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Director’s Foreword IN THIS ISSUE Greetings! ed his analysis of the current Director’s Foreword 1 state of affairs on the Korean The past year has seen a great Peninsula. Presentations in deal of activity at the Korea In- the coming months will in- Transnational 2 stitute. We are in the first year clude Dr Gaphee Ko of Humanities for of a generous five-year grant Hanshin University, present- Korean Studies from the Academy of Korean ing on feminism and glocal Project Updates Studies, awarded in the catego- activism on 16 July. ry of “Leading Overseas Univer- sity Program for Korean Stud- Korean Studies faculty are Research Students 4 ies,” and that funding has ena- responsible for two interna- bled us to organize and present tional conferences held at the shop of the Korea Studies As- Publications 8 a number of activities that have ANU. Dr Ruth Barraclough sociation of Australasia (KSAA) raised awareness and enhanced brought together scholars of funded by the Korea Founda- knowledge of Korea, its history literature and history for a tion, to be held in November of Upcoming Lecture 9 and its culture among the aca- conference entitled “Red Love 2012; and the 8th Biennial Con- demic community and the com- and Proletarian Femme Fa- ference of the KSAA will take Past Conferences 10 munity at large. Distinguished tales” in November 2011. place in June of 2013. and Events scholars have come to campus, Professor Hyaeweol Choi, in presenting their insights on a collaboration with Professor Our faculty and students have variety of issues related to the Margaret Jolly of Gender and been successful and produc- Upcoming 12 tive. Over the course of the last Conferences and culture, history or current events Cultural Studies and Pacific of Korea. Dr Seungsook Moon Studies, is currently preparing year the three core faculty have Events of Sociology at Vassar College, a conference called “Para- produced or published a total of Dr Gregory Evon of the Univer- doxes of Domesticity: Chris- three books and numerous arti- Former Student at 14 sity of New South Wales and Dr tian Missionaries and Women cles. Three of our undergradu- the ANU John Treat of Yale University in Asia and the Pacific,” to be ate students received scholar- offered presentations of their held in August 2012. Our ships from Yonsei University to study for one year. Postgradu- New Postdoctoral 15 recent research studies, Dr faculty will also be involved in Namhee Lee led a three-day the planning and preparations ate student Lauren Richardson Fellow at Korea master class in critical Asian for three additional major received a Prime Minister En- Institute studies, and His Excellency events to be held at ANU: the deavour award, which supports Taeyong Cho, Ambassador for Korea Update, 11-12 October, her extended fieldwork in Korea News and 16 the Republic of Korea, present- 2012; the postgraduate work- and Japan. The program has Announcements also instituted a regular biweek- ly research meeting at which postgraduate students present their writing and discuss their research with the faculty and each other.

The grant from the AKS has also allowed us to fund two PhD and one MA postgraduate students, all of whom will begin their programs of study in the second semester of 2012. The- se new members are certain to add to the intellectual life of our program, and we look forward Our AKS team (from left to right): Dr Roald Maliangkay, Prof Hyaeweol Choi, Dr Geng to welcoming them into our Song, Dr Ruth Barraclough and Prof Tessa Morris-Suzuki circle. P A G E 2 Transnational Humanities in Korean Studies Updates

The Transnational Humanities in Korean Studies Project was launched in 2011 with generous support from the Acad- emy of Korean Studies. It is composed of four research groups whose foci range from gender history in modern Korea to the "Korean wave" and grassroots movements in Northeast Asia. The following summarizes activities of the groups.

A New Modern History of Women in Korea: A Asia and the Pacific all together. Our team is bringing together scholars of Asian and Transnational Approach Pacific Studies to conduct a comparative Prof Hyaeweol Choi, Principal Investigator investigation with a focus on some key concepts, such as “domesticity,” “mother- key site for investigation. This research hood” and “selfhood” as analytical nodes, team aims to investigate the ways in teasing out both the shared and the dis- which Korea’s interactions with the West tinctive experiences Asian and Western and Japan transformed gender images women had in their interactions within their and bodily practices, focusing on the particular context of local and global cir- period from 1876 to the end of Korea’s cumstances. colonization by Japan in 1945. An international conference centered on The evolution of gendered modernity one of these themes is being organized by took place in a transnational context. Hyaeweol Choi of the Korea Institute and Western women missionaries were key Margaret Jolly of the ANU anthropology in transforming gender practices in Asia program. The conference, entitled, “Para- and the Pacific, challenging some of doxes of Domesticity: Missionaries and standing practices and reinforcing oth- Women in Asia and the Pacific,” will be ers. We explore the role of Western held at the Australian National University Protestant missionary women in the from 8 to 10 August 2012. This confer- history of modern womanhood in Korea, ence will bring together eminent scholars China, Japan and the Pacific. While on gender history, anthropology and litera- there have been significant research ture with particular focus on Western mis- studies focusing on those women in- sionary enterprise. During and after the As part of the AKS grant, we have iden- volved in individual countries, very little conference, we will further develop plans tified the transnational nature of gen- research has systematically examined toward publishing an edited volume based dered modernity in Korea within a the complex relationship between West- on presented papers at the conference. broader Asian and global context as a ern missionary women and women in

Grassroots Cross-Border Cooperation in Northeast Asia: Korea’s Role as Network Hub Prof Tessa Morris-Suzuki

