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Korea Studies Program Program:
: Recent Events
On December 2nd, the Center for Korea Studies held a book launch party for this new publication, which follows Professor
Hwasook Nam's Building Ships, Building a Nation, which was published in 2009. The Center was honored to have former UW
Professor James Palais's wife Jane Palais, as well as Senator Paull Shin and Ick-whan Lee, two very prominent Korean-American
community members, attend the event.
Extra! Extra! Read All About It! Center for Korea Studies Publications a HIT!
Reassessing the Park Chung Hee Era, The Journal of Korean Studies,
and “Unsettling the National in Korean Cinema”
By Tracy Stober, Managing Editor
For the first time in Center for Korean Studies (CKS) history three
publications hit the press in the same year. In October, Reassessing
the Park Chung Hee Era 96 - 979 Development, Political Thought,
Democrac , and Cultural Influence edited by Hyung-A Kim and UW
professor Clark W. Sorensen became the second volume in the CKS
Publication Series. This timely text details one of the most turbulent
eras in South Korean history. Historic changes, for example the
transformation from an underdeveloped, agrarian country into the
“miracle on the Han River” began under President Park, who seized
power through a military coup and ruled until his assassination. This
book examines the rationale and ideals behind Park’s philosophy of
national development in order to evaluate the degree to which the
national character and moral values were reconstructed. In December
the CKS hosted a book launch and celebration party. It was well
attended. In addition to JSIS faculty, staff, and students several community members joined in including Mrs. Jane Palais, Senator
Paull Shin, and community fundraiser Mr. Ikwhan Lee.
Again in December 2011, The Journal of Korean Studies (JKS) published its first thematic issue “Unsettling the National in Korean
Cinema” guest edited by JungBong Choi (New York University). Numerous films set the stage for this issue, including silent flicks
and “talkies,” films from the colonial period, the martial art blockbuster of the 1970s, Five Fingers of Death, and movies up until
the end of the first decade of the 2000s (Housewife, Thirst, etc). In total over 80 films were discussed in this issue. Authors include:
JungBong Choi, Steven Chung (Princeton), Roald Maliangkay (Australian National University) Kyung Hyun Kim (UC-Irvine),
Aaron Han Joon Magnan-Park (University of Notre Dame), and Soyoung Kim (Korean National University of Arts).
In June, our regular, varied topic issue was published. Article topics include colonial rule era marketing and the press, North Korean
propaganda, political uses of Confucianism, pre-college study abroad programs in South Korea, and Silla period images from
the Buddha Valley on Mount Nam. Aauthors include: Mark E. Caprio (Rikkyo University, Tokyo); Tatiana Gabroussenko
(Australian National University); Jin Woong Kang (University Of Minnesota); Jiyeon Kang (University of Iowa), and Nancy Abelmann
(University of Illinois-Champaign/Urbana).
In addition to a selection of articles, each issue includes media reviews. In 2011 the following film and books were reviewed: The
Past Is a Strange Countr (Kwagŏ nŭn nassŏn narada) (film); Gender and Mission Encounters in Korea New Women, Old Wa s;
Japanese Assimilation Policies in Colonial Korea, 9 – 9 5;Witness to Transformation Refugee Insights into North Korea; Inside
the Red Box North Korea’s Post-totalitarian Politics, The Hidden People of North Korea Ever da Life in the Hermit Kingdom;
Horror to the Extreme Changing Boundaries in Asian Cinema; A Dragon’s Head and a Serpent’s Tail Ming China and the
First Great East Asian War, 592– 598; and South Koreans in the De t Crisis The Creation of a Neoli eral Welfare Societ .
Book Excerpt:
"The top-down industrialization through the Park state’s guided econom ecame known as the “Miracle on the Han River,”
(Hangang ŭi k ŏk) and was admired man political leaders in the region, including Deng Xiao Ping in China and Mahathir
in Mala sia, who oth adopted the Korean model of development for their own countries. International recognition of the ROK’s
successful economic development, however, did little to mollif Park’s domestic critics. Although the success of the ROK’s econom
and democrac must, in its final anal sis, e considered as a collective outcome of the efforts of all Koreans, the South Korean
case serves as a protot pe for the Asian developmental model, with the defining feature of detailed intervention in manpower
planning, particularl in the state’s implementation of the Heav and Chemical Industrialization Plan launched in Januar 973."
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Submitted by -- Chris Buchman