Pub Date : 2023-06-01DOI: 10.1353/seo.2023.a902144
Antonio J. Doménech, Aurelia Martín-Casares, Eun Kyung Kang
Abstract:This article examines the image that the famous Spanish novelist Vicente Blasco Ibañez offers of Korea, its people, and its customs based on his writings derived from his stay in the country in 1923 during the period of Japanese occupation. It discusses his descriptions of Korea’s dress, weather, and customs, as well as his praise for the Korean people. In the same way, it addresses the subtle perceptions and well-documented readings that the author makes of different periods of Korean history, including the compassion he shows towards the last prince of the Yi dynasty and his apologetic vision of Queen Min for her resistance against the Japanese colonial power. It is a new look at the novelist’s trip to Korea, highlighting unknown aspects which were silenced or poorly interpreted, and adds new sources for his study.
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Pub Date : 2023-06-01DOI: 10.1353/seo.2023.a902138
Jackie J. Kim-Wachutka
Abstract:Currently, Zainichi Korean women emphasize being “ethnic women” in the public sphere. Individual consciousness, in conjunction with the history of the ethnic community, socio-political realities and trends within the mainstream Japanese society, and international collective movements are charting the course of action in discovering their public voice. The merging of spaces from private talk and memory of first generation serves as a catalyst for younger generation women to “seek justice.” Zainichi women’s legacy of strength of survival, and the collective consciousness of activism against blatant discrimination within Japan, as well as the recognition that social gains are only won through speaking out, younger generation women are setting legal precedence. Although facing opposition and retaliation from the socially and politically powerful, through strategies formed in intergenerational collectives and interethnic collaboration of women across ethnicities, vitriolic hate speech and hate crime are countered by women historically cast aside and invisible. I argue that Zainichi Korean women’s battles against hate-speech are for the sake of demanding social justice as individuals, as well as in reaction to the communal memory of oppression as Koreans in Japan, and as a message for the greater society that they would not simply take it and will not remain quiet.
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Pub Date : 2023-06-01DOI: 10.1353/seo.2023.a902141
Giovanni Volpe
Abstract:We know more about how Joseon people wrote, and the texts they produced, than about how and why they read. Existing scholarship has primarily investigated Korean premodern texts from a linguistic and bibliographical perspective, while comparatively few approaches have centered on the social and cultural aspects of their reading. The present paper offers an understanding of how the practice of reading represented a key component of the ideological and institutional configuration of the state during King Sejong’s reign (1418–1450) by analyzing reading activities taking place in the context of the royal court as recorded in the Joseon wangjo sillok (Veritable records of the Joseon Dynasty) and other selected documentary and literary sources, mainly from the Kyujanggak archives. The paper starts by exploring the practice of reading in state rituals, assessing its significance as a public demonstration of royal authority. It then investigates how reading constituted a primary activity performed by the king, the crown prince, and other young male members of the royal family. Finally, it considers how the ruler actively used reading as an instrument of governance, assigning the reading of specific books as a strategy for reinforcing ideological and administrative control in and outside the royal palace.
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Pub Date : 2023-06-01DOI: 10.1353/seo.2023.a902146
K. Kim
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Pub Date : 2023-06-01DOI: 10.1353/seo.2023.a902140
Aaron Molnar
Abstract:Goryeo (918–1392) was a politically and commercially integrated part of the wider Mongol Empire (1206–1368), while also temporally situated in the difficult transition from the Medieval Warm Period (MWP) to the Little Ice Age (LIA). Yet narratives of Goryeo’s incorporation into the Mongol world remain overwhelmingly focused on politics, economics, and culture. Since Alfred Crosby’s Ecological Imperialism, scholars have increasingly been sensitive to the ecological impacts of imperialism and colonialism, while Geoffrey Parker has highlighted the integral role of climate in human history. This study seeks to combine these two approaches and argues that the confluence of Mongol imperialism and climate change was profoundly impactful on Goryeo’s environment and ecologies. Invasion and incorporation into the Mongol Empire spurred processes of deforestation and agro-ecological transformation, as armies traversed the peninsula, populations were displaced, and capitals were (re)built. Therein, an arguably drier, cooler, and less stable climate compounded anthropocentric agro-ecological dislocation and sylvan ecological disruption. Consequently, political transitions, as in the 1258 fall of the Choe dictatorship and the end of Goryeo itself in 1392, cannot be separated from the climate destabilization of the MWP-LIA transition.
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Pub Date : 2023-06-01DOI: 10.1353/seo.2023.a902134
Ryoko Okamura, Hosok O
Abstract:Prompted by the desire to return to their homeland and reclaim their ethnic identity after the end of Japan’s colonial rule, Zainichi Koreans taught their children the Korean language and educated them about their cultural heritage at what later became known as Chōsen schools. While neither the Japanese nor the South Korean government supported the Chōsen schools, the North Korean government provided them with financial support through an organization called Chongryun. Despite enduring suppression and discriminatory treatment by the Japanese government, Chōsen schools have managed to survive, becoming the largest foreign school system in Japan. This article examines the impact of activism by the Chōsen school community in protecting ethnic education and promoting intercultural engagement between Zainichi Koreans, Japanese, and foreign school communities. Focusing on three key events, the article examines efforts by the Chōsen school community to resolve bias and misunderstanding among members of the Japanese public concerning the ethnic education they provide. It argues that Zainichi Koreans’ grassroots activities have helped to build intercultural connections with local communities and other foreign schools in Japan.
