• The Korean Publising Journal, Monthly
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• s.253
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• pp.10-10
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• 1999

한 시대의 문학베스트셀러는 대중의 상상력과 감수성이 어느 지점에서 작동하는지를 민감하게 반영하는 지표다. 80년대 문학이 '이념'과 '역사'라는 거대서사를 정점으로 움직였다면, 90년대 문학은 '일상'과 '소비문화'의 미시서사로 하강했다. 성과 사랑이라는 고전적 주제 외에 여성의 정체성, 민족주의적 감수성, 흔들리는 부권과 가정에 대한 복고주의 등을 주제로 한 작품들이 베스트셀러 목록을 점령했다.

• Journal of Korean Library and Information Science Society
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• v.35 no.4
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• pp.401-422
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• 2004

Information resources production and accumulation are composed of the characters. It is succeeded to the cultural of the past, to create them and to the vehicle of the cultural. This paper shows that the construction is consisted of 4 steps ' setting up a goal of construction defining and developing information resources as HANGEUL by chosun people in china, being status and analysing information resources produced and publications by it and a conclusion and suggestion. Therefore, this study aims to investigate and analyse the information resources productions and publications of HANGEUL based on the research results of the case study of them.

• Journal of the Korean Geographical Society
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• v.31 no.4
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• pp.685-698
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• 1996

Southern Louisiana has one of the largest Vitnamese refrgee neighborhoods after the mid-1970s. It is impressive that one of their adaptive strategies comes from their religious lives which are centered on either Catholicism or Buddhism. The Buddhism community, especially, exhibits an exotic symbolic system of value and attitude, and thus contributes to cultural diversity in the adopted country. The landscape of the Buddhist temple is a visible symbol to them that the host socirty accepts their maintenance of their own cultural identity and that they are also an integral part of American society. Their making-place and being-in-place procedures, although their culture is being transformed in the original shape, put an emphasis on interaction with the host xociety. These procedures have been facilitated by consolidating their identity as a minority group as well as by interacting with the host society. The on-going influx of foreign immigrant groups seems not to drive them to assimilate into the melting-pot society, but to contribute to contribute to the increase in the cultural diversity of the United States.

• Cartoon and Animation Studies
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• s.17
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• pp.83-95
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• 2009

As an exploratory research on China's animation, this study aims to enhance an understanding of the trends and characteristics of China's animation through examining its history and to forecast its future development trajectory. From its founding to recent period, China tried to maintain Communist political system through imbuing national identity to its people through management and supervision of media products under direct government's leadership in combination with ideological education. Such policy was also implemented in animation, major audience of which is children. With regard to the introduction of the policy and its influence, five historical phases could be identified as follows. During the first phase, from the founding of the Republic until the Cultural Revolution, national culture was introduced to China's animation. The second phase, which corresponds with the Cultural Revolution period, marks the decline of national culture. National culture was reemphasized during the third phase that follows the Cultural Revolution, which led to the nomination of the 'China school,' followed by the fourth phase, during which China's animation suffered the second decline due to the spread of TVs and foreign animation imports. Reintroduction of national culture on China's animation in the context of rapid industrialization process before and after 2000 characterizes the recent phase. It can be expected that although there could be some change in methods and forms, China's animation, which introduced national culture from its inception and maintained remarkable resilience following the period of decline, will continuously stress the its own national cultural identity.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2003.04c
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• pp.501-503
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• 2003

이 연구는 남한의 방언과 북한의 방언 및 세계의 여러 나라에서 쓰이고 있는 한국어 방언을 컴퓨터로 검색할 수 있는 도구를 개발하여, 21세기 지식 기반 사회에서 우리 민족 구성원들이 상호 의사소통을 신속 정확하게 할 수 있도록 하고 또 통일 이후에는 남북한 주민들이 의사소통을 원만하게 할 수 있도록 한다는 데에 목적을 두고 있다. 이를 통해서 민족 구성원간의 유대를 다지고 나아가 민족의 정체성을 확립하며 민족문화의 창달에 기여할 수 있을 것이다. 본 연구는 한국 방언 검색 프로그램 개발 과제의 일부로서 2001년에 남한 방언 검색 시스템을 개발하고, 2002년에 북한 방언 검색 시스템을 개발하였다. 본 논문에서는 북한 방언 검색 시스템의 개발 개요와 방언 검색 방식에 대해서 다룬다.

• 한국사회정책
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• v.23 no.2
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• pp.83-112
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• 2016

Increase of immigrants in Korean society means that ethnic and cultural diversity witnessed in Western immigration countries is also appearing in overall Korean society. The purpose of this study is to suggest policy directions which fit multicultural society in the future by comparing and analyzing the difference in the recognition of multiculturalism between Koreans and immigrants. As the result of empirical analysis, it turned out that there is difference in recognition between Koreans and immigrants, for which different policy directions are required. First, it was contact experience that decided Koreans' multicultural attitudes. High level of influence of contact experience means that although Koreans take multicultural society as granted, they actually have low level of contact experience with immigrants, which requires policy tools to convert actual strengthened contact experience into positive directions. Second, in the case of immigrants, the less they recognize discrimination and the more bias is fortified, the more they accept multiculturalism as a threat. This exhibits their dual sense of identity in which they recognize themselves as foreigners toward Koreans but they distinguish themselves from other foreigners. Thus, assimilation to Korean society is not deemed to be the only alternative and Korean society needs to practice genuine multiculturalism to strengthen immigrants' ethnic identity. Study also conducted in-depth discussions on the implications of above results.

