September 2018

KSAA Newsletter #3 Sept 2018

September 2018

Issue 3

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Korean Studies Association of Australasia Executive Committee

President Treasure Assoc. Prof. Jo Elfving-Hwang Assoc. Prof. Roald Maliangkay University of Western Australia (UWA), Australian National University (ANU), Perth, Australia Canberra, Australia

Vice President Secretary Assoc. Prof. Bronwen Dalton Dr Andy Jackson University of Technology, Sydney (UTS), Monash University, Melbourne, Australia Australia

Website Manager Newsletter Editor Dr Andrew Jackson Dr Sunhee Koo University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand

Regular Members Dr Seong-Chul Shin University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

Dr Jane Park University of Sydney, Australia

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Table of Contents

The President’s Word 4

Photos from the 2017 KSAA Conference 5

University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia 6

University of Technology, Sydney 7

Macquarie University, Sydney 7

University of Western Australia, Perth 8

Monash University, Melbourne 12

University of Canterbury, Christ Church, NZ 15

University of Auckland, Auckland 15

Announcement 19

2017 KSAA Conference Report by Browen Dalton 21

The KSAA Newsletter is edited by Dr Sunhee Koo. Cover image: “P’ungmul Nori,” the first prize winner of the 46th Korea Tourism Photo Contest (from “Korea.Net” http://www.korea.net/NewsFocus/Travel/view?articleId=163142 accessed on 11 September 2018). The prize-winning works can be viewed at the Korea Tourism Organization (KTO) website (http://enugallery.visitkorea.or.kr). Copyright of KSAA Newsletter (and all its content) is held by the Korean Studies Association of Australasia (KSAA). Homepage: https://koreanstudiesaa.wordpress.com/

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The President’s Word

Dear members,

Welcome to our new edition of the KSAA Newsletter! Firstly as the new President, on behalf of the new Executive Committee I would like to thank the previous committee members Dr Changzoo Song and Duk-soo Park for their work for KSAA. In particular, we thank our outgoing President Hyaeweol Choi for her leadership and support of our members in the past two years.

This year promises to be another exciting one. In July, KSAA partnered for the first time with the Asian Studies Association of Australasia to support their biennial conference held at the University of Sydney (ASAA 2018). This year KSAA had the pleasure of hosting Prof Andrew Eungi Kim from Korea University as a Keynote Speaker in the Regional Keynote stream for Korean Studies. It was also very good to see Korean Studies well represented in our main regional conference.

In November this year, UWA will host the next KSAA Postgraduate Workshop, which this time will focus on supporting each student’s thesis plans and ways to enhance their employability after graduation.

I am also pleased to announce that the next KSAA Biennial Conference will be held at UWA in Perth from 4th-6th December 2019. A call for papers and a link to the Conference website will be circulated shortly.

Jo Elfving-Hwang KSAA President

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2017 KSAA Conference

Welcome reception at Korean Cultural Office, Sydney, ROK Consul General Sangoo Yoon. Photo by UTS staff

Opening address, Prof Emmanuel Josserand, UTS. Photo by UTS staff

Keynote speech, Prof Kuen Lee, Seoul National University. Photo by UTS staff

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______UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES, AUSTRALIA Seong-Chul Shin . Dr Seong-Chul Shin, Senior Lecturer of Korean Studies, School of Humanities & Languages, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, has recently published two books:

PUBLICATIONS: SHIN, S. 2018. Korean Language Education: Australian Practices and Perspectives. Seoul: Sotong Publishing Co. 325 pages.

SHIN, S. 2017. Understanding L2 Korean Learner Errors: Description, Explanation and Implications. Seoul: Sotong Publishing. Available at Seoul Selection, Sotong, Kyobo, Aladin and others. http://blog.daum.net/_blog/ArticleCateList.do?blogid=0E ss4&btype=6&CATEGORYID=691169&navi=6&scroll=no &totalcnt=3%20%20; http://www.aladin.co.kr/shop/wproduct.aspx?ItemId=1 15189582%20%20; http://www.kyobob

UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY, SYDNEY Bronwen Dalton . Assoc. Prof. Bronwen Dalton in University of Technology, Sydney,

PUBLICATION: JUNG, K., B. DALTON, and JACQUELINE WILLIS. 2018. “From patriarchal socialism to grassroots capitalism: The role of female entrepreneurs in the transition of North Korea.” Women's Studies International Forum

68: 19−27. . SUCCESSFUL HOSTING of 2017 KSAA CONFERENCE (see the outcome of conference report, page 21).

