sharing economy. It examines the technical, environmental, economic and cultural drivers of the sharing revival, especially the transfer of norms from sharing on the internet to the real world. It explores the economic logics and disruption of sharing, outlines how incumbent businesses are responding to the sharing paradigm and begins to examine the risks and benefits of an intrusion of commercial sharing into the social realm.
William T. Bowers
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- September 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780813125640
- eISBN:
- 9780813135366
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Kentucky
- DOI:
- 10.5810/kentucky/9780813125640.003.0007
- Subject:
- History, Military History
Commanders believed that the only hope for UN success was a rapid move east by the 187th Airborne Regimental Combat Team (RCT) to hit the rear of the Chinese in front of the 3d Division. However, the ...
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Commanders believed that the only hope for UN success was a rapid move east by the 187th Airborne Regimental Combat Team (RCT) to hit the rear of the Chinese in front of the 3d Division. However, the 187th Airborne with its attached Task Force Growdon was in the midst of resupply activities, and would be hard pressed to move fast enough to catch the enemy before they pulled back. Capt. Charles E. Weddle of the 187th Airborne RCT's S-3 section describes the receipt of the order. Capt. John Wahl provides details of the airborne regiment's movement plan. About the time that the move to the east started, the resupply vehicles of Task Force Growdon and the “land tail” of the 187th Airborne RCT began to arrive. On 25 March, Task Force Kobbe returned to Munsan-ni with the 999th Field Artillery battery. There the battalion was refueled by the trains that had arrived from Seoul. The remaining elements of Task Force Growdon moved to Seoul, where the task force was dissolved. It also discusses the actions near Parun-ni. The fire, resupply and medical supports are then addressed.Less
Commanders believed that the only hope for UN success was a rapid move east by the 187th Airborne Regimental Combat Team (RCT) to hit the rear of the Chinese in front of the 3d Division. However, the 187th Airborne with its attached Task Force Growdon was in the midst of resupply activities, and would be hard pressed to move fast enough to catch the enemy before they pulled back. Capt. Charles E. Weddle of the 187th Airborne RCT's S-3 section describes the receipt of the order. Capt. John Wahl provides details of the airborne regiment's movement plan. About the time that the move to the east started, the resupply vehicles of Task Force Growdon and the “land tail” of the 187th Airborne RCT began to arrive. On 25 March, Task Force Kobbe returned to Munsan-ni with the 999th Field Artillery battery. There the battalion was refueled by the trains that had arrived from Seoul. The remaining elements of Task Force Growdon moved to Seoul, where the task force was dissolved. It also discusses the actions near Parun-ni. The fire, resupply and medical supports are then addressed.
Laurel Kendall
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- January 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780520281226
- eISBN:
- 9780520961081
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520281226.003.0020
- Subject:
- Anthropology, Asian Cultural Anthropology
This chapter examines material religion in Seoul and Hanoi by focusing on the production and circulation of sacred goods and services in the two Asian cities. In particular, it considers how notions ...
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This chapter examines material religion in Seoul and Hanoi by focusing on the production and circulation of sacred goods and services in the two Asian cities. In particular, it considers how notions of sacredness, magic, and efficacy are expressed and experienced in these settings through two similar but not identical domains of popular religious practice: those of spirit mediums in Hanoi and of shamans in Seoul. After a brief overview of place, the chapter considers how spirit mediums and shamans are situated within urban space and how these popular religious practices foster the production and consumption of different kinds of religious goods and services. It then explores how changes in production and distribution have been experienced and interpreted in Seoul and Hanoi by looking at the provision of services at ritual sites and the production and consumption of sacred images. It shows how the city becomes a hub of popular religious activity that is aided and abetted by brisk markets in ritual goods, and the ways in which these markets are marked by the commodification of goods and services.Less
This chapter examines material religion in Seoul and Hanoi by focusing on the production and circulation of sacred goods and services in the two Asian cities. In particular, it considers how notions of sacredness, magic, and efficacy are expressed and experienced in these settings through two similar but not identical domains of popular religious practice: those of spirit mediums in Hanoi and of shamans in Seoul. After a brief overview of place, the chapter considers how spirit mediums and shamans are situated within urban space and how these popular religious practices foster the production and consumption of different kinds of religious goods and services. It then explores how changes in production and distribution have been experienced and interpreted in Seoul and Hanoi by looking at the provision of services at ritual sites and the production and consumption of sacred images. It shows how the city becomes a hub of popular religious activity that is aided and abetted by brisk markets in ritual goods, and the ways in which these markets are marked by the commodification of goods and services.