In October 2011, Tessa Morris-Suzuki gaged in cross-border reconciliation activ- made a research visit to Japan to collect ities. In addition, she visited grassroots material for this project. She consulted groups established in the Fukushima with Japan-based scholars including area following the March 11, 2011 earth- Prof. Kurihara Akira (Meiji University), quake, tsunami and nuclear accident, to Professor Kang Sang-jung (University of learn more about their cross-border net- Tokyo) and Professor Murakami Yuichi working activities. In April 2012 she trav- (Fukushima University). She also traveled to Seoul for a meeting with activists elled to Hokkaido to conduct interviews at the Center for Peace Museum, where with members of a social movement she collected extensive material about engaged in collaboration with Korea to their networking activities with other address unresolved problems of war- Asian countries. time forced labour, and to Sendai to interview a Zainichi Korean activist en- P A G E 3 Transnational Humanities in Korean Studies Updates

Broken Voices: Folksongs from the North in South Korea Dr Roald Maliangkay

Roald Maliangkay is currently private collections of old pho- to, as well as compared and working on rewriting his PhD tographs of Korea for aca- linked to those of other imag- thesis for publication in 2013 demic use worldwide. The es, the collections will gain (working title: “Broken Voices: name, logo and layout were considerably in value. Folksongs from the North in conceived based on the con- South Korea”). He is also cept of the website inviting preparing a special journal private collectors world- issue on masculinities and wide. Existing open-source pop culture together with Dr image management services Geng Song, a project for do not allow the further development of the metadata as- The Pictori logo (above) which he visited Yanji in Feb- was designed by renowned ruary 2012 to set up a wide sociated with digital images. Dutch artist Joost Swarte, survey among local university The Pictori project seeks to who created an image students. remedy this by offering a free based on the concept of a and easy-to-use online image St. Bernard carrying the With funding support through management environment, tools to save what in this the large grant that the AKS where scholars and lay en- case are collections of old has given the Korea Institute, thusiasts can share their col- images of Korea. Roald is working on establish- lections of Korean images ing a website called Pictori, with others. By having their which will host and manage metadata checked and added

The Korean Wave and Chinese Korea’s Early Communist Women Masculinities: A Pilot Study Dr Ruth Barraclough Amongst Chinese International Students in Australia North Korean history has conventionally been ap- Dr Geng Song proached via state for- mation narratives, political Geng Song and Frederick on the interaction between biography, or analyses of Lee (ANU PhD candidate) Korean and Chinese popu- art and propaganda. This are conducting a pilot study lar culture in terms of the project tells a far more amongst young Chinese construction of masculinity. intimate, contingent story nationals who are under- of early North Korean soci- graduate students in Aus- ety and the people who, of a book that Ruth Barra- tralia. They aim to empiri- for a time, led one of its clough is co-editing with cally examine the popularity key institutions, the Wom- Paula Rabnowitz and and impact of the “Korean en’s League. This project Heather Bowen-Struyk Wave” on young (under- is responding to a resur- entitled Global Red Love graduate university student) gence of interest in the and the Socialist Modern. Chinese nationals studying private lives of the early Following up the success- in Australia. The study will communists being driven ful workshop on this pro- use a combination of fo- by academics, novelists ject held at the ANU in cus-groups and one-on-one and popular history practi- December 2011 with AKS interviews in order to as- tioners in South Korea. support, the contributors sess the significance of the will re-convene in October research topic for Chinese The project will produce a 2012 at the Modernism males and to potentially book-length study of Ko- Studies Association meet- generate new avenues of rea’s early communist ing in Las Vegas. At this interest related to Korean women and the institutions meeting the scope of the Wave masculinity that inter- they formed in early North project widens to include viewees self-identify. The Korean society (1945-60). perspectives from North results will be used as the Some early findings of the America, Mexico, and the basis for further research research will also be part Soviet Union. P A G E 4 Research Students Transnational Humanities in Korean Studies Doctoral and Masters Scholarship Recipients

With generous support from the Academy of Korean Studies, ANU Markus Bell Korea Institute is able to award two PhD Candidate scholarships for doctoral research and one for Master of Arts at the ANU. The selection committee was highly im- My name is Markus Bell. I was born pressed with the calibre of application in West Germany, to British parents. and was especially pleased to award We migrated to New Zealand when I the two PhD scholarships to Markus was 12 years old and it was there Bell and Chris Park, and the MA that I completed high school and my scholarship to Yonjae Paik. Their undergraduate studies. I graduated background and research experience from Otago University with a com- clearly aligns with the objectives of the bined honours in anthropology and Transnational Humanities in Korean history. Shortly thereafter I moved to South Korea to teach English in an Studies Project and will add a distinct institute in Jeunju city. layer of diversity to the Institute.

