Korea
Interested in becoming an East Asian Languages & Literatures or East Asian Studies Major? Come for an informal get-together with the Chairs and DUSs for EALL and EAST! Please RSVP to eastasian.studies@yale.edu by October 27th to receive the Zoom link. For more...
This seminar introduces you to several popular musical genres and explores how they are tied to racial, regional, and national identities. We examine how music is exported via migrants, return migrants, industry professionals, and the nation-state (in the case of Korean Popular Music, or K-Pop). Readings and discussions focus primarily on the British New Wave (from about 1979 to 1985) and K-Pop (1992-present), but we also discuss first-wave reggae, ska, rocksteady from the 1960s-70s, British and American punk rock music (1970s-1980s), the precursors of modern K-Pop, and have a brief...
For students with advanced Chinese, Japanese, or Korean language skills who wish to pursue a close study of the East Asia region, not otherwise covered by departmental offerings. May be used for research, a special project, or a substantial research paper under faculty supervision. A term paper or its equivalent and regular meetings with an adviser are required. Ordinarily only one term may be offered toward the major or for credit toward the degree.
For students with advanced Chinese, Japanese, or Korean language skills who wish to pursue a close study of the East Asia region, not otherwise covered by departmental offerings. May be used for research, a special project, or a substantial research paper under faculty supervision. A term paper or its equivalent and regular meetings with an adviser are required. Ordinarily only one term may be offered toward the major or for credit toward the degree.
8:00-8:05AM Opening Remarks | Hwansoo Kim (Yale University) 8:05-8:10AM Welcome Remarks | Kyungmi Kim (Ewha University) 8:10-8:15AM Introduction | Younmi Kim (Ewha University) 8:15-9:05AM Special Keynote Lecture | Mimi Yiengpruksawan (Yale University) 9:05-9:20AM Discussion | Heejung Kang (Sogang University) 9:20-10:00AM Q&A Gold, Glass, and the Tree of Life: Towards a Korean Silk Road Narrative It is well recognized that the kingdoms of the Korean peninsula had a major role to play in the geopolitics of state formation in northeastern Eurasia during the ancient period. Recent...
In celebration of the upcoming launch of NANG’s new special online issue focused on “Independent Cinema Spaces in Asia,” five specialists will gather for a panel discussion focused on independent film exhibition across Asia and their importance to media culture in the region. Speakers will cover a range of theaters and exhibition spaces in China, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Japan, the Philippines and South Korea. The discussion will be followed by a Q&A. This panel discussion is organized by NANG as part of its “Independent Cinema Spaces in Asia” project and made possible through the auspices...
Speakers Susan E. Brownell, University of Missouri- St. Louis William Kelly, Yale University John Horne, Waseda University Registration Register in advance for this webinar: https://yale.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_IPASee6GSfajz0-tXKJJrg After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar.
SEATTLE, WA—During the Pacific War, more than 200,000 Korean girls were forced into sexual servitude for Japanese soldiers. They lived in horrific conditions in “comfort stations” across Japanese-occupied territories. Barely 10 percent survived to return to Korea, where they lived as social outcasts. Since then, self-declared comfort women have come forward only to have their testimonies and calls for compensation largely denied by the Japanese government. Kim Soom tells the story of a woman who was kidnapped at the age of thirteen while gathering snails for her starving family. The horrors...
A tender and sweeping story about what roots us, Minari follows a Korean-American family that moves to an Arkansas farm in search of their own American Dream. The family home changes completely with the arrival of their sly, foul-mouthed, but incredibly loving grandmother. Amidst the instability and challenges of this new life in the rugged Ozarks, Minari shows the undeniable resilience of family and what really makes a home. Awards: Grand Jury Prize - 2020 Sundance Film Festival U.S. Dramatic Audience Award - 2020 Sundance Film Festival Best Foreign-Language Film - 2021 Golden Globes...
Having grown up in Pyongyang, a hermetic society that contrasts with the West culturally and ideologically, I had no idea how influenced I was by their narrative of the West, especially the U.S. My uprising was the same as my North Korean classmates and friends. In Korean history, I learned about the massacre of Shinchon, which took place during the Korean War. And the depiction of North Americans in movies was as negative as possible. However, with a sentence from Ali, a Syrian student at Kim Cheak University of Technology in Pyongyang “Because you grew up in here (Pyongyang)!” my invisible...
