Pub Date : 2022-04-01DOI: 10.33526/ejks.20222102.163
Antonetta L. Bruno
The history of the terms and expressions associated with smallpox offers evidence of semantic change and reflects both the internal and external worldviews of Korean people with regard to smallpox. In Korean shamanic language, smallpox is personified as gods known by various names with their own linguistic registers, personalities, and behaviors. The present paper first analyzes the semantic relationship between the terms used for smallpox and for smallpox gods, and argues that similarities in their meanings and in the characteristics of the disease were determining factors in the creation of the gods’ personalities. The second part of the paper discusses how possession is defined in relation to the personification of smallpox, the smallpox goddess, and the person afflicted.
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Pub Date : 2022-04-01DOI: 10.33526/ejks.20222102.31
Nur Aisyah Kotarumalos
This study examines the cross-cultural adjustment of Indonesian expatriates working in South Korea. Specifically, it focuses on Indonesian expatriates’ experiences and ways to adjust to the Korean workplace setting. Drawing upon in-depth interviews with nine Indonesian respondents, this study follows the adaptation model by Milton Bennet and moves beyond the antecedents of cross-cultural adjustment. It elaborates the expatriates’ practices in dealing with and negotiating cultural differences in the face of Korean working culture. The findings demonstrate that adjustment entails the acquisition of new norms and modes of behaviors as well as maintenance of old practices. Further, the sense of foreignness has been found constructive for cross-cultural adaptation.
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Pub Date : 2022-04-01DOI: 10.33526/ejks.20222102.1
Keith Howard
Ch’oe Sŭnghŭi (J. Sai Shōki) was the most celebrated Korean dancer of the twentieth century. In the 1930s, she developed a set of dances for the new stages of urban Korea, Japan, and beyond that showcased elements taken from Korean tradition, particularly from “folk” dances (minsok muyong). In 1946, after Korea’s division at the end of the Pacific War, she moved to Pyongyang, where her dances became the foundations of North Korea’s “national” dances (minjok muyong). She rose to prominence, until in 1957, together with her husband An Mak, she was attacked for being bourgeois. She was stripped of her seat on the Supreme People’s Assembly. Ch’oe’s experience shines light on how national dances were established as ideological control was rolled out in North Korea. But there is a second side to her story: in 1957 and 1958, in her response to criticism, she adopted a blinkered approach. She resisted control and the mechanism—later known as “literary art theory” (munye iron)—of its delivery, and this sealed her fate. Although tempo- rarily reprieved, her name disappeared completely from North Korean programs and from newspaper and journal accounts about dance in the early 1960s, and within a few years she was dead.
曹氏Sŭnghŭi (J. Sai Shōki)是20世纪最著名的舞蹈家。在20世纪30年代，她为韩国、日本等城市的新舞台设计了一套舞蹈，展示了来自韩国传统的元素，尤其是民间舞蹈(minsok muyong)。1946年，在太平洋战争结束后朝鲜半岛分裂后，她搬到了平壤，在那里她的舞蹈成为朝鲜“民族”舞蹈的基础。她声名鹊起，直到1957年，她和她的丈夫麦安一起被指责为资产阶级。她被剥夺了最高人民会议的席位。choe的经历揭示了朝鲜在意识形态控制下是如何建立民族舞蹈的。但她的故事还有另一面:1957年和1958年，在回应批评时，她采取了一种狭隘的方式。她抵制控制和传递的机制——后来被称为“文学艺术理论”(munye iron)——这决定了她的命运。虽然她的名字暂时得到了缓刑，但在20世纪60年代初，她的名字从朝鲜的节目以及报纸和杂志上关于舞蹈的报道中完全消失了，几年后她就去世了。
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Pub Date : 2022-04-01DOI: 10.33526/ejks.20222102.183
A. Logie
Across 2019–2020 a number of South Korean TV competition shows branded their musical identity as “trot.” This term denotes a perceived genre of popular music considered normative to South Korea’s developmentalist decades and thereafter as the music of older generations, yet the surprise success of the TV shows seemingly indicated a younger uptake heralding a “trot boom.” However, in much of their choice of repertoire, the shows transgressed pre-existing expectations of the genre. The notion of a trot boom premised on a reified genre discourse is thus overly reductionist and fails to explain adequately the performed aesthetics and socio-musical phenomenon engendered by the shows. This article problematizes the received narrative(s) of “trot,” while highlighting three alternative trans-genre elements and aesthetic trends that operate in close proximity to trot discourse: “old song” collections, kug’ak (traditional music) fusion, and a discourse of Korean vocal affect. It analyzes the repertoire and performances of three of the most noted trot-branded television series, and juxtaposes them with two further case studies: YouTube channel Chu Hyŏnmi TV and a sample of “old song” collections dating 1969–1989. It argues that all three cases variously intersect and diverge from reified trot, while simultaneously exhibiting their own interrelations collectively bound by performed retro and newtro aesthetics, and national identity discourse.