While In Korea I studied Korean by The ANU Korea Institute warmly wel- myself and got to know a little about comes them! the people, the place and the history of the peninsula. In 2007 I left South Korea to work in a German company, but events conspired to bring me back at the beginning of 2008. I ap- plied for, and received a Korean government scholarship and entered Yonsei University for a one year Ko- rean language program. Following this, I entered the Seoul National University anthropology department as a master’s degree candidate. Publications: Various texts published through For three years, while I took classes Worldcom publishing on science and at Seoul National, I worked in a num- social science. ber of NGOs that help North Korean Various articles published through refugees in South Korea. While vol- the North Korean news network. unteering I gathered data as part of Conferences: my field work research, attempting to Presenter at the 2011 Korean Stud- understand the challenges of the ies Conference (KSGSC) Paris. settlement process for North Korean refugees who arrive in South Korea Scholarships/awards: without any family. During this time I 2008: Korean government scholar- was lucky enough to meet many ship. amazing people from both North and 2011: Funding awarded from Seoul South Korea, many of whom I contin- National Anthropology department to ue to count among my closest attend KSGSC program. friends. 2011: Funding awarded from Seoul National Social sciences department At ANU I look forward to working as for field research in China. part of both the anthropology and 2012 The Australian National Univer- Korean studies departments. It is my sity Transnational Humanities in Ko- intention to build on the work I have rean Studies scholarship. already done in Northeast Asia, looking at kinship and the transnational Markus Bell, ANU PhD candidate ties that exist from North Korea, through China and into South Korea. University House, The Australian National University P A G E 5 Research Students Transnational Humanities in Korean Studies Doctoral and Masters Scholarship Recipients

Chris Hyunkyu Park PhD Candidate

Having been born and raised met and the experience of ex- in a suburban city, Anyang, of ploring the cultural and historical South Korea and having lived heritage sites in Vietnam, Thai- in Baltimore, a city on the land, China, Taiwan, Japan and East Coast of the U.S., as Korea made the process endura- part of a Korean immigrant ble. Before joining the ANU Col- family, I have always been lege of Asia & the Pacific for a concerned with the social PhD program, I taught intensive problems that plague multi- Korean history courses at cultural societies. Gacheon University in the academic year 2011-2012. In 2006, I received my BA degree in history from the I am currently interested in study- University of Maryland, Balti- ing how the Korean diaspora more County, and I traveled helped shape activism in do- to Seoul the following year. I mestic and foreign politics of decided to study for a year in East Asian security issues in the the Korean history depart- United States and Korea during ment at the Seoul National the Cold War era. A considera- University (SNU), where I tion of these topics and research began to explore the multifac- on democratization and reunifica- eted society relating to the tion movements in the 1970s ongoing ‘Korean Cold War’. I would provide useful insights for graduated from the Yonsei reassessing the volatile condi- University with a master’s in tions of the Cold War in the Third Korean history (2009-2011). World. Attaining the master’s degree was a stressful and time- Chris Hyunkyu Park, ANU PhD consuming process. However, candidate the many wonderful people I

and rich professional experience, Yonjae Paik Yonjae is interested in conducting MA Candidate research on the welfare state in the context of East Asian developmental states. He plans to explore the Yonjae is currently completing his Mas- changing nature of state welfarism in ter of Asia-Pacific Studies at the ANU East Asia under globalisation, com- College of Asia and the Pacific. Before pare welfare states in Western coun- joining the ANU, he attained a Bachelor tries and East Asian developmental of Science in Chemistry and a Master states, and investigate the state’s of Environmental Science at Seoul National University. He then went on to motivation for welfare provision. earn a Master of Science in Accounting He will also conduct comparative and Finance in the UK. His profession- research on Australia and East Asian al experience includes service in the countries, comparing the welfare ex- Republic of Korea military and middle pansion under pro-labour govern- management in a commercial bank. ments in Korea and Australia. Informed by a robust academic career P A G E 6 Research Students

Lauren Richardson’s research on civic engagement carried out in the Seoul vicinity, I also went on a field trip to Hap- in Korea and Japan’s “historical problems” cheon County, otherwise known as ‘Korea’s Hiroshima’, where many As part of my PhD research on Korea- people and make friends, and provided of the Korean survivor-victims of Japan relations, I had the opportunity to a welcome social outlet to the rather the A-bomb reside. I found every- spend nine months conducting research solitary process of research! one to be most helpful and sup- and fieldwork in Korea. I was greatly portive of my research throughout anticipating this extended stay, as my As my PhD thesis looks at civic en- my fieldwork and was deeply im- previous trips to Korea had always been gagement in Korea and Japan’s pressed by how many activists- short term. I chose Yonsei University in ‘history problems’, the latter phase of many of whom are victims- are Seoul as my base and embarked on an my term in Korea was spent interview- engaged full-time in their respec- intense program involving language ing activists involved the issues of tive issues. study, research and auditing classes on forced laborers, ‘comfort women’, and international relations. The classes Korean victims of the atomic bombing. A highlight of my research term in turned out to be a good way to meet Although much of this fieldwork was Korea was the chance to attend a one-week intensive workshop at Leiden University, the Netherlands. The workshop, entitled ‘History, Memory and the Politics of Memo- rialization in Contemporary Korea’, helped me contextualize my research and I benefited a lot from speaking with Korean Studies students researching similar themes.

All in all, I got more out of this trip than I could have hoped for and I am greatly looking forward to when I can next visit Korea. Seoul’s fast pace and electric vibe makes it an exciting place to live and study. I would recommend the experience to anyone studying Korean at ANU.

Lauren Richardson, ANU PhD candidate

The memorial tablets of Korean A-bomb victims in Hapcheon County, Gyeongsang Province

Lina Koleilat prepares for her doctoral fieldwork in Seoul In February 2012, I travelled to Seoul to attend an intensive three-week language program at Yonsei University’s Korean Lan- guage Institute. Throughout my trip I also conducted pre-fieldwork research, a step- ping stone into my PhD fieldwork research which I will be undertaking in 2013.