The Korean War was in reality two wars: the first half was a war over territory from June 1950 to November 1951; the second half was a war over POWs from late 1951 to July 1953. While the first war restored the territorial status quo ante, the second war’s only visible outcome was the “defection” of 14,220 Chinese prisoners to Taiwan and 7,574 North Korean prisoners to South Korea, the cost of which was a near doubling of the length of the war and numerous casualties on all sides. Contrary to the popular belief that an American conspiracy was to blame, Chang argues that two ill-conceived US...
Interested in becoming an East Asian Languages & Literatures or East Asian Studies Major? Come for an informal get-together with the DUS for EALL and the DUS for EAST! Please RSVP to eastasian.studies@yale.edu by October 30th to receive Zoom link. For more...
This talk examines the active legal role of Buddhist monastics in the society of Chosŏn Korea (1392-1910). Chosŏn is thought to have been particularly successful in using the law to advance Neo-Confucianism and persecute Buddhism into irrelevance. Although scholars have long called for a reorientation of that understanding of Chosŏn Buddhism, a workable alternative picture of its social realities has remained elusive. I provide one. Introducing the prodigious litigation in which Buddhist monastics became involved throughout those five centuries, I show that rather than grinding monastics out...
This talk explores the connections between the earliest written cultures of the Korean peninsula and the Japanese archipelago through an examination of inscriptions on wooden strips known as mokkan. Recently excavated inscribed materials have provided new insight into the uses of Sinographic writing in the southern peninsular kingdoms of Paekche (ca. late third century-660CE) and Silla (ca. third century-935CE), such that it is now possible to investigate how early Japanese written culture was built upon a foundation developed on the Korean peninsula. Through an exploration of inscribed...
The talk will examine the knowledge sharing engagement with North Korea in the last ten years of the Canada-DPRK Knowledge Partnership Program (KPP). It will explore the results of engagement in terms of types of activities, channels, its impact, as well as the motives of North Korea, which led to these engagement activities. The talk will also discuss the implications of these engagement efforts for future relations with Pyongyang. Professor Kyung-Ae Park holds the Korea Foundation Chair at the School of Public Policy and Global Affairs at the University of British Columbia (UBC). She is...
K-Romanizer is a romanization conversion tool developed by Hyoungbae Lee, the Korean Studies librarian at Princeton University. In this session you learn how to use this tool and utilize it in the best way. Hands-on practice. Korean Romanization Workshop Series 2pm-3pm (EST), October 8, 15, and 22 The Korea Collection at the East Asia Library at Yale presents a series of three online workshop sessions on Korean romanization. From introduction and basic rules to the advanced will be covered by Korean Studies librarians who are specialized in Korean romanization and cataloging. Students and...
There are rules we should follow, but always there are exceptions. In this session, you are introduced to exceptions clauses as well as complicated and tricky examples. Certain problematic cases will also be covered. Korean Romanization Workshop Series 2pm-3pm (EST), October 8, 15, and 22 The Korea Collection at the East Asia Library at Yale presents a series of three online workshop sessions on Korean romanization. From introduction and basic rules to the advanced will be covered by Korean Studies librarians who are specialized in Korean romanization and cataloging. Students and researchers...
Ever since the establishment of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) in 1948 and the Korean War (1950–1953), North Korea has been depicted by the media as a reclusive, oppressive, and military country, its leaders as the worst dictators, and its people as brainwashed, tortured, and starving to death. The still ongoing Cold War discourse, intensified by the North Korea’s recent secret nuclear weapons program, furthers these negative images, and outsiders have passively internalized these images. However, these simplistic characterizations prevent one from gaining a balanced...
The cult of Su Shi (1037-1101) began in the late 1770s, when Weng Fanggang (1733-1818) ritualized the annual birthday ceremony for Su on the nineteenth of the twelfth lunar month. Weng often invited to these ceremonies members of Chosŏn delegations to Beijing; among them were Park Chega (1750-1815), Kim Chŏnghi (1786-1856), and Sin Wi (1769-1847). Soon thereafter the ritual took place in many places simultaneously in China and Korea, and became a cultural hallmark of the era. Su Shi was commemorated in various ways; naming studios after him, collecting his literary and calligraphic works,...
Korean language programs in higher education within the US are experiencing noticeable and continuous growth. While students’ interest in Korea may initially be driven by Korean popular culture, Korean language educators need to expose these students to advanced language study and content involved in Korean studies, such as history, literature, religion, film, sociology, politics or economics. In the context of this phenomenon, building a diverse and integrated advanced language curriculum is one of the essential gateways to lay a foundation for the area studies. In this regard, this timely...
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