| Date | Time | Location |
|---|---|---|
| Thursday, November 27, 2008 | 2:00PM - 4:00PM | Seminar Room 208N, Munk Centre For International Studies 1 Devonshire Place |
While the ethnic Chinese in many Asian countries have achieved economic and other forms of success, those in Korea have a very different story. Though most of them were born in Korea, very few have local citizenship. Moreover their nationality belongs to Taiwan, although they originally came from the mainland China. Compared to the numbers of ethnic chinese population of over seven millions in Indonesia and Thailand, there are ONLY twenty thousands of them left in Korea now. What happened to them over the last 100 years, and what does the rapid multiculturalization of Korean society mean to them?
Kyung Tae Park is a professor of Sociology at Sungkonghoe University in Seoul, Korea. He has been working on the issues related to ethnic and racial minorities in Korea. In particular, his research interests focus on migrant workers, ethnic chinese, and biracial people in Korea. He is the author of several books and articles including the followings: Becoming Korean: The Experiences of Migrant Workers, Ethnic Chinese, and Biracial People (2008), Stories of The Others: Minorities and Human Rights in Korea (2007), “Social Causes of Minority Discrimination in Korea: Focusing on Ethnic and Racial Minorities” (2001).
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