My language course was very useful; daily Lauren (left) and Lina (right) meeting up while conducting research in Seoul. 9am to 1pm classes covering grammar, P A G E 7 Research Students

ernment’s active involvement only oc- Hea-Jin Park will be presenting a curred in the mid-1970s during the paper at the 6th World Congress of presidency of Park Chung-hee. Follow- ing Park’s assassination, Chun Doo- Korean Studies hwan’s government continued the project albeit on a much smaller scale and with altered objectives. The govern- rea and known for its immeasurable I will present a paper entitled ment’s participation lasted a decade natural resources. This first group of “Nobody remembers the losers: only, during which time five rural small- people aimed to work in agriculture, what happened to the agricultural holdings were established in Brazil, and more Koreans followed suit, emigration to South America?” at Argentina, Paraguay and Chile. Nowa- th travelling to Brazil and other South the 6 World Congress of Korean days the project is often understood as American countries. While not all Studies to be held in the Academy a fiasco, but as a whole it has been emigrants had previous farming ex- of Korean Studies (Republic of very little researched or examined. In perience, most of them intended to Korea), on 25 – 26 September this paper I will explore the Korean agri- work in the primary sector. Emigra- 2012. The history of Korean emi- cultural emigration to South America tion agents and private emigration gration to South America starts under the auspices of the Korean gov- companies organised their travel to officially in 1963, when the first ernment, drawing attention to the expe- South America. Interestingly, the group of post-war Korean emi- rience of immigrants who lived the pro- Korean government also intervened grants sailed to what until then ject. in the agricultural emigration to was considered as an unusual South America. Contrast to what is destination: Brazil, a country near- Hea-Jin Park, ANU PhD candidate ly 85 times the size of South Ko- commonly believed though, the gov-

Above: Successful candidates during a training session (c.1981) Left: Calling for migrants to South America! (Hankook Ilbo, 11 January 1981)

vocabulary, reading and listening. My and Institute for Gender Research. I visited My trip coincided with the March First classmates were mostly Japanese univer- a couple of women’s NGOs to discuss cur- Independence Movement day. Big cele- sity students curious and fascinated by rent issues and topics that they are work- brations took place around Seoul. In Korea, its language and culture. ing on and had the opportunity to meet with Tapgol Park, the Declaration of Independ- my previous professors and some of the ence was recited along with several fes- During my visit, I met with several aca- colleagues and friends I studied with back tivities that included music and other per- demics and researchers to discuss my in 2006-2008. formances throughout the day. research topic to get their valuable feed- back and advice. I visited the National Furthermore, I attended a conference run The weather in Seoul in February was a o Election Commission, Gallup Korea, the by the "자성과 쇄신 결사를 위한 비구니승 freezing -15 C; however, the cold is easi- Korean Social Science Data Archive ly forgotten in the buzzing streets of 가의 위상과 역할” run by the 불교여성연구 (KOSSDA), the Korea Women’s Institute Seoul, with its delicious street food and at Ewha Women’s University, Yonsei Uni- 소 Institute of Buddhist Women of the continuous dynamic pace until late hours versity’s department of Cultural Anthro- Jogye Order of Korean Buddhism, where of the night. pology as well as Seoul National Universi- the status and the role of Buddhist nuns ty’s Institute of Korean Political Studies were discussed. Lina Koleilat, ANU PhD candidate P A G E 8

Recent and Forthcoming Publications

Hyaeweol Choi has published a book that is relevant to the current AKS project.  New Women in Colonial Korea: A Sourcebook (London: Routledge, 2012) [*Work done in the preparation of this book was funded with a generous grant from the Academy of Korean Studies in 2007.]

Hyaeweol Choi has also published three articles, two of which are directly related to the AKS project.  “Debating the Korean New Woman: Imagining Henrik Ibsen’s “Nora” in Colonial Era Korea,” Asian Studies Review 36 (March 2012): 59-77.  “In Search of Knowledge and Selfhood: Korean Women Studying Overseas in Co- lonial Korea,” Intersections: Gender and Sexuality in Asia and the Pacific 29 (May 2012). http://intersections.anu.edu.au/issue19/choi.htm “Going South: Re-orienting to Korean Studies from an Antipodean Perspective,” Image provided by the  Image taken from http:// author. International Review of Korean Studies 8, no. 1 (2011): 57-75. www.worldcat.org/.

Ruth Barraclough has published the following book:  Factory Girl Literature: Sexuality, Violence, and Representation in Industrializing Korea (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2012)

Ruth Barraclough has published the following article:  “The Courtesan's Journal: Kisaeng and the Sex Labour Market in Colonial Korea” Intersections: Gender and Sexuality in Asia and the Pacific, Issue 29, May 2012.