. MEDIA ENGAGEMENT: News Clip on UTS’s North Korean Student Scholarship https://www.campusreview.com.au/2018/02/north-korean-students-in-humanising- suffering-tighten-diplomatic-ties/ Radio Clip from Ann’s ABC Interview http://www.abc.net.au/radio/adelaide/programs/worldtoday/north-korean-defector- hopes-for-unification/9415566

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http://newsroom.uts.edu.au/news/2018/02/english-skills-help-former-north-korean- students-brighter-future Updates on the Resident North Korean Students in UTS http://www.hanhodaily.com/news/articleView.html?idxno=54500 Bronwen Dalton was recognized for her contribution to the Korea-Australia Friendship at the Korea-Australia Friendship Dinner www.hanhodaily.com

MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY, SYDNEY Sung-Ae Lee . Dr Sung-Ae Lee, Lecturer in Asian Studies, Department of International Studies, Macquarie University.

PUBLICATIONS: LEE, S. 2018. “Intergenerational Bonding in Recent Films from South Korea.” Chapter 7, in Connecting Childhood and Old Age in Popular Media, edited by Vanessa Joosen. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi. LEE, S. and J. STEPHENS. 2018. “Transcultural Adaptation of Feature Films: South Korea’s My Sassy Girl and its Remakes.” Adaptation

. Call for Paper has been announced by Dr11 S. (1):Lee, 75−95. SERIES Vol 5 No2 December 2019: Television serials in Asia: A Themed Issue of Series (see page 19-20)

Sung-Young Kim . Dr Sung-Young Kim, Lecturer in International Relations in Macquarie University.

PUBLICATIONS: KIM, S. 2018. “Wither Developmentalism after Democratisation?” In Routledge Handbook on Democratization in East Asia, edited by Tun-jen Cheng and Yun-han Chu. London: Routledge. https://www.routledge.com/Routledge-Handbook-of-Democratization-in- East-Asia/Chu-Cheng/p/book/9781138838741 KIM, S. 2017. “Greening of Capitalism: How Asia is driving the next great transformation.” Political Science. 11 October. https://www.project-syndicate.org/archive?query=Sung- Young+Kim

CONFERENCE PAPERS/INVITED TALKS: “Security on the Korean Peninsula: Making Sense of the Nuclear Crisis,” presented at the seminar, hosted by the Centre for International Security Studies (CISS) and the Consulate- General of the Republic of Korea, Sofitel Sydney Wentworth, Australia, November 2017. “The Political Logic of the Developmental State: Korea and Taiwan's Smart Grids Strategy,” presented at the Department of Government and International Relations Staff Colloquium Series, University of Sydney, Australia, November 2017. “The Politics of Korea’s Clean Energy Transition,” presented at the 10th Biennial Korean Studies Association of Australia (KSAA) Conference, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia, November 2017.

. MEDIA ENGAGEMENT: August 2017: in collaboration with Prof John Mathews (MGSM Australia), Dr Kim’s op-ed entitled “A Greener Grid for East Asia” was published in Project Syndicate, which has a membership of almost 500 media outlets located in more than 150 countries. The article

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has been translated and published in Arabic, Chinese, Czech, Dutch, French, German, Indonesian, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish. The article has been re-published in the Taipei Times, The Japan Times, Eco-Business, The Jordan Times, Times of Oman, The Daily Star, The Asset, The News Today, The Times Kuwait, Invest Money UK, Gulf Times, Daily Outlook Afghanistan, and Arabnews. https://www.project- syndicate.org/archive?query=Sung-Young+Kim

July 2017: The Korea Times published a second op-ed by Dr Kim’s (with Prof John Mathews) “Clean energy transitions in Korea, Taiwan.” http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/opinon/2017/07/162_233689.html

Hae-Eun Chu

. Dr Hye-Eun Chu, a Lecturer in the School of Education, in Macquarie University, was invited as a keynote speaker at the 73rd KASE (Korean Association of Science Education) International Conference at Dankook University, Korea, 25–27 January, 2018. She

presented her paper, titled “An intercultural STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Mathematics) program for globalization in Science Education,” which is prepared based on her Macquarie University Project on investigating students’ perceptions of science and science learning in intercultural contexts. There were over 300 participants from 15 countries. The theme of the conference was “Beyond the class: Expanding the boundaries of science education.” The aim of the conference is to share innovative ways in which science teaching may be linked to out- of-school education and socio-cultural issues between Australia and Korea.

