Hyun-gwi Park – ‘The ‘Multicultural Family’ and the Politics of Selective Inclusion in South Korea’ – Pages 5-19

Abstract This paper discusses the rationale and the specific circumstances related to the introduction and development of multiculturalism in South Korea from the mid-2000s. It will explicate the confusion and the debates which have arisen around the proliferation of discourses on multiculturalism in South Korea. In doing so, this article highlights the centrality of the…

Pages 51-61 – Keith Pratt – On First Hearing the Court Nightingale (Reflections on a Personal View of Korean Music in the 1970s)’

The 1970s would prove to be a fateful decade for gugak, traditional Korean music. Its greatest modern historian, Professor Lee Hye-ku, was at the height of his analytical powers; after decades of neglect through the colonial and post-war eras, its popularity was growing among South Korean music students and beginning to experience a long overdue…