Pub Date : 2023-02-28DOI: 10.15519/dcc.2023.02.13.1.102
Set-Byul Moon
This article examines the literary representation of codeswitching and various accents between Korean and English in two minority women writers’ fictional territory portraying Korean American characters. Min-Jin Lee’s Free Food for Millionaires and Lisa See’s The Island of Sea Women center around the lives of Korean American women who speak English as a primary language and Korean as a home language or heritage language. The characters’ idea of Korea and “Koreanness” mostly manifests in their identity formation, rather than in their linguistic proficiency or a sense of belonging. Heavily related to the language proficiency and identity of Koreanness, the Korean American protagonists alternate between the languages and accents in linguistic repertoire deeply rooted in sociocultural practices that reflect the concept of diaspora and one’s diasporic identity. Their strategic code-switching signifies how one’s diasporic, immigrant identity affects one’s choice of speech that meticulously synthesizes social values, cultural norms, and ethnic/racial belief systems not only emblematic of mainstream American society but also of a minority community as well.
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Pub Date : 2023-02-28DOI: 10.15519/dcc.2023.02.13.1.5
Jiyoung Kim
This study examines the multi-layered construction of the tourism space of Mt. Jiri by tracing how various actors spatially constructed both tourism in Mt. Jiri (starting in the 1920s) as well as the designation of Jirisan National Park in 1967. Modern tourism was introduced to Mt. Jiri in the 1920s, and Mt. Jiri tourism took shape between the mid-1930s and the late 1940s. As mountaineering resumed in the mid-1950s after the Yeosu-Suncheon Rebellion and the Korean War, the foundation for full-scale mountain tourism was laid. The Corea Alpine Club (CAC) and scholars’ academic research played a significant role in driving mountaineering movements, complemented by the development of hiking trails by Gurye Yeonhaban, an alpine club in the area of Mt. Jiri. By the late 1960s, Jirisan became a major travel destination, due in part to the publication of mountaineering magazines, mountaineering movements supported by the CAC and the Chosun Ilbo, and the designation of Jirisan National Park in 1967.
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Pub Date : 2023-02-28DOI: 10.15519/dcc.2023.02.13.1.125
I. Shin, Jooyoung Kim
This paper focuses on how the narrative technique relates to mobility in Korean and Japanese literature. In general, pure, diaspora, and multicultural literature are heavily armed with ideological foundations and premised on being read on their own terms. However, what commonalities and differences in these thematic areas would arise if the motif of mobility supplanted other interpretive modes in the novels? This study analyzes how the mobile subject shaped the characteristics of each era through movement. It aims to refine the reading of modern novels aimed at establishing the modernity of the subject, diaspora novels in the Cold War era, and novels in the 2000s characterized by the theme of multiculturalism. Thus, this paper pointed out that the establishment of modern novels was triggered by movement and then examined how the lives of the diaspora in the Cold War era were narrated from the ethical point of view of mobility. Furthermore, the multicultural situation of globalism further amplified this phenomenon after the Cold War.
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Pub Date : 2023-02-28DOI: 10.15519/dcc.2023.02.13.1.1
Eun-hye Choung
{"title":"Introduction: Potentials Proposed by the Study on Tourism Space and Post-Tourism in Diaspora Era","authors":"Eun-hye Choung","doi":"10.15519/dcc.2023.02.13.1.1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15519/dcc.2023.02.13.1.1","url":null,"abstract":"<jats:p />","PeriodicalId":416084,"journal":{"name":"The Center for Asia and Diaspora","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-02-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126330635","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-08-31DOI: 10.15519/dcc.2022.08.12.2.1
Myung-Ju Yang
{"title":"Introduction: Mobility, Community and Ethics","authors":"Myung-Ju Yang","doi":"10.15519/dcc.2022.08.12.2.1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15519/dcc.2022.08.12.2.1","url":null,"abstract":"<jats:p />","PeriodicalId":416084,"journal":{"name":"The Center for Asia and Diaspora","volume":"67 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-08-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123250390","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-08-31DOI: 10.15519/dcc.2022.08.12.2.103
L. Park
Virtual reality is often considered a space independent of reality. A typical example of virtual reality is digital games. However, digital games can only run when there is a machine with an electrical signal. In addition, space for the machine to be installed is also essential. Until now, game studies have mainly dealt with the inside of the game based on the media attributes of the game. The outside of the game, for example, space or machines that form the physical foundation, has not received much attention. Before talking about the process of entering the game, discussions have already begun since accessing virtual reality. This study aims to showcase the barriers to entry in the game culture that is considered open to everyone and to urge research interest. We have chosen this approach as if we only discuss the difficulties after entering the game without imagining the process that has taken place beforehand, it will be difficult to see the inequality. Gaming is also a mobility phenomenon because it moves from reality to virtual reality. Kaufmann’s concept of motility is used as the theoretical background to explore this problem. By collecting and reading various previous studies such as mobility infrastructure, the digital divide, and the context of domestication of game consoles, this research aims to reveal the realistic conditions of virtual reality considered transparent today.