. June 2018, Dr Chu travelled to Korea and Singapore and discussed STEM/STEAM approaches in Australia and Korea with the scholars in Dankook Univeristy, Korea and the National Institute of Education, Singapore.

UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA . PROGRM and STAFF Korean Studies at UWA was established in 2012 with the support of Korea Foundation. The program is run by two permanent staff (Dr Joanna Elfving-Hwang and Dr Nicola Fraschini) with the assistance of three casual language teaching staff (Mrs Eun-Ki Kim, Ms Dasul Kim and Ms Hyunmi Kim). The program at present offers at the undergraduate level six units of Korean language, two units of Korean Studies and two units of Korean language for heritage speakers (new from 2017); at the postgraduate level it offers two Korean language units for professionals (new from 2018). In addition to this,

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there are currently two postgraduate PhD students working on Korea-related theses: Caleb Kelso-Marsh (Korean and Japanese Film Noir) and Mimi Shin (Second Generation Koreans in Western Australia).

. COLLABORATIONS with SUNGKYUNGWAN UNIVERSITY UWA has formed a strategic partnership at an institutional level with Sungkyungwan University. In September 2017, with a delegation from UWA lead by DVC (research) Prof. Robyn Owens visited SKKU for the 2nd SKKU-UWA forum. Korean Studies was represented by Dr Elfving-Hwang and Dr Fraschini, but the delegation included colleagues from all Faculties of the University, and lead to a number of research and student exchanges in the areas of Science and Engineering. The delegation was also pleased to have Prof Len Collard, who is a Noongar elder, to give greetings to colleagues at SKKU in the Noongar language. See more here: http://www.web.uwa.edu.au/engage/international/uwa-skku- forum

. COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT Together with the Honorary Consul of the ROK Mrs Fay Duda and Korean Language Teacher Association of Western Australia and the Korean Education Centre, Dr Elfving- Hwang and Dr Fraschini are active in promoting the introduction and learning of Korean language in primary and secondary schools across WA. Last year, one high school introduced Korean as a foreign language in 2017 in addition to the existing ones. Moreover, UWA Korean language staff regularly support the high schools with incursion visit to schools to promote the teaching of Korean, and high school students who are already learning Korean language will visit the UWA campus to experience a university level Korean language class in semester 1, 2018.

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. RESEARCH Publications ELFVING-HWANG, J. 2017. ‘The Aesthetics of Authenticity: Corporate Masculinities in Contemporary South Korean Television Dramas.” Asia Pacific Perspectives 15 (2). https://www.usfca.edu/center-asia pacific/perspectives/v15n1/elfving-hwang

FRASCHINI, N. 2017. “I thought that I don’t qualify to call Korean my ‘national language’: Identity and authenticity in Korean-Australian heritage language learners.” Journal of Korean Language Education 28: 45-80. Fraschini, N. 2017. “Late modern considerations on language education for Koreans abroad.” Korean Language as Socio-Educational Resources: A refereed proceeding of the Australian Symposium on Korean Language Learning and Teaching, Adelaide, November.

Seminars, talks and conferences ELFVING-HWANG, J. “Gerontoromcoms Come to Age: Ageing and Romance in South Korean Cinema.” Ageing and the New Media Workshop, The University of Western Australia, December 2017. “Man Made Beautiful: Social Meanings Attached to Every Day Beauty Practices by Middle Aged South Korean Men.” The Australian Sociological Association Annual Conference, The University of Western Australia, November 2017. “Man Made Beautiful: Social Meanings Attached to Every Day Beauty Practices by Middle Aged South Korean Men.” The Biennial Korean Studies Association of Australasia Conference, The University of Technology Sydney, November 2017. “’What Does an Australian Look Like?’ Asian Australian Perceptions of Attractive ‘Australian’ Appearance.” The AA17 (Asian Australian Studies Network) Conference, Deakin University (Melbourne), October 2017. “Positive Ageing and Beauty Work in South Korea.” Age Friendly Communities Network Forum (LG Professionals WA Development Day), The University of Western Australia, September 2017. “Aspirational Beauty Aesthetics in the Later Years in South Korea.” The ASAA Women in Asia Conference, The University of Western Australia, September 2017. “Korean Studies in Western Australia and Australasia.” The Second SKKU-UWA Collaboration Workshop, Sungkyungwan University (South Korea), September 2017.