Image provided by the author. Tessa Morris-Suzuki has published the following books and articles:  (with Morris Low, Leonid Petrov and Timothy Yun Hui Tsu), East Asia Beyond the History Wars: Confronting the Ghosts of Violence, London and New York, Routledge, forthcoming 2012 (A key focus is on collaboration between grassroots groups based in Japan and Korea (including Korean residents in Japan) in developing reconciliation projects.)  (with Sugita Atsushi, Kurihara Akira, Kariya Takehiko and Yoshimi Shunya), 3.11 ni Towarete: Hitobito no Keiken o meguru Kōsatsu (Challenged by the 3.11 Disaster: Reflections on the Human Experience), Tokyo, Iwanami Shinsho, 2012, pp. 208, ISBN 978-4000230483. (Sections of this book written by Tessa address the role of grassroots groups in disaster response.)  “Japan and its region: Changing Historical Perceptions”, Sungkyun Journal of East Asian Studies . Vol. 11, No. 2. Oct. 2011, 123-142 ISSN 1598-2661 (Tessa examines the role of local social movements in creating new forms of “cross-border” history linking the nations of East Asia.)  (with S. Kang) “Tunneling Through Nationalism: The Phenomenology of a Certain Nationalist”, The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus. Vol 9, Issue 36 No 2. September 5, 2011. http:// www.japanfocus.org/-Kang-Sangjung/3595 ISSN 1557-4660

Roald Maliangkay has published the following articles:  `Oberflächliche Eindrücke’, Kulturaustausch II (April 2012): 68. (on the possibility of nurturing a nation’s soft power)  “Hallyu, Hype, and the Humanities: The Impact of the Korean Wave on Korean Studies”, Strengthening Korean Studies in the Philippines: 2012 Philippine Korean Studies Symposium Proceed- ings (Manila: UP Dept of Linguistics, 2012), pp. 32-39.

Roald Maliangkay has also submitted the following for publication:  “Token Non-conformism: The Packaging of Resistance in Korean Girl Groups”, in Sangjoon Lee, ed., Hallyu 2.0: The Korean Wave in the Age of Social Media (University of Michigan Press, 2013, forthcoming).  (with Dr Brian Yecies) “Melodic Variations of Colonial Modernity: From Itinerant Byeonsa to the Talkies, 1907-1937”, in Nikki J.Y. Lee and Julian Stringer, The Korean Cinema Book (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013, forthcoming).  “The Popularity of Individualism: The Phenomenon of Seo Taiji in the 1990s”, in Kyung Hyun Kim and Youngmin Choe (eds.), The Korean Popular Culture Reader (Duke University Press, 2013, forthcoming).  “A Tradition of Adaptation: Preserving the Korean Ritual for Paebaengi”, in Keith Howard (ed.), East Asian Music and Cultural Heritage (Ashgate, 2012, forthcoming).  Book review of Laurel Kendall, Consuming Korean Tradition in Early and Late Modernity: Commodification, Tourism, and Performance, in Asian Studies Review (2012, forthcoming).  Book review of Andrew Killick, In Search of Korean Traditional Opera: Discourses of Ch’anggŭk, in Asian Studies Review (2012, forthcoming).

Li Narangoa and Robert Cribb are close to submitting the final manuscript of their Historical Atlas of Northeast Asia, 1590-2010. The Atlas contains 57 maps and traces the history of Northeast Asia (Korea, Manchuria, Mongolia and Eastern Siberia) over more than four centuries. P A G E 9

Recent and Forthcoming Publications

Paul Hutchcroft wrote a chapter entitled “Reflections on a Reverse Image: South Korea Upcoming Lecture under Park Chung Hee and the Philippines under Ferdinand Marcos,” in Byung-Kook Kim and Ezra F. Vogel, eds., The Park Chung Hee Era: The Transfor- mation of South Korea (Cambridge: Harvard University A history of Korean film Press, 2011). posters and billboards

Image taken from http:// www.worldcat.org/.

