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CKR NEWSLETTER the Center for Korean Research at the Weatherhead East Asian Institute Columbia University 2012-2013 CKR NEWSLETTER The Center for Korean Research at the Weatherhead East Asian Institute Columbia University 2012-2013 Cover image: Gilbert Choi, 360- Degree View of Seoul from the N Seoul Tower IN THIS ISSUE 2 Director’s Note 6 CKR/KEI Policy Forum 3 People to Know 8 Korean Literature Essay Contest 4 This Year in Review DIRECTOR’S NOTE BY CHARLES ARMSTRONG According to the East Asian lunar calendar we are now in the Year of the Snake, which began on Febru- ary 10, 2013. Traditionally, the snake is characterized as mysterious and introverted, but CKR has been quite the opposite! The 2012-2013 academic year has been an especially busy one for the Center, which hosted numerous guest lectures, forums, seminars, and a translation contest among other activities. The focus of CKR’s work this year has been on the culture and politics of modern and contemporary Korea, and our events have been more or less evenly divided between the humanities and current af- fairs. Shortly after the academic year began in September, Professor John Lie gave a provocative talk entitled “What is the ‘K’ in K-Pop?” (hint: NOT “Korea!”) to a standing-room-only audience in the Weatherhead East Asian Institute conference room. In October, CKR co-sponsored two events related to North Korea, both of them “firsts”: a report on a School of International and Public Affairs student trip to North Korea, the first visit ever by an American university student group; and a talk by Columbia alumna Jean Lee, the first Associated Press reporter stationed in Pyongyang. In December, CKR hosted an award ceremony for student essays on the Korean novel The Bird (featured later in this newsletter). The Center also hosted two ongoing series, the Colloquium on Korean Cultural Studies, featuring talks by Ellie Choi of Cornell, Jina Kim of Smith College, and Jesook Song of the University of Toronto: and the CKR-Korea Eco- nomic Institute Policy Forum, featuring a roundtable on Korea-Japan-US regional cooperation in October and a discussion of the 2012 South Korean presidential election at the end of January. In addition, CKR is hosting two symposia in the spring. The first, Common Ground, was sponsored by the contemporary art project Unify Korea and held on March 2 in Columbia’s Altschul Auditorium. The second, to be held on May 3, is this year’s CKR Regional Seminar and will bring together a group of scholars to discuss the sixtieth anniversary of the Korean War Ar- mistice. Once again, we would like to thank the staff at Weatherhead for their continued work with the CKR, as well as our co- sponsors on these various events. Our program coordinator, Jooyeon Kim; student assistant, Sahng-Ah Yoo; and numerous student volunteers have done stellar work in managing the day-to-day activities of the Center. Last but certainly not least, we would like to express our deepest appreciation to the Korea Foundation, the M.S. Shin Fund, and the Columbia University Alumni Association of Korea for their financial support. The snake is a symbol of change and rebirth, and this aspect of the Year of the Snake does hold true for CKR. This will be my last Director’s note before handing the reigns over to my col- league Theodore Hughes, the Korea Foundation Associate Professor of Korean Studies in the Humanities. It has been an honor and a privilege directing the CKR over these last seven years. During my time at the Center, interest in Korean Studies has grown throughout the university, and CKR has deepened its ties with student groups and other research centers at Columbia, as well as off-campus institutions in New York and Korea, such as the Korean Cultural Service, the Korea Society, the Korean Literature Translation Institute, and many others. Columbia’s Korean Studies faculty has undergone momentous changes, including the retirement of longtime Associate Director Samuel Kim; the passing of Professor JaHyun Kim Haboush, King Sejong Professor of Korean Studies; and the hiring of Professor Jungwon Kim in pre-modern Korean history, who will join the Columbia faculty in fall 2013. Thanks to the hard work and enthusiasm of all the people associated with the Center, the CKR has truly established its presence as the focal point of Korean Studies at Columbia University and the greater New York region. I look forward to the continued growth and visibility of the Center under Ted Hughes’ capable direction. Yours truly, 2 PEOPLE TO KNOW Jungwon Kim, Assistant Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures Jungwon Kim will be joining Columbia’s EALAC department in Fall 2013 after having taught at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Now focusing on writing her book that explores the cult of chastity and its impact on the lives of Kore- an women in the 18th and 19th centuries, this scholar of Chosŏn Korea has keen