Korea Workshop
  The Korea Workshop was founded in 2001 and serves as a forum for the university community with interest in Korean studies to gather 4-5 times per semester and discuss topics of mutual interest.

In 2009-10, the Korea Workshop is in its ninth year of activity, and its seventh year as a designated IPRH Reading Group. Fourteen scholars discussed The Koreas in a Transforming East Asia, the theme for that year.In 2006-07, the theme was South Korean Media/Technology Today, in 2007-08 Korea – Gender, Sexuality, Race, in 2008-09 Korea’s Northern Region, and in 2009-10 Governance and Korean Society. See the list below of all the presenters since 2005.

Sessions are run as a workshop: the paper to be discussed is distributed prior to the meeting, the graduate student session organizer serves as an informal discussant for the paper, and a second graduate student comments on the paper. The discussant’s remarks follow brief introductory comments by the presenter and the remaining time is devoted to open discussion.

When the presenters are visitors to campus, time is designated for individual meetings with graduate students. Because the needs of U of I graduate students working on the Koreas far exceed local resources, these meetings have been a critical part of the Workshop.

For more information on the Korea Workshop contact Jungwon Kim at kimjw@illinois.edu.
 
 
 
Korea Workshops Fall 2005-Fall 2009
   
Date Name (Affiliation) Title of presentation
   
2005-2006 The Koreas in a Transforming East Asia
9.2.2005 Han Haejoang Cho (Yonsei University) The Formation of Subjectivity with Compressed Development
9.9.2005 John Feffer (Alliance of Scholars Concerned about Korea) Greave Threats and Grand Bargains: the United States, Korea, and Northeast Asian Regional Security
10.14.2005 Laura Nelson (California State University, East Bay) Virtue, Seduction, and the Credit Card Crisis in South Korea
11.4.2005 Hyun Ok Park (New York University) Democracy, History and Migrant Labor in South Korea
1.27.2006 Ken Wells (Australia National University) The Individual and the Nation: The Politics of Analogy in Early Korean Protestant Thought
2.8.2006 KANG Je-Gyu, Film Director/Producer (Ginko Bed, Shiri, Taegukgi)
Hana LEE, Actress (TaegukgiI)
LEE Young-Lan (Kyung Hee University)
LEE Hyangjin (Professor of film, Author of Contemporary Korean Cinema) Contemporary South Korean Cinema and Historical Memory
3.3.2006 Samuel Kim (Columbia University) The Two Koreas and the Great Powers in a Changing World
3.10.2006 Taylor Atkins (Northern Illinois University) The Dual Career of ‘Arirang’: The Korean Resistance Anthem that Became a Japanese Pop Hit
4.13.2006 Bruce Cumings (University of Chicago) North Korea in the ‘Axis of Evil’
4.28.2006 Jai-Jung Suh (Cornell University) War-like History or Diplomatic History? Historical Contentions and Regional Order in East Asia
   
2006-2007 South Korean Media/Technology Today
9.28.2006 Seungsook Moon (Vassar College) The Rise and Decline of Militarized Modernity in South Korea
10.13.2006 Hyomin Kim (University of Illinois) Constructing South Korea’s Neutraceutical Sphere
11.6.2006 Jongbin Yoon (Director) The Unforgiven
11.10.2006 Young-A Park;(Harvard University) Sites of Politics, Sites of Modernity: Consumption of International Film Festivals in South Korea
12.08.2006 Jung-Bong Choi (New York University) Hallyu (Korean Wave): A Stepping Stone towards an East Asian Cultural Sphere
1.26.2007 Jiyeon Kang (University of Illinois) Remembering the Square: Four Years after the 2002 South Korean Candlelight Vigils
2.16.2007 Soochul Kim (University of Illinois) Space, Culture and Communication in the Long 1990s Seoul
2.23.2007 Jeong-Ho Kim (University of Illinois) The Internet and Political Transformation in South Korea
3.09.2007 Dong-Ho Lee (University of Illinois) Mobility, Connectivity, and Digital Cameras in Play
4.6.2007 Jin Park (University of Illinois) Technologies of Government: Medicine, Race and Sexuality in Colonial Korea
4.20.2007 Inkyu Kang (University of Wisconsin-Madison) :-) vs ^-^: Korea’s Cyberculture and Semiotics of Smileys
   
2007-2008 Korea – Gender, Sexuality, Race
9.24.2007 Sueen Noh (Temple University) Negotiating Gender and Culture: What Korean Women Do with Japanese Girls' Comics?
11.02.2007 Jinhee Lee (Eastern Illinois University) Body Politics: Differentiating Korean Bodies in the Japanese Empire
12.7.2007 Su-Yun Kim (University of California-San Diego) Romancing the Empire: Interracial Marriage and Romance Literature between Korean and Japanese
   
2008-2009 Korea’s Northern Region
9.12.2008 Sun Joo Kim (Harvard University) Culture of Remembrance and the Northern Region in Korea: A Case of Kim Kyongso
9.26.2008 Soo Hyun Chang (Kwangun University) Korea in Transforming Northeast Asia: Multiculturalism, North Korean Migration and Chinese Capitalism
10.17.2008 Steve Chung (Princeton University) Colonial Enlightenment and Radicalization in the North Korean Cinematic Imaginary
3.12.2009 Yi Man-hui, 1974 The Wildflower in the Battlefield (Deulgughwaneun Pietneunde)
3.13.2009 Youngmin Choe (Korea Foundation Post-Doctoral Fellow) Hapch'on County's Spoils of War: Transient Monuments and Performativity in Korean War Film Tourism
4.10.2009 Chris Hanscom (Dartmouth College) Truth, Literature and Subjectivity in Sô Insik's Late-Colonial Writings
5.1.2009 Eugene Park (University of Pennsylvania) Margins of Family History: The “Middle People” (Chungin) as Misfits in Modern Korea’s Genealogy Discourse
   
Fall 2009 Governance and Korean Society
9.11.2009 Nadia Y. Kim (Loyola Marymount University) Koreans and Race from Seoul to LA
9.25.2009 Hyunjoon Park (University of Pennsylvania) Inequality of Educational Achievement in Korea
10.16.2009 Heon Joo Jung (Indiana University) Politics of Financial Regulatory Reforms in South Korea: The Paradox of Political Leadership
10.30.2009 Lisa Kim Davis (UCLA) Domestic Space in Working Class Dwellings and Urban Redevelopment
11.6.2009 Hyang-Jin Jung (Seoul National University) South Korean and Westerner Interactions with North Koreans with a focus on Selfhood and Authenticity
4.10.2009 Chris Hanscom (Dartmouth College) Truth, Literature and Subjectivity in Sô Insik's Late-Colonial Writings
12.11.2009 Yoonjeong Shim (University of Illinois) Marginalization and Empowerment of an Intellectual in Late Choson Korea
   
 
     
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