Tessa Morris-Suzuki has published the following books and articles:  (with Morris Low, Leonid Petrov and Timothy Yun Hui Tsu), East Asia Beyond the History Wars: Confronting the Ghosts of Violence, London and New York, Routledge, forthcoming 2012 (A key focus is on collaboration between grassroots groups based in Japan and Korea (including Korean residents in Japan) in developing reconciliation projects.) On 7 June 2012, Roald provided an introduction to the mov-  (with Sugita Atsushi, Kurihara Akira, Kariya Takehiko and Yoshimi Shunya), 3.11 ni Towarete: Hitobito no Keiken o meguru Kōsatsu (Challenged by the 3.11 Disaster: Reflections on the Human ie The Foul King (2000) at the Korean Cultural Office in Syd- Experience), Tokyo, Iwanami Shinsho, 2012, pp. 208, ISBN 978-4000230483. (Sections of this book written by Tessa address the role of grassroots groups in disaster response.) ney as part of their Cinema on the Park series. He spoke  “Japan and its region: Changing Historical Perceptions”, Sungkyun Journal of East Asian Studies . Vol. 11, No. 2. Oct. 2011, 123-142 ISSN 1598-2661 (Tessa examines the role of local social about the film’s rather unusual theme of the bullying of an movements in creating new forms of “cross-border” history linking the nations of East Asia.) adult male by his male senior, and made a comparison be-  (with S. Kang) “Tunneling Through Nationalism: The Phenomenology of a Certain Nationalist”, The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus. Vol 9, Issue 36 No 2. September 5, 2011. http:// tween the movie and Highway Star (2007). He is scheduled to return in August 2012 to give a lecture on the history of www.japanfocus.org/-Kang-Sangjung/3595 ISSN 1557-4660 film posters and cinema banners as part of a special exhibi- tion of contemporary Korean film posters at the centre. Dur- Roald Maliangkay has published the following articles: ing his talk he will use parts of an interview he conducted in  `Oberflächliche Eindrücke’, Kulturaustausch II (April 2012): 68. (on the possibility of nurturing a nation’s soft power) 2009 with one of Korea’s last cinema poster and billboard  “Hallyu, Hype, and the Humanities: The Impact of the Korean Wave on Korean Studies”, Strengthening Korean Studies in the Philippines: 2012 Philippine Korean Studies Symposium Proceed- painters, Kim Yŏngjun (b. 1958). Among the aspects of ings (Manila: UP Dept of Linguistics, 2012), pp. 32-39. Kim’s work he will discuss are eroticism and censorship, and the development of an art from a three-dimensional into a two-dimensional one. The talk will form part of Maliangkay’s Roald Maliangkay has also submitted the following for publication: preparations for an article on the custom of cinema banners  “Token Non-conformism: The Packaging of Resistance in Korean Girl Groups”, in Sangjoon Lee, ed., Hallyu 2.0: The Korean Wave in the Age of Social Media (University of Michigan Press, for the journal East Asian History. 2013, forthcoming).  (with Dr Brian Yecies) “Melodic Variations of Colonial Modernity: From Itinerant Byeonsa to the Talkies, 1907-1937”, in Nikki J.Y. Lee and Julian Stringer, The Korean Cinema Book (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013, forthcoming).  “The Popularity of Individualism: The Phenomenon of Seo Taiji in the 1990s”, in Kyung Hyun Kim and Youngmin Choe (eds.), The Korean Popular Culture Reader (Duke University Press, 2013, forthcoming).  “A Tradition of Adaptation: Preserving the Korean Ritual for Paebaengi”, in Keith Howard (ed.), East Asian Music and Cultural Heritage (Ashgate, 2012, forthcoming).  Book review of Laurel Kendall, Consuming Korean Tradition in Early and Late Modernity: Commodification, Tourism, and Performance, in Asian Studies Review (2012, forthcoming).  Book review of Andrew Killick, In Search of Korean Traditional Opera: Discourses of Ch’anggŭk, in Asian Studies Review (2012, forthcoming).

John Ravenhill, Head of the School of Politics and International Relations in the Research School of Social Sciences, gave a paper at an international conference on “Korea’s Expanding Global Role: Ac- complishments and Challenges” in Seoul in May 2012. The conference was hosted by the Korea Development Institute and also had sponsorship from the Korea National Diplomatic Academy, the Korea Institute for International Economic Policy, and the Presidential Com- mittee on Green Growth.

Paul Hutchcroft was discussant at the conference on “Southeast Asia on the Move”. The conference was held at Sogang University from 25 to 26 May 2012. The Sogang Institute for East Asian Studies (SIEAS) is putting up a journal of SEAsian Studies, TRaNS: Trans– National and –Regional Studies of Southeast Asia. Prof Hutchcroft is currently on their Exec- utive Committee.

‘Comfort Woman’ statue, central Seoul (Photograph taken by Tessa Morris-Suzuki.)

Tessa Morris-Suzuki presented Hyaeweol Choi gave a keynote address at the biennial meeting of the the keynote address at the 2012 an- Korean Studies Association of Australasia in November, 2011. Her speech nual conference of the Center for was published in International Review of Korean Studies (2011). Her pa- Contemporary Korean Studies, Uni- per was titled ‘Going South: Re-orienting to Korean Studies from an Antip- versity of Tokyo on 17 March 2012. odean Perspective.’ The paper outlines some strategic aspects of doing The topic of the conference was 'The Korean Studies in Australia within the context of greater interdependence Influence of Contemporary Korean between Australia and the region of Asia and the Pacific. During her key- Culture in Asia', and the topic of Prof. note address, Professor Choi proposes a transnational approach to the Morris-Suzuki's keynote address was history of women in modern Korea. "Cultures of War, Cultures of Peace: Korea, Japan and Northeast Asia’s Transition from Cold War to Post Cold War”. She also visited Korea for research in April and May, and collected further information for the forthcoming book 'East Asia Beyond the History Wars' (co-authored by Tessa Morris- Suzuki, Morris Low, Leonid Petrov and Timothy Y. Tsu), to be published by Routledge. One focus of her visit was the impact and meaning of the 'comfort woman' statue, erected in central Seoul in 2011.

Tessa Morris-Suzuki (left) and Hyaeweol Choi (right) P A G E 11 Past Conferences and Events

WORKSHOPS AND SPEAKERS SERIES Generously funded by Academy of Korean Studies

TITLE SPEAKERS

Red Love and Proletarian Convener: Femmes Fatales Dr Ruth Barraclough Red Love and Proletarian The Australian National Femmes Fatales 24 – 25 November 2011 University

The Homosocial Origins of Professor John Treat Modern Korean Fiction Yale University

8 February 2012

Dr Namhee Lee (Seated, second from Master Class in Critical Asian Associate Professor right) conducting the Master Class for ANU Studies* Namhee Lee research students. University of California, 28 – 30 March 2012 Los Angeles

Continuity or Change: The His Excellency Prospects on the Korean Taeyong Cho Peninsula in 2012 Ambassador of the Re- public of Korea for Aus- 4 April 2012 tralia

In a City Besieged by Ghosts: Dr Gregory Evon Changing Modes of Thought in University of New South Chosŏn Korea (1392-1910) Wales H. E. Taeyong Cho gave an insightful lecture 13 April 2012 on the prospects on the Korean peninsula.

