CHRIS WEARDEN, SOAS University of London History, Heritage, and Legend in Colonial-Era Tourism: Kyŏngju and P’yŏngyang as Sites of Ideological Contestation

Volume 24.1

Abstract This article explores how historical sites in colonial Korea became arenas of ideological contestation between dominant and counter-hegemonic forces. This contestation is exposed through the production and consumption of heritage tourism, using the former dynastic capitals of Kyŏngju and P’yŏngyang as case studies. Employing a comparative model, the article explores the politics of herita……

ANNA JUNGEUN LEE, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign New Woman and Colonial Materiality: “How To” Articles and Everyday Consumption

Volume 24.1

Abstract This article focuses on materiality as a frame to reanimate analysis of the concept of the “New Woman” in colonial Korea through a review of magazine articles that contain practical guidelines and reports about the daily life and consumption patterns of New Women. While frequently addressed as a subject, many studies about the New…

AH-REUM KIM, Hokkaido University Modernizing the Notion of Domesticity in Early and Mid-Colonial Korea: Family Harmony, Conjugal Love, and Kyoyang (Self-Cultivation)

Volume 24.1

Abstract This study aims to investigate the historical development of modern domesticity in early and mid-colonial Korea. It demonstrates how the modern ideas of selfhood and love were integrated into the notion of domesticity, establishing the ideals of conjugal love and family harmony. Focusing on the media practices of the women’s magazine Shin’gajŏng, the article…

JAIME GONZÁLEZ-BOLADO, Autonomous University of Barcelona Discovering Korea through Iberian Writings of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries

Volume 24.1

Abstract This article analyzes ethnographic information about the Korean peninsula that can be found in texts produced by Iberian missionaries during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Although Korea did not generate the same degree of interest as neighboring countries such as China and Japan in which Catholic missions had been established, members of religious orders…

YORDANA STOYANOVA, Korea University, BERNHARD SELIGER, Hallym University of Graduate Studies and Hanns-Seidel-Foundation Korea), and JOHANNES HOLLUNDER, University of Konstanz Bulgaria–North Korea Relations: Past Experiences and Future Opportunities

Volume 24.1

Abstract Ties between Bulgaria and North Korea date back to the aftermath of World War II. Under Soviet hegemony, relations between the two countries have experienced both phases of cooperation and times of distress. Nowadays, despite significantly more distant relations, both countries maintain exchange in education and culture as well as by operating embassies in…

PAVEL EM, EHESS Coming Out of the Shadow: What Infill Development Can Tell Us about North Korea

Volume 24.1

Abstract Although cities can be likened to “mirrors” of society, North Korean urbanity still does not attract the attention it deserves from scholars, who focus almost exclusively on the grandiose residential districts of Pyongyang. In contrast, this piece claims that there is another important form of urban development in Pyongyang, namely infill towers, and discusses…

1 Helen Kim

Journal, Volume 23.2

Abstract In this paper, I explore the ways that authenticity and diasporic “Koreanness” were performed at a “kimjang” festival in New Malden, Surrey, a suburb of London, held in November 2021. The event provided an opportunity to display authentic kimchi and by association, determine an authentic Koreanness in the UK. I focus on how kimchi…

2 Seonok Lee et al

Journal, Volume 23.2

Abstract Amidst a surge of global popularity of K-pop, our study delves into adolescent attitudes and the efficacy of K-pop and Korean popular culture as educational tools for stereotype reduction. Our Korean popular culture workshops showed limited effectiveness in diminishing implicit and explicit East Asian stereotypes, aligning with Lai et al.’s transient impact findings,7 as…

3 Kevin Hockmuth

Journal, Volume 23.2

Abstract South Korea has long been looked to as an exemplary case of rapid economic expansion. Further, proponents of the South Korean development model have tended to not only extoll its industrial ascent during the 1960s and 1970s but also herald the fact that its breakneck developmental pace was attained in conjunction with a relatively…

Cathcart, Moll-Murata, Winstanley-Chesters, (Colonial Academics and Japan’s Inner Asia Ambitions: Keijo Imperial University and Studies of Mengjiang or Inner Mongolia)

Journal, Open Access, Volume 23.2

Abstract This paper illustrates the role of Seoul-based researchers within Japan’s efforts to expand fieldwork and scholarship into central Inner Mongolia, and the creation of the puppet state of Mengjiang (Mōkyō) in the late 1930s and early 1940s. Academics based at Keijō Imperial University (the antecedent institution to Seoul National University) made efforts to document…