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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Abstract The National Museum of Korean Contemporary History in Seoul was first proposed in 2008 by conservative president Lee Myung-bak (Yi Myŏngbak), and opened its doors in late 2012. Its permanent exhibition was criticized as a manifestation of conservative historical narratives. As a result, once progressives regained power, the museum was remodeled, only to see…
Abstract While increasing social inequality and precarity is a common global phenomenon, the ways in which social inequality is felt, perceived, and responded to by young citizens differ from country to country. This paper investigates institutional contexts in which young people in Japan and South Korea make sense of social inequality in different ways: why,…
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