Youngmi Kim – Mirroring Misogyny in Hell Choson – Megalia, Womad and Korea’s Feminism in the Age of Digital Populism – EJKS Volume 20.2 (2021)

Abstract In recent years digital populism has emerged in South Korea as a new type of political behavior, marked by the political use of the internet as both a form of political participation and an instrument of mobilization. Technological advances and the diffusion of social media have enabled social polarization, rooted in post-Asian Financial Crisis…

Youngmi Kim – Coalition Theories and the Dynamics of Coalition Party Politics in Japan and the Republic of Korea – Papers of the British Association of Korean Studies – Volume 10 (2005)

Introduction Debates on the causes of coalition (in)stability date back to more than a century ago; coalition governments have at times been referred to as “structurally weak and unstable” (Lowell, 1896), whereas others (Lijphart, 1994; Rokkan, 1970; Sartori, 1976) have repeatedly emphasised that “multi-party coalition systems are not necessarily unstable and ineffective”. Coalition-building has been…

EJKS 22.2

European Journal of Korean Studies – Vol 22.2

Special Section 1 JIHYE KIM, University of Central Lancashire and YONSON AHN, Goethe University Frankfurt Gradual, Diverse, Complex—and Unnoticed: Korean Migration in Europe 11 YONSON AHN, Goethe University Frankfurt Maternal Practices of Korean Healthcare Workers in Germany 45 JIHYE KIM, University of Central Lancashire Together but Separate: Relationships and Boundaries between North… Members Please login for…

Jihye Kim (Together but Separate: Relationships and Boundaries between North and South Koreans in Multiethnic Britain)

Abstract The United Kingdom hosts the largest North Korean immigrant community in Europe, and the majority have settled in New Malden, London’s Koreatown. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork, this study examines the relationships North Korean immigrants have established with their South Korean counterparts in the course of secondary migration from South Korea to the UK, focusing…

Tobias Hübinette (Overseas Korean Adoption and the Birth of Swedish Color-blindness: A Study of How Korean Adoptees Transformed Sweden’s Attitude to Race and the Relationship between Race and Swedishness)

Abstract This article consists of a study of how the first wave of Korean adoptees to Sweden were imagined and represented in a political debate that raged throughout the 1960s concerning whether or not Swedes would adopt non-white children from abroad. The study examines how the arrival of the Korean adoptees came to transform Swedes’…

AhRan Ellie Bae (A Reconsideration of the Ch’inilp’a (Pro-Japanese Collaborators) Criteria: Discussions Surrounding the 1947 and the 1948 Legislations)

Abstract In postwar southern Korea from 1945, the term ch’inilp’a is loosely used to describe a wide range of collaboration during the Japanese-administered colonial period. Although the term has been used to include questionable acts, many ambiguities among the criteria of ch’inilp’a are often overlooked or ignored. Tracing the origin of the criteria, this article…