...Roy Richard Grinker Copyright © 1995 by Duke University Press 1995 Mourning the Nation: Ruins of the North in Seoul Roy Richard Grinker This essay focuses on south Korea, one half of a “postcolonial” community, by which I mean a community...

... Danche Hyobuihoe . 1993 . Hanguk Yeosong Danche Hyobuihoe 30nyonsa 한국여성단체협의회 30년사 (Korean National Council of Women 30 years) . Seoul : Hanguk Yeo-song Danche Hyobuihoe . Hong Sook-ja . 1977a . “ Government Agency for Women’s Affairs Needed .” The Woman 13 , November . Hong Sook...

...Olga Fedorenko Abstract This article examines how the Korea Advertising Museum in Seoul participates in constructing narratives of past and present in postmillennial South Korea, and how historical advertisements create ambiguities within those narratives. The analysis is inspired by Benjaminian...

... social precarity in a highly unequal and rapidly changing urban environment. Many young domestic migrants who moved to the Seoul metropolitan area are precarious workers and vulnerable tenants in emerging forms of substandard housing. Their attempts to reconcile the idealized notion of home...

... such expansion as well as connect and contrast metropolitan and postcolonial modernities. Copyright 2011 by Duke University Press 2011 Seoul and Singapore as “New Asian Cities”: Literature, Urban Transformation, and the Concentricity of Power Jini Kim Watson With the recent...

... that terrorizes human beings in modern Seoul. At the same time, while adding depth to both the semantic and the allegorical meanings of the monster, The Host interrogates the monstrous nature of the sign in ways that resonate with Derrida’s arguments concerning the monstrous nature of the sign. In this essay...

...Mark Driscoll The March 1, 1919, mobilization for Korean independence was the single largest threat to Japan's imperial rule in its half century of existence. Referred to reverently as the Sam'il Undong , the protest was initially centered in Seoul but quickly spread into towns and villages...

... in 1930s fiction and literary criticism, and by linking hysteria with the contradictory commands of a differentiating assimilation (“Be like us! But not too much like us”), this article moves toward understanding modernist fiction — and a crisis of representation in Seoul literary circles more generally...

... in The Murmuring . Utilizing the rhetoric of coming out, Byun documents Kang Deok Kyeong's protest against social erasure in front of the Japanese embassy in Seoul. In a scene of domestic activities such as cooking, washing, and hairstyling, which are traditionally associated with femininity, Byun critiques...

... the 1930s, and that archive's reorganization in the form of an exhibition in Seoul in 2004. Uchida investigated “native Korean fish” for the colonial government for fifteen years beginning in 1927. He employed photography especially for identifying and historicizing the life of the native Korean fish...

...Dongho Chun Opposite the Japanese embassy in downtown Seoul stands a bronze statue of a young girl. Since its erection in 2011, it has become a site of fierce symbolic battles among various parties. The objectives of this article are threefold. First, it offers an art historical account...

...Figure 1 Ji Yeo, Beauty Recovery Room 001, 22 years old, Seoul, South Korea , 2009. © Ji Yeo. ...

... between the government officials in charge of regulating urban signage and the plaza's forty-five shopkeepers were recorded in a four-part documentary series that was televised on the Seoul Broadcasting System in 2007. The documentary was intended to exemplify the government's effectiveness as well...

...”) . Ilbonhak yŏnbo (Annals of Japanese Studies) 9 : 259 – 94 . Chŏn U-yong . 2007 . “Ilcheha kyŏngsŏng chuminŭi chigŏp segye, 1910–1930” (“Occupational Field of Seoul Residents during the Colonial Period, 1910–1930”) . In Han’guk kŭndae sahoe wa munhwa (Modern Korean Society and Culture) III...

... administration’s reluctance to consider homeless women as deserving of state aid during the Asian debt crisis (henceforth the crisis) and the emergence of a pathologizing, popular discourse of family breakdown. Based on fieldwork I did in Seoul between...

... made it even more imperative for ruling authorities in Keij (present-­day Seoul), Taipei, and other capitals throughout Asia to cre- ate, mark, and patrol the less visible cultural boundaries separating the vari- ous members of a multiethnic...

... 18 , no. 1 : 1 – 41 . Jeong In-Gap . 1992 . Cheonhwa Jaeil Myeongsan Geumgangsan . Seoul : Eseupero Mungo . JTB Tourism Research and Consulting Company . 2018 . “ Japan-Bound Statistics .” www.tourism.jp/en/tourism-database/stats/inbound/#annual . Kim Dong-Ju , ed...

... something akin to a mainstream intellectual trend among young Korean women by the early 1930s. So when Red Love, a novel by Soviet revolutionary and diplomat Alexandra Kollontai, emerged as a best seller among high school students in Seoul...