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KOREA AND THE GLOBAL SOCIETY This book explores multiple fields and disciplines around the theme of South Korea’s engagement and exchanges with global society focusing on development cooperation, migration, and the media. The core of this volume is an analysis of South Korea’sengagement and reci­ procity in global society that has developed out of the country’s shift from aid recipient and migrant sender to aid provider and migrant host. The contribu­ tions approach this through the three main aspects of overseas aid, cross-border contacts, and interplay of identities in the mediascape. These themes represent an interdisciplinary array of research that introduces and analyses interconnected and concurrent instances of reciprocity, convergence, tension, inclusion, or exclusion in navigating South Korea’s interactional relations with global society, spanning regions and countries including Africa, Asia, the USA, and Germany. This book will be valuable reading to students and researchers from a wide range of disciplines including sociology, gender studies, ethnic studies, media studies, IR, and area studies, in particular Korean studies. Yonson Ahn is Professor, Chair of Korean Studies and Deputy Executive Director of the Interdisciplinary Centre of East Asian Studies (IZO) at the Goethe University of Frankfurt, Germany. ROUTLEDGE RESEARCH ON KOREA The Research on Korea series surveys key topics in the study of North and South Korea (both on the peninsula, and in the diaspora). It is a prestigious series that is multidisciplinary, covering the social sciences and arts and humanities. The series seeks to publish best new research from both senior and junior scholars. Series Editors: Niki Alsford and Sojin Lim, University of Central Lancashire, UK. South Korean Popular Culture in the Global Context Beyond the Fandom Edited by Sojin Lim The North Korean Army History, Structure, Daily Life Fyodor Tertitskiy Korea and the Global Society Yonson Ahn KOREA AND THE GLOBAL SOCIETY Edited by Yonson Ahn First published 2023 by Routledge 4 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN and by Routledge 605 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10158 Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business © 2023 selection and editorial matter, Yonson Ahn; individual chapters, the contributors The right of Yonson Ahn to be identified as the author of the editorial material, and of the authors for their individual chapters, has been asserted in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. Trademark notice: Product or corporate names may be trademarks or registered trademarks, and are used only for identification and explanation without intent to infringe. British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data A catalog record has been requested for this book ISBN: 978-1-032-29335-6 (hbk) ISBN: 978-1-032-29336-3 (pbk) ISBN: 978-1-003-30112-7 (ebk) DOI: 10.4324/9781003301127 Typeset in Times New Roman by Taylor & Francis Books CONTENTS List of illustrations vii List of contributors viii Acknowledgements xi Introduction 1 Yonson Ahn PART I Korea’s Involvement in Overseas Aid and Transition 15 1 Shaping the Humanitarian Arena: South Korean, American, and Christian NGOs in North Korea 17 Nazanin Zadeh-Cummings 2 Engagement and Encounters with the Global South through Saemaul Undong 37 Sabine Burghart 3 Ex-Periphery: South Korea’s Position vis-à-vis the Global Society 59 Irina Lyan PART II Cross-Border Contacts 77 4 Negotiating Masculinity: Migrant Husbands and Cross- Border ‘Marrying-Up’ 79 Seonok Lee vi Contents 5 Interactions with Samaritans from the East: Emotion and Korean nurses in Germany 98 Yonson Ahn 6 Gendering ‘Return’: Korean American Femininities in South Korea 120 Stephen Cho Suh 7 Towards a Multicultural Knowledge Economy? Emerging Issues in Tech Incubation for Immigrants in South Korea 140 Felicia Istad PART III Interplay of Identities in the Mediascape 157 8 Neocolonial Ambivalence and Race in 내일 지구가 망해버렸으면 좋겠어 (So Not Worth It) 159 David C. Oh 9 Construction of a ‘Western’ Model Minority on South Korean Television: Portrayals of Germans and Germany in 내 친구의 집은 어딘가 (Where Is My Friend’s Home?) 176 Tanja Eydam 10 Social Media as Vernacular Politics: YouTube Channels by North Korean Defectors in South Korea 196 Jinhee Park Index 214 ILLUSTRATIONS Figure 1.1 South Korean Humanitarian NGO Engagement 21 Table 7.1 Interview Participants 145 CONTRIBUTORS Yonson Ahn is Professor, Chair of Korean Studies