Geok Chin Ivy Tan, John Chi-Kin Lee, Tzuchau Chang, and Chankook Kim
Alex Russ and Marianne E. Krasny (eds)
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- January 2018
- ISBN:
- 9781501705823
- eISBN:
- 9781501712791
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Cornell University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7591/cornell/9781501705823.003.0004
- Subject:
- Environmental Science, Environmental Studies
This chapter describes innovative approaches, both within schools and across multiple sectors, to urban environmental education in the highly urbanized environments of Singapore, Hong Kong, Taipei, ...
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This chapter describes innovative approaches, both within schools and across multiple sectors, to urban environmental education in the highly urbanized environments of Singapore, Hong Kong, Taipei, and Seoul. Singapore, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and South Korea—the so-called “Four Asian Tigers”—pursued aggressive industrialization to boost economic growth, resulting in rapid urbanization. Today their cities are faced with acute urban problems. As each of these highly urbanized cities faces the complex challenges that come with development, they turned to urban environmental education to foster environmental awareness and environmentally responsible behaviors. The chapter examines the strategies adopted by Singapore, Hong Kong, Taipei, and Seoul, such as integrating environmental education into the school curriculum, inquiry-based field trips, technology, partnerships, and urban environmental centers.Less
This chapter describes innovative approaches, both within schools and across multiple sectors, to urban environmental education in the highly urbanized environments of Singapore, Hong Kong, Taipei, and Seoul. Singapore, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and South Korea—the so-called “Four Asian Tigers”—pursued aggressive industrialization to boost economic growth, resulting in rapid urbanization. Today their cities are faced with acute urban problems. As each of these highly urbanized cities faces the complex challenges that come with development, they turned to urban environmental education to foster environmental awareness and environmentally responsible behaviors. The chapter examines the strategies adopted by Singapore, Hong Kong, Taipei, and Seoul, such as integrating environmental education into the school curriculum, inquiry-based field trips, technology, partnerships, and urban environmental centers.
Sandra Fahy
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- November 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780231171342
- eISBN:
- 9780231538947
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Columbia University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7312/columbia/9780231171342.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, Asian History
This book presents a personal portrait of the ravages of famine and totalitarian politics in modern North Korea since the 1990s. Featuring interviews with more than thirty North Koreans who defected ...
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This book presents a personal portrait of the ravages of famine and totalitarian politics in modern North Korea since the 1990s. Featuring interviews with more than thirty North Koreans who defected to Seoul and Tokyo, the book explores the subjective experience of the nation's famine and its citizens' social and psychological strategies for coping with the regime. These oral testimonies show how ordinary North Koreans, from farmers and soldiers to students and diplomats, framed the mounting struggles and deaths surrounding them as the famine progressed. Following the development of the disaster, North Koreans deployed complex discursive strategies to rationalize the horror and hardship in their lives, practices that maintained citizens' loyalty to the regime during the famine and continue to sustain its rule today. Casting North Koreans as a diverse people with a vast capacity for adaptation rather than a monolithic entity passively enduring oppression, the text positions personal history as a critical lens for interpreting political violence.Less
This book presents a personal portrait of the ravages of famine and totalitarian politics in modern North Korea since the 1990s. Featuring interviews with more than thirty North Koreans who defected to Seoul and Tokyo, the book explores the subjective experience of the nation's famine and its citizens' social and psychological strategies for coping with the regime. These oral testimonies show how ordinary North Koreans, from farmers and soldiers to students and diplomats, framed the mounting struggles and deaths surrounding them as the famine progressed. Following the development of the disaster, North Koreans deployed complex discursive strategies to rationalize the horror and hardship in their lives, practices that maintained citizens' loyalty to the regime during the famine and continue to sustain its rule today. Casting North Koreans as a diverse people with a vast capacity for adaptation rather than a monolithic entity passively enduring oppression, the text positions personal history as a critical lens for interpreting political violence.