FRASCHINI, N. “Korean language teaching and research at UWA.” SKKU-UWA Forum, SKKU Seoul, September 2017. “Korean, Aussie or…Kossie? Identity awareness of a community of bloggers.” 10th KSAA (Korean Studies Association of Australasia) conference, University of Technology Sydney, November 2017.

KELSO-MARSH, C and J. ELFVING-HWANG: “Rethinking the Femme Fatale: Violent Women in Korean Film Noir.” The Biennial Korean Studies Association of Australasia Conference, The University of Technology Sydney, November 2017. “Rethinking the Femme Fatale: Violent Women in Korean Film Noir.” The ASAA Women in Asia Conference, The University of Western Australia, September 2017.

KELSO-MARSH, C. “East Asian Noir: Transnational Film Noir in Japan, Korea and Hong Kong.” Rethinking Film Genres: East Asian Cinemas and Beyond Conference, The University of Hull, September 2017.

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“Nikkatsu Film Noir as a Lens to Look at Socio-Cultural Change in Postwar Japan.” European Association of Japanese Studies Conference, Nova University of Lisbon, August 2017. “Noir in the East: Transnational Film Noir in Japan, Korea and Hong Kong.” Inter-Asia Cultural Studies Conference, SungKongHoe University, July 2017. ‘'‘Borderless Noir’: East Asian Modernity as Depicted in Film Noir.” Korea University Graduate Student Conference in Asian Studies in conjunction with the 2017 AAS-in- ASIA Conference, Korea University, June 2017. ''‘Global Noir’: Reflections on East Asian Modernity Through the Lens of Film Noir.” Asian Conference on Cultural Studies, IAFOR, June 2017.

. GRANTS Academy of Korean Studies (Seoul, South Korea) competitive international research grant 2017. Dr J. Elfving-Hwang, 'Man Made Beautiful: A Qualitative Study of the Social Meanings Attached to Everyday Beauty Practices by Korean Middle Aged Men.’

Department of Foreign Affairs & Trade - Australia Korea Competitive Grant, 2017, Dr Joanna Elfving-Hwang, Mr Iain Watt, Professor Wendy Erber, Professor Leonard Collard, Professor Ian McArthur, 'Promoting Australia in Korea: The Second UWA-SKKU Partnership Forum.'

. TEACHING Visiting talks: The honorary consul of the Republic of Korea for Western Australia, Ms Fay Duda, gave a talk to students enrolled in the unit “Korean language for professional 1”, an introductory unit of Korean language for students enrolled in the Master of Asian Studies and in the Master of International Relations.

Teaching innovations: Dr Nicola Fraschini has been working on enhancing the online teaching environment of Korean language at UWA through developing a series of 30 video clips for Beginners Korean students. From Semester 2018, Dr Fraschini has also launched a new beginners unit aimed at Masters students: Korean for Professionals.

. STUDENT ACTIVITIES/EXCHANGES Seven students from UWA visited South Korea in December 2017 as Perth City Student Ambassadors on a language and culture study tour opportunity offered by Seocho-gu and the City of Perth sister city engagement program. Students found the one-week visit a good learning experience and documented their travel through social media.

. MEDIA ENGAGEMENT J. Elfving-Hwang, Expert Guest on ABC Radio National talk show ‘Stop everything!’ February 16, 2018: http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/stop- everything/stop-everything-16-feb/9450560 J. Elfving-Hwang, En Coree du Sud, les Femmes n’ont pas d’autre hoix que d’etre belles, by Diane Jean, The Cheek Magazine, February 27, 2018. http://cheekmagazine.fr/societe/coree-du-sud-injonctions-beaute-femmes/ J. Elfving-Hwang, ‘South Korean is the King of Cosmetic Surgery’, by Andrew Dunne, The Seoul Times December 4, 2017, http://theseoultimes.com/ST/?url=/ST/db/read.php?idx=11828 J. Elfving-Hwang, ‘South Korean HR Report: Do good looks lead to good jobs?’ By Kelvin Ong, HRM Asia, 9 October 2017, http://www.hrmasia.com/content/south-korean-hr- report-do-good-looks-lead-good-jobs

