Past Events at the Centre for the Study of Korea
November 2008
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Thursday, November 13th Just like Korea, Fifty Years Ago”: Korean Evangelical Missions and Capitalist Deliverance in East Africa
Date Time Location Thursday, November 13, 2008 2:00PM - 4:00PM Seminar Room 208N, Munk Centre For International Studies
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Series
Critical Korean Studies Workshop
Description
Praise for South Korea’s transformation from a “mission-receiving” country to the second largest “mission-sending” country in the world is typically accompanied by applause for Korea’s economic growth and advancement in the capitalist world order. Optimistic observers forecast that Korean Protestant missions will soon eclipse centuries of European and American-led missions and herald a new era of South-to-South mission flows. In such triumphant evangelical narratives, Korea is seen as having successfully progressed from poverty to prosperity as a result of Christianization and capitalist development. How do Christians missions nurture faith in capitalist deliverance, and what is at stake in this evangelical-capitalist assemblage in the era of neoliberal globalization? This talk draws from ethnographic research of missions in Tanzania and Uganda where Korean missionaries organized a month-long series of events including economic development seminars based explicitly on Korea’s model of state-led modernization and rural development. I will discuss how the missionaries presented Saemaul Undong from the 1970s—with its authoritarian roots trimmed and foundations recast in Christian terms—as a wellspring for a distinctly Korean/American political theology of development, and offered it as a blueprint for both economic and spiritual progress..
Ju Hui Judy Han is a doctoral candidate in geography with a Designated Emphasis in Women, Gender, and Sexuality at the University of Berkeley, California. Her dissertation concerns the geography of contemporary Korean/American evangelical Christian missions. Her research interests include the political economy of global English; perceptions of distance/proximity, stranger/neighbor; illegal aliens; and the narrative structures of class mobility and achievement.
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Thursday, November 27th Still Guests after 100 Years?: The Experiences of Ethnic Chinese in Korea
Date Time Location Thursday, November 27, 2008 2:00PM - 4:00PM Seminar Room 208N, Munk Centre For International Studies
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Description
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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