Duncan McLaren and Julian Agyeman
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- September 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780262029728
- eISBN:
- 9780262329705
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- The MIT Press
- DOI:
- 10.7551/mitpress/9780262029728.003.0002
- Subject:
- Environmental Science, Environmental Studies
The case study highlights the socio-cultural origins of sharing models in Seoul, providing some context on the Korean communitarian cultural concept of jeong. It highlights the leading role of city ...
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The case study highlights the socio-cultural origins of sharing models in Seoul, providing some context on the Korean communitarian cultural concept of jeong. It highlights the leading role of city authorities in stimulating sharing enterprises and behaviour with examples of initiatives supported and developed. It identifies how Seoul has brought human aspects to the fore in its expression of the smart city concept, rather than the technology. It notes also the historical emergence of co-production in Seoul, and its role in helping consolidate democratic governance; and outlines contemporary activity to promote co-governance, transparency and public participation.Less
The case study highlights the socio-cultural origins of sharing models in Seoul, providing some context on the Korean communitarian cultural concept of jeong. It highlights the leading role of city authorities in stimulating sharing enterprises and behaviour with examples of initiatives supported and developed. It identifies how Seoul has brought human aspects to the fore in its expression of the smart city concept, rather than the technology. It notes also the historical emergence of co-production in Seoul, and its role in helping consolidate democratic governance; and outlines contemporary activity to promote co-governance, transparency and public participation.
Eugene Y. Park
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- September 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780804788762
- eISBN:
- 9780804790864
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Stanford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.11126/stanford/9780804788762.003.0003
- Subject:
- History, Asian History
A much greater body of extant documents allows chapter 2 to tell an increasingly complex story of the Paks during the eighteenth century. Contrary to common assumptions that the specialist chungin ...
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A much greater body of extant documents allows chapter 2 to tell an increasingly complex story of the Paks during the eighteenth century. Contrary to common assumptions that the specialist chungin status category crystallized in the seventeenth century, the chapter shows that the family's male members tended to be lower-level military officers and merchants who found marriage partners not only among others like themselves but also from merchant families and even families descended from illegitimate-sons (sŏŏl) of the aristocracy. Relocating from Chiksan, Ch’ungch’ŏng province to Seoul, the Paks accumulated wealth thanks to an increasingly liberalized economy featuring booming commerce around the capital. At the same time, the Paks acquired royal estate managerships (tojang) in nearby Kyŏnggi province as well as securing profitable ramie-producing fields further south in Ch’ungch’ŏng.Less
A much greater body of extant documents allows chapter 2 to tell an increasingly complex story of the Paks during the eighteenth century. Contrary to common assumptions that the specialist chungin status category crystallized in the seventeenth century, the chapter shows that the family's male members tended to be lower-level military officers and merchants who found marriage partners not only among others like themselves but also from merchant families and even families descended from illegitimate-sons (sŏŏl) of the aristocracy. Relocating from Chiksan, Ch’ungch’ŏng province to Seoul, the Paks accumulated wealth thanks to an increasingly liberalized economy featuring booming commerce around the capital. At the same time, the Paks acquired royal estate managerships (tojang) in nearby Kyŏnggi province as well as securing profitable ramie-producing fields further south in Ch’ungch’ŏng.
Eugene Y. Park
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- September 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780804788762
- eISBN:
- 9780804790864
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Stanford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.11126/stanford/9780804788762.003.0005
- Subject:
- History, Asian History
This chapter brings the Paks closer to the forefront of documented history as they thrived in the period of the Korean Empire (1897–1910). None achieved the kind of prominence needed to win ...