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J. Elfving-Hwang, ‘Can you be masculine and beautiful at the same time?’, interview with Siyi Chen for the Quartz Magazine, 7 October 2017, https://qz.com/1087704/can-you- be-masculine-and-beautiful-at-the-same-time/

Monash University, Australia . PROGRAM and STAFF 2017 has seen many changes for Monash Korean Studies with new members of staff arriving and leaving. Dr Josie Sohn is currently Lecturer in Korean Studies and prior to arriving at Monash, she directed Global Korean Studies at the Catholic University of Korea and was a fellow at the Literature Translation Institute of Korea. Her research focuses on South Korean film culture, youth culture, and transnational reception practices. She holds a PhD in East Asian Languages and Cultures with a minor in Cinema Studies from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Dr Andrew David Jackson is currently Senior Lecturer and Convenor of the Korean Studies programme at Monash University. Prior to joining Monash, he was Associate Professor at the Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies, University of Copenhagen, Denmark (2013-2017). His research focusses on rebellion in Korean history, and North and South Korean cinema. Dr Lucien Brown is Senior Lecturer in Korean Studies. He is a specialist in Korean linguistics, second language acquisition and language pedagogy and joined Monash from the University of Oregon in January 2018. Dr Mohita Roman joins Monash as Post-Doctoral Research Fellow in the Korean Studies Programme; a position supported by the AKS Core University grant. Mohita holds a PhD from Monash University in Korean Studies, Faculty of Arts and a Masters in Korean Studies from the Department of Korean Studies, Yonsei University in South Korea. Her doctoral studies examined sexual slavery during World War II with a focus on the Korean ‘Comfort Women’ and considered the complexity of nation state, colonial legacy and the strategic ‘framing’ of women’s movement in Korea to prompt transnational activism on the issue.

. FAREWELL Drs In-jung Cho and Young-a Cho first came to Monash to expand the Korean program in 1991. Both applied linguists by training, they greatly expanded the language program creating their own series of six textbooks tailored to the needs of Monash University Korean language students. The textbooks teach all four skills, speaking, listening, reading and writing systematically. The Chos also developed extensive online learning materials that are freely available to both students and the general public. In addition, the Chos initiated a Korean translation course for advanced level students of Korean. Overall, the Chos successfully expanded the Korean language program so that it now has an entry level intake of over 300 students, and with the current appointments is well equipped to go beyond language training. They have left a great mark on Korean Studies at Monash, and they will be greatly missed by their colleagues and their students.

. GRANT (AKS Core University Grant) The Korean Studies program at Monash University has been awarded a 5-year Core University Grant of up to $1 million (875 million Korean won) by the Academy of Korean Studies (AKS), Korean Studies Promotion Service (KSPS) a division of the Ministry of Education, Republic of Korea. The title of the project is ‘Creating a Nexus at Monash for a Stronger Korean Studies in Melbourne and the Metropolitan Region’ and it will fund Korean Studies at Monash over five years (2017-22), and the research of Monash University Korean Studies staff for a further two years. There are four strands to the application: research development, educational expansion, student support and vocational training. The overall aim of the project is to:

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• support high level research on Korea and Korean related areas • increase student numbers at both graduate and undergraduate level • improve the learning experience and employability of our students • foster greater interest in Korean Studies at Monash and in the Melbourne area Monash University Korean Studies has allocated the majority of the grant funds to student support in the form of PhD and postdoctoral positions, as well as student grants. The remaining funds will be used for the development of a Korean Studies research hub, the creation of new content units in an expanded Korean Studies programme, the establishment of closer links with South Korean businesses in the area, and the development of closer Korean studies research networks among institutions in the Melbourne metropolitan region. The team consists of project manager Andy Jackson, deputy project manager Lucien Brown, team members: Josie Sohn, Gil-soo Han, Jung-sim Kim, Jaekyung Roh, Hyesun Ko, Adam Zulawnik. The financial plan for the project was put together by Vanja Radojevic and Stef Johnstone.

. TEACHING One new unit has been set up for semester 1, 2018. This is Popular Culture in North and South Korea, Hallyu and East Asian Cultural flows and it will be taught by Andy Jackson. There will be two new units for 2019: Korean studies advanced: Literature and writing will introduce students them to a range of literary writings by modern master writers of colonial Korea (1910-1945), and it will be taught by Josie Sohn. Language, Culture and Society on the Korean Peninsula critically examines language, culture and society on the Korean Peninsula and it will be taught by Lucien Brown.