{"title":"Before Entering Games: The Base and Accessibility of Games","authors":"L. Park","doi":"10.15519/dcc.2022.08.12.2.103","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15519/dcc.2022.08.12.2.103","url":null,"abstract":"Virtual reality is often considered a space independent of reality. A typical example of virtual reality is digital games. However, digital games can only run when there is a machine with an electrical signal. In addition, space for the machine to be installed is also essential. Until now, game studies have mainly dealt with the inside of the game based on the media attributes of the game. The outside of the game, for example, space or machines that form the physical foundation, has not received much attention. Before talking about the process of entering the game, discussions have already begun since accessing virtual reality. This study aims to showcase the barriers to entry in the game culture that is considered open to everyone and to urge research interest. We have chosen this approach as if we only discuss the difficulties after entering the game without imagining the process that has taken place beforehand, it will be difficult to see the inequality. Gaming is also a mobility phenomenon because it moves from reality to virtual reality. Kaufmann’s concept of motility is used as the theoretical background to explore this problem. By collecting and reading various previous studies such as mobility infrastructure, the digital divide, and the context of domestication of game consoles, this research aims to reveal the realistic conditions of virtual reality considered transparent today.","PeriodicalId":416084,"journal":{"name":"The Center for Asia and Diaspora","volume":"395 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-08-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122922045","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-08-31DOI: 10.15519/dcc.2022.08.12.2.76
Yeong-Chan Choe
The purpose of this article is to explore the interrelationship between mobility and unequal power relations by analyzing the Gwangju Complex Incident, which was centered on the placeness of Seongnam, in the framework of a mobility dispositif. When we confine the center of meaning to a place, we are apt to pass the heart of events. Mobility is another foundation of existence that is no less than a place. Like place mobility produces a meaning, and a meaning affects a representation. And this representation again affects the interpretation of a meaning. Yoon Heung-gil’s The Man Left as Nine Pairs of Shoes, the most wellknown among the literary representations that embody the Gwangju Complex Incident, organized the incident into a literary text and gave the incident a narrative. Therefore, this novel can be said to be another actor who has had a great influence on the way of understanding the Gwangju Complex Incident. Above all, The Man Left as Nine Pairs of Shoes is a novel that exquisitely captures the multi-layered mobility dispositif of the Gwangju Complex Incident. The unequal power relations and multilayered elements lying on the horizon of the Gwangju Grand Complex incident are refered to as as redevelopment mobility dispositif. The analysis of The Man Left as Nine Pairs of Shoes reveals a contingent necessity of the Gwangju Complex Incident by illuminating the interrelationship between mobility and power.
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Pub Date : 2022-08-31DOI: 10.15519/dcc.2022.08.12.2.51
Gemini Kim
South Korea experienced rapid change and development before and after WWII. As cities grow bigger, ‘smelly facilities’ which were initially located in suburban areas, had to move away from cities, one after another. This research follows two facilities: Yongsan machine factories, and pig farms typically run by Hansen’s disease patients. Industrial Yongsan appeared around the 1910s during the Japanese occupation until the factory relocation plan started in the 1970s under the regime of President Park Chung-hee. From a suburban area, Yongsan became the center of Seoul. It shows that neighbors are qualified and welcome to stay in the city by its factory relocation plan. Small cities also grew bigger and so-called ‘Innovation Cities’ were built in 10 different areas of South Korea. From early 2010, newly located innovation cities confronted the ‘smelly pig farm’ right in front of them and the conflict began between residents. This article argues what mobility justice challenges when citizens want to choose their ‘right’ neighbors and follows who makes the decision of one’s mobility.