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This chapter brings the Paks closer to the forefront of documented history as they thrived in the period of the Korean Empire (1897–1910). None achieved the kind of prominence needed to win widespread recognition in the historiography of the era. Nonetheless, the Paks’ evident adoption of Western ideas and practices as Korea struggled to strengthen itself as a modern nation-state allows insights into the lives and aspirations of Korea's rank-and-file chungin as a whole, complementing previous studies which focused on famous characters. Unlike the individual cases of chungin who continued to prosper even after Korea's colonization by Japan, the Paks’ newly found opportunities in politics, business, and cultural circles began dissipating with Japanese ascendancy, from the Russo-Japanese War and through the subsequent Japanese control of Korea as a protectorate.Less
This chapter brings the Paks closer to the forefront of documented history as they thrived in the period of the Korean Empire (1897–1910). None achieved the kind of prominence needed to win widespread recognition in the historiography of the era. Nonetheless, the Paks’ evident adoption of Western ideas and practices as Korea struggled to strengthen itself as a modern nation-state allows insights into the lives and aspirations of Korea's rank-and-file chungin as a whole, complementing previous studies which focused on famous characters. Unlike the individual cases of chungin who continued to prosper even after Korea's colonization by Japan, the Paks’ newly found opportunities in politics, business, and cultural circles began dissipating with Japanese ascendancy, from the Russo-Japanese War and through the subsequent Japanese control of Korea as a protectorate.
Ju Hui Judy Han
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- January 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780520281226
- eISBN:
- 9780520961081
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520281226.003.0007
- Subject:
- Anthropology, Asian Cultural Anthropology
This chapter examines the contentious religious politics of urban megachurches in Seoul, South Korea. It begins with an overview of the urban political ecology of religion in Seoul in the context of ...
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This chapter examines the contentious religious politics of urban megachurches in Seoul, South Korea. It begins with an overview of the urban political ecology of religion in Seoul in the context of the city's complex multireligious geographies. Focusing on the case of SaRang Community Church, it then highlights the uneven urban geography of conflicting aspirations for growth and belonging. Two key moments relating to the SaRang Community Church are considered: the 2007 labor dispute involving a church leader who was also a corporate business leader, and the 2013 grand opening of the church's new building as well as the controversies surrounding its expansion and construction. This chapter examines the successes of megachurch growth as well as the tensions and political conflicts within and across the public sphere.Less
This chapter examines the contentious religious politics of urban megachurches in Seoul, South Korea. It begins with an overview of the urban political ecology of religion in Seoul in the context of the city's complex multireligious geographies. Focusing on the case of SaRang Community Church, it then highlights the uneven urban geography of conflicting aspirations for growth and belonging. Two key moments relating to the SaRang Community Church are considered: the 2007 labor dispute involving a church leader who was also a corporate business leader, and the 2013 grand opening of the church's new building as well as the controversies surrounding its expansion and construction. This chapter examines the successes of megachurch growth as well as the tensions and political conflicts within and across the public sphere.
Seong-Kyu Ha
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- September 2015
- ISBN:
- 9781447313472
- eISBN:
- 9781447313502
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- DOI:
- 10.1332/policypress/9781447313472.003.0009
- Subject:
- Political Science, Public Policy
This chapter discusses the endogenous dynamics of urban renewal in Seoul, South Korea, and terms it ‘renewal-induced gentrification’. Seoul has been witnessing one of the world’s most aggressive ...
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This chapter discusses the endogenous dynamics of urban renewal in Seoul, South Korea, and terms it ‘renewal-induced gentrification’. Seoul has been witnessing one of the world’s most aggressive residential renewal programmes, which have focused on maximizing landlord profits rather than on improving the housing welfare of low-income residents who have been displaced from their neighbourhoods.Less
This chapter discusses the endogenous dynamics of urban renewal in Seoul, South Korea, and terms it ‘renewal-induced gentrification’. Seoul has been witnessing one of the world’s most aggressive residential renewal programmes, which have focused on maximizing landlord profits rather than on improving the housing welfare of low-income residents who have been displaced from their neighbourhoods.