. 2017 EVENTS University Korean Studies Program Re-launch Workshop, 5th May, 2017 On Friday 5 May, 2017, Carolyn Stevens, Professor of Japanese Studies at the School of Languages, Literatures, Cultures and Linguistics organized an event at Monash University Japanese Studies Centre to celebrate these appointments. The event consisted of talks by the two new appointees, Deakin University’s David Hundt and a guest lecture by the esteemed Korean Studies’ scholar and President of the Association of Asian Studies, Prof. Laurel Kendall (American Museum of Natural History / Columbia University).

Korean Film Screening and Talk. Short introductory talk “Train to Busan and the Korean War” by Andrew David Jackson (Monash University) Followed by a screening of Train To Busan, 4th September 2017.

. HOSTING SEMINARS/GUEST SPEAKERS in MONASH and MELBOURNE: WRIGHT, Josephine (Independent Scholar). “Hardworking Women: Embodying the Nation in a Jeju Dive Fishery,” 15th September 2017. SONG, Jiyoung (Jay) (Asia Institute, University of Melbourne). “20 Years’ Evolution of North Korean Migration,” 5th October 2017. WINSTANLEY-CHESTERS, Robert (Australian National University, Canberra). “Fish, Forests and Fungus: Vibrant matter(s) in the Environmental and Political Histories of North Korea,” 18th October 2017. JACKSON, Andy. (Monash University). “Is the DPRK really a ‘Train Wreck in Slow Motion’? The Prospects for a People’s Power Rebellion in North Korea,” 28th March 2018.

2018 Melbourne Metropolitan Korean Studies Seminar MALIANGKAY, Roald (ANU). “Collecting power or compromise: K-pop fandom objectivised,” 14 March 2018. ABRAHAMIAN, Andray (Pacific Forum CSIS—Center for Strategic and International Studies). “Sanctions and Staying Power: North Korea in 2018,” 22 March 2018.

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LEE, Sangjoon (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore). “The South Korean Film Industry,” 10 May 2018.

. HOSTING CONFERENCES/MEETING “Korean Wave” Still Matters? Present and Future Directions, Monash University Caulfield Campus, Melbourne, 7-8 June 2018

Reimagining Korean Identity through Wars, Money, Ideas and Exchanges: 70 years’ Identity Transformation, Monash University Korean Studies, Melbourne, Australia, 17-18 August, 2018.

Melbourne Metropolitan Korean Studies Seminar Series Biannual Meeting, Monash University Korean Studies, Melbourne, Australia, 12 October 2018.

. STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT Anusha Thirumalavan, a second-year student doing Bachelor of Engineering (Honours) and Bachelor of Arts, majoring in Environmental Engineering and doing an extended major in Korean Studies, has been chosen to work as an intern at the Consulate General of the Republic of Korea in Melbourne from October 2017. Anna Luu (Korean Introductory 2 Student) won $250, an Australian-Asian Association Certificate of Achievement for Excellence in Korean, and Honorary membership of the Australian-Asian Association of Victoria for one year in recognition of her outstanding achievements in studying Korean. Niharishan Sathasivam (Korean Proficiency 2 student) who served as the MC for the opening ceremony of the Korean Film Festival in Australia held at the ACMI (Australian Centre for the Moving Image), Melbourne, 7-14 September 2017. Niha participated in the event after having served a three month internship at the Republic of Korea Consulate in Melbourne, which also organised the Film Festival. Shugo Okaeda (Korean Proficiency 2 student) received an offer from Korea University to study in the Graduate School of Korean History in 2018. Lorraine Lok Leung, who is double majoring in Korean Studies and Communication and Media Studies at Monash took and passed the TOPIK (Test of Proficiency in Korean) Test at level 6. This is an outstanding achievement. In the future, Lorraine plans to use her Korean to do translation and media-related work.

. KOREAN STUDIES FUN ACTIVITIES

o Quiz on Korea!: Event for Korean Studies students, co-organised with Monash Korean Studies and Korean Consulate, Thursday 19 April 2018 o Korean Studies Speech Contest, 20 September 2018 o Korean Studies Open Day

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Korean Studies Open Day 2017, Andrew Jackson, Liling Sam, and Anusha Thirumalavan

UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY, NZ Ken Wells

. As an Adjunct Professor in the Department of History at the University of Canterbury, Prof. Ken Wells has been conspiring with Dr Jane Buckinbgham in Indian History to have some knowledge of Korea included in the department. To this end, in August 2017, Prof. Wells contributed two lectures on Modern World History on Communism in China and Korea and their relation to international relations, and gave a History Department seminar on 11 October 2017, titled “Preserving a sense of history in a multi-disciplinary study: Thoughts on the challenges of writing Korea: Outline of a civilization.”