{"title":"Yongsan, Pig Poop and Apartments","authors":"Gemini Kim","doi":"10.15519/dcc.2022.08.12.2.51","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15519/dcc.2022.08.12.2.51","url":null,"abstract":"South Korea experienced rapid change and development before and after WWII. As cities grow bigger, ‘smelly facilities’ which were initially located in suburban areas, had to move away from cities, one after another. This research follows two facilities: Yongsan machine factories, and pig farms typically run by Hansen’s disease patients. Industrial Yongsan appeared around the 1910s during the Japanese occupation until the factory relocation plan started in the 1970s under the regime of President Park Chung-hee. \u0000From a suburban area, Yongsan became the center of Seoul. It shows that neighbors are qualified and welcome to stay in the city by its factory relocation plan. Small cities also grew bigger and so-called ‘Innovation Cities’ were built in 10 different areas of South Korea. From early 2010, newly located innovation cities confronted the ‘smelly pig farm’ right in front of them and the conflict began between residents. \u0000This article argues what mobility justice challenges when citizens want to choose their ‘right’ neighbors and follows who makes the decision of one’s mobility.","PeriodicalId":416084,"journal":{"name":"The Center for Asia and Diaspora","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-08-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121833227","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-08-31DOI: 10.15519/dcc.2022.08.12.2.175
Maya Subrahmanian
What makes a culture and what are the cultural traits identified by people are important questions to be developed more within diaspora studies. This article proposes a critical inquiry into the ways of defining socio-cultural traits through the discussions with Indian diaspora living in the context of Western culture. It suggests hypothesis that there is a possibility of hybrid cultures between the Eastern and Western. The ontological status of being ‘Indian’ would be different while living in India and abroad, and the cultural ontology in those subject positions would also vary to produce hybrid cultures. Theories of migration, culture and gender constitute a background and framework in this study. Reflections on cultural identity and cultural traits are obtained in this study through direct interviews with diaspora Indians living in Germany. In this process of analyses, the methodology of gender is adopted along with other methods of qualitative research to see how the socio-cultural perspectives change after migration to Western cultures, and how those are different among men and women. The preliminary argument derived in this article is that cultural traits can be traced in aspects of people’s daily life, but not only through dominant art forms, literature or historical monuments. It is done with a critical perspective on the existing dominant methods of defining culture. This study has a critic on existing methodologies that are Eurocentric, male-centric and neglecting the individual and mundane experiences of people who live in varied cultural contexts with complex cultural identities.
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Pub Date : 2022-08-31DOI: 10.15519/dcc.2022.08.12.2.6
Jinkook Ahn
This study explores what mobility means from the social science perspective and how it becomes a form of capital in todays modern highly mobile society. It also investigates how it appears in arts by analyzing the artworks in the exhibition titled To you: Move Toward Where You Are. It seems that mobility characterized by complexity, hybridity, vitality, materiality, and assemblage is somehow part of the Material Turn. Transportation, capital, power, cities, refugees, migration, tourism, climate crisis, systems, infrastructure, control, surveillance, communications, gender, race, disability, and so on. These may seem heterogeneous multi-layered issues, but all these relate to uneven mobility. And mobility inequalities occur in the dynamics of their relations. In the highly-mobile society where the fetishism of movement prevails, mobility becomes more uneven. When freedom, acceleration, convenience and safety increase, so does censorship, control and restriction. Gaining velocity, efficiency, convenience, and safety of movement can undermine the rights of others. We should envisage the hidden power relations under the rights of (im)mobility. Characteristics of mobility and its inequalities directly and indirectly emerge in the artworks exhibited in To you: Move Toward Where You Are. We need to consider how mobility justice can be practiced against mobility inequalities in the hierarchy of mobility capital, uneven mobility, and mobility injustice. Art which thinks beyond thinking will provide new stimulus and imagination to the practice.
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