and Deputy Executive Director of the Interdisciplinary Centre of East Asian Studies (IZO) at the Goethe University of Frankfurt, Germany. She received her PhD degree in Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of Warwick in 2000. Her work centers on transnational migration and gender including the Korean diaspora. Another focus of her research is sexual violence in conflict zones with a focus on the body, sexuality and identity of Korean ‘comfort women’ and Japanese soldiers during WWII and beyond. Her work has been published in a range of journals including Korean Studies and European Journal of Women's Studies. Her recent monograph is entitled ‘Whose Comfort: Body, Sexuality and Iden­ tities of Korean “Comfort Women” and Japanese Soldiers during WWII’,2020. In addition, she has edited a volume entitled Transnational Mobility in and out of Korea, 2020. Sabine Burghart, PhD, is University Lecturer and Academic Director of the Master’s Degree Programme in East Asian Studies at the University of Turku, Finland. Prior to joining the Center for East Asian Studies (CEAS) in Turku, she was lecturer and researcher at the Department of East Asian Studies of the University of Vienna. She holds a doctoral degree in East Asian economy and society. Her current research interest concerns South Korea’s ODA initiatives and global Saemaul Undong projects. Her recent work was published in e.g. Forum for Development Studies, Asia Europe Journal, and the Journal of Contemporary African Studies. Tanja Eydam is a doctoral candidate and research assistant in the department of Korean studies at Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany. Her background is in literary and cultural theory as well as empirical linguistics, Korean List of contributors ix studies, ethnology, and gender studies. Her research interests surround national identity, migration, and power relations in South Korean society and media. In her doctoral thesis, she examines how gender, race, and class intersect in the depiction of Germans in popular Korean television shows and what this means for the construction of a modern South Korean national identity in a globalized, yet hierarchical world. Felicia Istad is a PhD candidate in Public Policy at Korea University. Her dissertation examines start-up programs in South Korea and intersects policy, migration, and entrepreneurship. Felicia has a Master of Science in Manage­ ment and Human Resources from LSE and a Bachelor of Arts in Korean from SOAS, University of London. Seonok Lee is a lecturer in the Department of Minority and Multilingualism at the University of Groningen (the Netherlands). She received her PhD in Sociology at the University of British Columbia (Canada) in 2019. Her doctoral dissertation examines how the production of race and racial hierarchies is deeply intertwined with economic migration and global capitalism in contemporary East Asia. Irina Lyan is an Assistant Professor and the Head of the Korean Studies Program at the Department of Asian Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She is the recipient of prestigious scholarships and awards, including visiting postdoctoral fellowships at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, the Freie Universität Berlin, and the University of Oxford. Her research deals with South Korea’s economic miracle, known as ‘the Miracle on the Han River’, and the cultural miracle, known as ‘the Korean Wave’, or Hallyu. Irina has published several articles and book chapters on national images, imagery, and imagination, and their impact on the global positioning of Korea. David Oh is an Associate Professor of Communication Arts at Ramapo Col­ lege of New Jersey. He is the author of Second-Generation Korean American Adolescent Identity and Media: Diasporic Identifications and Whitewashing the Movies: White Subjectivity and Asian Erasure in U.S. Film Culture. He has also co-written Navigating White News: Asian American Journalists at Work (forthcoming) and edited Mediating the Korean Other: Representations and Discourses of Difference in the Post/Neocolonial Nation-State (forthcoming). Dr. Oh writes about Asian/American representation in US media culture, representations of alterity in Korean media culture, and transnational audi­ ence reception of Korean media. He serves on eight Editorial Boards in communication, cultural studies, and media studies, and he was a Fulbright Senior Scholar to South Korea in 2018–19 at Hankuk University of Foreign Studies.

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