In March 2018, Prof. Wells gave a lecture in the Modern World History course, titled “Korea: the Cold War becomes hot,” and a History Department seminar, titled “The Religious Construction of History in Modern Korea: Must one 'go native' to give religion agency?”

UNIVERSITY OF AUCKCLAND, NZ Hong-key Yoon

. Assoc. Prof. of Cultural Geography at the University of Auckland, New Zealand and the author of The Culture of Fengshui in Korea: An Exploration of East Asian Geomancy, has published his new book, P’ungsu: A Study of Geomancy in Korea, January with SUNY Press, the State University of New York. (published in January 2018; 423 pp; 74 color photos; 26 b/w photos; 2 maps; 7 tables; 1 figure; $95.00; hard cover; 978-1-4384-6869- 3)

PUBLICATION: This book is a milestone in the history of academic research on the development and role

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of geomancy (fengshui in Chinese and p’ungsu in Korean) in Korean culture and society. As the first interdisciplinary work of its kind, it investigates many topics in geomancy studies that have never been previously explored, and contains contributions from a number of disciplines including geography, historical studies, environmental science, architecture, landscape architecture, religious studies, and psychoanalysis. While almost all books in English about geomancy are addressed to general readers as practical guides for divining auspicious locations, P’ungsu is a work of rigorous scholarship that documents, analyzes, and explains past and current practices of geomancy. Its readers will better understand the impact of geomancy on the Korean cultural landscape and appreciate the significant ecological principles embedded in the geomantic traditions of Korea; while researchers will discover new insights and inspirations for future research on geomancy not only in Korea, but in China and elsewhere.

Sunhee Koo

. Senior Lecturer in Ethnomusicology, School of Social Sciences, has conducted her field research on the identity and performance culture of North Korean Troupes in South Korea and Japan, supported by the University of Auckland’s Faculty Research Development Fund. Based on her research data, she has presented her papers at various international conferences and submitted chapter and journal manuscripts.

PUBLICATION: KIM, JIHYE and S. KOO. 2017. “From Father to Son: 1.5- and second-generation Korean Argentines and their Association with Ethnic Entrepreneurship.” The Review of Korean Studies 20 (2): 175-201.

CONFERENCE PAPERS/INVITED TALKS: “Choice of a Nation: Adaptation and Performance of North Korean Music among Diasporic Koreans in Japan,” presented at the 2017 76th Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference, Toronto, Canada, March 2017. “National or Transnational?: Politics of Diaspora and Recreating National Music among Korean Japanese Musicians,” presented at the AAS-in-Asia: Asia in Motion: Beyond Borders and Boundaries, Seoul, Korea, June 2017. “Transnational consumption of partitioned Korea: “Imjin River” in Japan and South Korea,” presented at the 10th Korean Studies Association of Australasia Biannual Conference, Sydney, Australia, November 2017. “National or Transnational?: Korean Music and the Identity of Korean Japanese Musicians,” presented at the Migration Conference, Lisbon, Portugal, June 2018.

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“ Performing North Korean Music in Japan,” presented at New Zealand School of Music Speaker’s Series, Victoria University, Wellington,Kŭmgangsan New Kakŭktan: Zealand, the July Politics 2018. of Diaspora and

KOREAN STUDIES . GRANT (AKS Core University Grant) The Korean Studies program at the University of Auckland has been renewed with the second round of the 5-year Core University Grant by the Academy of Korean Studies (AKS). The ground period will be from 2018 to 2022.

. HOSTING CONFERENCES/SEMINARS The 13th ISKS International Conference of Korean Studies was held at the University of Auckland (3-4 August, 2017)

AP Yong-Shik Lee (Chonnam National University, Korea) presented a talk, “Korean Shaman Ritual and Music,” Anthropology Seminar Series, 3 August 2017.