interest in ordinary people’s lives. Interviewed by Ksenia Chisova, Ph.D. candidate KS: What do you anticipate will be major changes in the professional and academic environment as you transition into Co- lumbia’s EALAC department? JK: I think the major change in academic environment will be the opportunity to really focus on teaching premodern Korean history at Columbia. At U of Illinois, where I was the only Korean history faculty member on campus (as is the norm at most US universities), my courses covered not only the history of premodern and modern Korea, but East Asian civilizations and histories as well […] As a historian of Chosŏn Korea, I have always hoped to offer in-depth upper-level colloquiums or grad seminar courses on Korean history prior to the twenti- eth century. I am truly excited that Columbia is one of the few US institutions offering such courses in premodern Korea and that it has already trained first-rate historians of Korea. Other important changes will be having the rich East Asian library nearby with librarians in Korean stud- ies—something that I have missed so much at U of Illinois—as well as the Center for Korea Research, which fully supports and promotes ac- tivities related to Korean studies. KS: You are currently working on your book. Could you briefly describe it? JK: My book manuscript, Negotiating Virtue: The Politics of Chastity and Social Power in Late Chosŏn Korea, was born out of my curiosity about how people actually lived in Chosŏn society. Negotiating Virtue explores the lives of 18th and 19th century Korean women at all levels of social status by delving into the ideology, practice, and socio-legal impact of chastity culture, as revealed through a large body of underused legal testimonies that allow us to observe the lower strata of society. Through an analysis of the perception and practice of chastity among ordinary people, this manuscript not only reconsiders the conventional wisdom that “all women” in the late Chosŏn were subject to, and inter- nalized, the dominant Confucian notions of female virtue, but reevaluates the prevailing historical narrative in which chastity culture is em- ployed as powerful evidence of Confucianization in Chosŏn society, a claim that has enormous historiographical implications for the study of new (wo)men and family both in early 20th century Korea under Japanese colonialism and in modern Korea. KS: As a Ph.D. student in dissertation-writing phase and having the prospect of job-hunting and teaching in the near future, I am curious to ask what are the major challenges at the beginning of the teaching career. What, would you say, were the things that you were not quite prepared for? JK: I still remember how nervous I was right before the start of my very first semester at U of Illinois. Most grad students these days get solid training in teaching courses, and I believe such experience is definitely helpful preparation for a teaching career. It can actually be difficult to acknowledge the fact that now, at long last, you have to stand on your own. But at the same time, you will have wonderful colleagues who are willing to guide your smooth transition from a grad student to a professional teacher. Sue Mi Terry, Senior Research Scholar Sue Mi Terry is a Senior Research Scholar with a focus on North Korea, particularly North Korean leadership succession plans, Pyongyang's evolving nuclear strategy and the potential for instability in North Korea, politics and foreign policy of South Korea, Northeast Asian security, and US-Northeast Asia relations. Interviewed by Tae Young Kim, SIPA student TK: How did you end up coming to SIPA and what are your impressions so far about SIPA students? ST: After more than a decade of public service, I was looking to do something that was meaningful and I found teaching to be one of the more meaningful things I could do. I chose SIPA because of its stellar reputation, diverse student body, and of course its location (New York!). Currently I teach International Relations of East Asia with a classroom full of students from China, Korea, Ja- pan, Taiwan, the US, and other parts of Asia. I am having a blast learning from these students. (continued on page 10) 3 This Year in Review During the year of the dragon and into the year of the snake, CKR is proud to have played host to so many outstanding speakers and to have shared the progress that various academics, artists, and politicians have made in their efforts in researching and expressing the Korean culture, literature, economy, and politics. Take a look! September 20, 2012 What is the K in K-pop? October 2, 2012 Colloquium Series on Korean Cultural Studies Speaker: John Lie, University of California, Berkeley A First Glimpse of North Korea Speaker: Professor Elisabeth Lindenmayer, Director of the United Na- “South Korea has become a culture that worships mammon,” at least tions Studies Program according to John Lie.
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