Local Meanings and Lived Professor Experiences of Citizenship: Seungsook Moon Voices from a Women’s Vassar College Organization in South Korea

5 June 2012

* Co-funded by School of Culture, History and Language, ANU College of Asia and the Pacific. Dr Gregory Evon brought to life Korean history during the animated lecture. Chosŏn period in his P A G E 12 Key Events on the Korea Institute Calendar

Paradoxes of Domesticity: Christian Missionaries and Women in Asia and the Pacific in August this year

Jointly convened by Profes- tensions become even more sors Hyaeweol Choi and pronounced in the era of Margaret Jolly, Paradoxes of Western imperialism, when Domesticity: Christian Mis- the transnational interactions sionaries and Women in Asia between people, material and the Pacific is an interdis- goods, ideas and images ciplinary, inter-regional con- developed at an unprece- ference that focuses on the dented pace. encounters between Chris- tian missionaries and women The engagement of Christian in Asia and the Pacific with women missionaries with the aim of understanding the women in Asia and the Pacif- "paradoxes of domesticity" ic was a central feature of little research has been with newly introduced that emerged. these dynamic transnational done from the viewpoint "modern" Western ideals encounters. Their encounters of the local people who and practices. In doing so, Research in women's history across the domains of reli- accepted, resisted or the conference aims to has shown that the relation- gion, education and family appropriated the new reveal the relatively un- ship between the domestic sometimes reinforced and religion and culture. known histories of women and public spheres has al- sometimes challenged what in Asian and Pacific Chris- ways been permeable and constituted the "domestic" in The central focus of this tianities and show how complex in practice despite the age of the Western mod- conference will be on the intimately their histories rigid binaries set in the ideo- ern. Much research on the agency of Asian and Pa- were entangled with the logical opposition of the do- topic has privileged the per- cific women in linking diverse colonial and semi- mestic as feminine and the spectives of Western mis- their past religious, famili- colonial contexts across public as masculine. The sionaries. However, relatively al, and cultural practices Asia and the Pacific.

Paradoxes of Domesticity Christian Missionaries and Women in Asia and the Pacific 9 - 10 August 2012 Acton Theatre Crawford Building #132, The Australian National University Conveners Professor Hyaeweol Choi and Professor Margaret Jolly Keynote Speaker Holly Wardlow University of Toronto Focus Regions Speakers China Sue Gronewold Kean University Helen Schneider Oxford University Korea Hyaeweol Choi The Australian National University Sonja Kim State University of New York Binghamton Japan Rebecca Copeland Washington University, St. Louis India Meera Kosambi S.N.D.T. University in Mumbai Kalpana Ram Macquarie University Jessica Hinchy The Australian National University Melanesia Debra McDougall University of Western Australia Jemima Mowbray University of Sydney Michael Webb University of Sydney Anna-Karina Hermkens The Australian National University Pacific Islands Margaret Jolly The Australian National University Latu Latai The Australian National University The Philippines Laura Prieto Simmons College P A G E 13 Key Events on the Korea Institute Calendar

Korea Update 2012 Contemporary Politico-Security and Economic Trends on the Peninsula: Implications for Korea-Australia Relations Australia’s Engagement with the Koreas

10-11 October 2012 The Australian National University

Other coming events The Interaction between Glocal Feminism and Professor Gaphee Ko Glocal Activism in the Age of Capitalistic Hanshin University Patriarchal Globalization

16 July 2012

“Paradoxes of Domesticity” Pre-Conference Lecture Professor Holly Wardlow University of Toronto 8 August 2012 Public Lecture Professor Dong-Chun Kim

20 August 2012

Korean Studies Association of Australasia Postgraduate Sponsored by Workshop Korea Foundation

15-16 November 2012

Please check our Events website at http://koreainstitute.anu.edu.au/events/ for more details. P A G E 14 Former Student at the ANU

Strong Korea focus at the ANU helped former student teach English more effectively in South Korea

I recently completed a Master of Asia- Pacific Studies degree at A.N.U. and graduated in December 2011. Having this degree allowed me to apply for a non-tenure academic position at Wonkwang University in South Korea. I am now working full-time at this university teaching English language to university students, and my position allows for me to undertake academic research into areas related to Korea that interest me.