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International Symposium, “Pathways to Reunification of the Korean Peninsula,” was hosted by the ROK-NZ Friendship Society in Hamilton, supported by the Korean Studies of the University of Auckland, 8 September 2017

Dr. Changzoo Song (Asian Studies) presented, “Koreans? Yes . . . but, I’m more of a Russian”: Identity Questions of the Uzbek Korean Ethnic Return Migrants in South Korea,” at the CLL— Culture, Language and Linguistics, Speakers Series, 4 October 2017

University of Auckland and University Tokyo held a joint seminar for Korean Studies Doctoral Students, 14 March, 2018: o In UoA, Sarah D. Lipura, a PhD student, presented her thesis proposal on the study of Korean students who choose to reside and study in unconventional destinations such as India, the Philippines, and Fiji

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. STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT John Hyun-Joon Jang, a MA student in Anthropology, won 2018 KSAA postgraduate scholarship to support his one-year MA dissertation study in Anthropology. Joohyun Park, a doctoral candidate in Asian Studies, University of Auckland, won two awards in 2017. • 2ND PLACE, 3 Minute Thesis Competition, University of Auckland, “This is your life: The interplay between success, acculturation, and subjective wellbeing in New Zealand and Korea,” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KP59kITOM2E&list=PL4EJd87SGj54SX6oU 6uPGGJ8D9tm479dq&index=6 • 3RD PLACE, Exposure (Category: Variety Showcase), University of Auckland, “What does ‘success’ mean in Korea and New Zealand?” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IfIXb4WZC2A&list=PL96A6EEC6229BB6B 3&index=9

Patrick Flamm, PhD, a recent graduate of Korean Studies in UoA won a Postdoctoral Position at the Victoria University of Wellington

Jihye Kim, PhD, who was a former recipient of the KSAA postgraduate scholarship and had completed her doctoral degree in Asian Studies in Summer 2017, was appointed as an Associate Lecturer in Korean Studies, School of Language and Global Studies, University of Central Lancashire, in September, 2017. In August 2018, she was promoted as a permanent-track Lecturer.

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SUNG-AE LEE SERIES Vol 5 No2 December 2019 — Call for Papers Television serials in Asia: A Themed Issue of Series This themed issue of Series aims to contribute to the study of television serials produced in the Asian region and make them more widely known. The television serial is a prominent expression

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of popular culture across Asia, especially in China, Hong Kong, Japan, South Korea and Taiwan, but has not been extensively studied. While we would welcome a range of approaches, we are particularly interested in perspectives that emphasize our cognitive, emotional, and aesthetic engagement with the form. One focus may be on the analysis of specific narrative and stylistic features of the television serial. How do the multiple elements of television programs interact and contribute to seriality? For instance, how do performance or sound design help shape seriality? We are also interested in explorations of the particular aesthetic effects and achievements of television serials. We welcome close analyses, case studies, or broader theoretical discussions grounded in close attention to the form and style of particular television serials. The following are possible topics, but other topics are welcome:

• Cognitive and/or narratological approaches to the study of narrative forms and devices–e.g. narrative suspense, narrative closure, cliffhangers — and their impact on viewer response. • Case studies analyzing how stylistic elements contribute to a program’s seriality, interacting with narrative and performance. • Ways of maintaining a rhythm between contained episodes and ongoing seriality. • Relationships between seriality and temporality in serials produced in cultures where temporality is circular, not linear (at least as a narrative convention). • The specificity of particular genres. • The successful formula in Japan of adapting manga or anime to live action drama, and its extension beyond Japan. • Circulation of TV serials via transcultural remakes. • Cinematography, mise-en-scene and editing in television serials. • The aesthetic experience and reflexivity of online fans of drama — e.g., Chinese fans of Japanese drama, as seen on the Taiwan-based website Dorama or the Dramabeans site (in English) about Korean drama. • The casting of popular young actors, such as pop group “idols,” as a facet of character design and viewer engagement. Why does the strategy sometimes fail? • Various functions of music and/or other non-narrative elements in serials. • Discussions of the interaction between artistic or aesthetic achievement with moral, political, social, and/or educational values in television serials.

Guidelines for Submission Please send proposals of no longer than 300 words plus a short CV (up to 300 words) to: Dr Sung-Ae Lee: [email protected] Deadline for proposals: 2 July 2018 The editors will respond to proposals by: 6 August 2018. Full submissions of 6,000-8,000 words (including abstract, notes and references) and conforming to Series’ house style will then be due with the Editors by March 4th 2019. Expected publication date: December 2019.