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Pub Date : 2022-04-01DOI: 10.33526/ejks.20222102.59
Phillip C Shon
Contemporary studies of mass murder have examined attacks carried out by current or former students in educational settings or disgruntled employees at former places of work. Recently conceptualized as “active shooter events,” this type of public mass killing has eclipsed the most pervasive one throughout the twentieth century: mass killings within the family. The dearth of scholarly work on mass killings in the context of parricides in other national and cultural contexts is notable given the salience of family killings in the homicide literature. Using previously published findings on parricides in nineteenth-century America and twentieth-century Korea, this paper provides a comparative synthesis of parricidal mass murders—mass killings that occur during the course of parricides. Notable points of convergence and divergence are discussed relative to culture and offense characteristics.
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Pub Date : 2022-04-01DOI: 10.33526/ejks.20222102.111
Pat Vierthaler
This article reconstructs the origins and development of the so-called Anti-Chosun Movement, a (progressive) movement to curb the power and shed light on the history of (conservative) mass media, from its origins in the mid-1990s to its politicization in the 2002 presidential elections. The development of Anti-Chosun reveals the intertwinement of journalism, activism, and politics in post-authoritarian South Korea. Further, Anti Chosun constitutes the first movement originating in cyberspace, demonstrating the centrality of online journalism. Finally, Anti-Chosun must be evaluated as an omen of Korea’s “history wars,” its discourse taking place firmly within a framework of historical fact-finding and transitional justice.
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Pub Date : 2022-04-01DOI: 10.33526/ejks.20222102.83
Hasan Tinmaz, Viet Phuong Doan
This study describes users’ perceptions regarding Samsung Pay (n=25) and Kakao Pay (n=25), the two popular mobile payment applications in South Korea. The survey included fifteen questions; eleven questions were about general uses and perceptions about mobile payments and the final four questions specifically branched between the payment systems. Overall, South Korean users have a very high usage of mobile payments on a regular basis. Subsequently, mobile payment applications in South Korea have been well developed in terms of both services and securities. This leads to a high satisfaction level of South Korean users regarding Samsung Pay and Kakao Pay.
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Pub Date : 2021-10-01DOI: 10.33526/ejks.20212101.259
Nurbanu Yaşar
The paper seeks to consider the confusion around what “Halal Food” is and what “Eating Halal Food” means in South Korea; and how it causes stereotyping of halal food and Muslim foodways in a South Korean context. The findings of this paper are obtained from ethnographic fieldwork and semi-structured interviews with South Koreans and Muslim minorities living in South Korea. Findings from the ethnographic research show that halal food and foodways are stereotyped not only when it comes to misidentifying halal food concepts, but also halal food consumed by Muslims is linked to existing notions about Islam and Muslims in South Korean society.
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Pub Date : 2021-10-01DOI: 10.33526/ejks.20212101.155
Gabor Sebo
The article examines the classic Korean folklore fable, 춘향전 (春香傳), Ch’unhyangjŏn (The Fragrance of Spring), The Tale of Ch’unhyang, through the lens of three different successful movie adaptations produced in North and South Korea. Respectively, Yu Wŏn-chun and Yun Ryong-gyu portrayed The Tale of Ch’unhyang (1980) in its modest “Juche realist” North Korean film style, whereas Im Kwŏn-t’aek depicted his work, Ch’unhyang (2000), in a contemporary liberally and daringly revised version, while the romantic portrayal produced in North Korea by the South Korean film director, Shin Sang-ok, in Love, Love, My Love (1984), is performed from a human-oriented and entertaining perspective filled with musical ingredients and brave images of love. The study aims to demonstrate how the story is diversely interpreted through the two divided film cultures by highlighting differences between collectivism and individualism, noting also that all three interpretations emerge from similar roots of cultural and national identity.
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Pub Date : 2021-10-01DOI: 10.33526/ejks.20212101.233
Farrah Sheikh
This paper presents a feminist ethnographic account of the gendered struggle for belonging in “multicultural” Korea through an in-depth case study of a Korean Muslim woman convert and her family. Centering the informant and her family’s narratives, I explore the gendered implications linked to her conversion to Islam, her sense of belonging and how her inter-ethnic marriage challenges existing notions of labelled “multicultural families” in Korean society. This paper sheds light on the penalties associated with the case study’s religious conversion and marriage choice, demonstrating how she experiences exclusion from mainstream society and her own ethnic community. Far from being an isolated case, I will further convey how it is linked to several others in the literature, highlighting the urgent need for further field research.
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