Janet Poole
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- November 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780231165181
- eISBN:
- 9780231538558
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Columbia University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7312/columbia/9780231165181.003.0004
- Subject:
- Literature, 20th-century Literature and Modernism
This chapter explores the continuous peri-urbanization of Korea, specifically Seoul, and how the Korean writers expressed this new phenomenon. Stories set in this new peri-urban space, where old and ...
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This chapter explores the continuous peri-urbanization of Korea, specifically Seoul, and how the Korean writers expressed this new phenomenon. Stories set in this new peri-urban space, where old and new converge in a particularly intense form, reveal it to be a product of the encounter between capital and the colonial state, where state-led urban planning, the global economic crisis, and precolonial memory combine to shape the lives of Korea's growing bourgeois class. The forms of narrative that emerged from this confluence of factors were relentlessly inward turning, focusing on the protagonist's consciousness and the minutiae of his domestic life. The chapter looks into the work of writer Pak T'aewŏn, who wrote a cycle of three medium length stories subtitled “Self-Portrait,” which charts a series of mishaps afflicting a family who have recently moved to a dream home on the outskirts of the city.Less
This chapter explores the continuous peri-urbanization of Korea, specifically Seoul, and how the Korean writers expressed this new phenomenon. Stories set in this new peri-urban space, where old and new converge in a particularly intense form, reveal it to be a product of the encounter between capital and the colonial state, where state-led urban planning, the global economic crisis, and precolonial memory combine to shape the lives of Korea's growing bourgeois class. The forms of narrative that emerged from this confluence of factors were relentlessly inward turning, focusing on the protagonist's consciousness and the minutiae of his domestic life. The chapter looks into the work of writer Pak T'aewŏn, who wrote a cycle of three medium length stories subtitled “Self-Portrait,” which charts a series of mishaps afflicting a family who have recently moved to a dream home on the outskirts of the city.
Janet Poole
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- November 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780231165181
- eISBN:
- 9780231538558
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Columbia University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7312/columbia/9780231165181.003.0007
- Subject:
- Literature, 20th-century Literature and Modernism
This epilogue briefly discusses how the works examined in this text inflected the authors' lives in postcolonial Korea. It first turns to Ch'oe Chaesŏ, who had remained in Seoul and continued to work ...
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This epilogue briefly discusses how the works examined in this text inflected the authors' lives in postcolonial Korea. It first turns to Ch'oe Chaesŏ, who had remained in Seoul and continued to work as a critic and professor until his death in 1964. The chapter then describes the lives of three writers who moved to North Korea—Sŏ Insik, Yi T'aejun, and Pak T'aewŏn. The three of them continued their literary work there, with Sŏ joining the Chosŏn munhak tongmaeng (Literary Federation of Korea), and Yi T'aejun becoming a cultural ambassador to the Soviet Union. Pak T'aewŏn had a difficult start at first, as he was exiled to a cooperative farm for five years, but was eventually allowed write again. He became one of the most prolific of the writers, completing among other works a three-volume historical novel titled Kabo nongmin chŏnjaeng (The Kabo Peasant War).Less
This epilogue briefly discusses how the works examined in this text inflected the authors' lives in postcolonial Korea. It first turns to Ch'oe Chaesŏ, who had remained in Seoul and continued to work as a critic and professor until his death in 1964. The chapter then describes the lives of three writers who moved to North Korea—Sŏ Insik, Yi T'aejun, and Pak T'aewŏn. The three of them continued their literary work there, with Sŏ joining the Chosŏn munhak tongmaeng (Literary Federation of Korea), and Yi T'aejun becoming a cultural ambassador to the Soviet Union. Pak T'aewŏn had a difficult start at first, as he was exiled to a cooperative farm for five years, but was eventually allowed write again. He became one of the most prolific of the writers, completing among other works a three-volume historical novel titled Kabo nongmin chŏnjaeng (The Kabo Peasant War).