• Korea journal of population studies
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• v.21 no.2
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• pp.144-181
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• 1998

The main purpose of this study is to understand the socio-cultural adaptation and life-styles of the Chinese and Korean immigrants in Vancouver, Canada. Of interest are the immigration policies of the Canadian government and formation of the Chinese and Korean minority societies in Vancouver. Attention is given to estimating the size of the Korean population in Vancouver, utilizing the listings of telephone directory and the proportion of surname Kims in the Korean population. This paper focuses on explaining the distinctive adaptation patterns and socio-cultural characteristics of the Chinese and Korean immigrants. A conceptual scheme of socio-cultual adaptation of the minority immigrants, which is hypothesized as a function of the participation to the host society and the cultural identity, is also developed in this paper. Findings of the analysis suggest that the Chinese and Korean population in Vancouver witnessed a rapid growth since the mid 1980s, when the Canadian government launched the immigration programs for investors and entrepreneurs. It appears that the Chinese and Korean immigrants hold strong ethnic identity and maintain cultural traditions and life-styles of their own. While Chinese immigrants are characterized by active participation to the host society, Korean immigrants tend to confine themselves to the Korean enclave, and thus keep a certain distance from the host society. This appears to be particularly true for the Koreans who immigrated with a status of investor or entrepreneur. As the key force behind the ethnic differences in their adaptation, the role of voluntary associations is stressed. Finally, the future prospects of the Chinese and Korean societies and their acculturation are discussed in this study.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.18 no.4
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• pp.567-574
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• 2018

This paper investigates how Korean newly-composed pieces (Changjak Gukak) can be used as good cultural contents to publicize a characteristic and nowness of Korean culture in the era of globalization, focusing on the works of composer Seong-Cheon Lee. LEE Seong-Cheon is a typical Changjak Gukak composer who academically and creatively speculated Korean tradition and identity. In his works, traditional ones, natural-thematic ones, nationalistic ones, and Korean literary-thematic ones are the works which have a possibility to use cultural contents with respect to the Korean traditional culture and identity. This study dealt with the fact that newly-composed pieces based on traditional music can play a significant role in expanding Korean cultural contents between tradition and modern.

• Journal of International Area Studies (JIAS)
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• v.12 no.4
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• pp.395-420
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• 2009

Academic discourses on Swahili identity have been focused on either its Bantu or Arabic-originated theories. Both theories, nevertheless, have a common feature: a unilineal origin of Swahili identity. This paper questions on this Swahili identity and argues that Swahili identity has been developed through historical experience and discourses. For this, the paper utilizes Barth's theory of situationalism. Barth(1998(1969)) suggests that maintaining an ethnic identity is a personal or group choice out of multiple layers of social identities according to his or their social environments. Tanzanian Swahili identity is a good case for this analysis. Based on fieldwork conducted at Magomeni and Msasani in Dar es Salaam, a capital of Tanzania, the paper shows that residents in both areas hold strong Swahili identities although they have different social and historical experience. In case of Magomeni, most of the residents came from Zanzibar, a core Swahili cultural area. They trace their original genealogy from Arabia peninsular. Besides, they argue that they speak a proper kiSwahili(Swahili language) distinguishable from inland kiSwahili. On the contrary, residents of Msasani show variety of ethnic identities, far from a proper Swahili. They have adapted Swahili identities since the independence of Tanzania. With the help of strong socialist policies, including a language policy, most of Tanzanian ethnic groups have ignored their own identities and accommodated a national identity, Tanzanian(waTanzania) or Swahili people(waSwahili). Makonde immigrants from Mozambique who consists the majority of residents in Msasani also easily accommodate Swahili identity in the course. Therefore, Makonde have began to rebirth as waSwahili by claiming that they are living in Tanzania and speak kiSwahili as a mother tongue.

• Journal of Ethics
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• no.84
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• pp.217-242
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• 2012

This essay aims to explore the importance of ethics education in Korean multicultural society. In 2011, it is reported by the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology that the final goal of Korean multicultural ethics education is to establish the foundations of National identity and of moral values in general. It might be a ideological tool, however, that can suppress the minority in Korea. In that sense, an orientation of ethics education in Korean multicultural society is basically to consider all moral agents in ethics. To give any solution, therefore, an attention will be paid to the notions of emotion and the likeness of moral fibre. Most important is that we have certain emotions which are in society beyond individual feelings. It is the only ethical subject and existence who we can have them. In that point, having them enables us to make any decision on the ground of moral values. By the quality of the likeness of moral fibre, furthermore, we can recognize and exercise moral values together without any difference in multicultural society. This makes sense of an identity as a Korean. Therefore, having emotions is helpful in taking the moral foundations of Korean multicultural society and the self-recognition of a Korean in the sense of the likeness of moral fibre give an ethical direction to us, the Korean multicultural society of ethical culture in the future.