I am particularly interested in multiculturalism in North Jeolla Province, the province that Wonkwang University is located in, especially the potential impact of non-Korean residents on the nearby Saemangeum/Gunsan Free Economic Zone project. My recent post-graduate studies at the ANU had a strong Korea focus, and during this time I was able to do some preliminary research into South Korean government policy related to emerging multiculturalism in the country. I was also able to gain a deeper understanding about modern and historical Korea, Michael is teaching English Language at Wonkwang University, Jeonju, South Korea. which I find to be now greatly assisting my ability to teach English to university students in South Korea. being from 2007 to 2010. My experienc- about Australia and increase aware- I have found that, while teaching Eng- es in Australia and South Korea have ness in Australia specifically about lish to students at Wonkwang Univer- led me to believe that both countries North Jeolla Province. I would also sity, I am able to engage students far can learn a lot from each other. While like to contribute to academic analysis more easily if I refer to Korean subject South Korea is particularly strong in of multiculturalism within this province matter that they are already familiar fields related to technology and engi- and within South Korea as a whole. In with. Often I will communicate to them neering, Australia has expertise in doing this, when possible, I would like my general knowledge of Korean his- many areas related to the institutions of to assist my students to participate in tory, politics, music and film, and they government and civil society that South the international discourse. Hopefully, will respond to my prompts with their Korea could reference as it further con- my teaching will enable them to do own outlook on the subjects from their solidates its own democratic culture. this in the English language some- own perspective. This interaction not The experience of Australia’s transition what better than they would have only assists my students to refine their to a multicultural society is one specific done otherwise. English language communication area that South Korea may wish to skills, it also provides me with an op- draw upon as it now navigates its own portunity to learn more about Korean emerging trend towards multicultural- Michael Dover, Jeonju, South Korea subjects from the insights that my ism. students communicate to me. I hope that, while working at Wonkwang This is the second time I have lived University, over time, I will be able to and worked in South Korea, the first increase awareness in South Korea P A G E 15

New Postdoctoral Fellow

Welcoming our new Korea Institute Postdoctoral Fellow

Our new Korea Institute Postdoctoral young people’. Emma’s thesis examined Fellow is Dr Emma Campbell, who will the growing apathy and antipathy to- be joining the Korea Institute in No- ward unification with North Korea vember for a period of two years. The amongst South Korea’s youth, arguing postdoctoral fellowship will provide that this reflects the rise of a distinct Emma with the opportunity to develop South Korean nationalism and identity. two research projects. The first in- She showed that this newly emerged volves an examination of conflict be- South Korean nationalism is strikingly tween humanitarian engagement and different from previous notions of identi- security issues in the international ty in Korea that had relied upon ideas of community’s relationship with North ethnic sameness. Emma is currently Emma will commence her Postdoctoral Korea. The second research project preparing her PhD manuscript for publi- fellowship in November 2012. will examine the security and humani- cation. tarian prospects for the Korean penin- experience will also help to inform her sula and the implications for Austral- This PhD research, along with a number research on humanitarian engagement ia’s foreign and security policy from of trips to the DPRK and involvement in with North Korea. both a traditional and non-traditional the field of North Korean human rights, security perspective. has motivated her new postdoctoral Emma looks forward to teaching a research projects. Emma also has a course on Korean politics and society Emma completed her PhD at the Aus- strong belief in combining academic and developing her new research pro- tralian National University’s School of research with activism and hopes that jects at ANU’s Korea Institute. She will International, Political and Strategic her research will contribute to shaping Studies. Her PhD thesis was entitled the policy of government and non- begin her post in early November. ‘Uri Nara, Our Nation: Unification, government actors. She is currently identity and the emergence of a new working for a humanitarian NGO in nationalism amongst South Korean Swaziland on an HIV/TB project. This

University House, The Australian National University P A G E 16 Announcements and Events

Joycelyn Ting’s entry for 2011 Canberra Korean “I Love Korea Because…” Speech Contest

video contest The one-day speech contest for Korean language learners across the ACT state was held on 20 Au- gust 2011. It was jointly organized by the ANU's Korean Language Pro- gram, the Canberra Kore- dents participated, sup- an Education Association, ported by a crowd of and Narrabundah College. some one hundred peo- Opening speeches were ple. Among the three first- given by, among others, prize winners was Aliff the Minister of the Embas- Abdullah, a first-year ANU sy of the Republic of Ko- student. A news crew rea, Professor Kent An- from the South Korean derson, Director of the network MBC was in ANU’s School of Culture, attendance to cover the History and Language, event and interview the and Principal Kerrie Grun- event organizers and dy of Narrabundah Col- prize winners. Our ANU undergraduate student puts together a fun and lege. A total of 18 stu- innovative video for the “I Love Korea Because…” video contest. Be sure to catch her video on YouTube at this link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8c3uL0yDkPc

Korea Institute’s new Program Coordinator

Daniel Chua joined the Korea Institute as Program Coordinator Korean Studies at the ANU has a long and vibrant histo- in April this year. While new to ry. We are devoted to innovative teaching and cutting- the job, he is certainly not new edge research related to Korea. We are also deeply the ANU. Apart from contributing committed to fostering the academics, professionals and to the Korea Institute, he is also writing his doctoral dissertation informed citizens of the next generation through our on the role of US diplomacy on scholarly and cultural activities and our graduate and the development of Singapore undergraduate programs. during the Cold War. He also tutors first- and second-year un- The ANU Korea Institute serves as an umbrella to draw dergraduate students in two Se- together the many academic units within the University curity Studies courses run by the that are focused on teaching and research on Korea. Strategic and Defence Studies Centre at the School of Interna- The Korea Institute tional, Political and Strategic College of Asia & the Pacific Studies, ANU College of Asia Australian National University and the Pacific. He recently com- Canberra ACT 0200 pleted his fieldwork at the Na- Australia tional Archives at Kew, London,

National Archives II at College Website: http://koreainstitute.anu.edu.au/ Park, Maryland and the Presi-

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