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Pub Date : 2023-06-01DOI: 10.1353/seo.2023.a902135
Yoko Demelius
Abstract:This study explores domestic cultural diplomacy efforts to brand “Koreaness” using kimchi as a medium of civic movement for minority awareness and intercultural dialogue in Japan. Amid current global consumption trends, popular Korean dishes, including kimchi, have become diffused among the many other international dishes appropriated in Japan. Once negatively regarded in Japan as immigrants’ food that symbolized ethnic Koreans’ marginalization, many now consider kimchi to be a comfort food. Although some Korean residents perceive kimchi’s popularity in Japan as a sign of reduced skepticism toward and gradual acceptance of Koreanness and Korean residents in Japanese society, many Koreans approach kimchi as a medium through which they express their Koreanness and negotiate their position as an ethnic minority in relation to Japan’s “homogeneous” national identity. Discussions surrounding the production and consumption of kimchi in Japan reveal the delicate negotiations at play in the Korean minority’s assertion of proper Koreanness in Japan. Based on ethnographic work conducted among Korean communities in western Japan, this study investigates the performative and preservation efforts that the Korean community undertakes to sustain their ethnicity while becoming an increasingly integral part of Japanese society.
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Pub Date : 2023-06-01DOI: 10.1353/seo.2023.a902136
J. Glade
Abstract:Depictions of conflict, frequently in the form of physical violence, occupy a prominent space within Zainichi Korean film. Even the most violent of films, however, depict other divergent forms of interaction that shape social ties and inform explorations of identity. These divergent forms of interaction, in many cases, revolve around the consumption or production of Korean food and frequently take place within the shared culinary space of the Korean restaurant. Focusing on the films Yakiniku Dragon (2018), GO (2001), and Blood and Bones (2004), this article analyzes the ways in which Korean restaurants function as spaces of congregation and healing in Zainichi Korean film and act as interactive spaces that lend themselves to subtle representations of ethnic identity that coalesce around notions of intersection and hybridity. Though food, as a symbolic marker of ethnic identity, is certainly linked to direct confrontation and violence, it is the shared culinary spaces depicted in these films that allow for conflict resolution, connections across divides within the Zainichi Korean community, and the assertion of varied and complex Zainichi Korean subjectivities.
摘要：对冲突的描写，经常以身体暴力的形式出现，在载尼奇韩国电影中占据了突出的位置。然而，即使是最暴力的电影，也描绘了其他不同形式的互动，这些互动塑造了社会联系，并为身份探索提供了信息。在许多情况下，这些不同形式的互动围绕着韩国食品的消费或生产，并且经常发生在韩国餐厅的共享烹饪空间内。本文以电影《Yakiniku Dragon》（2018）、《GO》（2001）和《Blood and Bones》（2004）为中心，分析了韩国餐厅在再尼基韩国电影中作为聚会和疗愈空间的作用，以及作为互动空间的作用方式，这些互动空间有助于微妙地表达围绕着交叉和混杂概念的种族认同。尽管食物作为民族身份的象征性标志，肯定与直接对抗和暴力有关，但正是这些电影中描绘的共享烹饪空间，才有可能解决冲突，建立起在日朝鲜族社区内部跨越分歧的联系，以及对在日朝鲜人多样而复杂的主观主义的断言。
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Pub Date : 2023-06-01DOI: 10.1353/seo.2023.a902143
Nayun Jang
Abstract:This essay examines Kim Hyoyeon’s photographic series Gamgak isang (Abnormal sense) (2018–2021), which explores the memories of Korean A-bomb victims (pipokja) living in Hapcheon, South Korea. Starting from the artist’s own memory of her grandmother, Kim’s work focuses on the lives of the victims and their descendants, who retain painful memories as a form of physical and psychological suffering. The essay examines the historical contexts in Japan and South Korea that rendered memories of Korean A-bomb victims invisible and mute. On the basis of such historical analysis, it discusses the ways in which Gamgak isang breaks down grand narratives into units of personal memories in order to make sense of what happened to the individual victims. Focusing on the ways in which the series sheds light on the realm of the familial, the essay also analyses how it suggests the potential for creating a new form of postmemorial kinship through visual means. Such discussions will lead to the proposition that vernacular memories can eventually offer a transnational lens to view the memory of the Asia-Pacific War and its aftermath, thus letting us think outside the traditional boundaries of nation-states.
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Pub Date : 2023-06-01DOI: 10.1353/seo.2023.a902142
K. Noh
Abstract:This article examines the historical trajectory of the construction of historical knowledge about Korean silhak. It focuses on the formation of modern notions of silhak and the invention of modern knowledge about silhak scholars. The following four points need to be taken into account in considering the formation of silhak in modern Korea. First, the relationship between the Way and the Instrument in traditional Confucian scholarship. Second, institution and civilization, as expressed in the phrases of gyeongse chiyong (administration and practical usage) and iyong husaeng (profitable usage benefiting the people). Third, growing interest in the historical importance of Jeong Yakyong’s scholarship. Fourth, consistent interest in the value of practicality (sil). This article concludes by identifying avenues for further advances in the study of the history of Korean silhak, to expand our understanding of the interrelationship between the modern consciousness of silhak and the historical knowledge of silhak scholars.
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